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124 - William Kemp

from Part XIII - Shakespeare’s Fellows

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2019

By
Nora Johnson
Edited by
Bruce R. Smith
Edited in association with
Katherine Rowe
With
Ton Hoenselaars ,
Akiko Kusunoki ,
Andrew Murphy  and
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Bruce R. Smith
Affiliation:
University of Southern California
Katherine Rowe
Affiliation:
Smith College, Massachusetts
Ton Hoenselaars
Affiliation:
Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Akiko Kusunoki
Affiliation:
Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, Japan
Andrew Murphy
Affiliation:
Trinity College Dublin
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Burbage, RichardclowndancerdancingfoolGlobe (playhouse)jigKemp, WilliamLord Chamberlain’s Men
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The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare , pp. 939 - 942
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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Clegg, Roger, and Thomson, Peter. “‘He’s for a jig or a tale of bawdry–’: Notes on the English Dramatic Jig.” Studies in Theatre and Performance 29:1 (February 2009): 67–83.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Smith, Bruce. The Acoustic World of Early Modern England: Attending to the O-Factor. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1999.Google Scholar
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