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Henslowe and Alleyn also operated the Paris Garden, a venue for baitings ; early in James's reign, they purchased the office of Keeper of the Royal Game, namely bulls, bears and mastiffs.
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Henslowe and Alleyn
He followed up this volume with the Alleyn Papers ( 1843 ) and the Diary of Philip Henslowe ( 1845 ).
Henslowe and Alleyn had already built the Fortune, apparently to fill the vacuum created when the Chamberlain's Men left Shoreditch.
After 1598, he assumed some non-acting responsibilities, helping Henslowe and Edward Alleyn manage the business affairs of the company.
As a writer, Rowley belonged to the crowd of collaborating playwrights who kept Henslowe and Alleyn supplied with new drama.
Working in close association with A. H. Bullen, he produced Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama ( 1906 ), the first edited version of the account books of Philip Henslowe ( 1906-8 ) and the papers of Edward Alleyn.
Henslowe and also
Henslowe also served as a collector of the Lay Subsidy.
It also shows Henslowe to have been a careful man of business, obtaining security in the form of rights to his authors ' works, and holding their manuscripts, while tying them to him with loans and advances.
Henslowe and operated
( Francis Langley, builder of the Swan Theatre, operated much as Henslowe did, though less successfully, and for a shorter time.
Henslowe and Garden
: First recorded performance: possibly on 3 March 1592 at The Rose in Southwark, as seen by Philip Henslowe ; earliest definite performance was on 13 March 1738 at Covent Garden.
Henslowe and venue
In 1598, Burbage's company ( by then, the Lord Chamberlain's Men ) erected the new Globe Theatre in Bankside ; Henslowe moved the Admiral's Men to the north-western corner of the city, into a venue he had financed, the Fortune Theatre.
Henslowe and for
) Of the 70-plus known works in the canon of Thomas Dekker, roughly 50 are collaborations ; in a single year, 1598, Dekker worked on 16 collaborations for impresario Philip Henslowe, and earned £ 30, or a little under 12 shillings per week — roughly twice as much as the average artisan's income of 1s.
Philip Henslowe's diary records payment to Ben Jonson for additions that year, but it is disputed whether the published additions reflect Jonson's work or if they were actually composed for a 1597 revival of The Spanish Tragedy mentioned by Henslowe.
The Rose was set up by a famous local businessman, Philip Henslowe, and it soon became a very popular place of entertainment for all classes of Londoners.
At the same time, records in the diary of Philip Henslowe show that Middleton was writing for the Admiral's Men.
For a period of only five years, from 1597 to 1602, Drayton was a member of the stable of playwrights who supplied material for the theatrical syndicate of Philip Henslowe.
A joint letter, from Nathan Field, Robert Daborne and Philip Massinger, to Philip Henslowe, begs for an immediate loan of five pounds to release them from their " unfortunate extremity ," the money to be taken from the balance due for the " play of Mr. Fletcher's and ours.
More certain is his work as a playwright for the Admiral's Men of Philip Henslowe, in whose account book he is first mentioned in early 1598.
Between 1598 and 1602, he was involved in about forty plays for Henslowe, usually in collaboration.
In late 1602, he appears to have broken his association with Henslowe, for unknown reasons.
His father, Edmund Henslowe, was appointed Master of the Game for Ashdown Forest, Sussex, from 1539 until his death in 1562.
It was at one time assumed that his wife's inheritance gave Henslowe his start in business, but there is no evidence for this.
The diary is written on the reverse of pages of a book of accounts of his brother-in law Ralf Hogge ’ s ironworks, kept by his brother John Henslowe for the period 1576 – 1581.
In 1599, Henslowe paid Dekker and Henry Chettle for a play called Troilus and Cressida.
Henslowe enlarged the theatre for the new troupe, moving the stage further back ( six feet six inches, or two metres ) to make room for perhaps 500 extra spectators.
It may be indicative of his abilities that of all the writers who did a substantial amount of work for Henslowe ’ s companies Day is one of only two not mentioned and praised by Francis Meres in his lists of the “ the best ” writers in 1598.
Henslowe paid him for additions to Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus ; tradition, deferential to Marlowe, has assigned him the clown's bits in the 1616 edition.
These and Henslowe ’ s casual records of them suggest some friendship between them, though in 1602 Chettle seems to have been writing for both Worcester's Company and the Admiral's, despite signing a bond to write exclusively for the latter.
As early as 1598 Francis Meres includes Chettle in his Palladis Tamia as one of the " best for comedy ", and Henslowe lists payments to him for thirty-six plays between 1598 and 1603, and he may have been involved in as many as fifty plays, although only a dozen seem to be his alone.
Subsequently, however, he moved to London, where the first mention of his dramatic career is a note in the diary of theatre entrepreneur Philip Henslowe recording that he wrote a play for the Admiral's Men, an acting company, in October 1596.
Henslowe and ;
Entries continue, with varying degrees of thoroughness, until 1609 ; in the years before his death, Henslowe appears to have run his theatrical interests from a greater distance.
It contained substantial rose gardens and two buildings ; Cholmley used one as a storehouse, while Henslowe appears to have leased the other as a brothel.
The literary style of the additions is judged to be un-Jonsonian ; Henslowe paid Jonson several pounds for his additions, which has seemed an excessive sum for 320 lines.
His name frequently occurs in the account books of Philip Henslowe in 1602, when he was playing with Worcester's Men at Rose Theatre in Bankside ; a note in Henslowe's book places him in a travelling company in the same year.
Henslowe and early
In an opinion shared in some form or another by Harold Bloom, and Peter Alexander, early scholar Andrew Cairncross, stated that " It may be assumed, until a new case can be shown to the contrary, that Shakespeare's Hamlet and no other is the play mentioned by Nashe in 1589 and Henslowe in 1594.
Henslowe and they
One of his authors, Henry Chettle, described him as being unscrupulously harsh with his poor tenants, even though Henslowe made many loans to Chettle and they seem to have been on friendly terms.
Perhaps because they had learned from Philip Henslowe's recent problems with neighborhood opposition in building the Fortune, they did not approach the court for approval until they had already placated their parish neighbors — as Henslowe had — by contributing liberally to poor relief.
Henslowe and purchased
In 1584, Henslowe purchased a property known as The Little Rose, in Southwark, which contained rose gardens and, almost certainly, a brothel.
Henslowe and .
** Philip Henslowe, English theatrical entrepreneur ( d. 1616 )
* January 6 – Philip Henslowe, English theatre manager ( b. 1550 )
* The Rose ( theatre ) is founded in London by Philip Henslowe.
Entries in Philip Henslowe's Diary show that in the years around 1600 Henslowe paid as little as £ 6 or £ 7 per play.
The Diary of Philip Henslowe records a popular play he calls Buckingham, performed in December 1593 and January 1594, which might have been Shakespeare's play.
On evidence from The Travels of the Three English Brothers, he is assumed to have made another European tour, perhaps reaching Italy, but by 1601 he was borrowing money from Philip Henslowe and had joined Worcester's Men.
Henslowe's Diary links Drayton's name with 23 plays from that period, and shows that Drayton almost always worked in collaboration with other Henslowe regulars, like Thomas Dekker, Anthony Munday, and Henry Chettle, among others.
" A second document shows that Massinger and Daborne owed Henslowe £ 3 on 4 July 1615.
* Henry Chettle receives his last payment from Philip Henslowe.
* The Rose theatre is built by Philip Henslowe in Southwark.
Philip Henslowe ( c. 1550 – 6 January 1616 ) was an Elizabethan theatrical entrepreneur and impresario.
Henslowe was born in Lindfield, Sussex, England of a family with roots in Devon.
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