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Hugh Clark (actor)

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epidemic of 1636–37. Clark, like some other members of the troupe, disappears from the available records in 1637 and 1638; he may have been one of several actors from the company who travelled with James Shirley to
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Clark was with Queen Henrietta's Men during the first and most significant phase of their existence, from 1625 to 1636. Like some other actors of
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in 1630–31. Not long after that time, though, Clark switched to adult male roles. He played Syphax and Nuntius in
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A Dictionary of Actors and Other Persons Associated with the Public Representation of Plays in England Before 1642
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in that year. He was a sharer in the company by January 1641, when he was one of the six sharers who were named
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By 1639, however, Clark was back in London and a member of the King's Men; he appeared in their revival of
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Allan H. Stevenson, "James Shirley and the Actors of the First Irish Theatre,"
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The Queen Henrietta's company was disrupted and fractured by the
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Hugh Clark (disambiguation)
Caroline era
theatre companies
Queen Henrietta's Men
King's Men
English Renaissance theatre
boy player
Shirley's
The Wedding
1626
Heywood's
The Fair Maid of the West
Nabbes's
Hannibal and Scipio
1635
Davenport's
King John and Matilda
bubonic plague
Dublin
Werburgh Street Theatre
The Custom of the Country
Grooms of the Chamber
first Beaumont and Fletcher folio
1647
Puritan
English Commonwealth
Andrew Gurr
Flag of England
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stub

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