DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks

1657 Brome, Richard The Queen's Exchange (The Royal Exchange)

Reference Information

DEEP #: 1134
Greg #: 772a(i)
STC/Wing #: B4882
Record Type: Single-Play Playbook
Play Type: Adult Professional
Genre (Annals): Tragicomedy
 
Book Edition: 1
Play Edition: 1
Format: Quarto
Leaves: 24
Date of First Publication: 1657
Date of First Production: 1631 [1629-1632(?)]
Company of First Production: King's Men
Company Attribution: King's Men
 
Total Editions: 1 quarto
 
Variants: There is another issue of this playbook from 1661, Greg 772a(ii), which is not included in DEEP

Title-Page Features

Title: THE QUEENS EXCHANGE, A COMEDY
Author: WRITTEN BY Mr. RICHARD BROME,
Performance: Acted with generall applause at the BLACK-FRIERS BY His MAJESTIES Servants.
Latin Motto: Regia res amor est ----
Imprint: LONDON, Printed for Henry Brome at the Hand in Pauls Church-yard. 1657.

Paratextual Material

To the Reader: "The Stationer to the Readers" signed "H. B." (Henry Brome) [A2r]
Character List: "The Persons in the Play" [A2v]
Explicit: RIC. BROME. Deus dedit his quoque Finem. FINIS. [G2r]

Stationer Information

Printer: [unknown]
Publisher: Brome, Henry
Imprint Location: B (Paul's Churchyard - Unlocated)
Entries in Stationers' Register: Nov 20, 1656: Entered to Randall Taylor: "a Comedy called The Queens Exchange Acted with generall Applause by ye Blackfryrs. by his Majesties Servants written by Mr Rich: Brome."