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ROBERT WILSON (d. 1600)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 695 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROBERT WILSON (d. 1600)  ,
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English actor and playwright, was a comedian in the
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earl of Leicester's
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company, beginning with its establishment in 1574, and from 1583 to 1588 in the Queen's and afterwards in Lord Strange's company . He wrote several morality plays . In his Three Ladies of
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London (1584) he has the
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episode of the attempt of the Jew to recover his debt, afterwards adapted by Shakespeare in The Merchant of Venice . Another Robert Wilson (1579—1610), probably his son, was one of Henslowe's dramatic hack-writers .

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