Versions

Folger Encodings:
EEBO-TCP encoding:
Encoding path:
Epicene
Call number:
Microfilm reel:
STC / 756:01

Bibliography

STC/Wing:
STC 14752
ESTC:
Greg:
304b(*)
DEEP:
Wiggins:
1603

Playbook

Title Page

General Title Page

Title:

[engraved title page; ¶2r] THE WORKES OF Beniamin Jonson

Author(s):

Beniamin Jonson

Imprint:

[engraved title page] LONDON printed by W: Stansby, and are to be sould by Rich: Meighen. An[n]o D. 1616.

Internal Title Page

Title:

[2X5r] EPICOENE, OR The Silent Woman. A Comœdie.

Author(s):

B. I.

Performance statement:

Acted in the yeere 1609. By the Children of her Maiesties REVELLS.

Imprint:

LONDON, Printed by WILLIAM STANSBY. M. DC. XVI.

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

[1616]

Stationer Information

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

Physical Description

Format:

Published as part of The Works of Benjamin Jonson, containing: Every Man in His Humor; Every Man Out of His Humor; Cynthia's Revels, or The Fountain of Self-Love; Poetaster, or The Arraignment; Sejanus His Fall; Volpone, or The Fox; Epicene, or The Silent Woman; The Alchemist; Catiline His Conspiracy; The Coronation Triumph (The Entertainment through London); The Entertainment of the Queen and Prince at Althorp (The Satyr); The Entertainment at Highgate (The Penates); The Entertainment of the Two Kings of Great Britain and Denmark (The Entertainment at Theobalds, 1606) (The Hours); The Entertainment at Theobalds, 1607 (The Genius); The Masque of Blackness (The Twelfth Night's Revels); The Masque of Beauty; Hymenaei; The Masque of Queens; Prince Henry's Barriers (The Lady of the Lake); Oberon, the Faery Prince; Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly; Love Restored; The Challenge at Tilt; Mercury Vindicated from the Alchemists at Court; The Irish Masque; The Golden Age Restored

Paratextual materials:
COMMENDATORY VERSES: 9: by "I. Selden"; "Ed. Heyward"; "Geor. Chapman"; "H. Holland"; "I. D."; "E. Bolton"; "Franc. Beaumont" (3) [¶3v]
OTHER PARATEXTS: "The Catalogue" of contents (with dedicatees) [¶3r]
DEDICATION: Epistle to: Francis Stuart (admiral); from: Ben Jonson [2X6r]
CHARACTER LIST: "The Persons of the Play" [2X6v]
ACTOR LIST: "The principall Comœdians" [3D6v]
OTHER PARATEXTS: Note on performance and license [3D6v]
Internal title page imaged from Folger call number: STC 14751 copy 2 (folio). Image is not from the transcribed copy.

Performance

First performance:

[1609–1610]

First performed by: