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Burbage, Richard (c. 1567–1619)

English actor. He is thought to have been Shakespeare's original Hamlet, Othello, and Lear. He also appeared in first productions of works by Ben Jonson, Thomas Kyd, and John Webster. His father James Burbage (c. 1530–1597) built the first English playhouse, known as ‘the Theatre’; his brother Cuthbert Burbage (c. 1566–1636) built the original Globe Theatre in London in 1599.
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