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 roles as
vehicles for him. He discerns a perpetual and productive tension
between the ambitions of a progressive writer and the aspirations
of a traditional actor whose art was rooted in improvisation. The
book also describes the clown tradition in general, dealing with
Kemp"s inheritance from medieval theatre, with the work of Richard
Tarlton, the great comic actor of the 1570s and 1580s, and with
Kemp"s successor, Robert Armin, who created the "fool" parts in
Shakespeare.
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