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Who was the leading comic actor of shakespeares time?
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There were several. Richard Tarleton, the chief actor of Queen Elizabeth's Men, was the outstanding comic actor of the 1570s and boosted his company to become the top company in England at the time. Later, Will Kempe, an actor first with the Admiral's and then as a partner in The Lord Chamberlain's Men was a hugely popular performer. He was famous for his "jigs" or dances and comic turns to close a show. He may have had artistic differences with Shakespeare, and it may be of him that Shakespeare was thinking when he wrote in Hamlet, "And let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them." Kempe may have had a habit of adlibbing and stealing the spotlight from Burbage. In any event he left the Chamberlain's Men and amazed England by dancinghalf-way across the country! He was replaced by Robert Armin, a more cynical and sardonic clown, whose style we see in the Fool in King Lear or Feste in Twelfth Night.
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