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William Knell (actor)
William Knell (died 1587) was an Elizabethan era actor who played lead roles for the Queen's Men in the 1580s. It has been speculated that his sudden death in a brawl with another actor, while on tour in Thame near Oxford, gave William Shakespeare an opening to become a professional actor.
==Life==
Knell joined the Queen's Men in 1583.〔Roslyn Lander Knutson, ''Playing Companies and Commerce in Shakespeare's Time'', Cambridge University Press, 2001, p.28.〕 He seems to have quickly risen to play leading parts. He is known to have played the role of King Henry V in the pre-Shakespeare play ''The Famous Victories of Henry V'', opposite Richard Tarlton who played the clown role (Dericke) in the play.〔Katherine Duncan-Jones, ''Ungentle Shakespeare: Scenes from his Life'', Cengage, 2001. pp.29-30.〕 A record of the event says that "Knel, then playing Henry the fift, hit Tarlton a sound boxe indeed, which made the people laugh the more".〔Edwin Nungezer, ''A Dictionary of Actors and of Other Persons Associated with the Public Representation of Plays in England before 1642'', Yale University Press, 1929, p.228.〕
In January 30, 1586 he married the 15-year-old Rebecca Edwards.
On 13 June 1587, the Queen's Men were in Thame, at the beginning of a tour of the provinces, when he got into an argument with another actor called John Towne. Knell drew his sword and attacked Towne, who retreated to small ridge in a place called White Hound Close. As Knell approached Towne drew his own sword in self-defence and stabbed Knell in the neck. Knell was dead within half an hour. Towne was cleared at the subsequent inquest.〔Peter Thomson, ''On Actors and Acting'' University of Exeter Press, 2000, p.42.〕 The report states that "William Knell continuing his attack as before, so maliciously and furiously, and Towne... to save his life drew his sword of iron (price five shillings) and held it in his right hand and thrust it into the neck of William Knell and made a mortal wound three inches deep and one inch wide."〔Michael Wood, ''In Search of Shakespeare'', Random House, 2005, p.113〕
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