Search results
Henry Condell. Henry Condell (died December 1627) was an actor in the King's Men, the playing company for which William Shakespeare wrote. With John Heminges, he was instrumental in preparing the First Folio, the collected plays of Shakespeare, published in 1623.
identifying Henry Condell, the London actor, with the child of that name bap-tized in Norwich in 1576» (1) Honneyman constructed a family tree in which the 1576 Henry Condell was the son of Robert Condell and Joan Yeomans Condell, who had been mar-ried on 17 October 1569 in New Buckenham, Norfolk, a small village twelve
May 14, 2015 · Henry Folger once spent nearly a year's salary on a William Shakespeare first folio. In The Millionaire and the Bard, Andrea Mays chronicles his obsession with collecting the playwright's work.
Condell was baptised at the end of 1757 at St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, the son of John Condell and his partner Ann Wilson. He first performed in public in 1771, on the harpsichord. [1] Around 1800 Condell was a prominent member of the orchestras of the King's Theatre, Drury Lane, and Covent Garden. He died at Cave House, Battersea, after a ...
St Mary Aldermanbury old churchyard, City of London. The John Heminges and Henry Condell Memorial is a memorial to the actors John Heminges and Henry Condell – the editors of William Shakespeare 's First Folio, published in 1623 – in the former churchyard of St Mary Aldermanbury on Love Lane, London EC2. The memorial is made from pink ...
Jul 12, 2012 · John Heminge and Henry Condell address their prefatory letter to Shakespeare's first folio “To the great Variety of Readers,” defining this “Variety” as encompassing readers “From the most able, to him that can but spell.”1 Like the playhouses, the folio ushers in a diverse audience of readers, whose numbers and practices are the ...
Apr 24, 2023 · The folio edition was compiled by actors John Heminge and Henry Condell as a tribute and memorial to the writer. ... Immersive art to mark Shakespeare's birthday. Exhibition celebrates Shakespeare ...
