Shakespeare's Clown: Actor and Text in the Elizabethan Playhouse

by David Wiles

Book Overview

This book argues that a professional Elizabethan theatre company always contained one actor known as 'the clown'. Its focus is Will Kemp, clown to the Chamberlain's Men from 1594 to 1599 and famed for his solo dance from London to Norwich in 1600. David Wiles combines textual, theatrical and biographical lines of research in order to map out Kemp's career. He shows how Shakespeare and other dramatists made use of Kemp's talents and wrote specific...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521673348
• ISBN13: 9780521673341
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"