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Burbage   /bˈərbɪdʒ/   Listen
Burbage

noun
1.
English actor who was the first to play the leading role in several of Shakespeare's tragedies (1567-1619).  Synonym: Richard Burbage.





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"Burbage" Quotes from Famous Books



... made up in the castoff mail of a court buck, a wellset man with a bass voice. It is the ghost, the king, a king and no king, and the player is Shakespeare who has studied Hamlet all the years of his life which were not vanity in order to play the part of the spectre. He speaks the words to Burbage, the young player who stands before him beyond the rack of cerecloth, calling him ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce


Words linked to "Burbage" :   role player, thespian, histrion, Richard Burbage, player, actor


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