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Henry Condell (bapt. 5 September 1576 – December 1627) was a British actor in the King's Men, the playing company for which William Shakespeare wrote. With John Heminges, he was instrumental in preparing and editing the First Folio, the collected plays of Shakespeare, published in 1623.
The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Article History. Died: December 1627, London, Eng. Henry Condell (died December 1627, London, Eng.) was an English actor who was one of the chief movers in sponsoring and preparing the First Folio of 1623, the first collection of William Shakespeare’s plays. Condell and John Heminge jointly signed the ...
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Condell is referred to as ‘gent.’ in 1603; Heminges was formally granted a coat of arms in 1629. Heminges and Condell's note "To the Great Variety of Readers" in the Fourth Folio, 1685 (first produced in the First Folio, 1623. Both men acted with Shakespeare in Ben Jonson’ s Every Man in his Humour (1599) and Sejanus (1603-4).
Shakespeare's Players. 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.
John Heminges [a] (bapt. 25 November 1556 – 10 October 1630) was an actor in the King's Men, the playing company for which William Shakespeare wrote. Along with Henry Condell, he was an editor of the First Folio, the collected plays of Shakespeare, published in 1623. He was also the financial manager for the King's Men.
Making Shakespeare: The First Folio details the incredible story of how two of Shakespeare’s fellow actors, John Heminges and Henry Condell, worked to preserve their friend’s legacy through...
