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Richard Burbage (6 January 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.
No less important was Richard Burbage. He was the lead actor of the Chamberlain's Men, who played Hamlet and Othello, and would go on to play King Lear and Macbeth in the new reign of King James, among many other roles. Though relatively little-known in 1594, he would become one of the most famous of Renaissance actors, achieving a fame and ...
Cuthbert Burbage – manager/investor. James Burbage – theatre manager. Richard Burbage – principal actor. Winifred Turner Burbage – the widow of Richard Burbage, she became a householder in both theatres when her husband died. She later married Richard Robinson. Nicholas Burt – actor. He began as a boy player, an apprentice to John Shank.
The Globe was built in 1599 using timber from an earlier theatre, The Theatre, which had been built by Richard Burbage's father, James Burbage, in Shoreditch in 1576. The Burbages originally had a 21-year lease of the site on which the theatre was built but owned the building outright.
He played a character called Martin in the 1992 film Carry On Columbus; Richard Burbage in the 1998 film Shakespeare in Love; and Anthony Staxton-Billing in Sweet Revenge the same year. In 2000, Clunes played the role of Dr. Martin Bamford in the film Saving Grace , and the follow-up to that film Doc Martin the following year (2001), he played ...
Shakespeare wrote the role of Hamlet for Richard Burbage, tragedian of The Lord Chamberlain's Men: an actor with a capacious memory for lines, and a wide emotional range. [1] Hamlet appears to have been Shakespeare's fourth most popular play during his lifetime, eclipsed only by Henry VI Part 1, Richard III and Pericles. [2]
The Theatre opened in the autumn of 1576, possibly as a venue for Leicester's Men, the acting company of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester of which James Burbage was a member. In the 1580s the Admiral's Men, of which James Burbage's son, Richard was a member, took up residence.
Anna Roos is to be played by the same actor as Bear on Ice, the Crier also plays Isaac, William Shakespeare and the Warden are to be played by the same actor, Richard Burbage's actor also plays Harry Hunks, Nicholas Tooley is to be played by the same actor as Fluffy 1, Alexander Cooke is to be played by the same actor as Fluffy 2, and John ...