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Apr 21, 2023 · Shakespeare’s First Folio celebrates its 400th anniversary in 2023, and I confess that most of what I know about its creation I learned from Lauren Gunderson’s play The Book of Will, the 2017 stage comedy that depicts the efforts of King’s Men actors John Heminges and Henry Condell to gather and publish all of Shakespeare’s plays in one extraordinary volume.
Alice Heminges: John’s daughter and alewife, Alice is thirty-five years old, knows everyone, and hangs with the boys. Rebecca Heminges: John’s wife, Rebecca is strong, busy with their grocery business, and a woman who has weathered much but loves her husband, her sons, and God. She is a good wife.
Walker, Charles Clement. John Heminge and Henry Condell, Friends and Fellow-Actors of Shakespeare, and What the World Owes to Them. London: privately printed, 1896. Google Scholar. The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare - January 2016.
"John Heminges" published on by null. (1566–1630), and(d. 1627),were fellow actors of Shakespeare and joint editors of the First Folio of his plays (1623). Heming is said to have been the first player of Falstaff.
Mar 8, 2024 · Fri 10am - 5pm. Sat 10am - 5pm. Sun 10am - 5pm. "The Book of Will" is a heartfelt drama that follows the journey of Shakespeare's friends and colleagues—John Heminges and Henry Condell—as they grapple with the loss of their friend and the possible extinction of his works. Determined to preserve Shakespeare's legacy, they take on a monum.
William Heminges. William Heminges (1602 – c. 1653?), also Hemminges, Heminge, and other variants, was a playwright and theatrical figure of the Caroline period. [1] He was the ninth child and third son of John Heminges, the actor and colleague of William Shakespeare, and his wife Rebecca. William Heminges was christened on 3 October 1602 in ...
♪♪ Heminges and Condell would never know that, but the 8th of November must have been a special day. -Here it is, a summation of the project, the final moment at which the First Folio is ...
