Robert Browne (Jacobean actor)

Later scholars, principally Charles Jasper Sisson[3][4] and Herbert Berry,[5] demonstrated that two different men of the same name had been confused and conflated together.

The Robert Browne who is the subject of this article had a career that extended through the first two decades of the seventeenth century, and in that sense can, as a differentiation, be called a Jacobean actor.

Born in 1563, Robert Browne's acting career began by the time he was twenty years old, when he was a member of Worcester's Men (1583).

He was in Frankfurt again in 1606; he and other English actors were under the patronage of Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, who had built for the 'Englische Komoedianten', in Kassel 1605, a roofed theatre, the oldest extant such building in Germany, although nowadays used as a wildlife museum; in 1606 and 1607.

[9] When William Sly, long a member of the King's Men, died in 1608, he left Robert Browne his share in the Globe Theatre.