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Although it was rare for playwrights to have much control over casting in the 1590s, Shakespeare’s role as a sharer in the Lord Chamberlain’s Men and his likely involvement in performance suggests a stronger overlap between parts and players. There is, in fact, textual evidence for Kemp’s roles — whose own name replaces the directionContinue reading “Fake deaths: Shakespeare’s and Will Kemp’s co-authorship”