Will Kempe
Traditional, bawdy, loud and rustic.
The Clown.
Originated Dogberry in Much Ado and Peter in Romeo and Juliet.
He probably played Bottom, Costard, and Lance Gobbo.
And quite possibly the first Falstaff.
Robert Armin
Cynical, urban, witty, Beckettian.
The Fool.
Likely gave the first Feste, Touchstone, Lear's Fool, and the Porter in Macbeth.
And quite possibly the first Iago.
They marked two eras in Shakespeare's work.
Armin likely gave the first Autolycus in The Winter's Tale, but who then gave the first Young Shepard, a role Shakespeare surely wrote with Kempe in mind.
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