William Kempe
Search results
Robert Armin (c. 1568–1615) was an English actor and playwright best known as a leading comic actor in the plays of William Shakespeare. He performed with the Chamberlain’s Men from about 1598 to 1610 and originated some of the most famous comic roles in Elizabethan theater, including Touchstone in As You Like It.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Robert Armin (c. 1568 – 1615) was an English actor, and member of the Lord Chamberlain's Men. He became the leading comedy actor with the troupe associated with William Shakespeare following the departure of Will Kempe around 1600. Also a popular comic author, he wrote a comedy, The History of the Two Maids of More-clacke, as well as Foole ...
People also ask
Who was John Armin and what did he do?
Did Armin go to East Anglia?
When did Armin join Chamberlain's men?
Who was Armin in Tarlton's jests?
It was my first part in the new Globe. What a great year 1599 was: in some ways the start of my acting career – certainly my major break. The days of grammar school back in King’s Lynn and those seven years training to be a goldsmith seemed far behind me, as I sat and watched the Lord Chamberlain’s Men: Augustine Phillips, Henry Condell ...
Dec 3, 2013 · Biography of Robert Armin (c. 1568-1612) Robert Armin was one of the clowns that worked with William Shakespeare. And, for whom Shakespeare created some of his most famous comic characters. He was: as well as a history of court jesters. Robert Armin’s exact birthday is not known; it is known that he was born around 1568 in Lynn, Norfolk ...
Sep 9, 2013 · In the fall of 1947, the pioneering Oxfordian researcher Abraham Bronson Feldman launched a bombshell discovery that the great stage clown Robert Armin, known as “Shakespeare’s Jester,” was an avowed servant of Edward de Vere, the seventeenth Earl of Oxford; and, moreover, that Armin was at Hackney soon after joining the Lord Chamberlain’s Men and…
Robert Armin. Actor: Dejeration. Robert Armin was born on 30 March 1952 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor, known for Dejeration (2011), Dream House (1981) and Family Reunion (1981). He has been married to Kristine Nevins since 1 April 1989.
Apr 14, 2021 · A key figure in the story of Shakespeare’s connections to Lynn is to be honoured in the town of his birth next week. A new plaque will be unveiled at the site where the Bard’s leading coming actor, Robert Armin, was born in the High Street in 1565. The event is set to be part of an online celebration of Shakespeare’s birthday and St ...
