Henslowe’s Diary
History of the Manuscript
The Academic Journey
Henslowe’s Diary is a manuscript written
by Philip Henslowe between 1592-1609
detailing his many financial matters, including the day-to-day operation of his theatrical business. The manuscript is the
single greatest illuminator of the history of English Renaissance theatre.
The Diary survives today due to Edward
Alleyn, Henslowe’s business
partner and stepson-in-law. Having made a fortune on the stage, Alleyn founded the College of God’s Gift at Dulwich. After
Henslowe’s death in 1616, Alleyn inherited and deposited Henslowe’s papers into the library at Dulwich
College, where they lay unmolested until their discovery in 1780 by Edmond Malone,
a
scholar preparing a variorum edition of Shakespeare. Before Malone could make academic use of the Diary, it was
mislaid. In 1790, it was re-discovered; Malone prepared a transcript of thirty-eight
pages (Freeman and Freeman, Scholarship 351) from the original manuscript, and hastily
published these excerpts in his Variorum Shakespeare.
Malone kept the original manuscript in his possession until his death in 1812,
though whether he acted in the role of protector or the role of coveter is greatly
disputed. The controversy over Malone’s guardianship stems from the discovery that
he clipped autographs from the original manuscript for his own use. Malone left the
pages of his transcript to his associate, James Boswell the younger, who published
them and more in his own Variorum Shakespeare of 1821. The
transcript appears in a sale of Boswell’s books in 1825 and in the Heber sale, when
it was sold to Sir Thomas Phillips. It was reclaimed for Dulwich College by George
F. Warner upon Phillip’s death in 1895 (Greg,
Diary i xiv).
The next scholar to make use of the Diary was John Payne Collier. Collier published
the entirety of the manuscript, insofar as it related to theatrical affairs, in his
History of English Dramatic Poetry. By 1845, Collier had
edited the whole of the manuscript, and published what would serve as the standard
for a half century. Although it was the touchstone edition, Collier’s Henslowe’s Diary was riddled with misreadings and assumptions
and was therefore attacked on several fronts. Collier’s academic disgrace over the
Perkins Folio in 1859 resulted in an inquiry into his
corpus of work, including his Memoirs of Edward Alleyn and
Henslowe’s Diary.
In 1904, W.W. Greg published a complete edition of Henslowe’s
Diary with the aid of Warner and A.H. Bullen. Greg’s edition transcribed
the entirety of the original manuscript and in 1908 he published an accompanying
volume of extensive notes. These two texts resolve a great deal of the damage done
by Collier’s mishandling and Malone’s excisions. Arthur Freeman and Janet Ing
Freeman deem Greg’s publications to have
superceded [Collier’s] in every respect(Freeman and Freeman, Scholarship 366). Supplementary papers pertaining to the Diary were also published by Greg in 1907 in Henslowe’s Papers.
Greg’s edition of Henslowe’s Diary stood as the final word
in the matter for fifty years but the resource went out of print and became
inaccessible. In 1961 R.A. Foakes and R.T. Rickert, seeking to re-open access to
Diary scholarship, produced an edition based heavily on Greg’s. It claims to have
corrected only
one error of consequence which Greg made in a readingbut in fact corrects Greg in several instances
yet does not compete with Greg’s commentary(Honigmann 298). The one main distinction between the work of Greg and that of Foakes and Rickert is their respective attitudes towards Henslowe as a man. Both Greg and Warner before him judged Henslowe to be
illiterate, mercenary and operat[ing] by a ‘selfish hand-to-mouth policy’based on his practice of lending money to his players. Foakes and Rickert claim that Henslowe can be viewed as either a cutthroat, exploitative creditor or an impartial banker and records-keeper and that one’s view of the
entries of the Diary can vary according to one’s impression of Henslowe as a person(Foakes viii). Regardless of this contention with Greg’s edition, the Foakes and Rickert edition and its 2002 second edition provide a comprehensive and time-tempered account of the manuscript.1
Mutilations and Forgeries
The history of Philip Henslowe’s Diary
(1592–1609) is in no way straightforward. Because its discovery predates the study
of English as a discipline, the Diary was taken to be
relevant only to the antiquarian hunt for the elusive traces of Shakespeare’s life. Scholarly editorial treatment has been
a twentieth-century phenomenon. The transgressions against the Diary were committed
mainly in pursuit of Shakespeare. Henslowe’s life and the relevance of the
Diary to theatre history became interesting to scholars only recently.
The Diary was first discovered at Dulwich College by Edmond Malone, who retained
possession of it, though it is unclear whether it was given to his care or kept
without permission. The circumstances of its return are also in dispute. According
to Peter Martin’s biography of Malone, Malone was contracted by the Dulwich
governors to possess the manuscript (and its associated documents) while he prepared
his Variorum Shakespeare and was allowed to keep them after
the 1790 publication as long as he paid for the privilege (Martin 127). Malone’s method of discovery is also under
suspicion. While at Dulwich College, he never made even a rudimentary catalogue of
his discoveries, thus giving no recourse against the forgeries and uncertainties in
the years to come.
Malone’s greatest offense against the Diary is his multiple excisions of autographs
from the very paper of the manuscript. He snipped as many as twelve sections out of
the original manuscript’s pages. Malone did this to adorn the flyleaves of his own
books and to hoard materials for his next Shakespeare edition (Martin 128) but the information he gained from his
clippings was used later in An Inquiry into the Authenticity of
Certain Miscellaneous Papers and Legal Instruments, a study of the Ireland
Forgeries. Eleven entries, either from Malone’s personal library or from a
transcript from the Diary still in his possession, were published in the Inquiry in
1796. Half of the twelve excisions have been recovered from Malone’s books that made
it to the Bodleian library at Oxford (Martin
128).
John Payne Collier, an important early editor of Shakespeare and Renaissance
literature, is allegedly guilty of inserting interlineations and notes in both
Henslowe’s Diary and the Perkins
Folio as asserted by various inquiries into his corpus by scholars such as
Nicholas S.E.A Hamilton, T.D. Hardy, and Clement M. Ingleby. The matter of Collier’s
forgeries is perplexing, especially when compounded with Malone’s excisions. Many
of
the remarkable
discoveriesmade by Collier and supposedly overlooked by Malone clarified the scholarship of Shakespeare and Renaissance theatre, and it is likely for that very reason that Collier falsified them, as in the following example cited by W.W. Greg:
(Greg, Diary 1.xliii)
Lent at the apoyntment of the company2 & my sonne vnto hary chettell3 in earnest of4 a playe called to good to be trewe5{ or northern man} the some of v s the 14 of novemb3 1601 Folio 95
As Greg explains, Collier’s forgery inserts the words
or northern manas an alternative title to the play Too Good to be True. Collier asserted that the play in question was based on the story of The King and the poor Northern Man, or Too Good to be True. Collier had edited a poem on that subject in 1841 for the Percy Society, and this forgery in the Diary seems to be an attempt to connect the two works.
Early twentieth-century scholars George F. Warner and W. W. Greg tend to condemn
Collier’s hand in complicating the study of Henslowe’s Diary. Warner attempts to be neutral on the matter, and seems
to call upon the tradition of scholarship before him in judging Collier’s
culpability, but ultimately he allows the accusatory facts to stand:
[T]he very serious question of authorship has yet to be decided. Here, however, the reader must be left to draw his own conclusions.[…]Although it is impossible to ignore the fact that Mr. Collier, who gave [the evidence of forgery] to the world as genuine matter, has been distinctly charged with their fabrication, it is no part of my duty either to arraign or defend him.[…]If Mr. Collier’s name has been specially prominent, the blame rests with himself. Even on the most charitable supposition, the ease with which he allowed himself to be imposed upon argues the most extraordinary carelessness and incapacity.[…] At the most, there could only have been a very few persons who had access to the collection, and who, at the same time, were keenly enough interested in dramatic history not to shrink from actual fabrication in order to support particular theories as to have the credit of discovering new facts of professed importance.
(Warner xlv-xlvii)
Greg notes the fact that some forgeries date from the 1590s. Greg draws attention
to folio 12 of the Diary, wherein the signature of John Griggs has been imitated by
Henslowe himself (Greg, Diary i 221 [in notes to
f12]; Foakes 29 n.1). On the whole,
however, Greg is even less forgiving than Warner in his view of the issue:
The controversy is, however, by this time a thing of the past, and it is a fact of history supported by overwhelming evidence and accredited by the most trustworthy authorities, that I accept Collier’s authorship of the strange tangle of dishonest fabrication. No extenuating circumstances can be pleaded on behalf of a man who thus abuses his powers and opportunities, and to condone his action would be in no unimportant sense to make oneself a party to his misdeeds.
(Greg, Diary i xxxvii)
Through their trespasses upon the manuscript of Henslowe’s Diary, misguided or dishonest as they may be, Malone and
Collier have become figures of study in their own right. Warner and Greg have taken
a dim view of the mutilations and forgeries, and their judgment has informed the
common attitude towards the early editors.
However, modern insight and interpretation has found its voice against the greater
condemnation of Malone and Collier. In Collier’s defense, some critics have argued
that in some cases he was attempting to mitigate the damage done by Malone. Dewey
Ganzel contrasts Malone’s careless examination and hasty presentation with Collier’s
more meticulous method of study – a method, Ganzel claims, that, by virtue of its
own clarity, made Collier’s errors all the more evident. In his analysis of
Collier’s discovery and documentation, Ganzel suggests that Malone may be as
culpable as Collier of the forgeries (Ganzel
45–47).
The 1961 Henslowe’s Diary edited by R.A. Foakes and R.T.
Rickert and subsequently the 2002 edition edited by Foakes alone are notably
reticent in assigning blame for the forgeries. The editors, in the
Preface to the First Edition(reproduced in the second), acknowledge their debt to Greg’s monumental 1904–08 edition. The aim of the Foakes and Rickert edition, with its reduced commentary (fifty pages to Greg’s four hundred) is to
reassess only some of the work done since 1908 and present a reliable text(Honigmann 298). It is reasonable to assume that they defer to Greg in the other matters he has so thoroughly analyzed.
The following excerpt from the Diary exhibits a foreign hand, an ambiguous error,
an excision, and a modern addition.
(Greg, Diary 1.57)
Receiued in pt of paiement of [Gri] Damon and xxs Pythias6 this 16. of ffebruary 1599 By me henry chettle7./ [1.25 inches blank and .75 inches cut away] {Lent the 14 may 1597 to Jubie vppon a notte from Nashe twentie shellinges more fo the Jylle of dogges wch he is wrytinge for the company} Folio 29v
This entry in the Diary appears in the handwriting of Henry Chettle 8, playwright (Greg, Diary 2.250); Greg and Foakes and Rickert disagree as to whether
the inked image can be interpreted as
Grisell.Greg is able to make out Gri but Foakes and Rickert are certain only on the last letter (Foakes 63 n.3). The excised portion may correspond to the placement of the signature of W. Haughton9 or John Day 10 on the folio’s recto. The insertion
Lent [. . .] for the companyis identified as a modern forgery in Greg’s edition; Foakes and Rickert remove it from the manuscript altogether and relegate it to the notes to the text. We may never know what, if anything, was written on the verso of the excised portion, and although the insertion is confirmed to be modern, its coexistence with the excision opens the possibility that the insertion is not an addition but a replacement. In this case, such a possibility would be unlikely, as it is improbable that a 1599 and a 1597 entry would exist on the same page. Nonetheless, the entry is an excellent example of the uncertainty one faces in study of the Diary.
It is likely that scholars will never know the exact history of Henslowe’s Diary. Absolute verification of all its entries
seems unlikely. However, the disputed and mutilated portions are dwarfed by the
amount of material deemed reliable. The Diary figured significantly in the discovery
of the ruins of the Rose in 1988—its accounts of
expenditure in 1592 correlated with archeological evidence of a northward expansion
that same year (Foakes ix-x)—and it
continues to inform early modern theatre scholarship as a whole.
Persons in the Manuscript
Philip Henslowe
Philip Henslowe (also Hensley and Hinchley among other spellings) was born sometime between 1550 and 1560 in
Lindfield, Sussex. He was the fourth of seven children to Edmond Henslowe, Master
of
the Game in Ashdown forest, and his wife, Margaret. Philip was apprenticed to dyer Henry Woodward. Upon Henry’s death, Philip married his master’s
wife, Agnes Woodward, on 14 February 1579. Agnes was at least twenty years older
than Henslowe and brought to the marriage
two daughters, Joan and Elizabeth. In 1587, moderately wealthy from the dye trade,
Henslowe bought a property known as The
Little Rose in St. Saviour parish, Southwark. On this
land he opened several drink and game establishments, before opening the Rose Playhouse in 1587. He partnered with John
Chomley, citizen and grocer. They jointly financed the construction and operation
of
the Rose—Henslowe paid for the construction, purchase of furniture, and rents of
the tenements. Chomley paid for future maintenance, had exclusive food and drink
sales at the playhouse, and paid Henslowe
£816 over eight and a quarter years. They shared the profits. Though Chomley and
Henslowe had this contract in place,
Chomley seems to disappear from the venture by the time the
Rose opened its doors.
In 1592, Edward Alleyn, actor in Lord
Strange’s Men and later Lord Admiral’s Men, married Henslowe’s stepdaughter Joan. That same year Henslowe was appointed Groom of the Chamber
to Queen Elizabeth I , a post that required time at
court. When James I took the throne in 1603, Henslowe was made Gentleman Sewer of the
Chamber. In 1607, Henslowe and Alleyn were both made Vestrymen of the parish
of St. Saviour and in 1608 Henslowe was
made Churchwarden.
Henslowe and Alleyn were partners in many business endeavours, most
notably the Fortune Playhouse. In 1600 they entered
into a contract with Peter Streete,11 to build a playhouse in St. Giles Cripplegate.
It was apparently a strained project, costing more than initially anticipated and
requiring various and frequent monetary gifts to Streete for his co-operation. The
Fortune opened in the autumn of 1600 with Alleyn’s company, the Lord Admiral’s Men, in
residence. Upon Henslowe’s death, the
Fortune’s lease was left to the company, but Alleyn took on full control of the playhouse
and leased it to playing companies.
There are records, found in the Diary and in the Public Records Office, of Henslowe providing for his nephews, notably
Francis12 and John. From 1574–1606 Philip
supported Francis with work and money and upon Francis’ death bore the funeral
costs. Francis appears several times in Henslowe’s Diary as an intermediary in pawn transactions. Philip also cared for the widow and children
of his brother Edmond. Edmond’s substantial estate was to be endowed between his
wife Margery and children Anne, John, and Mary. According to Edmond’s will, Philip was to act as sole executor and
caretaker of the children during their minority even though their mother was still
living. Philip abided by the terms of the
will until Margery’s death in 1592 and the children moved from Edmond’s house in
Buxted to London. He kept records in the Diary of his expenditures on them and their
eventual apprenticeship. Philip
apprenticed Edmond’s son John, the last Henslowe heir, to several trades but became
entangled in an inheritance battle with him. The resulting trial soured their
relationship and John was effectively disowned; Henslowe’s fortune was left to his wife and in turn to Joan and Edward Alleyn. Henslowe died in 1616 (Carson 1–25; Cerasano,
Henslowe).
Edward Alleyn
Edward Alleyn was born 1 September 1566 in St. Botolph without Bishopsgate. He was the second of five sons (two of which, John and Edward, lived to adulthood) to Edward Alleyn
and his wife Margaret Townley. Edward Sr. was a London innkeeper, hospital
administrator, and later a porter to Queen Elizabeth I.
He died in 1570. The year after, Margaret married Richard Christopher, alias Grove.
After Christopher’s death in 1578, she married haberdasher John Browne with whom,
in
the first years of the marriage, John Alleyn became embroiled in litigation over the
leases of the hospital properties.
The next record of Edward places him
with the Earl of Worscester’s Men, a prominent touring company, in 1583. By 1589,
Edward was
a servant to the Lord Admiral.That same year, Edward, his brother John, and Edward’s fellow player Robert Browne purchased
playing apparel, playbooks, instruments and other commoditiesfor their company, the Lord Admiral’s Men. By early 1592, Alleyn was well established as an actor, having acted with the Lord Admiral’s and the Lord Strange’s Men, who performed at the Rose. By August of 1592, Alleyn was in business with the Rose’s owner, Philip Henslowe. On 22 October 1592, Alleyn married Henslowe’s stepdaughter Joan. Letters found at Dulwich attest that their marriage was a good and affectionate partnership. By 1594, Alleyn was the leading player of the Lord Admiral’s Men and a celebrity on the London stage. The 1590s saw Alleyn in his best known roles: Tamburlaine of Tamburlaine the Great, Dr. Faustus in the play of the same name, and Barabas in The Jew of Malta 13. Historians have marked 1597 as the year in which Alleyn retired from the stage. He was aged thirty-one years, fourteen of which had been spent on the stage. Alleyn turned his efforts to managing investments and
revivifying political alliances that he hoped would assist him in acquiring the court appointed position as master of the bears, bulls, and mastiff dogs(Cerasano,
Alleyn). By 1604, Alleyn and Henslowe jointly held the office until Henslowe’s death at which time his share passed to his son-in-law.
Alleyn and Henslowe’s joint project, the Fortune playhouse was built in St. Giles Cripplegate, near Alleyn’s
native parish of St. Boltoph without Bishopsgate and
to which Alleyn regularly donated poor
relief. The playhouse opened in 1600,
and Alleyn briefly returned to the stage
to launch the enterprise. The Fortune proved to be a
successful theatre, known for its repertoire of comedies and for housing the
talented and popular Lord Admiral’s Men. Upon Henslowe’s death, Alleyn took
control of the Fortune’s lease and rented it out to
playing companies as late as 1618. On 9 December 1621, the Fortune burned down. Alleyn
rebuilt it almost immediately; it was made of brick. In 1616, Alleyn became involved in a legal battle wherein Henslowe’s nephew, possibly John, fought for
control of part of Henslowe’s estate,
which had been willed to Joan and Alleyn.
The precise outcome is unknown.
Over the period of 1605–14, Alleyn
purchased Dulwich Manor and moved there from Southwark. Construction for a college started in 1613; the chapel was
consecrated by the archbishop of Canterbury in 1616. After some opposition, Alleyn read the deed of foundation and
statutes of The College of God’s Gift at Dulwich before several distinguished
statesmen on 13 September 1619.
Alleyn’s wife Joan was buried in the
Dulwich College chapel, having died on 28 June 1623. Through her, Alleyn took possession of Philip Henslowe’s papers. Alleyn married again on 3 December 1623 to Constance,
daughter of poet John Donne. After three years of marriage, Alleyn fell ill and dictated his will at Dulwich on 13
November 1626. He died twelve days later and was buried in the college chapel. He
was fifty-nine years old. Alleyn’s will
ordered the construction of almshouses in Southwark and St. Boltoph without Bishopsgate and the rest of his fortune and possessions,
less Constance’s dowry and several gifts, passed to the College. His papers, and
those of his stepfather-in-law, were placed in the library. Alleyn’s portrait (date and artist unknown) and his signet
ring reside still at the Dulwich College (Cerasano,
Alleyn).
Reading the Text
The Structure of Henslowe’s Diary
Henslowe’s Diary is a folio of 238 leaves
measuring 13.25in by 8in (34.92 cm by 20.32 cm). This reckoning omits four blank folios
mid-volume, between 125 and 126 although it includes occasional blanks elsewhere.
The diary is constructed of good quality paper and wrapped in a limp vellum wrapper,
upon which Henslowe has made some
jottings. Some of the pages are worn and frayed; one has been scorched. Some of the
pages have also been cut and valuable signatures excised. The Diary was used first
by John Henslowe of Ashdown Forest and passed to Philip, who turned the book upside down for
his own use and began writing from what had been the back of John Henslowe’s book.
The manuscript is usually oriented to Philip’s handling, leaving John’s entries inverted and in reverse order.
The leaves of the Diary are foliated 14 in John’s orientation. Because we are
concerned with the Diary as Philip
deployed it, from our perspective the first page on which Philip wrote (the inside cover) is unnumbered. The back of
the second page on which Philip wrote is
numbered 3008 in John’s hand. The numbers descend from front to back, with each leaf
numbered on the verso. The leaves are foliated by John thus: leaves 1–100 are
normal, but instead of progressing to 101, 102, 110, 112 etc., John took 100 +1 to
be 1001 rather than
101. Therefore, leaves he labelled 1002, 1003, 10012, 10013 are actually 102, 103,
112, 113. Page 3008, the recto of the last leaf from John’s point of view, is the
same as what modern bibliographers call folio 2 verso (the back of the second leaf
from Philip’s point of view, since he
wrote on the inside of the cover). Furthermore, some leaves have been re-foliated,
possibly by John: 102 has been altered to 101 and 103 to 102, but no further; the
next leaf is 104.
From the foliation, however peculiar, we can tell that leaves are missing. Greg
totals 19 missing leaves (xvii). Blank pages are not reckoned by the modern
foliation. Folios 238 verso to 126 verso were made in the same direction as John,
but are definitely in Philip’s
handwriting. Folio 238 verso, the first page of the reversed section, bears the date
24 November 1592 (Foakes 232).
Types of Entries
Henslowe’s Diary contains six kinds of
entries:
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the forestry and mining accounts of John Henslowe of Ashdowne Forest,
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The pawn records of Phillip Henslowe,
-
his dramatic accounts,
Forestry and Mining Accounts
The mining accounts (Foakes xix),
called forestry by Greg, are located on folios 237 verso to 137 verso. Foakes
totals 18 pages missing. The entries run from January 1576 to December 1580, with
the bulk of the text entered in 1577. The entries outline the duties of the
workmen of Ashdown forest, which include cutting wood, collying or making coal or charcoal from lumber, mining iron ore,
and hauling.
Pawn Records
Phillip Henslowe’s pawn entries cluster
in three instances. Section I is located on folios 55–61, dated 16 January 1593 to
19 December 1593. Henslowe seems to
have had in his employ his nephew Francis who acted as an intermediary. The
excerpt, folio 55 verso, is characteristic of the entries of this first section.
Henslowe would advance money to him
on goods deposited by customers (Foakes
xxv), here, sixty shillings for a pair of hose and a doublet:
lent vnto frances15 vpon16 a payer of mvrey17 satten hosse cvtt paned & Imbrodered18 wth gowld of mr xxxxs Toogood19 10 marche 1593 20 (f. 55v; transcribed Foakes 108–9)
lent vnto frances21 the 10 of marche 1593 vpon22 A dublett clothe of pech coller satten o wm xxs harbutes23
Section II is entered on folios 73–81, from 10 December 1593 to 22 January 1595.
Francis is no longer in the entries; when he decides to pursue acting he is
replaced by a Goody Watson. There is an entry elsewhere (f. 2v) of fifteen pounds
loaned to Francis to buy a share in the Queen’s men in May of 1593 (Foakes 7).
Section III is entered on folios 113 –136, dated 17 January 1593/4- March 1594.
Henslowe’s intermediary is now a
woman named Anne Nockes. This section is headed
Mrs Grantes Recknyng 1593(Foakes xxv).
Family and Personal Accounts
Henslowe used his Diary to record his
own and his family’s finances. The tabulations are meticulous, and they seem to
cover Henslowe himself, his wife Agnes,
their household, and the households of his stepdaughters and his stepson-in-law,
Edward Alleyn. While these records
impart little information on theatrical matters, the entries are useful in
interpreting the rest of the Diary. In this two-page entry, Henslowe spells the name of his frequent dinner partner, Peter Easte six different ways. These domestic records allow us ample opportunity to
examine and draw conclusions from Henslowe’s style of writing and how he used his Diary.
(f 98v-99; transcribed Foakes 191–92)
A not what I haue layed owte sence we went a bowt ower new howsse24 as foloweth 1600 pd25 for the Removinge of the donge26 wth the carte x s pd for goinge at grenwiche wth Robart Shawe27 xviij d pd for a brake faste at that time wth shawe28 xij d pd for drinke when we payd wages v d pd at the Rede crosse for brackfaste when we sowte strete29 ij s [...] pd the 8 of agust for diner for easte30 strete31 my sellfe xiij d 03li—15s—09d
(f 1v; transcribed Foakes 5)
Jonne allen32 Receued for Rente as folowthe 1593 Rd of the duchewoman the for [sic] mydsomer qt33 1593 xv s viij d [...] Rd of goody Rowden34 the 18 of octob3 1593 vij s x d
Dramatic Accounts
Henslowe recorded the takings of his
playhouse by day and by play. These entries inform us of the popularity of the
plays: how often they were performed, and how much they took in. There are also
entries detailing the amount paid to the playwright for the piece. The entries run
from 19 February 1591/2 to November 1597. The entries fall into three groups: one
from the beginning to 16 May 1594, one from 3 June 1594 to 22 January 1596/7, and
one from 24 January 1596/7 to the end of the entries in the November of that year.
The abbreviation ne indicates a new title;
however because this indication is often in the margin or interlined, forgery
suspicions shroud the verifiability of the convention. Some scholars have tried to
prove that all occurrences of ne are Collier’s
forgeries, but it is generally accepted that most of the abbreviations are
authentic.
(f 21v; transcribed Foakes 47)
¶ 1 of June 1596 Rd35 at chinone of Ingland36 iij s ¶ 2 of June 1596 Rd at longshanke37 iij li ¶ 3 of June 1596 Rd at the blinde beager38 xxxxj s ¶ 4 of June 1596 Rd at the tragedie of focas39 xxxj s ¶ 5 of June 1596 Rd at tambercame xxviij s [...] ¶ 17 of June 1596 Rd at hary the v40 xxvij s [...] ¶ 21 of June 1596 Rd at Jew of malta41 xxij s [...] ¶ 18 of July 1596 ne—Rd at the tynker of totnes42 iij li
Theatrical Expenditures
Henslowe’s substantial expenditures
fall largely into two categories: those on behalf of his company, and those in
care of his playhouse. Occasionally Henslowe would lend money to his players, and they would acknowledge
their indebtedness in the Diary. The accounts begin on 21 October 1597 and
continue until 16 March 1602/3.
A nott what I haue layed owt abowt my playhowsseffor payntinge & doinge it a bowt wth ealme bordes & otherRepracyones as ffoloweth 1595 in lent [sic](folio 2v; transcribed Foakes 6–7)
Itm bowght iij hundred & a qter of elmebordes xxiiijs Itm pd the carpenters ther wages viij s Itm geuen the paynter in earneste47 xx s Itm geuen the paynter more x s [...] Itm pd for naylles ij s iiij d Itm pd the smyth for nayles In fulle xij s iij d li——s——d Some is 108—19—00
Miscellaneous Entries
Miscellaneous entries in Henslowe’s
Diary include IOUs, superstitions, horoscopes, and recipes. The IOU here was
written in the hand of Thomas Dekker
48, playwright of The Shoemaker’s Holiday. It is
immediately apparent that the spelling, elevated tone, and dating system are
different from those of Henslowe.
Quinto die Maij. 1602.Bee it knowne vnto all men by
theis pnte that wee Anthony
Mundy49& Thomas Dekker 50 doe
owe vnto Phillip Hynchlay gent
the Some of five powndes of
lawfull money of England to bee
payd vnto him his executors or
assgnes vppon the xth of June
next ensuing the date hereof
In wittnes hereof herevnto
wee haue Sett or handes 51
dated this day & yere above
writtenfolio 114; transcribed Foakes 212
Glossary and Notes
Heber Sale
The Heber sale was a massive sale of the library of Richard Heber, book collector
and Athenaeum trustee (1824–28), upon his death in 1833. Heber’s will included no
instructions as to the future of his library. The library was sold in sixteen
separate sales, the corresponding sale catalogues of which indicate their dates and
location. Thirteen sales took place in England from 10 April 1834 to 22 February
1837. Two took place in Paris on 15 March and 7 October 1836 and one took place on
26 March 1835 in Ghent, Belgium. Most of the library’s manuscripts were acquired by
the British Museum, the Bodleian Library, and Sir Thomas Phillips (Sherbo).
Ireland Forgeries
William Henry Ireland (1775–1835) was the son of Samuel Ireland and a forger of
Shakespearian documents. Samuel Ireland (d. 1800) was a printmaker and a scholar of
Hogarth who, adhering to the dominant pre-occupation of Shakespeare scholarship of
the time, desired to possess a document in Shakespeare’s hand. Starting in 1794 William supplied his father with
deeds, letters, confessions of Protestant faith, illuminating marginal notes, and
original manuscripts—all supposedly in Shakespeare’s hand and all
designed to cast Shakespeare in the light of a punctual and efficient businessman and well-regarded man of the world(Baines,
Ireland, William). The documents, according to William, belonged to the collection of a mysterious and anonymous
Mr. Hand were readily accepted by Samuel as authentic. William, at some time during this period, forged a deed of gift ceding all of Shakespeare’s papers to an Elizabethan man named William Henry Ireland in thanks for saving Shakespeare from drowning. The deed of gift gave William the forger a somewhat credible claim on the documents as well as a noble lineage.
In 1795, Samuel opened a house in London to display the documents. It was met with
praise and veneration by the scholars of the time, though Joseph Ritson, antiquarian
scholar and editor of Robin Hood: A Collection of all the Ancient
poems, Songs, and Ballads now Extant Related to that Celebrated English
Outlaw (Barczewski), was not
fooled. That same year, William forged an entire play titled Vortingern and Rowena and Samuel published a memoir of the discoveries in
Miscellaneous Papers and Legal Instruments under the Hand and
Seal of William Shakespeare. Vortingern and Rowena was performed as a play of
Shakespeare in Drury Lane. The comparative simplicity of the play, added to the
accounts of the miraculous discovery published in Samuel’s Miscellaneous Papers and Legal Instruments, invited scrutiny and
denunciation. In 1796, Malone’s An Inquiry into the Authenticity of
Certain Miscellaneous Papers and Legal Instruments proved William
Ireland’s documents were frauds by examining their signatures against the exemplars
we now know to have been in his possession. (Baines,
Ireland, William; Baines,
Ireland, Samuel)
Perkins Folio
Collier
discovereda supposed second Folio of Shakespeare’s plays, dated to 1632, covered with inked notes and interlineations that rendered the plays significantly more comprehensible. Announcement of this discovery appeared in The Athenaeum on 31 January 1852 and the annotations were published in 1853 in his Notes and Emendations of the Text of Shakespeare, an appendix to a text Collier had published from 1842–44. Collier followed this discovery with a one- and then six-volume critical edition of Shakespeare (published 1853 and 1858 respectively) incorporating the emendations in which he gave an account of purchasing the folio from Thomas Rodd the younger, bookseller. The folio became known as the Perkins Folio due to an inscription on the cover; Collier claimed the owner was a Thomas Perkins, a relative of a member of The King’s Men.
Collier’s findings were questioned by many critics, chiefly by J.O. Halliwell
(later Halliwell-Phillips, 1820–1880), who were suspicious of the veracity of the
annotation-maker, the anonymous
Old Corrector,but forgery was not suggested till 1855, in articles by A.E. Brae (1800/01–1881) and then in Brae’s Literary Cookery. After Brae’s accusations, Halliwell and others began to scrutinize Collier’s other discoveries, including a transcript of Coleridge’s 1811–12 lectures.
The controversy caught the attention of Sir Phillip Madden, keeper of manuscripts
at the British Museum. The Perkins Folio was secured by the Duke of Devonshire in
May of1859 for the British Museum and Madden, his assistant Nicholas S.E.A.
Hamilton, and Nevil Maskelyne, keeper of the mineral department, made a careful
study of its annotations. In July, the three wrote letters to The
Times reporting that the ink interlineations were recent annotations whose
content often corresponded to obviously modern penciled notes in the margins. They
declared the emendations a forgery. Collier responded, also in letters to The Times,
that the interlineations predated his purchase of the folio and denying any
culpability in the forgery. Hamilton continued to pursue the Perkins affair,
publishing an inquiry in 1860 that questioned Collier’s work on some of the
Bridgewater and Dulwich papers. Even though Collier tried to defend himself and his
scholarship, reviews and inquiries by scholars and academic institutions persisted
into 1861. Collier continued to publish (and to forge, according to some) until his
death in 1883 but he was never released from suspicion and his reputation never
recovered (Ioppolo; Freeman and Freeman,
Collier).
Notes
- See also: Renaissance Clothing, Documents of the Rose Playhouse, The Rose Theatre, and Henslowe Papers, as well as the Henslowe-Alleyn Digitisation Project.↑
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Lord Admiral’s Men.Playing company named for Lord Charles Howard, the Lord High Admiral. Their first appearance at court was in 1585. Known for performing the plays of Christopher Marlowe.Upon the death of Elizabeth I, they became Prince Henry’s Men, then Palsgrave’s Men. They disbanded in 1631 (Campbell 6).Further Reading: Greg’s commentary: (Greg, Diary 2.80–103)↑
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Henry Chettle, playwright free of the Stationers’ Company. Chettle is the most prolific of the writers mentioned in the Diary and wrote frequently for the Lord Admiral’s Men. Very little is known about his life (Greg, Diary 2.250–3).Further Reading: Greg’s commentary: (Greg, Diary 2.250–3)↑
- in earnest of: on the promise of, in advance of↑
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Too Good to be True. A play bought by the Lord Admiral’s Men from Henry Chettle (Greg, Diary 2.220).Further Reading: Greg’s commentary: (Greg, Diary 2.220)↑
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: Damon and Pythias. Possibly by Henry Chettle. Little is known about this play other than a disproved assertion on the part of John Payne Collier that this is a later version of a play of the same name printed in 1571 (Greg, Diary 2.211).Further Reading: Greg’s commentary: (Greg, Diary 2.211) Payment to the Master of the Revels for the license of the play: f 69↑
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Henry Chettle, playwright free of the Stationers’ Company. Chettle is the most prolific of the writers mentioned in the Diary and wrote frequently for the Lord Admiral’s Men. Very little is known about his life (Greg, Diary 2.250–3).Further Reading: Greg’s commentary: (Greg, Diary 2.250–3)↑
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Henry Chettle, playwright free of the Stationers’ Company. Chettle is the most prolific of the writers mentioned in the Diary and wrote frequently for the Lord Admiral’s Men. Very little is known about his life (Greg, Diary 2.250–3).Further Reading: Greg’s commentary: (Greg, Diary 2.250–3)↑
- See also: Greg’s commentary: (Greg, Diary 2.271) Purchase of his play Poor Man’s Paradise: f 63v.↑
- See also: Greg’s commentary: (Greg, Diary 2.255–6)↑
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Peter Streete, Carpenter and Builder. Henslowe contracts with him the building of a house on the Bankside from 13 December 1599 to 1 February 1599/1600, and the Fortune playhouse in 1600 (Greg, Diary 2.314).Further Reading: Greg’s commentary: (Greg, Diary 2.314) Henslowe’s account of the Bankside house: f 32↑
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Francis Henslowe. Philip Henslowe’s nephew and his deputy in his pawn business from roughly January to December 1593 (Greg, Diary 2.227–8; Carson 2).Further Reading: Greg’s commentary: (Greg, Diary 2.277–8)↑
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The Jew of Malta, ascribed to Christopher Marlowe. First appearance in the Diary identifies it as an old play. It was performed by the Lord Strange’s Men, the Earl of Sussex’s Men, the Queen’s Men, the Admiral’s Men and the Chamberlain’s Men. The play was most likely owned by Henslowe, as it was acted by every company to have played at the Rose (Greg, Diary 2.151).Further Reading: Edward Alleyn in the Jew of Malta Greg’s commentary: (Greg, Diary 2.151) First performance by the Lord Strange’s Men: f 7↑
- Sixteenth-century books were usually foliated rather than paginated. Each double-sided leaf was numbered on the recto page (first side of the leaf), abbreviated r (as in fo. 34r, which means the front of the 34th leaf). The back of the leaf is known to bibliographers as the verso page, abbreviated v (as in fo. 34v). Over the course of the sixteenth century, printers began to add pagination, i.e., numbers on both recto and verso pages of the leaf.↑
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Francis Henslowe. Philip Henslowe’s nephew and his deputy in his pawn business from roughly January to December 1593 (Greg, Diary 2.227–8; Carson 2).Further Reading: Greg’s commentary: (Greg, Diary 2.277–8)↑
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"lent unto...upon." Philip Henslowe was engaged in a pawn broking business that supplied his playhouse and actor’s company with costumes. He would lend money on the security of articles of clothing. It is reasonable to assume that his deputy, Francis, would act as an intermediary between Henslowe and his client, bringing Henslowe the article to be pawned, receiving the money (as seen in the entry), and delivering the loan to the client (Jones and Stallybrass 26–28).Further Reading: On pawning practices: Jones and Stallybrass 26–32. On Henslowe as a pawnbroker and his effect on English Theatre: Jones and Stallybrass 181–206.↑
- moiré (Greg, Diary 1.239; 2.392)↑
- cvtt paned & Imbrodered. cut, paned and embroidered↑
- Mr. Toogood. There does not seem to be any other mention of him in the Diary. He is most likely a one-time client of Henslowe’s pawn broking business. ↑
- 10 marche 1593 is an interlineated insertion so noted by Greg and moved to footnotes by Foakes and Rickert.↑
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Francis Henslowe. Philip Henslowe’s nephew and his deputy in his pawn business from roughly January to December 1593 (Greg, Diary 2.227–8; Carson 2).Further Reading: Greg’s commentary: (Greg, Diary 2.277–8)↑
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"lent unto...upon." Philip Henslowe was engaged in a pawn broking business that supplied his playhouse and actor’s company with costumes. He would lend money on the security of articles of clothing. It is reasonable to assume that his deputy, Francis, would act as an intermediary between Henslowe and his client, bringing Henslowe the article to be pawned, receiving the money (as seen in the entry), and delivering the loan to the client (Jones and Stallybrass 26–28).Further Reading: On pawning practices: Jones and Stallybrass 26–32. On Henslowe as a pawnbroker and his effect on English Theatre: Jones and Stallybrass 181–206.↑
- William Harbutes. There does not seem to be any other mention of him in the Diary. He is most likely a one-time client of Henslowe’s pawn broking business.↑
- "ower new howsse" refers to The Fortune Playhouse (Greg, Diary 2.265)↑
- paid↑
- dung (Greg, Diary 2.238)↑
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Robert Shaa. Player of the Lord Admiral’s Men (Greg, Diary 2.309).Further Reading: Greg’s commentary: (Greg, Diary 2.309); In the list of the Admirals’s Men: f 43v.↑
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Robert Shaa. Player of the Lord Admiral’s Men (Greg, Diary 2.309).Further Reading: Greg’s commentary: (Greg, Diary 2.309); In the list of the Admirals’s Men: f 43v.↑
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Peter Streete, Carpenter and Builder. Henslowe contracts with him the building of a house on the Bankside from 13 December 1599 to 1 February 1599/1600, and the Fortune playhouse in 1600 (Greg, Diary 2.314).Further Reading: Greg’s commentary: (Greg, Diary 2.314); Henslowe’s account of the Bankside house: f 32↑
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Gilbert East. Henslowe’s bailiff. Frequent dining companion from 5 June to 8 August 1600 (Greg, Diary 2.265).Further Reading: Greg’s commentary: (Greg, Diary 2.265); Identified as Henslowe’s Bailiff : f 179↑
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Peter Streete, Carpenter and Builder. Henslowe contracts with him the building of a house on the Bankside from 13 December 1599 to 1 February 1599/1600, and the Fortune playhouse in 1600 (Greg, Diary 2.314).Further Reading: Greg’s commentary: (Greg, Diary 2.314); Henslowe’s account of the Bankside house: f 32↑
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Further Reading: Greg’s commentary: (Greg Diary 2.238); Henslowe’s account of her marriage: f 2↑
- Midsummer quarter (Greg, Diary 2.307).↑
- “goody”: good woman or Mistress. She was a tenant of Edward Alleyn (Greg, Diary 2.307).↑
- Received↑
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Chinon of England. Also known as “The ffirste parte of the famous historye of Chinan of England”. Performed by the Lord Admiral’s Men. First performed as a new play 3 January1595/6, lasting fourteen performances. Nothing is known of the play other than the descriptive title of its second part: “The Famous Historie of Chinon of England with his strange aduentures for the loue of Celestina daughter to Lewis King of Fraunce. With the worthy Atchuiement of Sir Lancelot du Lake, and Sir Tristam du Lions for faire Laura, daughter to Cador Earle of Cornewall, being all Knights of King Arthurs round Table (Greg, Diary 1.178).Further Reading: Greg’s commentary: (Greg, Diary 2.178); First performance: f 14↑
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Longshanks. Author unknown but sometimes this play is thought to be Edward I surnamed Longshanks by George Peele. Performed by the Lord Admiral’s Men. First performed on 29 Aug 1595, lasting fourteen performances. The play belonged to Edward Alleyn and may have been taken from the plays of the Lord Strange’s Men (Greg, Diary 2.176).Further Reading: Greg’s commentary: (Greg, Diary 2.176); First performance: f 12v↑
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Blind Beggar of Alexandria by George Chapman. Performed by the Lord Admiral’s Men. First performed as a new play 12 Feb 1595, lasting twenty-two performances (Greg, Diary 2.179–80).Further Reading: Greg’s commentary: (Greg, Diary 2.179); First performance: f 14v; Purchase of properties on behalf of the Lord Admiral’s Men: f 87v↑
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Phocas. Also known as The Tragedie of ffocasse. Performed by the Lord Admiral’s Men. First performed 19/20 May 1596, lasting seven performances. Phocas was elected Emperor of Constantinople in 606. He was deposed and killed by Heraclites in 610. Nothing is otherwise known of the play (Greg, Diary 2.180).Further Reading: Greg’s commentary: (Greg, Diary 2.180); First performance: f 15v↑
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Famous Victories of Henry V. Performed by the Lord Admiral’s Men. First performed on 28 November 1595, lasting thirteen performances. This play predates Shakespeare’s Henry V and may have come to the Lord Admiral’s Men via the Queen’s Men when they were in London in 1594 (Greg, Diary 2.177–8).Further Reading: Greg’s commentary: (Greg, Diary 2.177–8)↑
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The Jew of Malta, ascribed to Christopher Marlowe. First appearance in the Diary identifies it as an old play. It was performed by the Lord Strange’s Men, the Earl of Sussex’s Men, the Queen’s Men, the Admiral’s Men and the Chamberlain’s Men. The play was most likely owned by Henslowe, as it was acted by every company to have played at the Rose (Greg, Diary 2.151).Further Reading: Edward Alleyn in the Jew of Malta; Greg’s commentary: (Greg, Diary 2.151); First performance by the Lord Strange’s Men: f 7↑
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The Tinker of Totness. Performed by the Lord Admiral’s Men as a new play on 18/23 July 1596. Nothing is known of this play (Greg, Diary 2.181).Further Reading: Greg’s commentary: (Greg, Diary 2.181)↑
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"Company": Lord Admiral’s Men. Playing company named for Lord Charles Howard, the Lord High Admiral. Their first appearance at court was in 1585. Known for performing the plays of Christopher Marlowe. Upon the death of Elizabeth I, they became Prince Henry’s Men, then Palsgrave’s Men. They disbanded in 1631 (Campbell 6).Further Reading: Greg’s commentary: (Greg, Diary 2.80–103)↑
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Thomas Middleton. Playwright free of the Grocer’s company associated, in the Diary, with the Lord Admiral’s Men (Greg, Diary 2.298; Jones and Stallybrass 27).Further Reading: Greg’s commentary: (Greg, Diary 2.298)↑
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The Patient Man and the Honest Whore by Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton. Also known as The Honest Whore With, The Humours of the Patient Man, and the Longing Wife (Greg, Diary 2.228).Further Reading: Greg’s commentary: (Greg, Diary 2.228)↑
- 1604 interlined↑
- "in earneste": on the promise of, in advance of↑
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Thomas Dekker, playwright and pamphleteer associated with the Lord Admiral’s Men. The date of his birth and death are uncertain, but his life was not prosperous and he spent a considerable time in prison. Knowing the unknown date at which Dekker began his dramatic career could allow us to attribute to him some of the thus-far authorless early plays performed by the Lord Admiral’s Men (Greg, Diary 2.256–60).Further Reading: Greg’s commentary: (Greg, Diary 2.256–60); Purchase of his play The Patient Man and the Honest Whore: (f 110; transcribed Foakes 209, Greg, Diary 1.175); First mention, purchase of his play Phaeton: f 44↑
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Anthony Munday, playwright. He wrote predominantly for the Lord Admiral’s Men between December 1597 to December 1602 (Greg, Diary 2.298).Further Reading: Greg’s commentary: (Greg, Diary 2.298)↑
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Thomas Dekker, playwright and pamphleteer associated with the Lord Admiral’s Men. The date of his birth and death are uncertain, but his life was not prosperous and he spent a considerable time in prison. Knowing the unknown date at which Dekker began his dramatic career could allow us to attribute to him some of the thus-far authorless early plays performed by the Lord Admiral’s Men (Greg, Diary 2.256–60).Further Reading: Greg’s commentary: (Greg, Diary 2.256–60); Purchase of his play The Patient Man and the Honest Whore: (f 110; transcribed Foakes 209, Greg, Diary 1.175); First mention, purchase of his play Phaeton: f 44↑
- The signatures of Munday and Dekker presumed to be snipped from this entry are pasted into books in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.↑
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Kim McLean-Fiander
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Director of Pedagogy and Outreach, 2015–present; Associate Project Director, 2015–present; Assistant Project Director, 2013-2014; MoEML Research Fellow, 2013. Kim McLean-Fiander comes to The Map of Early Modern London from the Cultures of Knowledge digital humanities project at the University of Oxford, where she was the editor of Early Modern Letters Online, an open-access union catalogue and editorial interface for correspondence from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. She is currently Co-Director of a sister project to EMLO called Women’s Early Modern Letters Online (WEMLO). In the past, she held an internship with the curator of manuscripts at the Folger Shakespeare Library, completed a doctorate at Oxford on paratext and early modern women writers, and worked a number of years for the Bodleian Libraries and as a freelance editor. She has a passion for rare books and manuscripts as social and material artifacts, and is interested in the development of digital resources that will improve access to these materials while ensuring their ongoing preservation and conservation. An avid traveler, Kim has always loved both London and maps, and so is particularly delighted to be able to bring her early modern scholarly expertise to bear on the MoEML project.Roles played in the project
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Associate Project Director
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Joey Takeda
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Programmer, 2018-present; Junior Programmer, 2015 to 2017; Research Assistant, 2014 to 2017. Joey Takeda is an MA student at the University of British Columbia in the Department of English (Science and Technology research stream). He completed his BA honours in English (with a minor in Women’s Studies) at the University of Victoria in 2016. His primary research interests include diasporic and indigenous Canadian and American literature, critical theory, cultural studies, and the digital humanities.Roles played in the project
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Stewart Arneil
Programmer at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC) who maintained the Map of London project between 2006 and 2011. Stewart was a co-applicant on the SSHRC Insight Grant for 2012–16.Roles played in the project
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Martin D. Holmes
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Programmer at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC). Martin ported the MOL project from its original PHP incarnation to a pure eXist database implementation in the fall of 2011. Since then, he has been lead programmer on the project and has also been responsible for maintaining the project schemas. He was a co-applicant on MoEML’s 2012 SSHRC Insight Grant.Roles played in the project
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Edward Alleyn is mentioned in the following documents:
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John Day is mentioned in the following documents:
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Thomas Dekker is mentioned in the following documents:
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Elizabeth I
Elizabeth Tudor I Queen of England and Ireland
(b. 7 September 1533, d. 24 March 1603)Queen of England and Ireland.Elizabeth I is mentioned in the following documents:
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Philip Henslowe is mentioned in the following documents:
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James VI and I
King James Stuart VI and I
(b. 1566, d. 1625)King of Scotland, England, and Ireland.James VI and I is mentioned in the following documents:
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Christopher Marlowe is mentioned in the following documents:
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Thomas Middleton is mentioned in the following documents:
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William Shakespeare is mentioned in the following documents:
Locations
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The Rose
Built in 1587 by theatre financier Philip Henslowe, the Rose was Bankside’s first open-air amphitheatre playhouse (Egan). Its foundation, excavated in 1989, reveals a fourteen-sided structure about 22 metres in diameter, making it smaller than other contemporary playhouses (White 302). Relatively free of civic interference and surrounded by pleasure-seeking crowds, the Rose did very well, staging works by such playwrights as Shakespeare, Marlowe, Kyd, and Dekker (Egan).The Rose is mentioned in the following documents:
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Southwark is mentioned in the following documents:
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The Fortune is mentioned in the following documents:
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Cripplegate
Cripplegate was one of the original gates in the city wall (Weinreb, Hibbert, Keay, and Keay 221; Harben). It was the northern gate of a large fortress that occupied the northwestern corner of the Roman city.Cripplegate is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Botolph without Bishopsgate
St. Botolph without Bishopsgate stood on the west side of Bishopsgate Street north of Bishopsgate. It was in Bishopsgate Ward. St. Botolph without Bishopsgate is featured on the Agas map, south of Bethlehem Hospital and west of Houndsditch. It is labelledS. Buttolphes.
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Bishopsgate is mentioned in the following documents: