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    William Kempe (c. 1560 – c. 1603), commonly referred to as Will Kemp, was an English actor and dancer specialising in comic roles and best known for having...
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  • William Kempe was a 17th-century English actor and dancer, one of the original actors in Shakespeare's plays. William Kempe may also refer to: William...
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    actors in Shakespeare's company included the famous Richard Burbage, William Kempe, Henry Condell and John Heminges. Burbage played the leading role in...
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    phrase dates at least as far back as the Elizabethan era, referencing William Kempe. Warhol's alleged quotation first appeared in print in a program for...
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  • William Kemp may refer to: William Kempe (died 1603), also spelled William Kemp, English actor and dancer, one of the original actors in William Shakespeare's...
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  • Colt before proceeding to Melford Hall, where she stayed overnight. William Kempe stayed at Colt's Hall in 1600 during his "Nine Days Wonder", in which...
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  • Kempe may refer to: Kempe baronets, a title in the Baronetage of England Kempe chain, part of the four-colour theorem Kempe Fjord, King Christian X Land...
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    (2016) - The Businessman Brimstone (2016) - Eli Will (2017, TV series) - William Kempe The Salisbury Poisonings (2020, TV series) - Ted Daszkiewicz Amphibia...
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    famous Elizabethan actor, William Kempe. After Kempe left the troupe, Shakespeare's comic characters changed dramatically. Kempe was known for his improvising...
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    "mores danse, dansyng with a tabret". In 1600, the Shakespearean actor William Kempe Morris danced from London to Norwich, an event chronicled in his Nine...
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    principal façade was remodelled by William Kempe in approximately 1585 and Dutch gables were added by Robert Kempe in 1637. A park of approximately 7 hectares...
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    Edward Alleyn and William Kempe. The play is a comic morality tale designed to highlight the talents of the celebrated clown Kempe, and is known from...
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    during the war with prominent Bermudian lawyer William Kempe (a founding partner of Appleby, Spurling & Kempe), a prominent Bermudian law firm (another author...
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    Lear), Richard Cowley (who played Verges in Much Ado About Nothing), William Kempe, (who played Peter in Romeo and Juliet and, possibly, Bottom in A Midsummer...
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    called "dogberryisms" or "dogberrys". The character was created for William Kempe, who played comic roles in Shakespeare's theatre company the Lord Chamberlain's...
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    Dekker, Thomas Middleton and Ben Jonson Clowns such as Richard Tarlton, William Kempe, and Robert Armin Comedy of humours, as practiced by Ben Jonson and...
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  • Lord Chamberlain's Men (category William Shakespeare)
    were eight. Probably the most famous in the 1590s to the 1600s was William Kempe, who had been in the company of the Earl of Leicester in the 1580s,...
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  • Green Boat as Freddie Tremaine), Doctor Who (The Shakespeare Code, as William Kempe), Fast Freddie, The Widow and Me as Charlie, Foyle's War (A War of Nerves)...
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    c. 1598: In the original production by the Lord Chamberlain's Men, William Kempe played Dogberry and Richard Cowley played Verges.[citation needed] 1613:...
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    Morpurgo and Pippa Evans, respectively. Jones plays Shakespearean actor William Kempe in the sitcom Upstart Crow, which was broadcast on BBC Two beginning...
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  • Upstart Crow (category Cultural depictions of William Shakespeare)
    Burbage, actor and leader of Will's theatre company. Spencer Jones as William Kempe, comic actor; his portrayal is a parody of Ricky Gervais. Jocelyn Jee...
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    Dekker, Thomas Middleton and Ben Jonson Clowns such as Richard Tarlton, William Kempe and Robert Armin Comedy of humours, as practiced by Ben Jonson and George...
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    Globe Theatre (category William Shakespeare)
    and Thomas Pope, owned a single share, or 12.5 per cent. (Originally William Kempe was intended to be the seventh partner, but he sold out his share to...
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  • Spurling.[page needed] In 1949, that firm merged with William Kempe to become Appleby Spurling Kemp (or Kempe). Dudley Spurling was the senior partner of the...
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    differed greatly from earlier Shakespearean fools, typically played by William Kempe, because their humour is mainly derived from the fool's wit and intellect...
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    (playwright) Archibald Dennis Flower Samuel Gilburne John Heminges Ben Jonson William Kempe Edward Knight (King's Men) Emilia Lanier John Manningham Mr W.H. Augustine...
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    Shakespeare in performance (category Plays by William Shakespeare)
    of Hamlet, Othello, Richard III and King Lear), Richard Cowley, and William Kempe. Shakespeare's plays continued to be staged after his death until the...
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    John Heminges, Henry Condell, Thomas Pope, William Sly, Christopher Beeston, William Kempe, and John Duke. (Kempe would leave the company the next year, for...
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    [Richard] was summoned with two other members of his company, William Kempe and William Shakespeare, to act before the queen at Greenwich Palace... Numerous...
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    (Judi Dench) attends a production of Two Gentlemen, greatly enjoying William Kempe (Patrick Barlow) being thoroughly outperformed by Crab, and then falling...
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