12 Facts About Nathan Field

Nathan Field's father was the Puritan preacher John Field, and his brother Theophilus Field became the Bishop of Llandaff.

Nathan Field's father opposed London's public entertainments: he delivered a sermon that attributed Divine judgment to the collapse of the public seating area, during a bear baiting on a Sunday, at Beargarden in 1583, which resulted in several deaths.

Nathan Field presumably did not intend a career in the theatre; he was a student of Richard Mulcaster at St Paul's School in the late 1590s.

Nathan Field remained in this profession for the remainder of his life, later adding to it the profession of a playwright.

When John Nathan Field died, he left seven children, of whom the eldest was only seventeen.

Nathan Field left all his property to his wife, Joan.

Nathan Field married and in his will left all his possessions to his wife, Alice.

Nathan Field was presumably among those of the children's company briefly imprisoned for the official displeasure occasioned by Eastward Hoe and John Day's The Isle of Gulls; the latter imprisonment was in Bridewell Prison.

Nathan Field stayed with a children's company until 1613, his twenty-sixth year.

Nathan Field appears to be the only one of the boy actors of 1600 to remain with the Blackfriars troupe when, in 1609, Philip Rosseter and Robert Keysar assumed control of the company.

Edmond Malone supposed that Field played women's roles with the company; O J Campbell suggests that he played young second leads.

Nathan Field had a contemporary reputation as a ladies' man; gossip reported by William Trumbull charges him with a child of the Countess of Argyll.