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Henslowe’s Rose
Shakespeare’s Globe
Saturday 21st May 2016
Please note: Unless otherwise stated all sessions will take place in the Nancy Knowles Lecture Theatre.
9.45am – 10.00am:
Welcome and Registration
10.00am – 12.00pm:
PANEL 1 – The Rose
Julian Bowsher (Museum of London Archaeology)
‘Henslowe’s theatrical management’
Harvey Sheldon (Birkbeck College, University of London)
‘The Rose Discovered and the Rose Revealed’
Introduced by Patrick Spottiswoode
12.00pm – 1.00pm:
BREAK
1.00pm – 3.00pm:
PANEL 2 –Its Companies: Players and Patronage
Professor Sally-Beth MacLean (University of Toronto)
'Lord Strange's Men: The First Company in Residence'
Professor Alan H. Nelson (University of California, Berkeley)
‘Henslowe and Alleyn and St Saviour's parish’
Professor Grace Ioppolo (University of Reading)
‘Henslowe and Alleyn and Burbage and Shakespeare’
Introduced by Patrick Spottiswoode
3.00pm – 3.30pm:
BREAK
3.30pm – 5.30pm:
PANEL 3 – Its repertory: Then and Now
Sir Brian Vickers
‘Thomas Kyd's unrecognized contributions to the Rose repertoire’
Dr Mark Hutchings (University of Reading)
‘The Trap at the Rose’
Dr Farah Karim-Cooper (Head of Higher Education and Research, Globe Education)
‘Hands in Titus Andronicus’
Introduced by Patrick Spottiswoode
5.30pm - 6.30pm
Drinks Reception for speakers and attendees
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Julian Bowsher (Museum of London Archaeology)
Julian Bowsher studied Roman archaeology at London University and one of his earliest projects was the excavation and
publication of a Roman theatre in the Middle East. He still identifies and catalogues Roman coins, but since joining MOLA in
the mid 1980s he has focused on the archaeology and history of the Tudor and Stuart period. The discovery and excavation of
the Rose theatre in 1989 was a milestone in ‘Shakespearean archaeology’ and Julian has pioneered its study, bringing together
archaeologists, scholars and actors. He has written a number of books (two of which have won awards) and articles on the
phenomenon of Shakespeare’s theatre. Julian has lectured extensively both here and abroad as well as in the media, promoting
the subject. He also plays an active part in several archaeological and historical societies.
Harvey Sheldon (Birkbeck College, University of London)
Harvey Sheldon, Chair of the Rose Theatre Trust, was an archaeologist in the Department of Greater London Archaeology at
the time when the Bankside site, on which the playhouse was found, was about to be redeveloped to create a new multi-storey
office block. He has been engaged in matters relating to the Rose, either through the Museum, or through the Trust, ever since
negotiations by his colleagues with the potential developers began during 1988. Harvey has been involved in archaeology in
London since the 1960’s and is currently a Research Fellow in the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, at
Birkbeck, University of London.
Professor Sally-Beth Maclean (University of Toronto)
Sally-Beth MacLean, professor emerita, Department of English, University of Toronto, is the Director of Research and General
Editor of the Records of Early English Drama (REED) series. She also directs work on REED’s Patrons and Performances and
Early Modern London Theatres websites. Her most recent book is Lord Strange’s Men and Their Players, co-authored with
Lawrence Manley and published in 2014 by Yale UP. In 2015 the book won the RSA’s annual Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book
Prize for the best book published in Renaissance studies. Her current research is on the dramatic records for the county of
Surrey in the REED series.
Professor Alan H. Nelson (University of California, Berkeley)
Alan H. Nelson is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at the University of California, Berkeley. His specializations
are paleography, bibliography, and the reconstruction of the literary life and times of medieval and Renaissance England from
documentary sources. He us author of Monstrous Adversary: The Life of Edward de Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford (Liverpool
University Press, 2003). He is editor of Cambridge, Records of Early English Drama, 2 vols. (Toronto: University of Toronto
Press, 1989). He is one of four editors of Oxford, Records of Early English Drama, 2 vols. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press,
2004). (The other editors are John R. Elliott, Jr.; Alexandra F. Johnston; and Diana Wyatt.) He is co-editor, with John R. Elliott,
Jr., of Inns of Court, Records of Early English Drama, 3 vols.(D.S. Brewer, 2010). He is co-editor with William Ingram of the
website The Parish of St Saviour, Southwark, 1550-1650 and has contributed essays to Shakespeare Documented, a project
sponsored by the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.
Professor Grace Ioppolo (University of Reading)
Grace Ioppolo is Professor of Shakespearean and Early Modern Drama in the English Literature Department at the University
of Reading. She has also taught at UCLA, UC Berkeley, and the Shakespeare Institute at the University of Birmingham. She
completed her PhD at UCLA under the direction of R. A. Foakes. She is the author of Revising Shakespeare (1991) and Dramatists
and their Manuscripts in the Age of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and Heywood: Authorship, Authority and the Playhouse (2006).
She is the Co-Editor of Elizabeth I and the Culture of Writing (2007) and has produced scholarly editions of King Lear and Measure
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for Measure for Norton and Hengist, King of Kent and The Honest Man’s Fortune for the Malone Society. She is the Founder and
Director of the Henslowe-Alleyn Digitisation Project (www.henslowe-alleyn.org.uk) and the General Editor of The Collected
Works of Thomas Heywood, forthcoming from Oxford University Press.
Sir Brian Vickers
Sir Brian Vickers is a Distinguished Senior Fellow, the School of Advanced Study, London University; a Fellow of the British
Academy; and a Foreign Honorary Member, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is Director of the Oxford Francis
Bacon, and General Editor of The Collected Works of John Ford (OUP; Vol. 1, 2012; Vols. 2 &3, 2016; Vols. 4 & 5 in preparation).
His recent publications on Shakespeare include Shakespeare, Co-Author (OUP, 2002); ‘Counterfeiting’ Shakespeare. Evidence,
Authorship, and John Ford’s Funerall Elegie (CUP 2002); Shakespeare, A Lover’s Complaint, and John Davies of Hereford (CUP,
2007); and The One King Lear (Harvard University Press, 2016). His current projects include a book, Recovering Thomas Kyd. A
Canon Restored, and a new edition of The Complete Works of Thomas Kyd.
Dr Mark Hutchings (University of Reading)
Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Reading, where he specializes in early modern theatre history and
performance. He has published on drama, especially the plays of Thomas Middleton, and on the theatricality of early modern
diplomacy. He is currently completing a study of the ‘Turk play’ and early modern repertories, forthcoming with Palgrave, and
editing a collection of essays on The Changeling in the Arden Early Modern Drama Guide series for Bloomsbury.
Dr Farah Karim-Cooper (Head of Higher Education and Research, Shakespeare’s Globe)
Dr Farah Karim-Cooper oversees the Higher Education programme in Globe Education and leads research and scholarship at
Shakespeare’s Globe. She is Visiting Research Fellow, King’s College London and directs the Globe component of the
King’s/Globe joint MA in Shakespeare Studies. She was the 2013 Lloyd Davis Visiting Professor at the University of
Queensland, Farah is Chair of the Architecture Research Group and led the research into the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, the
new indoor Jacobean theatre. She is frequently a keynote speaker and panellist at national and international conferences on
Shakespeare, Renaissance drama, early modern culture and theatre practice. Farah’s major publications include Cosmetics in
Shakespearean and Renaissance Drama (Edinburgh University Press, 2006, paperback edn 2012) Shakespeare’s Globe: A
Theatrical Experiment, (Cambridge University Press, 2008) co-edited with Christie Carson; Shakespeare’s Theatres and the
Effects of Performance, co-edited with Tiffany Stern (Arden/Bloomsbury 2013); Moving Shakespeare Indoors, co-edited with
Andrew J. Gurr (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and The Hand on the Shakespearean Stage: Gesture, Touch and the
Spectacle of Dismemberment (Arden/Bloomsbury, 2016).
*Please note schedule is subject to change
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Julian Bowsher: ‘Henslowe’s theatrical management’
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Harvey Sheldon: ‘The Rose Discovered and the Rose Revealed’
The discovery of the Rose playhouse during excavations, originally scheduled to last for a few weeks between December 1988
and January 1989, caused huge excitement and much concern. The Rose was the first of London’s late-Elizabethan and
Jacobean theatres to be located archaeologically. During early 1989, the western two-thirds of the Rose’s groundplan were
revealed, providing evidence for the foundations of the stage and gallery walls as well as the arena floor. The excavation and
the accompanying campaign to save the playhouse will be discussed, as will the current use of the site and the Trust’s ‘Rose
Revealed’ project, developed with financial assistance from the HLF and subsequently awarded planning approval by
Southwark Council. Delivering this project remains to be done. It will involve the archaeological investigation of the eastern
third of the Rose’s groundplan and the installation of a long-term conservation regime to ensure that the physical remains of
the entire groundplan remain protected. Then a visitor centre for public education and entertainment, telling the story of the
Rose, through exhibition and learning activities, will be built on site. Additionally a performance space will be created directly
above the footprint of the playhouse, thus returning the site to its original use on Bankside.
Professor Sally-Beth Maclean: ‘Lord Strange’s Men: The First Company in Residence
Lord Strange’s Men is the first company known to have performed in repertory at the Rose Theatre, with an impressive run of
performances recorded early in Henslowe’s Diary, 1592-93. This paper will explore the earlier career of three of the actors
known to have been in the company, as well as the possibility that they were based at the Rose by 1590. A pilot version of a
new interactive map and timeline for early modern Southwark, with a focus on Henslowe and the Rose, will illustrate the talk.
Professor Alan H. Nelson: ‘Henslowe and Alleyn and St Saviour's parish’
The involvement of Philip Henslowe and Edward Alleyn in the affairs of St. Saviour parish, Southwark, home of the Rose, the
Globe, and other playhouses, has been known and appreciated since at least the 1830s and the research, both productive and
destructive, of John Payne Collier. Nevertheless, new digital research techniques offer the possibility of a more comprehensive
understanding. A website, “The Parish of St. Saviour, Southwark: Information about Parishioners, from various sources, 1550 to
1650,” has been created by Professor William Ingram of the University of Michigan and myself. Transcriptions of documents,
especially the parish Vestry Books (1557-1628), enable quick, comprehensive searches for confirming the accuracy of dates and
other details. Extracted databases, for example lists of attendees at each and every meeting of the Vestry, permit us to follow
the participation of each individual vestryman in the affairs of the parish church over the years. A searchable index of the
invaluable Token Books, which survive uniquely in this parish, reveal household sizes and dates over the years 1578 to 1643.
The website will be demonstrated briefly, and information will be presented on the parochial lives and households of Henslowe
and Alleyn.
Professor Grace Ioppolo: ‘Henslowe and Alleyn and Burbage and Shakespeare’
Theatre historians have failed to make any clear connections between the careers of Richard Burbage and William Shakespeare
and the careers of Philip Henlsowe and Edward Alleyn, either as rivals or collaborators, except for a few tantalizing references
in the extensive manuscript archive of Henslowe and Alleyn at Dulwich College (and online at www.henslowe-alleyn.org.uk).
This paper will attempt to make some new connections by examining theatre history records, including those relating to:
Burbage’s family’s history with the Earl of Leicester’s Men; Shakespeare’s acting company history prior to and after 1594;
Henslowe’s connections to playhouses other than the Rose and Fortune; and Alleyn’s acting career.
*Please note schedule is subject to change
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Saturday 21st May 2016
Sir Brian Vickers: ‘Thomas Kyd's unrecognized contributions to the Rose repertoire’
The theatrical career of Thomas Kyd is largely undocumented. In 1607 Dekker (b.? 1572) referred to Kyd as having associated
with the actor John Bentley, one of the original Queen’s players, and the poets Thomas Watson and Thomas Atchelow
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(Achelley), which would date that connection to c. 1583-5. McMillin and MacLean note that ‘Only Kyd is known to have
written from the common stage among this group, and he is not known to have written for the Queen’s Men. But “known” is a
rare quality when it comes to the authors of plays in the 1580s, even the titles of which have disappeared, with few
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exceptions.’ (One play that he did write for them, according to my research, is King Leir.) In that period dramatists were all
freelance, with no fixed ties to any company, and it seems very likely that Kyd became connected with Lord Strange’s Men in
about 1587. In his deposition concerning his links with Marlowe, following the Dutch Libel, Kyd affirmed that he had served his
his Lord ‘almost theis vj yeres nowe’, that is from 1587 until his imprisonment in May 1593. Erne thinks that Kyd was in the
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service of the Earl of Pembroke, but I agree with Marlowe’s biographers (Charles Nicholl, David Riggs) that Kyd worked for
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Strange, as recently confirmed by Manley and Maclean. Kyd’s acknowledged plays, as performed at the Rose, were ‘spanes
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comodye donne oracio’, or The First Part of Ieronimo (1605) – a much-altered parody or ‘burlesque’ of the original prequel, and
‘Jeronymo’ or The Spanish Tragedy. I shall argue that the other, currently unacknowledged Kyd play in this season was ‘harey
vj’, of which Nashe wrote Act 1, and Kyd the remainder – with Shakespeare subsequently adding three scenes (2.4, 4.2, 4.5)
after the Chamberlain’s Men had acquired the ‘Booke’, thus transforming it into the Folio’s 1 Henry VI. My argument will
involve both external and internal evidence.
Dr Mark Hutchings: ‘The Trap Door at the Rose’
This paper examines the evidence for the existence and use of a trap at the Rose and elsewhere. Although theatre historians
habitually refer to the trap as a feature of most if not all early modern purpose-built playhouses, actual evidence in support of
this assertion is sparse, and there has been no systematic examination of the matter. The focus here is on the plays known to
have been staged at Henslowe’s Rose, particularly those of Marlowe, and the chief problem for theatre historians: that hardly
any stage directions specify the use of the trap at all. The puzzle – if the trap was available then surely it must have been used
more often than indicated – presents ticklish interpretative problems for theatre historians, performance critics, and editors
alike.
Dr Farah Karim-Cooper (Head of Higher Education and Research, Shakespeare’s Globe): ‘Hands in
Titus Andronicus’
This paper examines the practicalities and challenges performers may have encountered in performing the amputation scene in
Titus Andronicus. It considers amputation within a broader network of images of the disembodied hand and suggests the play
provides an early example of Shakespeare's preoccupation with how hands were cultural registers of character, identity and
skill.
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Lukas Erne, Beyond The Spanish Tragedy. A study of the works of Thomas Kyd (2001), 1, 11, 162, 222-3.
Scott McMillin and Sally-Beth MacLean, The Queen’s Men and their Plays (1998), 29.
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Erne, 211 and appendix, ‘Kyd’s Patron’ (226-30).
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Lawrence Manley and Sally-Beth MacLean, Lord Strange’s Men and Their Plays (2014), 80, 162, 165.
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Erne, 14-46.
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