DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks

1620 Cumber, John (?) The Two Merry Milkmaids, or The Best Words Wear the Garland

Reference Information

DEEP #: 686
Greg #: 364a
STC/Wing #: 4281
Record Type: Single-Play Playbook
Play Type: Adult Professional
Genre (Annals): Comedy
 
Book Edition: 1
Play Edition: 1
Format: Quarto
Leaves: 58
Date of First Publication: 1620
Date of First Production: 1619 [1619-1620]
Company of First Production: Red Bull (Revels) Company (first)
Company Attribution: Red Bull (Revels) Company (first)
 
Total Editions: 1 quarto

Title-Page Features

Title: A PLEASANT COMEDIE, Called THE TWO MERRY MILKE-MAIDS. Or, THE BEST WORDS WEARE THE GARLAND.
Author: By I.C.
Performance: As it was Acted before the King, with generall Approbation, by the Companie of the Reuels.
Imprint: LONDON, Printed by Bernard Alsop, for Lawrence Chapman, and are to be sold at his shop in Holborne, ouer against Staple Inne, hard by the Barres. 1620.

Paratextual Material

To the Reader: "The Printer to the Reader" [A2r]
Character List: "The Names of the Persons" [A1v]

Stationer Information

Printer: Alsop, Bernard
Publisher: Chapman, Laurence
Imprint Location: V.9 (Holborn - Middle Row / Staple Inn)
Entries in Stationers' Register: May 22, 1620: entered to Laurence Chapman: "A play called 2 merry Milke maides".
Sep 13, 1623: Transferred from Laurence Chapman to Matthew Walbancke: "the play called the Two merry Milkmaids."