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Your English professor may have a point. I believe that some of the comedy passages in the earlier Shakespeare plays could have been contributed by Will Kempe, who was the "resident comedian" of the Lord Chamberlain's men. And I think its likely that Richard Burbage, who was the leading actor in the company, would have had input into rehearsals, at least. Modern playwrights often rewrite sections of their plays during rehearsals to take account of suggestions from the director and actors, so there's no reason not to suppose that Shakespeare did the same. Productions of Elizabethan plays did not have a director, as such, so individual productions would have been very much a collaborative effort of all the actors concerned.Posted by Thersites on March 25, 1997 at 01:36:41
In Reply to "Non-existant?" posted by Starri on March 24, 1997 at 13:42:34
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