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See also:BURBAGE, See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
JAMES (d. 1597) , See also:English actor, is said to have been See also:born at See also:Stratford-on-See also:Avon. He was a member of the See also:earl of See also:Leicester's players, probably for several years before he is first mentioned (1574) as being at the See also:head of the See also:company. In 1576, having secured the See also:lease of See also:land at See also:Shoreditch, Burbage erected there the successful See also:house which was known for twenty years as The See also:Theatre from the fact that it was the first ever erected in See also:London. He seems also to have been concerned in the erection of a second theatre in the same locality, the See also:Curtain, and later, in spite of all difficulties and a See also:great See also:deal of See also:local opposition, he started what became the ' most celebrated See also:home of the rising See also:drama,—the Blackfriars theatre, built in
1596 near the old Dominican friary.
His son See also:RICHARD BURBAGE (c. 1567–1619), more celebrated than his See also:father, was the See also:Garrick of the Elizabethan See also:stage, and acted all the great parts in See also:Shakespeare's plays. He, too, is said to have been born at Stratford-on-Avon, and made his first See also:appearance at an See also:early See also:age at one of his father's theatres. He had established a reputation by' the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time he was twenty, and in the next dozen years was the most popular English actor, the " Roscius " of his See also:day. At the time of his father's See also:death, a lawsuit was in progress against the lessor from whom James Burbage held the land on which The Theatre stood. This suit was continued by Richard and his See also:brother See also:Cuthbert, and in 1569 they pulled down the Shoreditch house and used the materials to erect the Globe theatre, famous for its connexion with Shakespeare. They occupied it as a summer playhouse, retaining the Blackfriars, which was roofed in, for See also:winter performances. In this venture Richard Burbage had Shakespeare and others
as his partners, and it was in one or the other of these houses that he gained his greatest triumphs, taking the leading See also:part in almost every new See also:play. He was specially famous for his impersonation of Richard III. and other Shakespearian characters, and it was in tragedy that he especially excelled. Every playwright of his day endeavoured to secure his services. He died on the 13th of See also:March 1619. Richard Burbage was a painter as well as an actor. The See also:Felton portrait of Shakespeare is attributed to him, and there is a portrait of a woman, undoubtedly by him, preserved at See also:Dulwich See also:College.
End of Article: BURBAGE, JAMES (d. 1597)
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