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Article History. Born: c. 1568. Died: November 1615, London, England. Robert Armin (born c. 1568—died November 1615, London, England) was an English actor and playwright best known as a leading comic actor in the plays of William Shakespeare.
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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 ...
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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 ...
Apr 19, 2021 · Ms Beake plays Shakespeare’s leading comic actor Robert Armin, who was born in 1565. Although Armin is credited with being a major influence on Shakespeare, he was largely forgotten in Lynn until...
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…
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.
Nov 5, 2015 · The Shakespeare Circle - October 2015. One afternoon in the late summer of 1599 Robert Armin (the well-known ballad writer and comic) took a walk from his home on the north side of London, crossed the Thames, and went to visit the newly completed Globe playhouse, where Shakespeare and his company had just started to perform.
