Tags: Actor.

Robert Cox (died December 1655) was a seventeenth-century English actor best known for creating and performing the drolls that were a permitted form of dramatic entertainment during the English Civil War and the Interregnum when theatres were officially closed and standard plays were not allowed.Gerard Langbaine called Cox an excellent comedian. His origins and early history are obscure; he was with Beeston’s Boys in 1639 but nothing else is known about his early life.

Loading...

This page contains content from the copyrighted Wikipedia article "Robert Cox (actor)"; that content is used under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.