Nathaniel Field

Nathaniel Field (1587 – 1620), was an English dramatist and actor; his father was the Puritan preacher John Field and his brother became the Bishop of Llandaff.

Field was one of "the children of the Queen's Revels," who performed in Ben Jonson's Cynthia's Revels in 1600 and was a member of the King's Men, 1615 – 1619; he is listed (as Nathan Field) as one of the "Principall Actors" in the Shakespeare First Folio. He wrote A Woman's a Weathercock (1612), Amends for Ladies (1618), and (with Philip Massinger) The Fatal Dowry (published 1632). He also wrote a defence of the stage.

He had a reputation as a ladies' man and left the King's Men after he fathered a child by the Countess of Argyll.

This article incorporates text from A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature.