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Thu 11 Nov 2009Elizabethan impresario's archive goes online
THE LONDON theatre world is sometimes about art, but always about filling seats. And so it was during the days of William Shakespeare, according to priceless 16th-century papers that were once the preserve only of scholars, but which are now available to the world online.
The unique archive of theatre-owner and impresario Philip Henslowe and his actor son-in-law Edward Alleyn numbers thousands of pages and has been held in the Dulwich College library in London for centuries.
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