henslowes diary part commentary von greg walter (3 Ergebnisse)

HardBack. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. First edition. Part II Only, Commentary. 1st Edition, Bullen 1908. Thick Royal 8vo. Thick Royal 4to. 400pp. Several tissueguarded manuscript facsimile reprints showing forged diary inserts. Printed on thick creamy paper with wide margins. Internally good clean tight sound square, with browning limited to endpapers only, exlib with attractive scrolled armorial bookplate to pastedown. Bound in brown cloth lacking spine, badly rubbed to corners and with crack to centre of rear board. Extra spare paper title label to spine, so possibility for buyer to rebind with this label reglued to spine. Philp Henslowes unique Diary gives access to the world of Shakespeare it records theatrical enterprises including many plays, amongst which are Shakespeares Taming of the Shrew, Titus Andronicus and Henry VI Part 1. Henslowe and his soninlaw actor Edward Alleyne built London theatres The Rose, The Fortune and The Hope, ran the most successful acting companies including The Lord Admirals Men of which Shakespeare was a member and The Lord Stranges Men. The Dairy also records receipts from play performances, expenditures, payments and notes on hiring actors. Previous speculation dismissed Henslowe as ignorant, disorderly and grasping, later he is shown to be a benign and efficient businessman. Henslowe was hilariously portrayed in the hit film Shakespeare in Love. The volume in hand, despite lacking spine, is a great addition to the library of reader, scholar and collector alike available here at a reduced price due to damage.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Library book plates inside front cover. No other library features found. End papers have age spotting. Pages are slightly discolored with age, otherwise the interior is clean and tight. Binding is good. Cover is discolored, scuffed and slightly worn at corners. Paper label on spine is torn. Spine is frayed at lower edge. 240 pages. Pages are not evenly trimmed, some have not been cut open. 400 pages. Facsimilies with protective tissue intact. Ex-Library.

Uniform matching first edition thus hard back binding in publisher's original light brown cloth covered boards, 50% paper spine label missing to 'Henslowe's Papers', new spine label added to 'Henslowe's Diary | Part II'. 8vo. 10'' x 8''. Henslowe's and Alleyn's papers provide extensive, detailed, dated, and unique information about their daily, weekly or annual employment of dramatists and actors such as Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, George Chapman, Thomas Heywood, Philip Massinger, Thomas Dekker, Cyril Tourneur, John Webster, Richard Burbage, Will Kemp and Nathan Field, among numerous others. Although William Shakespeare is not mentioned, he belonged to acting companies for which Henslowe commissioned plays or recorded income from play performances (Grace J. Ioppolo | Professor Emerita, and formerly Professor of Shakespearean and Early Modern Drama, at the University of Reading). Part II (2): Commentary contains: 5 tissue-guarded plates, (xvi), 400 pp. Henslowe's Papers | Being Documents Supplementary to Henslowe's Diary contains: tissue-guarded frontispiece, (vi), 187 pp. Ex Royal Holloway College with bookplate to each front paste down, spine crowns rubbed, else in Very Good condition. Heavy volume set weighing 3 kg, extra postage will be requested over and above our default setting for destinations outside of the UK. Member of the P.B.F.A. STAGE & THEATRE.