ABSTRACT
Lowin can be charted as assuming leading roles and memorable characters within his company, not with the playwright in residence when he joined, but in plays by Jonson and others, notably John Fletcher. The roles he created in Shakespeare's plays are, in any case, largely the subject of speculation, but his increasing importance among the King's Men parallels Fletcher's emergence as the iconic in-house writer. Fletcher's writing during his creative maturity, his engagement with topical and sensitive material and his projection of alternative polities, captured current interests and was a pervasive influence on the company repertory. Lowin would have been obliged to share and address his dramatic preoccupations with tyranny and abuse of power. Together with increased responsibility in his career. Lowin shouldered the duties and responsibilities of a citizen of Southwark, where he was now settled.
