Edward Hall

Edward Hall or Halle (1497–1547), was an English lawyer, Member of Parliament, and historian, best known for his The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancastre and Yorke, commonly known as Hall's Chronicle.

Family

Edward Hall, born in 1497, was the son of John Hall (d. 22 February 1528) of Northall in Kynnersley, Shropshire, a London grocer and Merchant of the Staple who resided in the parish of St Mildred in the Poultry. The surname Hall appears in the records of the Worshipful Company of Grocers for several generations prior to Hall's birth, suggesting that members of the family had been London merchants for some time. Hall's father served as Warden of the Grocers in 1512.

According to some sources, Hall's mother, Katherine Geddyng, was the daughter and coheir of Thomas Geddyng of Norfolk, while according to others she was the daughter of John Geddyng, great-grandson of William Geddyng of Lackford, Suffolk, and Mirabel Aspale, daughter and heiress of Sir John de Aspale. Katherine (née Geddying) Hall's burial on 19 June 1557 in the church of St Benet Sherehog was recorded by the diarist Henry Machyn. She appointed as executor of her will Sir William Garrard, and as supervisor Dame Joan Warren, the second wife of Sir Ralph Warren, Lord Mayor of London. According to some sources, Katherine was the 'Mistress Hall' who in 1555 was imprisoned in Newgate for her faith, and with whom the religious reformer John Bradford corresponded.

Edward Hall (director)

Edward Hall (born 27 November 1966) is an English theatre director and an associate director at The National Theatre. Hall is known for directing Rose Rage, a stage adaptation of Shakespeare's three Henry VI plays. He also runs an all-male Shakespeare company, Propeller. He became artistic director of the Hampstead Theatre in London in 2010.

Career

Hall began his professional career as a theatre director at the Watermill Theatre in the early 1990s. At the Watermill, Hall directed a number of Shakespeare plays, including Henry V and The Comedy of Errors. In 1996 he directed Donald Sinden, Patrick Ryecart and Nigel Davenport in a UK tour of N. J. Crisp's drama That Good Night.

In 2002, Hall directed Rose Rage at the Haymarket Theatre. This was an ambitious adaptation of all three Shakespeare's Henry VI plays. It was described by The Guardian as "an exhilaratingly surreal and bloody take on Shakespeare."

Although he has for the most part worked in the theatre, Hall has also done some directing for radio and television: he directed Into Exile for BBC Radio 4, and for television he directed episodes of Trial and Retribution and Marple. He directed the 2012 two-part TV miniseries Restless.

Edward Hall (disambiguation)

Edward Hall (1498–1547) was an English chronicler and lawyer.

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