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Thread #165531 Message #3972227
Posted By: Mr Red
19-Jan-19 - 12:25 PM
Thread Name: BS: shakespeare
Subject: RE: BS: shakespeare
all his on work
Shakespearean schollars do say the his favoured actor Burbage had a large influence on the plays he performed in.
I would posit there are two immediately obvious reasons.
1) he had to deliver the lines, and any playwrite will tell you, the script changes in rehearsal and in production.
2) Bill Shake would have written to the strengths of his cast, and particularly Burbage.
3) Contrary to popular comedians' impression of him as a Brummy, Shakespeare would not have had that accent, it would have been more Warwickshire (Brum was not even a village near Aston at the time). And Burbage would have been distinctly Mummerset, where he was from. Oo Arr.
cliche eh? :)