title: Elizabeth Cox (actress)
text: # Elizabeth Cox (actress)
  
  Elizabeth "Betty" Cox was an English stage actress of the seventeenth century.
  
  ## Life
  
  Her debut was in March 1671 when she acted Lydia in William Wycherley's Love in a Wood, for the King's Company, based at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. She left the stage in 1675 but returned briefly in 1682.
  
  ## Selected roles
  
  * Lydia in Love in a Wood by William Wycherley (1671)
  * Violetta in The Assignation by John Dryden (1672)
  * Palmrya in Marriage à la mode by John Dryden (1672)
  * Octavia in Nero by Nathaniel Lee (1674)
  * Constantia in The Amorous Old Woman by Thomas Duffet (1674)
  * Desdemona in Othello by William Shakespeare (1675)
  * Panthea in A King and No King by John Fletcher (1675)
  * Indamora in Aureng-zebe by John Dryden (1675)
  * Sophonisba in Sophonisba by Nathaniel Lee (1675)
  * Artemira in The Heir of Morocco by Elkanah Settle (1682)
  