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The Life, Death and Afterlife of Richard Tarlton

2013; Oxford University Press; Volume: 65; Issue: 268 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1093/res/hgs145

1471-6968

Katherine Duncan‐Jönes,

Philippine History and Culture

An examination of the career, performance practices and prolonged afterlife of the clown Richard Tarlton (d. 1588) drawing on a variety of sources, both printed and manuscript.(Tarlton’s career with the Queen’s Men, and in particular his likely authorship of the ‘ballad of willie and peggie’, a tribute to his lately slain colleague William Knell, is the subject of a previous article by the same writer: Katherine Duncan-Jones, ‘MS Rawl. Poet. 185: Richard Tarlton and Edmund Spenser’s ‘Pleasant Willy’, The Bodleian Library Record, 20 (1–2) (April/October 2007), 76–101.) It concludes with a newly strengthened case for Shakespeare’s ‘Yorick’ as an allusion to dead Tarlton. Transcripts of two of the most significant documents pertaining to Tarlton’s career are included as appendices.