John Downes worked as a prompter at the Duke's Company, and later the United Company, for most of the Restoration period 1660–1700. His "historical review of the stage", Roscius Anglicanus (1708), is an invaluable source for historians both of Restoration and of Stuart theater.
- Occupation
- historian, prompter, playwright, actor
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Born
- 1600
- Died
- 1712
