{"id":1533,"date":"2016-11-10T13:03:51","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T12:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elizabethanpartsongs.nl\/wordpress\/?page_id=1533"},"modified":"2016-11-10T13:03:51","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T12:03:51","slug":"john-duke","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.elizabethanpartsongs.nl\/wordpress\/shakespeare-1616-2016\/the-first-night-of-romeo-juliet\/presenting-the-lord-chamberlains-boys-and-men\/john-duke\/","title":{"rendered":"John Duke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Date of birth unknown. The SDS-plot names him in five small parts as mature men. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">1<\/span>\u00a0 Therefore senior to Chr. Beeston. In 1598 with Beeston amongst the principal players in a Jonson production. They must have been close friends, because they left together when Beeston\u2019s position within the company became untenable. In 1603 with Robert Pallant and the Beeston brothers in the newly formed Queen Anne\u2019s Men. Duke and Pallant obviously were the suspect&#8217;s fellow actors who in a far from dignified performance at court \u2018much abused the place\u2019 when Christopher denied all charges.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">1<br \/>\nOne of these characters has a name : \u2018Will foole\u2019. He obviously is the clown in Sloth, which does not really fit in with Duke\u2019s other assignments. \u2018Will\u2019 does not really fit in either. Not with names like Sardanapalus and Nicanor. Thinking this over, \u2018Will Kempe\u2019 comes to mind : plausible to be on stage as a court jester. The entry \u2018I. Duke\u2019 only adorns the first one of Will foole\u2019s three entrances. But the name does reappear a little lower in the same column (Lechery), where it again is in the sequence \u2018Will &#8211; I Duke\u2019. This is a textbook example of how to cause a copying error. The plot\u2019s draft being copied by a professional scribe may explain why there is no correction : blotting out Duke\u2019s name would have spoiled the entire page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date of birth unknown. The SDS-plot names him in five small parts as mature men. 1\u00a0 Therefore senior to Chr. Beeston. In 1598 with Beeston amongst the principal players in a Jonson production. They must have been close friends, because &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elizabethanpartsongs.nl\/wordpress\/shakespeare-1616-2016\/the-first-night-of-romeo-juliet\/presenting-the-lord-chamberlains-boys-and-men\/john-duke\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1399,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethanpartsongs.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1533"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethanpartsongs.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethanpartsongs.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethanpartsongs.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethanpartsongs.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethanpartsongs.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1534,"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethanpartsongs.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1533\/revisions\/1534"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethanpartsongs.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethanpartsongs.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}