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

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