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Thread #33554   Message #447595
Posted By: Greyeyes
23-Apr-01 - 05:15 PM
Thread Name: Info on William Kemp of 'Kemp's Jig'
Subject: RE: Info on William Kemp of 'Kemp's Jig'
Here are some Blickies to sites which may have stuff you don't know.

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These are the short entries for William Kemp (or Kempe)copied & pasted from the British Library catalogue. You'll need to search here for the full bibliographic details. Many of the reprints were limited edition facsimiles of only a few hundred copies. You would certainly be able to get a copy via inter library loan in the UK, it shouldn't be too hard in the US either, I'm not sure where you are.


[8] Kemps nine daies wonder. performed in a daunce from London to Norwich. containing the pleasure, paines and kinde entertainment of William Kemp between London and that Citty in his late Morrice. wherein is somewhat set downe worth note; to reproove the slaunders spred of him; many things merry, nothing hurtfull. map and drawings by Robert Yaxley Kemp. Will. fl. 1593-1602 1985 [9] Kemps nine daies wonder. performed in a daunce from London to Norwich. containing the pleasure, paines and kinde entertainment of William Kemp between London and that Citty in his late Morrice. wherein is somewhat set downe worth note; to reproove the slaunders spred of him; many things merry, nothing hurtfull. drawings by Robert Laxley Kemp. Will. fl. 1593-1602 c1997 [10] Will Kemp. Shakespeare's forgotten clown. Chris Harris Harris. Chris. 1942- 1983 [11] K.'s nine daies Wonder, etc. (Facsimile reproduction: superintended by E. W. Ashbee.) B.L. KEMP. William. Actor London printed, 1600 [reprinted, 1876?]. 4o. [12] K.'s nine daies Wonder, etc. (Facsimile reproduction: superintended by E. W. Ashbee.) B.L. [Another edition.] KEMP. William. Actor 1883. [13] Kempes Nine Daies Wonder ... Edited from the original MS. by E. Goldsmid. KEMP. William. Actor pp. vii. 42. 1884. [14] Kemp's Nine Days' Wonder, etc. KEMP. William. Actor 1903. [15] Kemps nine daies wonder, etc. KEMP. William. Actor [16] Old Rumford & William Kemp's Nine daies wonder. KEMP. William. Actor Hornchurch: printed at the Chestnut Leaf Private Press, 1970. pp. 9. 13 cm.

Beware of some of those links, one of them describes the nine day Morris dance as a 23 day jig. They are NOT reliable sources.


Hope this is useful. We have a copy of the book in my library if you'd like a first hand description of it.


Cheers
Paul