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JOSEPH TAYLOR (c. 1586-c. 1653)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 472 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOSEPH See also:TAYLOR (c. 1586-c. 1653)  , See also:English actor, is mentioned in the See also:folio See also:Shakespeare of 1623 as one of the twenty-six who took See also:principal parts in all of these plays . There is a See also:legend that he was trained by Shakespeare to See also:play See also:Hamlet, and that he succeeded See also:Burbage in this and other parts . Certain it is that in many of See also:Beaumont and See also:Fletcher's plays he had a leading role, and he is one of the ten actors who signed the See also:dedication of the first folio of these dramatists (1647) .

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