Henslowe's Diary / Edition 2

by Philip Henslowe, R. A. Foakes

Overview

The Diary of Philip Henslowe (1961), owner of the Rose Theatre in London, remains the most valuable source of information about the workings of the Elizabethan public theaters. The Diary deals with the daily activities of the companies of players who performed at the Rose. This second edition has added a new preface and bibliography; a new introduction; several indexes and photographs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521524025
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	10/24/2002
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	440
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.29(h) x 0.98(d)

About the Author

R. A. Foakes is Professor Emeritus at the Department of English, UCLA. His publications include six of Shakespeare's plays, among them A Midsummer Night's Dream for the New Cambridge Shakespeare series (1984), Illustrations of the English Stage 1580–1642 (Cambridge, 1985), and Hamlet versus Lear (Cambridge, 1993).

Table of Contents

Preface; Preface to the first edition; Introduction; The Diary; Appendices; Indexes and glossary; Plates.