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Michael Dobson
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance
..., Robert ( c. 1568–1615 ) English comic actor and writer. Armin is remembered as the creator of Shakespeare's Jacobean clowns —among them Feste and Lear's Fool—but he was also a dramatist in his own right, and, according to his own Quips upon Questions ( 1600 ), a solo performer of improvised comedy. He composed popular ballads during his apprenticeship to a goldsmith in the early 1580s, and he may have attracted the attention of the clown Richard Tarlton before his term expired: when it did Armin chose jokes over jewellery, joining Chandos's Men as...
Armin, Robert (1568–1615) Reference library
Gabriel Egan
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.)
..., Robert ( c. 1568–1615 ), comic actor in the Chamberlain’s/King’s Men. William Kempe left the Chamberlain’s Men in 1599 and was replaced by Armin, a successful writer and comedian first heard of as apprenticed to the goldsmith John Lonyson in 1581 . During his apprenticeship Armin wrote a number of popular ballads and after completing his term he joined Chandos’s Men. A collection of tales called Fool upon Fool was published in 1600 by the author ‘Clonnico de Curtanio Snuffe’ (Snuff, the clown at the Curtain) and was reprinted in 1605 under...
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The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance
..., Robert ( c. 1586– c. 1611 ), English actor, clown, and writer. A pupil of Tarleton , Armin performed at the Curtain and the globe . He performed in Shakespeare 's plays, probably succeeding Kempe as Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing and other comic roles. He also published works connected to his trade: Fool upon a Fool ( 1600 ), on the art of clowning, and Quips upon Questions ( 1600 ), on improvisation. A play, The Two Maids of Moreclacke ( 1609 ) is also attributed to him. Dictionary of National Biography...
Armin, Robert (1565?–1610) Quick reference
A Dictionary of Writers and their Works (3 ed.)
..., Robert ( 1565?–1610 ) English actor and dramatist Fool upon Fool ; or, Six Sorts of Sotts ( 1600 ) Fiction Quips upon Questions ; or, A Clown's Conceit on Occasion Offered ( 1600 ) Poetry A Nest of Ninnies ( 1608 ) Drama The History of the Two Maids of More-clack ( 1609 ) Drama The Italian Taylor, and his Boy ( 1609 ) Poetry...
Armin, Robert Reference library
The Companion to Theatre and Performance
..., Robert ( c. 1568–1615 ) English comic actor and writer , the creator of Shakespeare 's Jacobean *clowns , among them Feste and Lear's Fool. He was also a dramatist, and, according to his own Quips upon Questions ( 1600 ), a solo performer of improvised comedy. He replaced *Tarlton as comedian with Chandos's Men. His collection of merry tales, Fool upon Fool , appeared in 1600 under the pseudonym ‘Clonnico de Curtanio Snuffe’ (Snuff, the clown at the *Curtain ); it was reissued in 1605 under that of ‘Clonnico del Mondo Snuffe’ (Snuff, the...
Armin, Robert (c.1568–1615) Quick reference
An A-Z Guide to Shakespeare (2 ed.)
..., Robert ( c. 1568–1615 ) An actor and writer who seems to have joined Shakespeare's company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men , by 1599 . The author of a book called Foole upon Foole ( 1600 ), he specialized in comic roles, and may have succeeded Will Kemp . No Shakespearian roles can certainly be assigned to him, but it seems likely that he played Dogberry, Touchstone, Feste, and Lear's...
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The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre (2 ed.)
..., Robert ( c. 1568– c. 1611 ), Elizabethan clown, pupil and successor of Tarleton . He was at the Curtain and probably the Globe and appears in the list of actors in Shakespeare's plays, probably playing Dogberry in Much Ado about Nothing in succession to William Kempe . He was also known as a writer. His Foole upon Foole; or , Six Sortes of Sottes appeared anonymously in 1600 , but his name is found on an enlarged edition published in 1608 as A Nest of Ninnies . He was probably the author of Quips upon Questions (also 1600 ), a...
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Coriolanus Reference library
Michael Dobson, Will Sharpe, and Anthony Davies
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.)
...cannot have been written before 1605 , since its first scene draws on William Camden’s Remains of a Greater Work Concerning Britain , published in that year, nor after 1609 , when it was itself echoed in two separate works by authors associated with Shakespeare’s company, Robert Armin ’s The Italian Tailor and his Boy (entered in the Stationers’ Register that February), and Ben Jonson ’s Epicoene (completed later in the year). All stylistic tests place the play later than The History of King Lear , Macbeth , and Antony and Cleopatra , and it...
Twelfth Night Reference library
Michael Dobson and Anthony Davies
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.)
...sends after him, in order that Viola’s female clothes can be retrieved for her wedding: meanwhile he will continue to call her Cesario. Feste is left alone to sing a song as an epilogue, ‘When that I was and a little tiny boy’. Artistic features: Rich in songs—provided for Robert Armin , the original Feste, who had replaced the less intellectual and melodious fool Will Kempe in 1599 —and peopled by characters who are given to reflecting eloquently but passively on their imprisonment within their own and one another’s fantasies, Twelfth Night is the most...
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The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (4 ed.)
...Collections of ‘merry tales’, ‘quick answers’, and ‘pleasant conceits’ popular throughout the 16th and 17th centuries and later. Their authorship was often ascribed to witty writers such as John Skelton and George Peele or to famous jesters such as John Scoggin and Robert Armin...
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The Oxford Companion to English Literature (7 ed.)
... Collections of ‘merry tales’, ‘quick answers’, and ‘pleasant conceits’ popular throughout the 16th and 17th centuries and later. Their authorship was often ascribed to witty writers such as John Skelton and George Peele or to famous jesters such as John Scoggin and Robert Armin . The genre is related to the apophthegm (a pithy, practical saying) and adage (a proberbial saying), popularized by Erasmus , and to rogue literature , and can be detected in some early fiction, for example in the opening of Thomas Nashe 's The Unfortunate Traveller...
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Dictionary of American Family Names (2 ed.)
... US frequency (2010): 320 Hispanic (Philippines) and Portuguese: from a Christian personal name bestowed in honor of Saint Robert Bellarmine (1542–1621; Roberto Bellarmino in Italian, Roberto Belarmino in Spanish and Portuguese), an Italian Jesuit and Doctor of the Church. The name could be a compound of Italian bello ‘beautiful’ and the personal name Armino (see Armin ) or, eventually, a variant of the personal name Beniamino (see Benjamin...
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The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (4 ed.)
...until his retirement c. 1599 ; Kemp's name appeared in the place of the characters' in early printings of Romeo and Juliet and Much Ado about Nothing . The more complex parts of Feste in Twelfth Night and the Fool in King Lear were probably written for his replacement, Robert Armin...
Leave It to Me! Reference library
The Oxford Companion to the American Musical
... Tamara , George Tobias , Walter Armin , and Mary Martin as the coy secretary Dolly Winslow who did a funny striptease in a Siberian train station to the song “My Heart Belongs to Daddy.” Also in the delectable Porter score were “Most Gentlemen Don't Like Love,” “Get Out of Town,” “From Now On,” and “Tomorrow.” The farcical libretto was by Bella and Sam Spewack who adapted their satirical comedy Clear All Wires ( 1932 ) and updated the political jokes. Sam Spewack directed the Vinton Freedley production and Robert Alton was the choreographer. After...
