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Folger Encodings:
SHC encoding:
XML
Encoding path:
Harvard >
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MadLov
Folger copies:
Hamnet record for additional holdings at the Folger.
Call number:
Facsimile:
Penn State PR2420 1647 Q. (not transcribed copy)
Microfilm reel:
Wing / 306:1a

Bibliography

STC/Wing:
Wing B1581
ESTC:
R22900
Greg:
637a
DEEP:
5143.01

Playbook

Title Page

General Title Page

Title:

COMEDIES AND TRAGEDIES

Author(s):

FRANCIS BEAVMONT AND IOHN FLETCHER Gentlemen.

Publication Statement:

Never printed before, And now published by the Authours Originall Copies.

Imprint:

LONDON, Printed for Humphrey Robinson, at the three Pidgeons, and for Humphrey Moseley at the Princes Armes in St Pauls Church-yard. 1647.

Internal Title Page

Title:

[half-title: B1r] THE MAD LOVER

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

1647

Stationer Information

Location:
London
Printer(s):
Uncertain: 
No
Publisher(s):
Humphrey Robinson
Uncertain: 
No
Humphrey Moseley
Uncertain: 
No
Bookseller(s):
Uncertain: 
No

Physical Description

Format:
folio

Published as part of Comedies and Tragedies written by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, containing: The Masque of the Inner Temple and Gray's Inn; The Mad Lover; The Spanish Curate; The Little French Lawyer; The Custom of the Country; The Noble Gentleman; The Captain; Beggars' Bush; The Coxcomb; The False One; The Chances; The Loyal Subject; The Laws of Candy; The Wandering Lovers (The Lovers' Progress) (Cleander); The Island Princess; The Humorous Lieutenant (Generous Enemies, Demetrius and Enanthe) (The Noble Enemy); The Nice Valor, or The Passionate Madman; The Maid in the Mill; The Prophetess; Bonduca; The Sea Voyage; The Double Marriage; The Pilgrim; The Knight of Malta; The Woman's Prize, or The Tamer Tamed; Love's Cure, or The Martial Maid; The Honest Man's Fortune; The Queen of Corinth; Women Pleased; A Wife for a Month; Wit at Several Weapons; Valentinian; The Fair Maid of the Inn; Love's Pilgrimage; Four Plays, or Moral Representations, in One.

Paratextual materials:
DEDICATION: "The Epistle Dedicatorie" to: Philip Herbert, 1st Earl of Montgomery and 4th Earl of Pembroke; from: John Lowin; Joseph Taylor; Richard Robinson; Robert Benfield; Eyllaerdt Swanston; Thomas Pollard; Hugh Clark; William Allen; Stephen Hammerton; and Theophilus Bird (actors) [A2r]
COMMENDATORY VERSES: 37: "To the Stationer" signed "Grandison"; by "H. Howard"; "Henry Mody"; "Thomas Peyton"; "Aston Cokaine"; "Jo. Pettus"; "Robert Stapylton"; "George Lisle"; "I. Denham"; "Edw. Waller"; "Rich. Lovelace"; "Wil. Habington"; "Ia. Howell"; "Tho. Stanley"; "Roger L'Estrange"; "Robert Gardiner"; "John Web"; "George Buck"; "Joh. Earle"; "I. M."; "Jasper Maine"; "William Cartwright" (2); "Rich. Corbet"; "Ben. Johnson"; "Rob. Herrick"; "I. Berhenhead"; "Edw. Powell"; "G. Hills"; "Jos. Howe"; "T. Palmer"; "Alex. Brome"; "John Harris"; "Henry Harington"; "Ric. Brome"; "Ja. Shirley" [a1r]; "The Stationer" signed "H. Moseley" [g2r]
TO THE READER: "To the Reader" signed "Ja. Shirley" [A3r]; "The Stationer to the Readers" signed "Humphrey Moseley" [A4r]; "Postcript" [sic] [g2r]
OTHER PARATEXTS: "A Catalogue of all the Comedies and Tragedies Contained in this Booke" [g2v]
Title page imaged from Folger call number: B1581. Image is not from the transcribed copy.

Performance

First performance:

1617

First performed by:
King's Men