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Folger Encodings:
SHC encoding:
EEBO-TCP encoding:
Encoding path:
OldLaw
Call number:
Microfilm reel:
Wing / 154:15

Bibliography

STC/Wing:
Wing M1048
ESTC:
Greg:
766a
DEEP:

Playbook

Title Page

Title:

THE Excellent Comedy, called THE OLD LAW: OR A new way to please you. ... Together with an exact and perfect Catalogue of all the Playes, with the Authors Names, and what are Comedies, Tragedies, Histories, Pastoralls, Masks, Interludes, more exactly Printed then ever before.

Author(s):

Phil. Massinger. Tho. Middleton. William Rowley.

Performance statement:

Acted before the King and Queene at Salisbury House, and at severall other places, with great Applause.

Imprint:

LONDON, Printed for Edward Archer, at the signe of the Adam and Eve, in Little Britaine. 1656.

General Title Page

Internal Title Page

Title page company(s):
Title page theater(s):
Title page date:

1656

Stationer Information

Location:
Printer(s):
Uncertain: 
No
Publisher(s):
Uncertain: 
No
Bookseller(s):
Uncertain: 
No

Physical Description

Format:
Paratextual materials:
CHARACTER LIST: "Persons of the Play" [A2v]
OTHER PARATEXTS: "An Exact and perfect Catalogue of all the Plaies that were ever printed; together, with all the Authors names; and what are Comedies, Histories, Interludes, Masks, Pastorels, Tragedies: And all these Plaies you may either have at the Signe of the Adam and Eve, in Little Britain; or, at the Ben Johnson's Head in Thredneedle-street, over against the Exchange" [a1r]

Performance

First performance:

[1618–1619]

First performed by: