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Robert Coates: The Incompetent Yet Famous Shakespearean Actor

Summary by neatorama.com
Every once in a while, a performer becomes famous for their lack of talent. Florence Foster Jenkins was so convinced of her operatic talent that she rented Carnegie Hall, and people came to marvel at her terrible singing. Tommy Wiseau produce, directed, and acted in a movie that people only watched because it was so awful. But they came in late to the game compared to Robert Coates, who took to the stage as a Shakespearean actor in 1809. Coates …
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neatorama.com broke the news in on Friday, July 4, 2025.
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