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Shakespeare's Clown: Actor and Text in the Elizabethan Playhouse (Updated Edition) by David Wiles (University Of London), David Dr Wiles Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2005 ISBN-10: 0-521-67334-8 / 0521673348 ISBN-13: 978-0-521-67334-1 / 9780521673341 This book argues that a professional Elizabethan theatre company always contained one actor known as 'the clown'. Its focus is Will Kemp, clown to the Chamberlain's Men from 1594 to 1599 and famed for his solo dance from London to Norwich in 1600. David Wiles combines textual, theatrical and biograp |