James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps
James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (born June 21, 1820 in Chelsea , London , † January 3, 1889 in Hollingbury Copse , Brighton ) was a British literary historian and was best known for his studies and collections on William Shakespeare .
Life, achievements and works
He was born in London to Thomas Halliwell and was privately tutored at Jesus College , Cambridge . He devoted himself to antiquarian research, especially in early English literature. In 1839 he edited The Journeys of Sir John Mandeville ; In 1842 he published a report of the European manuscripts in the Chetham Library and, on the side, a newly discovered 18th century romance ( Torrent of Portugal ).
In 1848 he published his Life by Shakespeare , which appeared in several editions, from 1853 to 1865 in a valuable edition with all critical comments, which was limited to 150 copies. The illustrations were made by John Thomas Blight , but Halliwell never paid for them. In 1863 he published a calendar of the records of Stratford-on-Awn and in 1864 the history of New Place .
After 1870 he gave up all literary criticism and devoted his attention to explaining Shakespeare's life. He gathered all the facts and available information and related documents that could be found in local records in his Survey of the Life of Shakespeare .
He was the main participant in the purchase of New Place for the companies in Stratford-upon-Avon and the creation of the Shakespeare Museum there.
In total, he published more than sixty volumes.
He took the name Phillipps in 1872, at the will of the grandfather of his first wife, a daughter of Sir Thomas Phillipps .
He actively influenced the Camden Society , the Percy Society and the Shakespeare Society , for which he edited many early English and Elizabethan works. From 1845 Halliwell was excluded from the library of the British Museum on suspicion of stealing some manuscripts which he removed from the library of Trinity College (Cambridge). He privately published a statement on this matter in 1845.
Halliwell-Phillipps found the oldest manuscript of stonemasons ' guilds in the British Museum , the so-called Regius manuscript , which is also called the Halliwell manuscript for this reason.
His house, Hollingbury Copse near Brighton , was full of rare and strange works, and he donated many of them to the Chetham Library in Manchester, the Penzance City Library , the Smithsonian Institution, and the University of Edinburgh Library .
literature
- Marvin Spevack: James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps. The life and works of the Sakespearean scholar and bookman . Oak Knoll Press et al., New Castle Del. 2001, ISBN 1-584-56051-7 .
- Marvin Spevack: James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps. A classified bibliography . Olms, Hildesheim et al. 1997, ISBN 3-487-10369-9 .
Web links
- Literature by and about James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps in the German Digital Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Halliwell-Phillipps, James Orchard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British literary historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 21, 1820 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chelsea (London) |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 3, 1889 |
| Place of death | Hollingbury Copse , Brighton |