Player, Playwright and Preacher's Kid: The Story of Nat Field, 1587 - 1620

Antonia Southern

Player, Playwright and Preacher's Kid: The Story of Nat Field, 1587 - 1620
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Academica Press
Country
United States
Published
15 August 2017
Pages
277
ISBN
9781680530414

Player, Playwright and Preacher’s Kid: The Story of Nat Field, 1587 - 1620

Antonia Southern

John Field, an ordained minister in the Established Church during the sixteenth century described playhouses as ‘schools of wickedness’ and ‘sinks of sin’. Little did he know that, after his death, his son Nathan (Nat) Field would become one of Britain’s most celebrated players and playwrights. Impressed under royal warrant to become a member of the Children of the Chapel Royal, Nat progressed to star in plays such as Epicene, Bartholomew Fair and Bussy d'Ambois. He later became an adult member of the King’s Men, wrote two highly successful plays of his own and collaborated with writers such as Fletcher and Massinger on many more. Nat, who died at the age of thirty-one, had a considerable reputation in his own day. His career has been neglected recently but in this carefully researched biography the picture of his life is pieced together to reveal one of the most famous names in the theatre of seventeenth-century

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