DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks

1638 Suckling, John Aglaura

Reference Information

DEEP #: 902
Greg #: 541a
STC/Wing #: 23420
Record Type: Single-Play Playbook
Play Type: Adult Professional
Genre (Annals): Tragedy; Tragicomedy
 
Book Edition: 1
Play Edition: 1
Format: Folio
Leaves: 28
Date of First Publication: 1638
Date of First Production: 1637
Company of First Production: King's Men
Company Attribution: n/a
 
Total Editions: 1 folio, 2 octavos (bibliographically independent and in collection), 1 octavo in collection

Title-Page Features

Title: AGLAURA.
Author:
Performance:
Imprint: LONDON, Printed by Iohn Haviland for Thomas Walkley, and are to be sold at his shop at the Signe of the Flying Horse betweene York-house and Britaines Burse. 1638.

Paratextual Material

Character List: names of characters [A2v]
Other Paratexts: Special title to alternative ending [L1+1r]

Stationer Information

Printer: Haviland, John
Publisher: Walkley, Thomas
Imprint Location: X.12 (Westminster - York House)
License: "Aprilis 18. 1638. Imprimatur, Matth. Clay" [A1v]
Entries in Stationers' Register: Apr 18, 1638: Entered to Thomas Walkley: "a Play called Aglaura by Sr. Io: Sucklin knight."
Feb 22, 1648: Transferred from Thomas Walkley to Humphrey Moseley: "Aglaura a play by Sr Iohn Suckling".