Dulwich College

*MsP 39: Philip Massinger, Document(s) ('')

Autograph additions by Massinger, and also by Robert Daborne, to a letter by Nathan Field to Philip Henslowe, probably in July 1613.

1613.

Facsimile examples in Cruickshank, Philip Massinger (Oxford, 1920), facing p. 4, in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XIII(b); and in The Henslowe Papers, ed. R.A. Foakes (London, 1977), II, No. 68.

*MsP 40: Philip Massinger, Document(s) ('')

Massinger's signature on a bond between Massinger and Daborne on the one part and Henslowe on the other, 4 July 1615.

1615.

Facsimiles in Irvine E. Gray, Philip Massinger: An Archival Problem, Journal of the Society of Archivists, 2 (1960-4), 319-21 (fig. b), and in The Henslowe Papers, ed. R.A. Foakes (London, 1977), II, 102.

DkT 49: Thomas Dekker, Letter(s) ('')

Autograph letter signed by Dekker, to Edward Alleyn, 12 September 1616.

1616.

Facsimiles in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate IX(b); in Jones-Davies, facing p. 64; and in The Henslowe Papers, ed. R.A. Foakes (2 vols, London, 1977), II, 108-9.

DkT 50: Thomas Dekker, Letter(s) ('')

Letter in a scribal hand and signed by Dekker, to Edward Alleyn, [c.1616].

c.1616.

Facsimile in Jones-Davies, facing p. 56.

*JnB 319: Ben Jonson, Martial. <Epigram XLVII, Book X.> ('The Things that make the happier life, are these')

Autograph, on a folio leaf also containing WoH 2.

Edited from this MS in Collier and in Herford & Simpson. Edited and discussed in Anthony Miller, The Text of Ben Jonson's Translation of Martial, Epigrams, X.xlvii, ELN, 21/2 (December 1983), 8-10. Facsimiles in The Henslowe Papers, ed. R.A. Foakes (London, 1977), II, 135, and in The Henslowe Papers Supplement: The Theatre Papers, in honour of Dr D.M. Owen, ed. Masayuki Yamagishi (Kyoto, Japan, 1992), article 35.

First published in John Payne Collier, Memoirs of Edward Alleyn (London, 1841), p. 54. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 295.

WoH 2: Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life ('How happy is he born and taught')

Copy, in the hand of Ben Jonson, on a folio leaf also containing JnB 319.

Edited (inaccurately) from this MS in John Payne Collier, Memoirs of Edward Alleyn (London, 1841), p. 53. Edited, with a facsimile, in Pebworth. Also collated in Hannah and recorded in Main. Other facsimiles in The Henslowe Papers, ed. R.A. Foakes (London, 1977), II, 136; in The Henslowe Papers Supplement: The Theatre Papers, ed. Masayuki Yamagishi (Kyoto, 1992), article 136, p. 135 and plates.

First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 5th impression (London, 1614). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 522-3. Hannah (1845), pp. 28-31. Some texts of this poem discussed in C.F. Main, Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 10 (1955), 270-4, and in Ted-Larry Pebworth, New Light on Sir Henry Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 223-6 (plus plates).

GrR 9: Robert Greene, Orlando Furioso ('')

The part of Orlando, in the hand of a playhouse scribe, with additions probably made by the actor Edward Alleyn (1566-1626), probably used for a performance by Lord Strange's company in February 1591/2, imperfect.

This MS collated in Grosart. Edited, with facsimile pages, in Two Elizabethan Stage Abridgements: The Battle of Alcazar and Orlando Furioso, ed. W.W. Greg, Malone Society (Oxford, 1922), and in Greg, Dramatic Documents, I, 176-87, & Vol. II.

A complete facsimile in The Henslowe Papers, ed. R.A. Foakes (London, 1977), II, in endpocket. Facsimile examples also in Elizabethan Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers, DLB 62 (Detroit, 1987), pp. 87, 411.

First published in London, 1594. Grosart, XIII, 111-98. Edited by W.W. Greg and R.B. McKerrow, Malone Society (Oxford, 1907). For a discussion of the text, see Michael Warren, Greene's Orlando: W.W. Greg Furioso, in Textual Formations and Reformations, ed. Laurie E. Maguire and Thomas L. Berger (Newark & London, 1998), pp. 67-91.

*DkT 54: Thomas Dekker, Document(s) ('')

Dekker's autograph entries for 19 December 1599, 30 January 1598/9, and 5 May 1602.

1599-1602.

Facsimiles in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plates IX(a), VII(b), and X(c). Facsimile of Dekker's signature for 19 December 1599 in Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 43.

*DrM 77: Michael Drayton, Document(s) ('')

A signed autograph receipt by Drayton, 21 January 1598/9.

Facsimiles in Greg, Plate VIII(a); in Bernard H. Newdigate, Michael Drayton and his Circle (Oxford, 1961), facing p. 106; in Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 42; and in The Henslowe Papers, ed. R.A. Foakes (London, 1977).

*ChG 32: George Chapman, Document(s) ('')

A statement of Chapman's debt to Henslowe of £10 10s, in the hand of Robert Shaa, and signed by Chapman, 24 October 1598.

1598.

Facsimiles in Greg, English Literary Autographs, plate XII(a); in Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 41; in The Henslowe Papers, ed. R.A. Foakes (London, 1977); and in Cummings, p. 105.