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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.〔Pogue, Kate. ''Shakespeare's Friends''. Greenwood Publishing Group (2006) ISBN 9780275989569 pp. 129-136〕〔Halliday, F. E. ''A Shakespeare Companion 1564–1964.'' Baltimore, Penguin, 1964. p. 213.〕〔Chambers, E. K. ''The Elizabethan Stage''. 4 Volumes, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1923. Vol. 2, pp. 320–3.〕 ==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.〔() Kathman, David (2004). "Grocers, Goldsmiths, and Drapers: Freemen and Apprentices in the Elizabethan Theater". Shakespeare Quarterly. Vol 55, no. 1. Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 1–49〕 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.〔() Kathman, David (2004). "Grocers, Goldsmiths, and Drapers: Freemen and Apprentices in the Elizabethan Theater". Shakespeare Quarterly. Vol 55, no. 1. Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 1–49〕 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. Heminges remained active in the Grocers' Company alongside his theatrical activities; indeed, the two sometimes intertwined. On 13 December 1608 he was admitted as one of the ten seacoal-meters for the city of London,〔() Gurr, Andrew (2004). The Shakespeare Company, 1594–1642. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 230.〕 citizens appointed to measure the coal imported into the city by sea. Shortly afterwards he took on John Jackson as his deputy. Both Heminges and Jackson later acted as trustees for William Shakespeare when he purchased the Blackfriars Gatehouse in 1613.〔() Kathman, David (2004). "Grocers, Goldsmiths, and Drapers: Freemen and Apprentices in the Elizabethan Theater". Shakespeare Quarterly. Vol 55, no. 1. Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 1–49〕 Between 1595 and 1628 Heminges took on ten apprentices with the Grocers' Company. Of these ten, eight appear to have performed for Heminges's company, in both boys' and adult roles. Alexander Cooke was one of his apprentices. Heminges also built and operated a taphouse at the Globe.〔.〕 Heminges was mentioned in Shakespeare's will, along with Richard Burbage and Henry Condell, each being bequeathed 26 shillings and eightpence〔http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/museum/additional_image_types.asp?item_id=21&image_id=29&extra_image_type_id=2〕 to buy mourning rings in his memory. Burbage died before the publication of the ''First Folio'', but Heminges and Condell acted ostensibly as co-editors and mentioned in their epistle to "the great Variety of Readers" the "care, and paine" they took to collect the works, since the author had not "liv'd to have set forth, and overseen his owne writings". Their editorial efforts were vital to preserving a number of Shakespeare's plays, some of which might have been lost otherwise. As a sharer in the The Globe Theatre, Heminges’ name, along with the other sharers, is mentioned several times in various legal documents that were discovered by American researcher Charles William Wallace. The Globe was plagued by lawsuits as the shares were left to beneficiaries who did not have the continued welfare of the company at heart. In one such lawsuit, Heminges v. Ostler, Heminges was sued by his daughter, Thomasina Ostler over a share of the company. The surviving records do not specify the final outcome of the suit. At his death, Heminges’ shares in the Globe and Blackfriars theatres passed to his son, William Heminges.〔Chambers, Vol. 2 , pp. 322–3.〕 The lawsuit records are valuable to historians for the detailed information they contain regarding the company business.〔Aaron, Melissa, D. ''Global Economics: A History of the Theater Business, the Chamberlain’s / King's Men, and Their Plays, 1599-1642'' University of Delaware Press (2005) ISBN 9780874138771. p 117.〕〔Wallace, C. W. ''Shakespeare and His London Associates as Revealed in Recently Discovered Documents''. University of Nebraska (1910)〕〔Adams, John Cranford. ''Shakespeare’s Globe Playhouse''. Charles Scribner and sons (1956). p. 6〕〔Kinney, Arthur F. ''The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare''. Oxford University Press (2012) ISBN 9780199566105 page 431〕 Heminges died in October 1630 in Southwark, and was buried 12 October 1630 at the parish church of St Mary Aldermanbury. In his will he had asked to be buried as close to his wife as possible.〔() Edmond, Mary (2004). "Heminges, John (bap. 1566, d. 1630)". ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (online ed.). Oxford University Press〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Heminges」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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