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	James Burbage - LoveToKnow 1911
		In 1576, having secured the lease of land at Shoreditch, Burbage erected there the successful house which was known for twenty years as The Theatre from the fact that it was the first ever erected in London.
		This suit was continued by Richard and his brother 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.
		Richard Burbage was a painter as well as an actor.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /James_Burbage (352 words)

	Richard Burbage
		This suit was continued by Richard and his brother Cuthbert, and in 1599 they pulled down the Shoreditch house and used the materials to erect the Globe theatre, famous for its connection with Shakespeare.
		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 lead part in almost every new play.
		He was specially famous for his impersonation of Richard III and other Shakespearian characters, and it was in tragedy that he especially excelled.
	www.theatrehistory.com /british/burbage002.html (307 words)

	Luminarium Encyclopedia. The Blackfriars Theatre.
		In 1576, in the reign of Elizabeth I, some of the buildings on the western side of the property were leased to Richard Farrant, Master of the Children of the Chapel, so that the Children could rehearse and perform their plays in private before performing at court.
		In 1596, another part of the old Blackfriars was bought by James Burbage, owner of the Theatre and father of famed actor Richard Burbage, for £600 from the estate of Cawarden, late Master of Revels.
		Richard Burbage, the principal actor with the Chamberlain's Men, Shakespeare's company, inherited the second Blackfriars Theatre in 1597.
	www.luminarium.org /encyclopedia/blackfriars.htm (725 words)

	Richard Burbage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Burbage came from an acting family and was a popular performer by the age of 20.
		Burbage's power and scope as an actor is revealed in the sheer size of the roles he played.
		Burbage was buried in St Leonard's, Shoreditch, a church close to the Theatre.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Burbage (702 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: About Richard III
		Richard Burbage first played Richard the Third and made the "poisonous bunchbacked toad" (1.3.244) into one of the most memorable villains of all time.
		Richard's portrayal as an evil villain lent credence to what historians call the "Tudor Myth." The Tudor dynasty was founded when Henry, Earl of Richmond, defeated Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485.
		Richard III is the fourth part of a tetralogy which starts with Henry VI, Parts 1,2, and 3.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/richardiii/about.html (706 words)

	James Burbage
		James Burbage was born in 1531 and is said to have been born at Stratford-upon-Avon.
		James Burbage died in 1597 and the Theatre business was taken over by his sons Cuthbert and Richard Burbage.
		Richard and Cuthbert Burbage with their troupe, including William Shakespeare, some labourers and carpenters all went to The Theatre under cover of night and demolished The Theatre.
	www.elizabethan-era.org.uk /james-burbage.htm (990 words)

	Shenandoah Shakespeare :: Touring Troupe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Richard III was the first play Shenandoah Shakespeare ever produced, and for two good reasons - the story and the style.
		Richard III is part Elizabethan gangster story and part horror story, the tale of a poor, misunderstood monster who kills his way to the top - a kind of Michael Corleone with a hump who gets to be the Godfather with a throne.
		Since Burbage first played the role, it has been Richard and his inescapable pull on the audience that have catapulted other great actors to fame.
	www.americanshakespearecenter.com /touring/essay.php?id=26 (525 words)

	Richard II - Shakespeare in quarto
		The first performance of Richard II was probably during the autumn of 1595 by Shakespeare’s company the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, most likely at James Burbage’s Theatre.
		After the accession of James I, Richard II remained in the repertoire of the King’s Men and was apparently performed at the second Globe as late as 12 June 1631.
		Shakespeare’s history play Richard II is set at the end of the 14th century and tells the story of the last years of the king’s reign.
	www.bl.uk /treasures/shakespeare/richard2.html (1034 words)

	Shakespeare's Biography: Information on Shakespeare's Parents, Siblings, Career as Actor, Children, Marriage, Death, ...
		Richard was baptized on March 11 of that year, and nothing else is known about him, except for the fact that he died, unmarried, and was buried on February 4, 1613 -- a year and a day after the death of Gilbert Shakespeare.
		Anne was the eldest daughter, and one of the seven children of Richard Hathaway, a twice-married farmer in Shottery.
		Richard Burbage achieved success as performer by the age of 20 and during his career he appeared in plays by Jonson, Kyd, Beaumont and Fletcher, and John Webster.
	www.shakespeare-online.com /biography (6020 words)

	Richard III - Shakespeare in quarto
		The first performance of Richard III was perhaps given late in 1591 by the conglomerate of the Admiral’s Men and Lord Strange’s Men (although there is no certain evidence to link Shakespeare to this company).
		It was given at court as late as 16 November 1633, the only early performance of which there is a record, and may well have remained in the repertory of the King’s Men until the theatres closed in 1642.
		Richard, with Lord Hastings and the Duke of Buckingham, departs to fetch the Prince of Wales from Ludlow.
	www.bl.uk /treasures/shakespeare/richard3.html (910 words)

	Shakespeare's Globe Theatre at AbsoluteShakespeare.com
		Said to be built by Cuthbert Burbage, brother of the famous Shakespearean actor Robert Burbage and son of James Burbage.
		Interestingly the famous playhouse was not the Burbage son’s first choice for a playhouse since they already had one in "The Theatre", the first of its kind in London and an inheritance from his father.
		Instead Burbage tore it down and then discretely removed several 12 inch oak beams, transporting them to Bankside where they formed the structural frame for a 100 foot circular polygon, the heart of the new playhouse's structure.
	absoluteshakespeare.com /trivia/globe/globe.htm (2244 words)

	Acting Richard III
		Burbage would have been able to make eye-contact with the individuals in thee crowd, standing on the sloping floor in the afternoon sunshine.
		Shakespeare's stage version of Richard has erased the history of the real king, who was, by comparison, a model of probity.
		Richard is his first complex portrayal of the lone, ambitious fighter.
	www.mckellen.com /writings/92r3.htm (663 words)

	Shakespeare's Actors (1)
		Richard Burbage (1568-1619) was the leading actor in the Lord Chamberlain's - King's Men, playing the dramatic leads, including Richard III, Hamlet, Lear and Othello.
		The son of James Burbage, he first appears in the records of a dispute involving his father's playhouse, the Theatre.
		Excerpt from "A Funerall Elegye on the Death of the famous Actor Richard Burbedg who dyed on Saturday in Lent the 13 of March 1618." The character Hieronimo is the main role in Kyd's popular revenge tragedy, The Spanish Tragedy.
	ise.uvic.ca /Library/SLT/stage/burbage.html (455 words)

	King Richard III Study Guide by William Shakespeare: Introduction
		Although Richard III was first published in 1597, most scholars believe that this play about the rise and fall of a wicked king was written several years earlier, probably in 1592 or 1593, and first performed shortly afterward.
		Richard III's family (the House of York) and its long power struggle (known as the Wars of the Roses) with King Henry VII's family (the House of Lancaster).
		Richard's coronation comes toward the end of a period of bloody civil strife known as the Wars of the Roses, and some critics argue that his wickedness functions as divine punishment against the warring parties, as well as a method of cleansing England for a new era of peace.
	www.bookrags.com /studyguide-richardiii/intro.html (466 words)

	Burbage, Richard - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Burbage's father, James Burbage, had built the first permanent theater in London in 1576, called the Theatre.
		In 1598 the building was removed to Bankside and set up as the Globe Theatre by Richard's brother, Cuthbert, on the death of their father.
		The uses of Richard III: from Robert Cecil to Richard Nixon.(Critical essay)
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-burbage.html (279 words)

	Actors of Shakespeare's Time
		Five of the actors who were a part of The Chamberlain's Men were Richard Burbage, William Kemp, Robert Armin, William Sly and of course, William Shakespeare himself.
		Richard Burbage born in 1568, was the son of James Burbage who was a pioneer for theatrical performances about twenty years earlier.
		This gave Richard the talent of versatility which was helpful in his later roles in Shakespeare's Chamberlain's Men.
	geocities.com /Athens/Academy/8381/actors.html (1037 words)

	Fathom :: The Source for Online Learning
		By 1600 the position was reversed, and the reputations as tragedians of Edward Alleyn and Richard Burbage dominated the theatre world; in 1599 Will Kemp jigged his way out of the "world," and his successor Robert Armin was as renowned for being a playwright as for being a clown.
		Two years younger than Alleyn, Burbage was a younger son of the carpenter turned impresario who built the Theatre in 1576, and first appears at the age of twenty-three, named in a lawsuit as defending his father's takings.
		After Burbage and Field the names most prominent in theatre affairs were those of such men as Beeston and Richard Gunnell, who was a leading player with Palsgrave's in 1622--Alleyn leased the rebuilt Fortune to the company with Gunnell and Charles Massey as the chief sharers--and who built the Salisbury Court playhouse in 1629.
	www.fathom.com /feature/35255 (2175 words)

	Richard Burbage
		Richard Burbage was performing at the Globe Theatre on the 29th of June 1613, when the original theatre caught fire and was destroyed
		The Chamberlain's Men, of which Richard Burbage was a member, were the most important company of players in Elizabethan England and led by the Burbage family and William Shakespeare.
		The following documented facts are related to Richard Burbage and his life as an Elizabethan actor together with details of his relationship with fellow actors including William Shakespeare.
	www.globe-theatre.org.uk /richard-burbage-actor.htm (903 words)

	RICHARD THE THIRD
		Shakespeare's "The Tragedie of Richard the Third", one of the Bard's earlier works which along with "Henry VI 1 and 2" chronicles of the War of Roses between the Houses of Lancaster and York.
		The role was one of Richard Burbage's most notable throughout his career and in the early 19th century, became the signature role of famed English actor, Edmund Kean.
		His Richard is visibly deformed with a noticable hunch, a lift on one shoe, and a withered left arm frozen heart-high against his chest with expressive spidery fingers.
	profwill.spymac.com /2004Reviews/R3.html (1001 words)

	Richard III Society--James A. Moore, Historicity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In fact, according to George B. Churchill (23), Richard III as king of England and the myth surrounding him had already become separated in the minds of Shakespeare's contemporaries.
		Churchill was the first to study the sources of the play systematically, tracing the growth of Richard's "saga" in the chronicles from the History of the Arrival of Edward IV (1471) to Stowe's Annales (1580, 1592).
		Richard and Macbeth die almost precisely in the same desperate state of mind and almost in exactly the same manner.
	www.r3.org /bookcase/moore1.html (4122 words)

	The Seattle Times: Theater & arts: Richard III: villain who transcends the ages
		Richard III was from the rival Plantagenet lineage, but was succeeded by a Tudor: King Henry VII — Queen Elizabeth's grandfather.
		Their "Richard III" was shut down by Manhattan police twice, in two different venues, and some performers were arrested.
		Director Richard Loncraine explained that he and McKellen set their adaptation in the 1930s because it was "a period when a tyrant reminiscent of Richard III might just have arisen in the United Kingdom.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/theaterarts/2003051207_richard11.html (925 words)

	THE DAILY TELEGIRAFFE: Kenneth Branagh as Richard III
		This Richard's relationship with his physical deformity is a case of arrested development, with Branagh pinned to a contraption in a pose somewhere between mental patient suffering electro-convulsive treatment and Christ on the cross.
		Richard III is the second largest role in the plays of Shakespeare, second to Hamlet in the number of lines.
		Burbage (1567-1619) gave the first performances of most of the plays of Shakespeare, and is credited with the first Richard III, Hamlet, Malvolio, and Othello.
	members.tripod.com /~DailyTelegiraffe/branaghrichardIII.html (3552 words)

	INTIMAN Theatre: Richard III, Richard III In Performance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Richard Burbage, a contemporary of William Shakespeare, was the first actor to triumph in the role of Richard.
		When Burbage arrived and was asked who he was, he indignantly shouted "Richard the Third!" The servant returned a few minutes later with a message from Shakespeare: "William the Conqueror came before Richard the Third!" Burbage's answer was not recorded.
		Cibber, whose own performance in the role of Richard was described as "the distorted heavings of an unjointed caterpillar." It added more blood and guts, grafting onto the play a detailed scene showing the murder of the Princes, as well as other lines that Shakespeare never put into his characters' mouths.
	www.intiman.org /plays/d_inperform.html (1632 words)

	LECTURE ON KING RICHARD III
		Richard here aligns himself with his brother Clarence who is already in the Tower of London, the prison favored for political prisoners. He implies that the queen and her relatives are behind this false imprisonment, although we know that Richard himself was responsible for his brother’s incarceration.
		Richard enters at line 47 and joins into the festivities and announces his eagerness to be at peace with everyone, even as he gets a last few zingers in aimed at the Queen and her family. Notice how in the following passage at line 53 he “innocently” sows the seeds of discord within the court:
		Richard will be successful in his quest for the throne because he is adaptable, using each person he needs in whatever way works best for his purposes.
	www.srvc.net /engl154/html_files/RICHARD_III_Lecture.htm (5325 words)

	Shakespeare's Globe Theater
		The Globe was built during Shakespeare's early period in 1599 by one of his long-standing associates, Cuthbert Burbage, the brother of the most famous Shakespearean actor of the Elizabethan Age, Richard Burbage.
		But there was a problem with this valuable legacy: Cuthbert Burbage owned the Theatre, its structure and materials, but the land on which the Theatre was erected was leased by his father and his eldest son was unable to negotiate a renewal of the land lease.
		The extent to which Shakespeare wrote his great tragic hero roles with Burbage in mind cannot be determined, but the indirect evidence strongly suggests that the playwright knew in advance that Burbage would be the "star" and had him in mind when he created the characters of Hamlet, Lear, Othello and the like.
	www.enotes.com /william-shakespeare/shakespeares-globe-theater (1925 words)

	globe theatre
		Richard Burbage and his brother, Cuthbert, inherited a playhouse called "The Theatre" from their father, James.
		Richard Burbage was an actor in a company called The Lord Chamberlain's Men, which Shakespeare had joined in 1594.
		Burbage was the first actor in history to play Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, King Lear, Romeo, Henry V and Richard III.
	www.cummingsstudyguides.net /xGlobe.html (3256 words)

	Richard Burbage
		We may see Richard Burbage as the first in a long tradition of the actor/manager...
		Burbage was also reputedly a painter of some skill...
		In theatrical terms Burbage's legacy is that he set a particular model that has been followed by other actors ever since....
	web.ukonline.co.uk /michaelmoor/richard_burbage.htm (339 words)

	March 16th
		But Richard Burbage, the actor, who first personated Shakspeare's leading characters, and whose eminence in his art may have suggested many of the noble mind creations which now delight us, merits a niche in the temple of Shalespearean history, second only in rank to that of the great master of nature himself.
		Burbage, the son of a player, was born about 1564.
		It must be cited as no mean evidence of Burbage's merit as an actor, that the fame of his abilities held a prominent place in theatrical tradition, down to the days of Charles the Second, when Flecknoe wrote a poem in his praise, inscribed to Charles Hart, the great performer after the Restoration.
	www.thebookofdays.com /months/march/16.htm (2199 words)

	Richard Burbage - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Richard Burbage - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Richard I, called Coeur de Lion or Lion-Hearted (1157-1199), king of England (1189-1199), third son of King Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, born...
		Richard II (1367-1400), king of England (1377-1399), whose reign was marked by national disunity and civil strife.
	encarta.msn.com /Richard_Burbage.html (96 words)

	ABOUT RICHARD III, THE PLAY
		The Tudor dynasty was founded when Henry, Earl of Richmond, defeated Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485.
		Henry assumed the throne as Henry VII, and was grandfather to Queen Elizabeth I.
		Having won the throne in battle, it was essential for the Tudor's to discredit older claims.
	www.csun.edu /~hflrc001/255/aboutrichard3.htm (660 words)

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