John Heminges (sometimes spelled Heming or Heminge) (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.
Life
Heminges was baptised at Droitwich, Worcestershire, on 25 November 1566. Sent to London at the age of twelve, he was apprenticed for nine years to the City Grocer John Collins, becoming a freeman of the Grocers' Company on 24 April 1587. On 10 March 1588 he received a licence to marry Rebecca Knell (née Edwards), the widow of William Knell, an actor with the Queen's Men who had been killed at Thame, Oxfordshire, in 1587 by John Towne, a fellow actor. Heminges and his sixteen-year-old wife settled in the parish of St Mary Aldermanbury, and had at least thirteen children there between the years 1590 and 1613.
Heminges's association with the theatre had begun by 1593, when he and Augustine Phillips were with Lord Strange's Men. By the next year he and Phillips had joined the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later the King's Men. Heminges remained with the Company until his death. Privy Council records from 1630 state that he received £100 to relieve the Company during a period of plague.
He left money in his will to his fellow actors John Heminges, Richard Burbage, and Henry Condell to buy mourning rings. Heminges and Condell were responsible for editing the collection of Shakespeare’s...
First Drafts,” last April ... He believes that he is Jon Sincler, a real-life actor in Shakespeare’s company and that his medical team is actually John Heminges and Henry Condell, the publishers of Shakespeare’s First Folio ... ....
William Shakespeare is considered to be one of the greatest writers in history, but without Henry Condell and John Heminges, the Bard’s work would have been lost to time ... They’ll just have to beg, borrow, and bargain their way to its completion.
William Shakespeare is considered to be one of the greatest writers in history, but without Henry Condell and John Heminges, the Bard’s work would have been lost to time ... They’ll just have to beg, borrow, and bargain their way to its completion.
29.FRIDAY ... 1 p.m ... Members, $75; nonmembers, $115. www.brmbcc.org ... $14 ... A Swine Palace production follows the story of actors Henry Condell and John Heminges, who are determined to preserve the works of Shakespeare that were still unpublished when he died.
22.FRIDAY. ART AFTER HOURS. 6 p.m ...River Road ... Free. lasm.org ... $12.50 ... A Swine Palace production follows the story of actors Henry Condell and John Heminges, who are determined to preserve the works of Shakespeare that were still unpublished when he died ... .
From left, Tony Medlin is John Heminges, Maura McErlean is Alice Heminges and Doug Streater is Henry Condole in Swine Palace's 'The Book of Will.' STAFF PHOTO BY ROBIN MILLER ... daughter, Alice Heminges.
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Some will think this could interest only bibliophiles. Not so. John Heminges and Henry Condell, the editors of the folio, included 18 plays that had never been published before ...Related articles. TV REVIEW. Shakespeare ... CarolMidgley ... ... .
On 8 November 1623, a pair of enterprising actors and businessmen, John Heminges and Henry Condell, having collected 36 plays attributed to (and we fervently believe largely written by) William Shakespeare, published the first folio edition of Mr ... .
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