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The Review of English Studies Advance Access first published online on April 1, 2009
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The Review of English Studies, doi:10.1093/res/hgn167
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press 2009; all rights reserved

Shakespeare, the Motley Player

Katherine Duncan-Jones


  Abstract

Opening and closing with Sonnets 110 and 111, in which the speaker appears to comment on the stigma of performing, or having performed, on public stages, this article is concerned with Shakespeare's career as an actor. It is suggested, with illustrative examples, that this was both more prominent and more prolonged than has been generally supposed. The second half of the article is chiefly focussed on Henry Chettle's speedy apology to Shakespeare for the attack made on him in Greenes Groatsworth of Wit (1592). Chettle appears recently to have seen him exercise his ‘quality’, or craft of acting. In the autumn of 1592 London playhouses were closed because of plague. However, it is suggested that Chettle could have seen Nashe's Summer's Last Will and Testament, performed at Croydon Palace, with Shakespeare as a principal performer, perhaps in the role of ‘Summer’. Shakespeare seems to have been familiar with this play long before it reached print in 1600.


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