Kemp's Nine Days' Wonder: Performed in a Dance from London to Norwich

Kemp's Nine Days' Wonder: Performed in a Dance from London to Norwich

Kemps Nine Daies Wonder: Performed in a Daunce from London to NorwichWilliam Kemp was a comic actor...
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Kemp's Nine Days' Wonder: Performed in a Dance from London to Norwich

Kemp's Nine Days' Wonder: Performed in a Dance from London to Norwich

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Kemp's Nine Days' Wonder: Performed in a Dance from London to Norwich

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Author: Kemp, William,active 1600
Format: eBook
Language: English

Kemps Nine Daies Wonder: Performed in a Daunce from London to Norwich

William Kemp was a comic actor of high reputation. Like Tarlton, whom he succeeded as wel in the fauour of her Maiesty as in the opinion and good thoughts of the generall audience,v:1 he usually played the Clown, and was greatly applauded for his buffoonery, his extemporal wit,v:2 and his performance of the Jig.v:3 That at one time,perhaps from about 1589 to 1593 or laterhe belonged to a Company under the management of the celebrated Edward Alleyn, is proved by the title-page of a dramavi:1 which will be afterwards cited. At a subsequent period he was a member of the Company called the Lord Chamberlains Servants, who played during summer at the Globe, and during winter at the Blackfriars. In 1596, while the last-mentioned house was undergoing considerable repair and enlargement, a petition was presented to the Privy Council by the principal inhabitants of the liberty, praying that the work might proceed no further, and that theatrical exhibitions might be abolished in that district. A counter petition, which appears to have been successful, was presented by the Lord Chamberlains Servants; and, at its commencement, the names of the chief petitioners are thus arranged:Thomas Pope, Richard Burbadge, John Hemings, Augustine Phillips, William Shakespeare, William Kempe, William Slye, and Nicholas Tooley.vi:2 When Romeo and Juliet and Much ado about Nothing were originally brought upon the stage, Kemp acted Peter and Dogberry;vi:3 and it has been supposed that in other plays of Shakespeare,in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, As you like it, Hamlet, The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, and The Merchant of Venice, he performed Launce, Touchstone, the Grave-digger, Justice Shallow, and Launcelot. On the first production of Ben Jonsons Every Man in his Humour, a charactervii:1 was assigned to him; and there is good reason to believe that in Every Man out of his Humour, by the same dramatist, he represented Carlo Buffone. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 21984
Author: Kemp, William
Release Date: Jul 2, 2007
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Editor: Dyce, Alexander, 1798-1869

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