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.
Represents the theatrical tradition against which Shakespeare and Burbage defined their work — Alleyn's bombastic Marlowian style of heroic declamation was what Shakespeare's more psychologically complex approach developed against — making the Alleyn-Burbage rivalry productive for the development of English drama.
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