Call Number:

C0754

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

9 boxes

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Gerald Eades Bentley Papers, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1927-1980s (inclusive) and 1940-1970 (bulk)

Creator:

Bentley, Gerald Eades, 1901-1994

Form:

Correspondence., Galley proofs (Printing), Journals., and Manuscripts.

Abstract:

Shakespearean scholar Gerald Eades Bentley was a professor of English at Princeton University (1945-1970) and assistant librarian for Special Collections (1971-1973). His papers consists of notes, typescripts, and galleys for three published works, The Jacobean and Caroline Stage (1941-1968), The Profession of Dramatist in Shakespeare's Time, 1590-1642 (1971), and The Profession of Player in Shakespeare's Time, 1590-1642 (1984), as well as various speeches, articles, and correspondence about his works.

Shakespearean scholar Bentley was a professor of English at Princeton University from 1945 to 1970 and assistant librarian for Special Collections from 1971 to 1973.

The collection consists of papers of Bentley. Included are notes, typescripts, and galleys for three published works, The Jacobean and Caroline Stage (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1941-1968), The Profession of Dramatist in Shakespeare's Time, 1590-1642 (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971), and The Profession of Player in Shakespeare's Time, 1590-1642 (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1984), as well as various speeches, articles, and correspondence about his works. One file of correspondence concerns Bentley's edition of The Arte of Angling, 1577 (1958). Also present are a journal, 1927-1932, and correspondence with organizations, educational institutions, friends, and associates, such as, John Leeds Barrold, Roland Frye, the Princeton University Press, and Louis B. Wright.

This is an unprocessed collection and remains in its original arrangement.