Kempes Nine Daies Wonder

Kempes Nine Daies Wonder. Performed in a daunce from London to Norwich is a semi-fictional autobiographical pamphlet by English actor and dancer William Kempe which documents his 27-day journey from London to Norwich in February and March that year, printed in 1600 by Edward Allde for the bookseller Nicholas Ling. For this 27-day journey, Kempe morris danced for nine days, spending the rest of the time as an honoured guest in towns along the way which included Bow, Ilford, Brentwood, Chelmsford, Sudbury, Bury St Edmunds and Thetford.

The pamphlet, of which there is only one extant copy, is the only piece of writing that can be safely credited to Kempe, and additionally harbours the only confirmed contemporary image of Kempe to exist. Though Kempe did make the journey from London to Norwich, the pamphlet is closer to a piece of fiction that intends to advertise Kempe and is not a factual historical account of events.

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