DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks

1655 Massinger, Philip The Bashful Lover

Reference Information

DEEP #: 5165.01
Greg #: 758a
STC/Wing #: n/a
Record Type: Play in Collection
Play Type: Adult Professional
Genre (Annals): Tragicomedy
 
Book Edition: n/a
Play Edition: 1
Format: Octavo
Leaves: 40 1/2
Date of First Publication: 1655
Date of First Production: 1636 [licensed for stage, May 9]
Company of First Production: King's Men
Company Attribution: King's Men
 
Total Editions: 1 octavo in collection
 
In Collection: Three New Plays (1655)

Title-Page Features

Title: [A1r] THE BASHFUL LOVER. A TRAGI-COMEDY.
Author: WRITTEN By PHILIP MASSENGER, Gent.
Performance: As it hath been often Acted at the Private-House in Black-Friers, by His late MAIESTIES Servants, with great Applause.
Imprint: LONDON, Printed for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his Shop at the Sign of the Prince's Arms in St. Pauls Church-yard. 1655.

Paratextual Material

Character List: "Dramatis Personæ" [A2v]

Stationer Information

Publisher: Moseley, Humphrey
Imprint Location: A.2 (Paul's Churchyard - Great North Door)
Entries in Stationers' Register: Sep 9, 1653: Entered to Humphrey Moseley: "the severall Playes following. ... Alexius the Chast Gallant or. The Bashfull Lover. ... by Phill: Massinger." (Since Alexius is not a character in this play, the first part of the title may refer to another text.)