DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks

1640 Jonson, Ben The Magnetic Lady, or Humors Reconciled

Reference Information

DEEP #: 5124.19
Greg #: 616a
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: 32
Date of First Publication: 1641
Date of First Production: 1632 [licensed for stage, Oct 12]
Company of First Production: King's Men
Company Attribution: n/a
 
Total Editions: 1 folio in collection
 

Title-Page Features

Title: [A1r] THE MAGNETICK LADY: OR, HVMORS RECONCIL'D. A COMEDY
Author: composed By BEN: IOHNSON.
Performance:
Latin Motto: [in single column] Iam lapides suus ardor agit ferrumq; tenetur, | Illecebris. ———— Claud. de Magnet. [var.: without "Claud. de Magnet."]
Imprint: LONDON, Printed M. DC. XL.

Paratextual Material

Character List: "The Persons that act" [A2r]

Stationer Information

Entries in Stationers' Register: Sep 17, 1658: Entered to Thomas Walkley: "The Magnetick Lady. ... salvo jure cujuscunque."
Nov 20, 1658: Transferred from Thomas Walkley to Humphrey Moseley: "The Magnetick Lady."