DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks

1631 Jonson, Ben The Devil Is an Ass

Reference Information

DEEP #: 5097.03
Greg #: 457a
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: 40
Date of First Publication: 1631
Date of First Production: 1616 [Oct-Nov (?)]
Company of First Production: King's Men
Company Attribution: King's Men
 
Total Editions: 1 folio in collection, 1 folio (bibliographically independent and in collection)
 

Title-Page Features

Title: [N1r] THE DIUELL IS AN ASSE: A COMEDIE
Author: The Author BEN: IONSON.
Performance: ACTED IN THE YEARE, 1616. BY HIS MAIESTIES SERVANTS.
Latin Motto: HOR. de ART. POET. Ficta voluptatis Causâ, sint proxima veris.
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" [N2r]

Stationer Information

Printer: Beale, John
Publisher: Allott, Robert
Imprint Location: A.3 (Paul's Churchyard - Northeast)
Entries in Stationers' Register: Sep 17, 1658: Entered to Thomas Walkley: "The Devill is an Asse. salvo jure cujuscunque."
Nov 20, 1658: Transferred from Thomas Walkley to Humphrey Moseley: "The Devill is an Asse."