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WILSON, ROBERT (d. 1600)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 695 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILSON, See also:ROBERT (d. 1600) , See also:English actor and playwright, was a comedian in the See also:earl of See also:Leicester's See also:company, beginning with its See also:establishment in 1574, and from 1583 to 1588 in the See also:Queen's and afterwards in See also:Lord See also:Strange's company. He wrote several morality plays. In his Three Ladies of See also:London (1584) he has the See also:episode of the See also:attempt of the See also:Jew to recover his See also:debt, afterwards adapted by See also:Shakespeare in The See also:Merchant of See also:Venice. Another Robert Wilson (1579—1610), probably his son, was one of See also:Henslowe's dramatic hack-writers.

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