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FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)

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FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633) , See also:English dramatist and actor, was baptized on the 17th of See also:October 1587. His See also:father, the See also:rector of Cripplegate, was a Puritan divine, author of a Godly Exhortation directed against See also:play-acting, and his See also:brother See also:Theophilus became See also:bishop of See also:Hereford. Nat. Field See also:early became one of the See also:children of See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth's See also:chapel, and in that capacity he played leading parts in See also:Ben See also:Jonson's Cynthia's See also:Revels (in 1600), in the Poetaster (in 16o1), and in Epicoene (ip 16o8), and the See also:title role in See also:Chapman's See also:Bussy d'Ambois (in 16o6). Ben Jonson was his dramatic See also:model, and may have helped his career. The two plays of which he was author were probably both written before 1611. They are boisterous, but well-constructed comedies of contemporary See also:London See also:life ; the earlier one, A Woman is a Weathercock (printed 1612), dealing with the inconstancy of woman, while the second, Amends for Ladies (printed 1618), was written with the intention, as the title indicates, of retracting the See also:charge. From See also:Henslowe's papers it appears that Field collaborated with See also:Robert Daborne and with See also:Philip See also:Massinger, one See also:letter from all three authors being a See also:joint See also:appeal for See also:money to See also:free them from See also:prison. In 1614 Field received £ro for playing before the See also:king in See also:Bartholomew See also:Fair, a play in which Jonson records his reputation as an actor in the words " which is your Burbadge now? . . . Your best actor, your Field?" He joined the King's Players some See also:time before 1619, and his name comes seventeenth on the See also:list prefixed to the See also:Shakespeare See also:folio of 1623 of the " See also:principal actors in all these plays." He retired from the See also:stage before 1625, and died on the loth of See also:February 1633. Field was See also:part author with Massinger in the Fatal See also:Dowry (printed 1632), and he prefixed commendatory verses to See also:Fletcher's Faithful Shepherdess.

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text of See also:Chrysostom's Homiliae in Matthaeum (See also:Cam-See also:bridge, 1839), and some years later he contributed to See also:Pusey's Bibliotheca Patrum (See also:Oxford, 1838-187o), a similarly treated text of Chrysostom's homilies on See also:Paul's epistles. The scholarship displayed in both of these See also:critical See also:editions is of a very high See also:order. In 1839 he had accepted the living of See also:Great Saxham, in See also:Suffolk, and in 1842 he was presented by his See also:college to the rectory of Reepham in See also:Norfolk. He resigned in 1863, and settled at See also:Norwich, in order to devote his whole time to study. Twelve years later he completed the Origenis Hexaplorum quae supersunt (Oxford, 1867—1875), now well known as Field's See also:Hexapla, a text reconstructed from the extant fragments of See also:Origen's See also:work of that name, together with materials See also:drawn from the Syro-hexaplar version and the See also:Septuagint of See also:Holmes and See also:Parsons (Oxford, 1798-1827). Field was appointed a member of the Old Testament revision See also:company in 187o.

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