MSS 1
A collection of papers of the actor Edward Alleyn (1566-1626).
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*MsP 39 article 68Autograph
Autograph additions by Massinger, and also by Robert Daborne, to a letter by Nathan Field to Philip Henslowe, probably in July 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.
Philip Massinger, Document(s) -
*MsP 40 article 102Autograph
Massinger's signature on a bond between Massinger and Daborne on the one part and Henslowe on the other, 4 July 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.
Philip Massinger, Document(s) -
DkT 49 article 108
Autograph letter signed by Dekker, to Edward Alleyn, 12 September 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.
Thomas Dekker, Letter(s) -
DkT 50 article 109
Letter in a scribal hand and signed by Dekker, to Edward Alleyn, [c.1616].
Facsimile in Jones-Davies, facing p. 56.
Thomas Dekker, Letter(s) -
*JnB 319 article 135Autograph
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.
Ben Jonson, Martial. <Epigram XLVII, Book X.> ('The Things that make the happier life, are these') -
WoH 2 article 136
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).
Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life ('How happy is he born and taught') -
GrR 9 article 138
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.
Robert Greene, Orlando Furioso