DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks

1632 Rowley, William A New Wonder, A Woman Never Vexed

Reference Information

DEEP #: 789
Greg #: 460a
STC/Wing #: 21423
Record Type: Single-Play Playbook
Play Type: Adult Professional
Genre (Annals): Comedy
 
Book Edition: 1
Play Edition: 1
Format: Quarto
Leaves: 42
Date of First Publication: 1632
Date of First Production: 1611 [1611-1614]
Company of First Production: Unknown
Company Attribution: n/a
 
Total Editions: 1 quarto

Title-Page Features

Title: A NEW WONDER, A WOMAN NEVER VEXT. A PLEASANT CONCEITED Comedy:
Author: Written by WILLIAM ROWLEY, one of his Maiesties Servants.
Performance: sundry times Acted:
Imprint: never before printed. ... LONDON, Imprinted by G. P. for Francis Constable, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Crane in Saint Pauls Churchyard. 1632.

Paratextual Material

None

Stationer Information

Printer: Purslowe, George
Publisher: Constable, Francis
Imprint Location: A.3 (Paul's Churchyard - Northeast)
Entries in Stationers' Register: Nov 24, 1631: Entered to Francis Constable: "a booke called A new wwonder or a woman neuer vext. (a Comedy) by Wm. Rowley".
Feb 17, 1648: Transferred from the administrator and administratrixes of Alice Constable decd., the widow of Francis Constable, to Richard Thrale: "Saluo iure cuiusque. ... A new Wonder a woman never vext. by Wm. Rowley."