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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.