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No
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Microfilm reel:
Thomason / 222:E.1782[1]
Playbook
Title Page
General Title Page
Title:
Five nevv PLAYES, VIZ. The ENGLISH MOOR, or The MOCK-MARRIAGE. The LOVE-SICK COURT, or The AMBITIOUS POLITIQUE. COVENT GARDEN Weeded. The NEVV ACADEMY, or The NEVV EXCHANGE. The QUEEN and CONCUBINE.
Author(s):
RICHARD BROME
Imprint:
LONDON, Printed for A. Crook at the Green Dragon in Saint Pauls Church-yard, and for H. Brome at the Gunn in Ivy-Lane, 1659.
Internal Title Page
Title:
[2A1r] THE WEEDING OF THE COVENT-GARDEN. Or the Middlesex-JVSTICE OF Peace. A Facetious COMEDY
Author(s):
A POSTHUME of RICHARD BROME, An Ingenious Servant, and Imitator of his Master, that famously Renowned Poet Ben. Johnson.
Imprint:
LONDON, Printed for Andrew Crook, and are to be sold at the Green Dragon in St. Pauls Churchyard: And Henry Broom at the Gun in Ivy-lane. 1658.
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Title page date:
1659
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No
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No
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No
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No
Physical Description
Format:
Published as part of Five New Plays, containing: The English Moor, or The Mock Marriage; The Lovesick Court, or The Ambitious Politic; The Weeding of the Covent Garden, or The Middlesex Justice of Peace (The Covent Garden Weeded); The New Academy, or The New Exchange; The Queen and Concubine.
Paratextual materials:
COMMENDATORY VERSES: 3: by "Ben. Johnson"; "T. S."; "Alex. Brome" [πA6r]
TO THE READER: "To the Readers" (unsigned, but probably by Alexander Brome, editor) [π3r]; "The Stationers to the Reader" signed "A. C. H. B." (Andrew Crooke [1] and Henry Brome) [a3v]
OTHER PARATEXTS: Half-title, "Bromes Playes." (printed up the page) [πA1v]; advertisement for books "sold by Andrew Crook" [2O8r]
CHARACTER LIST: "The Actors Names" [A4v]
OTHER PARATEXTS: "Upon Aglaura printed in Folio" (verses) signed "R. B." (Richard Brome) [A2r]; "A Song" [A2v]; "To my Lord of Newcastle, on his Play called The Variety. He having commanded to give him my true opinion of it" (verses) signed "R. B." (Richard Brome) [A4r]
TO THE READER: "To the Readers" (unsigned, but probably by Alexander Brome, editor) [π3r]; "The Stationers to the Reader" signed "A. C. H. B." (Andrew Crooke [1] and Henry Brome) [a3v]
OTHER PARATEXTS: Half-title, "Bromes Playes." (printed up the page) [πA1v]; advertisement for books "sold by Andrew Crook" [2O8r]
CHARACTER LIST: "The Actors Names" [A4v]
OTHER PARATEXTS: "Upon Aglaura printed in Folio" (verses) signed "R. B." (Richard Brome) [A2r]; "A Song" [A2v]; "To my Lord of Newcastle, on his Play called The Variety. He having commanded to give him my true opinion of it" (verses) signed "R. B." (Richard Brome) [A4r]
Title page imaged from Folger call number: STC B4872 copy 2. Image is not from the transcribed copy.