Richard Field was a publisher in Elizabethan London, known for his close association with William Shakespeare. Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...

Field was about two and a half years older than Shakespeare. He grew up in Stratford-upon-Avon and lived on Bridge Street, close to the Shakespeares on Henley Street. His father was a tanner. It is often thought likely that Shakespeare and Field knew each other in Stratford, since they were similar in age and their fathers were in similar businesses. Stratford-upon-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon is a town in Warwickshire, England. ... Tanning is the process of conversion of putrescible skin into non putrescible leather. ...

Field moved to London and became an apprentice stationer (that is, a printer-publisher). By the age of 26, he was running his own business. When Shakespeare moved to London at some point in the late 1580s, he must have met Field, for in 1592, Field was the publisher of Shakespeare's poem Venus and Adonis. Events and Trends The beginnings of the Golden Age of Literature in England Sir Humphrey Gilbert claims Newfoundland as Englands first overseas colony in 1583 Francis Drake had come back from going around the world, bringing back with him many treasures. ... Events January 30 - The death of Pope Innocent IX during the previous year had left the Papal throne vacant. ... Please wikify (format) this article as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ...

Another association between Shakespeare and Field has been theorized. It has often been noticed that many of the texts that Shakespeare used as sources for his plays were products of Field's shop (or that of Thomas Vautrolliuer, whose shop Field in herited in 1588). These texts include Thomas North's translation of Plutarch, Sir John Harington's translation of Orlando Furioso, Robert Greene's Pandosto, the works of Ovid, and possibly Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles. Since Field would have kept a copy of each of these books in his shop, it has been theorized that Shakespeare used Field's shop as a mini-library during his early career. 1588 was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. ... Sir Thomas North (1535? - 1601?), English translator of Plutarch, second son of the 1st Baron North, was born about 1535. ... Mestrius Plutarchus (Greek: Πλούταρχος; 46 - 127), better known in English as Plutarch, was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist. ... Sir John Harington, 2nd Baron Harington of Exton Sir John Harington (1561 - November 20, 1612) was known as Queen Elizabeth Is saucy Godson. He was born in Kelston, Somerset, England. ... Ruggiero Rescuing Angelica by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres. ... Robert Greene, BA, MA, (1558 – September 3, 1592) was an English playwright, poet, pamphleteer, and prose writer. ... Engraved frontispiece of George Sandyss 1632 London edition of Publius Ovidius Naso (Sulmona, March 20, 43 BC – Tomis, now Constanţa AD 17), a Roman poet known to the English-speaking world as Ovid, wrote on topics of love, abandoned women and mythological transformations. ... Raphael Holinshed (died c. ...

External links

• 'Shakespeare and Richard Field' by David Kathman