Early modern commercial London theatre; the King’s Women: discovering the wives, sisters & daughters at the heart of Shakespeare’s acting company.
Meryl Faiers
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The latest blogpost from the King’s Women looks at new evidence identifying the woman who served drinks to theatregoers at the Globe tavern.
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The latest blogpost from the King’s Women looks at new evidence identifying the woman who served drinks to theatregoers at the Globe tavern.
Reposting for Shakespeare’s ‘birthday’ - Rebecca Edwards Heminges was someone he would have known very well. Read about her at Kingswomen.org
One of the First Comedy Double Acts?
open.substack.com/pub/shakespe... Another great Friday piece from Callan Davies, this time on an Elizabethan husband and wife stand up duo.
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Agree with Michael Billington? Disagree? Either way, an excellent reminder of brilliant productions and performers, many of which shaped my own early theatregoing.
by Héloïse Sénéchal, 5 May 2026 In this blog post, Héloïse Sénéchal looks at new evidence identifying the woman who served drinks to theatregoers at the Globe tavern. The second Globe playhouse had a ...
by Héloïse Sénéchal, 5 May 2026 In this blog post, Héloïse Sénéchal looks at new evidence identifying the woman who served drinks to theatregoers at the Globe tavern. The second Globe playhouse had a ...
My latest post for the Kings Women follows the archival traces of two women in the 1580s who ran their own businesses and took on apprentices, Anne Collins and Annabell Baye, paid up members of the Grocers Company.
www.kingswomen.org/post/the-sis...
#earlymodern
#womenshistory
#londonhistory
My latest post for the Kings Women follows the archival traces of two women in the 1580s who ran their own businesses and took on apprentices, Anne Collins and Annabell Baye, paid up members of the Grocers Company.
www.kingswomen.org/post/the-sis...
#earlymodern
#womenshistory
#londonhistory
I love maps - historic and modern - so Callan Davies’s latest article is a particular delight.
shakespearestage.substack.com/p/navigating...
My latest blogpost for the Kingswomen introduces Rebecca Edwards: she married star actor William Knell at 14, was widowed at 15, then married Shakespeare’s colleague, John Heminges.
www.kingswomen.org/post/rebecca...
#earlymodern
#womenshistory
My latest blogpost for the Kingswomen introduces Rebecca Edwards: she married star actor William Knell at 14, was widowed at 15, then married Shakespeare’s colleague, John Heminges.
www.kingswomen.org/post/rebecca...
#earlymodern
#womenshistory
Antony and Cleopatra? Exhausting. Lear? Magnificent but flawed. Hamlet? Limitless. For Shakespeare’s birthday, the Guardian’s former theatre critic ranks all the plays
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Meryl Faiers
by Meryl Faiers, 9 June 2026My most recent post (20 April 2026) offered a reconstruction of the life of Rebecca Heminges, the wife of a grocer (and actor - John Heminges). Now I'm looking at two of th...
by Meryl Faiers, 9 June 2026My most recent post (20 April 2026) offered a reconstruction of the life of Rebecca Heminges, the wife of a grocer (and actor - John Heminges). Now I'm looking at two of th...
www.kingswomen.org
A meditation on mapping and the surveys of Ralph Treswell
by Meryl Faiers, 20 April 2026Evidence of the lives of non-elite women is often fragmentary and frequently found in administrative records. The first stage of thinking about the experiences of someone...
by Meryl Faiers, 20 April 2026Evidence of the lives of non-elite women is often fragmentary and frequently found in administrative records. The first stage of thinking about the experiences of someone...
