DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks

1639 Fletcher, John; Shirley, James (?) Wit without Money

Reference Information

DEEP #: 932
Greg #: 563a
STC/Wing #: 1691
Record Type: Single-Play Playbook
Play Type: Adult Professional
Genre (Annals): Comedy
 
Book Edition: 1
Play Edition: 1
Format: Quarto
Leaves: 32
Date of First Publication: 1639
Date of First Production: 1614 [1614-1616]
Company of First Production: Lady Elizabeth's Men
Company Attribution: Queen Henrietta Maria's Men
 
Total Editions: 1 quarto

Title-Page Features

Title: WIT WITHOVT MONEY. A COMEDIE,
Author: Written by { Francis Beamount, | and | John Flecher } Gent. [var.: "Beaumount,"]
Performance: As it hath beene Presented with good Applause at the private house in Drurie Lane, by her Majesties Servants.
Imprint: LONDON Printed by Thomas Cotes, for Andrew Crooke, and William Cooke. 1639.

Paratextual Material

Character List: "The Actors names" [A1v]

Stationer Information

Printer: Cotes, Thomas
Publisher: Cooke, William; Crooke, Andrew (1)
Entries in Stationers' Register: Apr 25, 1639: Entered to Andrew Crooke (1) and William Cooke: "these five playes vidlt ... witt without money."