Gerald Eades Bentley Papers, 1927-1980s (mostly 1940-1970)

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Collection Overview

Creator:

Bentley, Gerald Eades (1901-1994)

Title:

Gerald Eades Bentley Papers

Repository:

Manuscripts Division

Permanent URL:

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/wd375w32d

Dates:

1927-1980s (mostly 1940-1970)

Size:

9 boxes

Storage Note:

ReCAP (scarcpxm): Box 1-9

Language:

English

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.

Collection Description & Creator Information

Scope and Contents

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.

Arrangement

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

Collection Creator Biography:

Bentley

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.

Collection History

Acquisition:

Gift of G.E. Bentley Jr.

Appraisal

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Processing Information

This is an unprocessed collection. The contents list provided is a preliminary inventory.

The collection inventory was created by Michael Heist in August 2007.

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