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PHILIP HENSLOWE (d. 1616)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 303 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PHILIP HENSLOWE (d. 1616)  ,
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English theatrical manager, was the son of Edmund Henslowe of Lindfield, Sussex, master of the
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game in Ashdown
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Forest and Broil Park . He was originally a servant in the employment of the
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bailiff to Viscount Montague, whose
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property included Montague House in
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Southwark, and his duties led him to settle there before 1577 . He subsequently married the bailiff's widow, and, with the fortune he got with her, he
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developed into a
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clever business man and became a consider-able owner of Southwark property . He started his connexion with the stage when, on the 24th of March 1584, he bought
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land near what is now the
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southern end of Southwark
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Bridge, on which stood the Little Rose playhouse, afterwards rebuilt as the Rose . Successive companies played in it under Henslowe's
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financial management between 1592 and 1603 . The theatre at Newington Butts was also under him in 1594 . A share of the control in the Swan theatre, which like the Rose was on the Bankside, fell to Henslowe before the close of the 16th century . With the actor
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Edward Alleyn, who married his step-daughter
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Joan Woodward, he built in
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Golden Lane, Cripplegate Without, the Fortune Playhouse, opened in November 1600 . In December of 1594, they had secured the Paris Garden, a place for bear-baiting, on the Bankside, and in 1604 they bought the office of master of the royal game of bears, bulls and mastiffs from the holder, and obtained a patent . Alleyn sold his share to Henslowe in
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February 161o, and three years later Henslowe formed a new partnership with Jacob Meade and built the Hope playhouse, designed for stage performances as well as bull and bear-baiting, and managed by Meade . In Henslowe's theatres were first produced many plays by the famous Elizabethan dramatists . What'is known as " Henslowe's
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Diary " contains some accounts referring to Ashdown Forest between 1576 and 1581, entered by John Henslowe, while the later entries by Philip Henslowe from 1592 to 1609 are those which throw
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light on the theatrical matters of the time, and which have been subjected to much controversial criticism as a result of injuries done to the
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manuscript .

" Henslowe's Diary " passed into the hands of Edward Alleyn, and thence into the Library of

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Dulwich College, where the manuscript remained intact for more than a
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hundred and fifty years . In 178o Malone tried to borrow it, but it had been mislaid; in 1790 it was discovered and given into his charge . He was then at
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work on his Variorum Shakespeare . Malone had a transcript made of certain portions, and collated it with the
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original; and this transcript, with various notes and corrections by Malone, is now in the Dulwich Library . An abstract of this transcript he also published with his Variorum Shakespeare . The MS. of the diary was eventually returned to the library in 1812 by Malone's executor . In 184o it was lent to J . P . Collier, who in 1845 printed for the Shakespeare Society what purported to be a full edition, but it was afterwards shown by.G . F . Warner (Catalogue of the Dulwich Library, 1881) that a number of forged interpolations have been made, the responsibility for which rests on Collier . The complicated
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history of the forgeries and their detection has been exhaustively treated in Walter W .

Greg's edition of Henslowe's Diary (
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London, 19o4; enlarged 1908) .

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