Richard Burbage

Richard Burbage is an English actor. He was a veteran of the English army which opposed the Spanish army landed by the Spanish Armada in 1588 and took part in Robert Cecil's rebellion that expelled the Spanish and returned Queen Elizabeth to the throne a decade later.

Burbage came from a wealthy family, and he owned the Globe Theater, the main venue of his acting troupe, Lord Westmoreland's Men (later The Queen's Men). Partly because of this and partly because he was able to cast a commanding image on stage, he often played leading roles. He played Hamlet in William Shakespeare's Prince of Denmark and Caratach, the commander of Boudicia's Icini army, in Boudicca.

A proud and touchy character, Burbage occasionally bickered with Will Kemp.