Henslowe, PHILIP

Henslowe, PHILIP, a stage-manager in Shakespeare's time, was originally a dyer and starch-maker, but became in 1584 lessee of the Rose theatre on the Bankside. From 1591 till his death in 1616 he was in partnership with Edward Alleyn, (q.v.), who married his step-daughter in 1592. Henslowe's business diary from the year 1593 to 1609 has fortunately been preserved at Dulwich College, and contains invaluable information about new plays and all the stage business of Shakespeare's day. It was edited by J. Payne Collier for the Shakespeare Society in 1841, but his reprint is unreliable, marred by many ugly interpolations and worse.