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1632	Marmion, Shackerley	Holland's Leaguer
Reference Information DEEP #: 790 Greg #: 461a STC/Wing #: 17443 Record Type: Single-Play Playbook Play Type: Adult Professional Genre (Annals): Comedy Book Edition: 1 Play Edition: 1 Format: Quarto Leaves: 44 Date of First Publication: 1632 Date of First Production: 1631 [Dec] Company of First Production: Prince Charles's Men (second) Company Attribution: Prince Charles's Men (second) Total Editions: 1 quarto Variants: Sheet A exists in two states, with slightly different imprints; both are listed under the same Greg number (461a), but they have different STC numbers. STC 17443 lists "Swan-Alley" in imprint and the inner form of the sheet is wrongly imposed; STC 17443.5 lists "Swan-Yard" in imprint and the inner form is correctly imposed. Greg does not note the state with "Swan-Alley." See also the other Greg 461a Title-Page Features Title: HOLLANDS LEAGVER. AN EXCELLENT COMEDY Author: Written by SHACKERLEY MARMYON, Master of Arts. Performance: AS IT HATH BIN LATELY and often Acted with great applause, by the high and mighty Prince CHARLES his Servants; at the private house in Salisbury Court. Latin Motto: [in single column] ———Vult hæc sub luce videri, \| Iudicis argutum quia non formidat acumen. Imprint: Printed at London by I. B. for IOHN GROVE, dwelling in Swan-Alley within Newgate. 1632. Paratextual Material To the Reader: "To the Reader" [var.: "eader"] signed "Shackerley Marmyon" [A3r] Character List: "Dramatis Personæ" [A4r] Actor List: part of "Dramatis Personæ" [A4r] Stationer Information Printer: Beale, John Publisher: Grove, John Imprint Location: C.8 (Newgate Within - Swan Yard) Entries in Stationers' Register: Jan 26, 1632: Entered to John Grove: "a [Comedy interlined above Playbrooke sic deleted] called the Leaguer (the reformacions [to be interlined above cros not being deleted] strictly obserued may be printed not otherwise) expressed by thaforesaid wordes of S^r Hen: Herbert". Sep 25, 1637: Transferred from John Grove to William Leake (2): "these ffour Playes following (viz^t.) ... Hollands Leaguer."