DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks

1631 Jonson, Ben Bartholomew Fair

Reference Information

DEEP #: 5097.01
Greg #: 455a(*)
STC/Wing #: n/a
Record Type: Play in Collection
Play Type: Adult Professional
Genre (Annals): Comedy
 
Book Edition: n/a
Play Edition: 1
Format: Folio
Leaves: 49
Date of First Publication: 1631
Date of First Production: 1614 [Oct 31]
Company of First Production: Lady Elizabeth's Men
Company Attribution: Lady Elizabeth's Men
 
Total Editions: 1 folio in collection
 
Variants: The title page of the play exists in two states, with slightly different author attributions: Greg 455a(*) has "By the author, BENIAMIN IOHNSON," while Greg 455a(†) has "BY | The Author, BEN: IOHNSON." See also Greg 455a(†)
 

Title-Page Features

Title: [A2r] BARTHOLOMEW FAYRE: A COMEDIE,
Author: And then dedicated to King IAMES, of most Blessed Memorie; By the Author, BENIAMIN IOHNSON.
Performance: ACTED IN THE YEARE, 1614. By the Lady ELIZABETHS SERVANTS.
Latin Motto: [in single column] Si foret in terris, rideret Democritus: nam | Spectaret populum ludis attentiùs ipsis, | Vt sibi præbentem, mimo spectacula plura. | Scriptores autem narrare putaret assello | Fabellam surdo. Hor. lib.2. Epist. I.
Imprint: LONDON, Printed by I. B. for ROBERT ALLOT, and are to be sold at the signe of the Beare, in Pauls Church-yard. 1631.

Paratextual Material

Character List: "The Persons of the Play" [A3v]

Stationer Information

Printer: Beale, John
Publisher: Allott, Robert
Imprint Location: A.3 (Paul's Churchyard - Northeast)
Entries in Stationers' Register: Jul 1, 1637: Transferred from the widow of Robert Allott to John Legat (2) and Andrew Crooke (1): "saluo Iure cuiuscunque ... Bartholmew fayre a Play."