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Elizabethan actor who was Burbage's great rival — the leading actor of the Admiral's Men, Marlowe's company — who created the roles of Tamburlaine, Faustus, and Barabas, and who founded Dulwich College with the fortune he made from theatre.
Leading actor of the Lord Chamberlain's Men / King's Men — Shakespeare's company — who created the original roles of Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Richard III, making him the most important actor of the Elizabethan era and the first interpreter of Shakespeare's greatest characters.