Alexander Cooke
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provides basic facts about the life Alexander Cooke:
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Nationality - English
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Acting Troupes: Member of the
Chamberlain's Men and the Kings Men
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Career - Actor. He
specialised in playing in tragedies
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Alexander Cooke is believed
to have played the female roles of Agrippina and Fine-madam Would-be
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The cast list for Jonson's
Sejanus, performed in 1603, includes "Ric. Burbadge, Aug. Philips, Will.
Sly, Ioh. Lowin, Will. Shake-Speare, Ioh. Hemings, Hen. Condel, and
Alex. Cooke."
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The actor and co-owner of
the Globe Theatre, Augustine Phillips, bequeathed twenty shillings in
his will to Alexander Cooke
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Famous for being one of the
main actors who performed in the plays listed in the collection of
William Shakespeare plays called the First Folio
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The First Folio
was published in 1623 and contained approximately 900 pages
containing 36 of the plays by William Shakespeare. It was entitled
"Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories & Tragedies"
The reputation of the early
Elizabethan Actors was not good and any were viewed as no better than
rogues and vagabonds - actors were not trusted. The standing of actors
improved when the purpose-built theatres were introduced and some
Elizabethan actors became the equivalent of today's superstars.
The Chamberlain's Men Acting Troupe
The Chamberlain's Men, of which Alex Cooke was a member, were the most
important company of players in Elizabethan England and led by the
Burbage family and William Shakespeare. Initially known as known as Hunsdon's Men, whose patron was Henry Carey the first Lord Hunsdon.
Hunsdon then took office as the Lord Chamberlain. The Chamberlain's Men
were taken under the royal patronage of James I in March 1603 and were
then known as the King's Men. The main rivals of the Chamberlain's Men
were the Admiral's Men Acting Troupe
led by Edward Alleyn and Phillip Henslowe.
Alexander Cooke
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