• William Barksted (fl. 1611) was an English actor and poet. William Barksted in 1609 performed in Ben Jonson's Epicene, and in 1613 in Beaumont and Fletcher's...
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    Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire, 1607. The Insatiate Countess, by Marston and William Barksted, London, Whitefriars Theatre, 1608?. Books The Metamorphosis of Pigmalions...
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  • Court John Marston and William Barksted – The Insatiate Countess (published) Thomas Middleton – A Chaste Maid in Cheapside William Shakespeare – Henry VIII...
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    Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship (category William Shakespeare)
    Spenser. Joseph Sobran, in Alias Shakespeare, argued that in 1607 William Barksted, a minor poet and playwright, implies in his poem "Mirrha the Mother...
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    English Renaissance theatre (category William Shakespeare)
    Woodes Robert Yarington William Alabaster. Edward Alleyn Robert Armin William Barksted Richard Brome Richard Burbage William Cavendish Henry Condell Nathan...
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  • a commendatory verse as well. Around the same time Machin worked with Barksted to revise and complete John Marston's The Insatiate Countess for the short-lived...
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  • Little is known of Barkstead, and even less of Machin. Barkstead (or Barksted, Barksteed, Backstead, etc.) was an actor with several companies, including...
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