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Joseph Taylor (d.
November 4,
1652) was a 17th-century actor. As the successor of
Richard Burbage with the
King's Men, he was arguably the most important actor in the later
Jacobean and the
Caroline eras.
Taylor started as a child actor with the
Children of the Chapel in the first decade of the centuy; as he matured he remained in the profession, with
Prince Charles's Men and the
Lady Elizabeth's Men. With them, he developed into an important leading man.
Richard Burbage died in March
1619; Taylor joined the King's Men the next month, and over the coming years he acted all the major roles of the Shakespearean canon. He was also famous for the roles of Paris in
The Roman Actor by
Philip Massinger, Ferdinand in
The Duchess of Malfi (
John Webster), and Mosca in
Volpone, Face in
The Alchemist, and Truewit in
Epicene (all by
Ben Jonson).
Taylor and
John Lowin became leaders of the King's Men after the deaths of
Henry Condell (
1627) and
John Heminges (
1630). At the same time (1630), Taylor gained a share in the
Blackfriars Theatre, and two shares in the
Globe. And he was one of the King's Men who signed the dedication of the
first Beaumont and Fletcher folio of
1647.
In
1652 a special publication of
John Fletcher's The Wild Goose Chase was issued, the proceeds of which went to Taylor and
John Lowin to relieve their financial need. Taylor and Lowin had played the roles of Belleur and Mirabel in the King's Men's production of the play, c. 1621–4.
The Wild Goose Chase had been lost and was left out of the first Beaumont and Fletcher folio, then rediscovered and published.
In the 25 cast lists that were added to the second Beaumont and Fletcher folio of
1679, Taylor is mentioned 18 times:
His total is second only to Lowin's 21. The lists for
The Coxcomb and
The Humorous Lieutenant refer to the companies to which Taylor belonged prior to the King's Men; the other 16 refer to the latter company. On 11 of the lists, Taylor is mentioned first, an index of his standing as the company's leading player. (For comparison, Burbage is on seven of the lists, always in first place.)
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