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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.Wiles, David is the author of 'Shakespeare's Clown Actor And Text in the Elizabethan Playhouse', published 2005 under ISBN 9780521673341 and ISBN 0521673348.
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