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KEMP, WILLIAM (fl. 1600)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 725 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KEMP, See also:WILLIAM (fl. 1600) , See also:English actor and dancer. He probably began his career as a member of the See also:earl of See also:Leicester's See also:company, but his name first appears after the See also:death of Leicester in a See also:list of players authorized by an See also:order of the privy See also:council in 1593 to See also:play 7 M. out of See also:London. See also:Ferdinand See also:Stanley, See also:Lord See also:Strange, was the See also:patron of the company of which Kemp was the leading member until 1598, and in 1594 was summoned with See also:Burbage and See also:Shakespeare to See also:act before the See also:queen at See also:Greenwich. He was the successor, both in parts and reputation, of See also:Richard See also: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 See also:music may be seen in the MS. collection of See also:John Dowland now in the See also:Cambridge University library. At the same See also:time Kemp was given parts like Dogberry, and See also:Peter in Romeo and Juliet; indeed his name appears by See also:accident in See also:place of those of the characters in See also:early copies. Kemp seems to have exhibited his dancing on the See also:Continent, but in 1602 he was a member of the earl of See also:Worcester's players, and See also:Philip See also:Henslowe's See also:diary shows several payments made to him in that See also:year.

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