DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks

[1570] Norton, Thomas; Sackville, Thomas Ferrex and Porrex (Gorboduc)

Reference Information

DEEP #: 60
Greg #: 39b
STC/Wing #: 18685
Record Type: Single-Play Playbook
Play Type: Inns of Court
Genre (Annals): Tragedy
 
Book Edition: 2
Play Edition: 2
Format: Octavo
Leaves: 32
Black Letter: Yes
Date of First Publication: 1565
Date of First Production: 1562 [Jan 18]
Company of First Production: n/a
Company Attribution: n/a
 
Total Editions: 1 octavo, 1 octavo (bibliographically independent and in collection), 1 quarto (bibliographically independent and in collection)
 
Also appears in collection: All Such Treatises ([c.1570])

Title-Page Features

Title: The Tragidie of Ferrex and Porrex,
Author:
Performance: set forth without addition or alteration but altogether as the same was shewed on stage before the Queenes Maiestie, about nine yeares past, vz. the xviij. day of Ianuarie. 1561. by the gentlemen of the Inner Temple. Seen and allowed. &c.
Imprint: Imprinted at London by Iohn Daye, dwelling ouer Aldersgate.

Paratextual Material

To the Reader: "The P. to the Reader" (by printer) [A2r]
Argument: "The argument of the Tragedie" [A1v]
Character List: "The names of the speakers" [A2v]
Other Paratexts: "The order of the domme shew before the first act, and the sig- [sic] signification thereof" [A3r]

Stationer Information

Printer: Day, John (1)
Imprint Location: G.1 (Aldersgate Within - Aldersgate)
Entries in Stationers' Register: c. Sep, 1565: Entered to William Griffith: "A Tragie [sic] of gorboduc where iij actes were wretten by Thomas norton and the laste by Thomas Sackvyle &c".
 
Additional Notes: The play was performed in January 1562, so the date in the performance attribution follows the legal reckoning.