DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks

1605 Chapman, George; Jonson, Ben; Marston, John Eastward Ho

Reference Information

DEEP #: 403
Greg #: 217a(ii)
STC/Wing #: 4971
Record Type: Single-Play Playbook
Play Type: Boys Professional
Genre (Annals): Comedy
 
Book Edition: 1
Play Edition: 1
Format: Quarto
Leaves: 36
Date of First Publication: 1605
Date of First Production: 1605
Company of First Production: Children of the Queen's Revels
Company Attribution: Children of the Queen's Revels
 
Total Editions: 3 quartos
 
Variants: Leaves E3-E4 exist in two states: the original leaves in Greg 217a(i) were replaced in Greg 217a(ii) by a half-sheet modifying a speech that runs from E3v to E4r. See also Greg 217a(i)

Title-Page Features

Title: EASTWARD HOE.
Author: Made by GEO: CHAPMAN. BEN: IONSON. IOH: MARSTON.
Performance: As It was playd in the Black-friers. By The Children of her Maiesties Reuels.
Imprint: AT LONDON Printed for William Aspley. 1605.

Paratextual Material

None

Stationer Information

Printer: Eld, George
Publisher: Aspley, William
Entries in Stationers' Register: Sep 4, 1605: Entered to William Aspley and Thomas Thorpe: "A Comedie called Eastward Ho:".