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Richard Burbage (c. 1567 – 13 March 1619) was an English stage actor, widely considered to have been one of the most famous actors of the Globe Theatre and of his time. In addition to being a stage actor , he was also a theatre owner, entrepreneur, and painter.
March 9/13, 1619, London, Eng. Richard Burbage (born c. 1567, London—died March 9/13, 1619, London, Eng.) was an English actor, known as the first player of Shakespeare’s Richard III, Romeo, Henry V, Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, and Lear. The son of the actor and theatre manager and owner James Burbage, Richard had attained wide popularity as ...
Mar 11, 2019 · RIchard Burbage: actor, theatre owner and entrepreneur. Born, January 5 1558, died March 12 1619. Unknown artist. It’s 400 years since the death of Richard Burbage, the first person to play...
Richard Burbage achieved success as performer by the age of twenty and during his career he appeared in plays by Jonson, Kyd, Beaumont and Fletcher, and John Webster. He also played many of the major Shakespearean characters, including Othello, Hamlet, Lear, and Richard III.
He was a theatre entrepreneur and artist, but he is most famous as an actor – one of the leading actors of his time. While Shakespeare wrote the great plays for the Chamberlaine’s Men and later the King’s Men, Burbage starred for the company and played the great leading roles of Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear.
May 29, 2018 · Richard Burbage (c. 1567-1619) was a well-known actor in Elizabethan England. A friend and business associate of the playwright William Shakespeare, Burbage was the first actor to utter some of the Bard's most famous lines on stage, including Hamlet "s lament, "to be or not to be, that is the question."
Richard Burbage ( c. 1567 – 13 March 1619) was an English stage actor, widely considered to have been one of the most famous actors of the Globe Theatre and of his time. In addition to being a stage actor, he was also a theatre owner, entrepreneur, and painter. He was the younger brother of Cuthbert Burbage. They were both actors in drama.
