Seventeenth century

Forget dancing like no one is watching. Dance like you’re Will Kemp.

Forget dancing like no one is watching. Dance like you're Will Kemp.
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From
William Kemp, Kemps nine daies wonder
Printed
London, 1600
Image from
Early English Books Online (STC 14923)

First posted on Twitter for #WoodcutWednesday on 15 April 2015: the original tweet.

Here endeth this leaf of the Commonplace Book, which ſheweth Kemps nine daies wonder (London, 1600), the work of William Kemp and not of this preſs; only the caption is the Senſeſhaper’s. The image is from Early English Books Online (STC 14923). Copied into this book the fifteenth day of April, 2015. Finis.

Cite the original
Kemp, William.
Kemps nine daies wonder.
London, 1600.
Early English Books Online (STC 14923).

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