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Henslowe's Diary

2nd Edition

Real Author: Philip Henslowe
Editor: R. A. Foakes, University of California, Los Angeles

Date Published: October 2002
availability: Available
format: Paperback
isbn: 9780521524025

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The diary of Philip Henslowe, owner of the Rose Theatre in London during the 1590s, remains the most valuable source of information about the workings of the Elizabethan public theatres. Discussions of theatres and drama in the age of Shakespeare routinely refer to Henslowe, whose 'diary' touches on every aspect of the day-to-day operations of the Rose and the companies of actors, especially the Admiral's Men. The diary preserves the account-book of an Elizabethan theatre owner who was also the father-in-law of the leading actor, Edward Alleyn, and contains many miscellaneous and personal entries. The first edition of Henslowe's Diary, published in 1961, has long been out of print. It provides a thorough introduction to the manuscript, a full transcription of the document itself and several helpful appendices and indexes. For this second edition one of the original editors, R. A. Foakes, has added a new preface and reading list.
- Second edition of a book from 1961 which has been out of print since the early 1970s - no other edition of this manuscript has superseded this one; there is no competition
- Gives a picture of the daily life of Elizabethan theatre company
- The portrait of Henslowe in the film, Shakespeare in Love, acted by Geoffrey Rush, is the same Henslowe who wrote the 'diary'
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Product details
- Edition: 2nd Edition
- Date Published: October 2002
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521524025
- length: 440 pages
- dimensions: 236 x 156 x 25 mm
- weight: 0.604kg
- contains: 6 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
Preface to the first edition
Introduction
The Diary
Appendices
Indexes and glossary
Plates.
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Author
Philip Henslowe
Editor
R. A. Foakes, University of California, Los Angeles
R. A. Foakes is Professor Emeritus at the Department of English, UCLA. His publications include six of Shakespeare's plays, among them A Midsummer Night's Dream for the New Cambridge Shakespeare series (1984), Illustrations of the English Stage 1580–1642 (Cambridge, 1985), and Hamlet versus Lear (Cambridge, 1993).