Robert Cox

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Robert Cox

English performer

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Robert Cox was the leading performer of drolls, and his repertoire included “The Merry Conceits of Bottom the Weaver” from A Midsummer Night’s Dream and “The Bouncing Knight, or The Robbers Rob’d” from Henry IV, Part I. Other subjects of drolls were Falstaff, the grave-diggers’…
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Robert Cox was the leading performer of drolls, and his repertoire included “The Merry Conceits of Bottom the Weaver” from A Midsummer Night’s Dream and “The Bouncing Knight, or The Robbers Rob’d” from Henry IV, Part I. Other subjects of drolls were Falstaff, the grave-diggers’…
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