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KEMP, WILLIAM (fl. 1600)

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 725 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: JUN-KHA
KEMP, WILLIAM (fl. 1600) ,
English
  actor and dancer. He probably began his career as a member of the
earl
  of Leicester's company, but his name first appears after the death of Leicester in a
list
  of players authorized by an order of the privy
council
  in 1593 to play 7 M. out of London. Ferdinand
Stanley
 , Lord Strange, was the
patron
  of the company of which Kemp was the leading member until 1598, and in 1594 was summoned with
Burbage
  and Shakespeare to act before the queen at Greenwich. He was the successor, both in parts and reputation, of Richard Tarlton. But it was as a dancer of jigs that he won his greatest popularity, one or two actors dancing and singing with him, and the words doubtless often being improvised. Examples of the music may be seen in the MS. collection of John Dowland now in the
Cambridge
  University library. At the same time Kemp was given parts like Dogberry, and Peter in Romeo and Juliet; indeed his name appears by accident in place of those of the characters in early copies. Kemp seems to have exhibited his dancing on the Continent, but in 1602 he was a member of the
earl
  of Worcester's players, and Philip Henslowe's diary shows several payments made to him in that year.


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