Richard Burbage: Shakespeare's Star?

Reading the Past
Reading the Past
16.1 هزار بار بازدید - 2 سال پیش - Welcome to the second instalment
Welcome to the second instalment of a series looking at the players that were the first people to perform the plays of William Shakespeare in the hope that it might provide us with a “way in” to this playwright’s creative process. This episode looks at Richard Burbage…

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Images (from Wikimedia Commons, unless otherwise stated):

Portrait of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, attributed to Steven van der Meulen, previously attributed to Lucas de Heere (c.1564). Held by Waddesdon Manor.

London map showing Shakespearean theatres, in the 16th and 17th century, from Shakespearean Playhouses by Joseph Quincy Adams. Image credit C. W. Redwood, formerly technical artist at Cornell University.

Photograph of the exterior of the Guildhall and Schoolroom, Church Street, Stratford-upon-Avon (2015). David P Howard / Almshouses, Church Street, Stratford-upon-Avon / CC BY-SA 2.0

Portrait of Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon by Steven van Harwijck (c.1561-1563). Held in a private collection.

Portrait of Richard Burbage, reputedly a self-portrait by Richard Burbage himself (c.1600). From Peter Ackroyd, Shakespeare: The Biography (2005). Colour plate, opp. p.338.

Engraving of English Elizabethan clown Will Kempe dancing a jig from Norwich to London in 1600 from Kempes Nine Daies Wonder.

The Chandos Portrait of William Shakespeare, attributed to John Taylor (1610). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.

Portrait of James I of England in state robes by Paul van Somer I (c.1620). Held by the Royal Collection.

Illustration from Giacomo di Grassi’s "Discourse on Wielding Arms with Safety” (1570). From https://wiktenauer.com/wiki/Giacomo_d...

Illustration from Vincentio Saviolo’s fencing manual entitled His Practise, in Two Bookes (1595). From https://wiktenauer.com/wiki/Vincentio...

Illustration from George Silver’s Paradoxes of Defence (1599). From https://wiktenauer.com/wiki/George_Si...

Second Globe Theatre rebuilt after the fire of 1613, detail from Wenceslas Hollar’s Long View of London, 1647.



Quoted texts:

(Contested) Chronology of Shakespeare’s Extant Plays from The Norton Shakespeare.

Mary Edmond, "Burbage [Burbadge], Richard (1568–1619), actor." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry.

Also consulted, were:

Mary McElroy and Kent Cartwright. “Public Fencing Contests on the Elizabethan Stage.” Journal of Sport History 13, no. 3 (1986): 193–211.

Joan Ozark Holmer. “‘Draw, If You Be Men’: Saviolo’s Significance for Romeo and Juliet.” Shakespeare Quarterly 45, no. 2 (1994): 163–89.

Other relevant entries from The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online.

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