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Robert Armin (c. 1568 – 1615) was an English actor, and member of the Lord Chamberlain's Men. He became the leading comedy actor with the troupe associated with William Shakespeare following the departure of Will Kempe around 1600.
Robert Armin (c. 1568–1615) was an English actor and playwright best known as a leading comic actor in the plays of William Shakespeare. He performed with the Chamberlain’s Men from about 1598 to 1610 and originated some of the most famous comic roles in Elizabethan theater, including Touchstone in As You Like It.
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Feb 13, 2013 · Dr Bart van Es of Oxford University shows how Robert Armin, a poet and playwright in Shakespeare's company, shaped how Shakespeare portrayed fools and jesters in several plays. He argues that Armin's characters, such as Touchstone, Malvolio and Autolycus, influenced Shakespeare's comic creations after 1600.
Nov 4, 2022 · The epitaph could almost be his own, Robert Armin’s witness to a fellowship rooted in strangeness. Do you want, he asks, to know who you really are? Here’s how.
126 - Robert Armin. from Part XIII - Shakespeare’s Fellows. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 August 2019. By. Catherine A. Henze. Edited by. Bruce R. Smith. Edited in association with. Katherine Rowe. With. Ton Hoenselaars , Akiko Kusunoki , Andrew Murphy and. Aimara da Cunha Resende. Chapter. Get access. Cite. Summary.
Robert Armin is a New York novelist, playwright and theater director. He is also the narrator of more than a dozen audiobooks through Audible.com. His first novel, "The Flash of Midnight" was published in 2011 and earned Honorable Mention at the London Book Festival.
An actor and writer who seems to have joined Shakespeare's company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, by 1599. The author of a book called Foole upon Foole (1600), he specialized in comic roles, and may have succeeded Will Kemp.
