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Memoirs of Edward Alleyn; Including Some New Particulars Respecting Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Massinger, Marston, Dekker,
Memoirs of Edward Alleyn Including Some New Particulars Respecting Shakespeare Ben Jonson Massinger Marston Dekker Author:John Payne Collier General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1841 Original Publisher: Printed for the Shakespeare Society Subjects: English drama Drama / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Drama / Shakespeare History / General History / World Literary Criticism / Drama Literary Criticism / Shakespeare Notes: This is a black... more » and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: PREFACE. MORE than ten years ago, when the writer of the following Memoir was collecting materials for his " History of English Dramatic Poetry and the Stage," he had an opportunity of inspecting Henslowe's Diary, and some few other original documents preserved in Dulwich College. He was not then, however, aware of the curious sources of information possessed by that institution, in relation to some of our early theatres, and to the life of an individual, who for nearly half a century was more or less prominently concerned in dramatic representations. His attention was not long since directed to these additional stores; and on examining them, he found that they afforded ample and novel matter for an extended biography of the Founder of Dulwich College, including important and interesting particulars respecting Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Massinger, Marston, Dekker, and other Dramatists of the reigns of Elizabeth and James I. It is necessary to mention, in order to account for some of the imperfections in the succeeding pages, that a knowledge of the existence of certain deeds and family papers, left behind him by Alleyn and preserved in the original " Treasury Chest of God's Gift College," did not reach the writer until he had not only drawn up the whole, but actually printed some part, of the present volume. Had he enjoyed the advantage of having all the information...« less