His death date was found in the monthly account in the register book of St. Saviour's church: "19 Feb., 1624, Robert Goffe, a player, buried.
"[1] In 1591, as a boy actor, he took the female character of Aspatia in ‘Sardanapalus,’ a portion of a piece by Richard Tarlton called ‘The Seconde Parte of the Seven Deadlie Sinns,’ of which ‘The Platt’ is all that survives, and is to be found among the manuscripts (No.
at Dulwich College, printed in Steevens's additions to Malone's ‘Historical Account,’ and in Collier's ‘English Dramatic Poetry.’ He almost certainly played the role of Juliet[2] opposite the 28-year-old Richard Burbage in the first stage performances of Romeo and Juliet circa 1595.
In 1603 he had a legacy from Thomas Pope, whom Malone assumes to have probably been his master, of half of the testator's wearing apparel and arms.
The last-named, also an actor until the closing of the theatres, published in 1652 the Widow, by Ben Jonson, Fletcher, and Middleton, and according to Wright's Historia Histrionica was "the woman actor at Black Friars", who, when in Cromwell's time the actors played privately in the houses of noblemen, "used to be the jackal, and give notice of time and place."