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The second Beaumont/Fletcher folio of 1679 provides a cast list for the original King's Men's production, which includes Henry Condell, Joseph Taylor, John Lowin, William Ecclestone, Richard Sharpe, John Underwood, Robert Benfield—and Thomas Pollard, the comic actor who filled the title role.
Henry Condell is, alongside Burbage and Kempe, one of the regular actors at the Red Lion Theatre. Condell mainly plays the female lead, due to real females being banned from joining the English acting profession during the Elizabethan era.[N 1] This entry will concentrate on the version featured in the series. For information about the real person, visit their Wikipedia entry. In A Crow ...
In his own lifetime, Shakespeare saw only about half of his plays enter print. Some individual plays were published in quarto, a small, cheap format.Then, in 1623, seven years after Shakespeare's death, his fellow actors John Heminges and Henry Condell compiled a folio collection of his complete plays, now known as the First Folio.
Printed in folio format and containing 36 of Shakespeare's plays, it was prepared by Shakespeare's colleagues John Heminges and Henry Condell. It was dedicated to the "incomparable pair of brethren" William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke and his brother Philip Herbert , Earl of Montgomery (later 4th Earl of Pembroke).
Henry Condell (baptisé en 1576 – mort en décembre 1627) était un acteur de la période élisabéthaine appartenant à la troupe du roi (en), pour laquelle Shakespeare écrivait. Avec John Heminges , il a joué un rôle important dans l'histoire du théâtre en éditant en 1623 le Premier Folio , recueil des pièces de Shakespeare ...
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The King's Men was the acting company to which William Shakespeare (1564–1616) belonged for most of his career. Formerly known as the Lord Chamberlain's Men during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, they became the King's Men in 1603 when King James I ascended the throne and became the company's patron. The royal patent of 19 May 1603 which ...
