JONNS, DANIEL. Denmark, 1586.
JONSON, BENJAMIN. Pembroke's (?), 1597; Chamberlain's (?), c. 1598; and dramatist.
JUBY, EDWARD. Admiral's-Henry's-Palsgrave's, 1594-1618, Fortune lessee, 1618. An Edward Juby is traceable during 1598 to 1619 in the token-books of St. Saviour's, Southwark. In the last year he is marked 'dead', and his burial was registered on 20 November 1618. In 1610 and 1614 he filled parish offices. He may fairly be identified with the 'player' whose children occur in the registers from 3 June 1599 to 15 September 1614. His widow Francis held his share of the Fortune lease in 1622 (H. ii. 290; Rendle, Bankside, xxvi; Bodl.).
JUBY, RICHARD. Admiral's, 1602. His son Richard was baptized at St. Saviour's, Southwark, on 1 May 1602 (Bodl.).
JUBY, WILLIAM (?). Admiral's, 1599-1602 (H. ii. 290).
JUGLER, RICHARD. A London player in 1550 (cf. App. D, No. v).
KEMP, JOHN. Germany, 1601.
KEMPE, WILLIAM, cannot be securely identified or connected with any one of various homonyms who have been traced in D. N. B. and elsewhere.[1] He probably emerges as one of Leicester's men in the Low Countries during 1585-6 and thence made his way to Denmark. He was in London and had already won a comic reputation by 1590 when the dedication of An Almond for a Parrat (Nashe, iii. 341), 'To that most Comicall and conceited Caualeire Monsieur du Kempe, Jestmonger and Vice-gerent generall to the Ghost of Dicke Tarlton,' tells how the anonymous author, possibly Nashe, had been asked by 'that famous Francatrip' Harlicken' at Bergamo in the previous summer, whether he knew 'any such Parabolano here in London as Signior Chiarlatano Kempino' of whose 'pleasance' Harlicken had heard 'report'. In Four Letters Confuted (1592) Nashe says of an action of Harvey's, 'Will Kempe, I mistrust it will fall to thy lot for a merriment, one of these dayes' (i. 287). An example of Kempe's merriments is to be found in sc. xii of A Knack to Know a Knave (1594) played by Strange's men, to whom Kempe belonged by 1593. He was also famous for his jigs. Four of these are entered in the Stationers' Register during 1591-5 (cf. ch. xviii) but are not preserved, and 'Kemps jiggs' is the heading to some music collected by John Dowland and preserved in Camb. Univ. Libr. MS. Dd. ii. 11 (cf. Halliwell, MS. Rarities, 8). Marston (iii. 372), Scourge of Villainy (1598), sat. xi. 30, 'the orbs celestial Will dance Kempe's jig,' and E. Guilpin, Skialetheia (1598), sat. v, 'Whores, bedles, bawdes, and sergeants filthily Chaunt Kemps Jigge, or the Burgonians tragedy,' show his vogue.
- ↑ Kemps Nine Daies Wonder. Performed in a Daunce from London to Norwich (1600) is reprinted with a biography by A. Dyce (1840, Camden Soc.) and in Arber, English Garner^2, ii (Social England), 139, and E. Goldsmid, Collectanea Adamantea, ii (1884). Dissertations are J. Bruce, Who was 'Will, my Lord of Leycester's Jesting Player'? (1844, Sh. Soc. Papers, i. 88); B. Nicholson, Kemp and the Play of Hamlet (N. S. S. Trans. 1880-6, 57); Will Kemp (1887, Sh.-Jahrbuch, xxii. 255).
