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1637	Nabbes, Thomas	Hannibal and Scipio
Reference Information DEEP #: 863 Greg #: 513a STC/Wing #: 18341 Record Type: Single-Play Playbook Play Type: Adult Professional Genre (Annals): Tragedy Book Edition: 1 Play Edition: 1 Format: Quarto Leaves: 40 Date of First Publication: 1637 Date of First Production: 1635 Company of First Production: Queen Henrietta Maria's Men Company Attribution: Queen Henrietta Maria's Men Total Editions: 1 quarto (bibliographically independent and in collection) Also appears in collection: Plays, Masques, Epigrams, Elegies, and Epithalamiums (1639) Title-Page Features Title: HANNIBAL AND SCIPIO. AN HISTORICALL TRAGEDY. Author: The Author Thomas Nabbes. Performance: Acted in the yeare 1635. by the Queenes Majesties Servants, at their Private house in Drury Lane. Latin Motto: Arma virosque cano. Imprint: LONDON, Printed by Richard Oulton for Charles Greene, and are to be sold at the white Lion in Pauls Church-yard. 1637. Paratextual Material Argument: "The Argument of the first Act" [B1r]; "The argument of the second Act" [C4r]; "The argument of the third Act" [E3v]; "The argument of the fourth Act" [G2v]; "The argument of the last Act" [I2r] Character List: "The speaking persons" [A4r] Actor List: part of "The speaking persons" [A4r] Errata: Note of errata [A4r] Other Paratexts: "To the Ghosts of Hannibal and Scipio" (verses) signed "Thomas Nabbes" [A2r]; "The Ghosts of Hanniball and Scipio to the Authour" (verses) subscribed "Hannibal. Scipio" [A3r] Stationer Information Printer: Oulton, Richard Publisher: Greene, Charles Imprint Location: A.2 (Paul's Churchyard - Great North Door) Entries in Stationers' Register: Aug 6, 1636: Entered to Charles Greene: "a Play called the history of Anniball & Scipio. by Tho: Nabbs".