DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks

1639 Mayne, Jasper The City Match

Reference Information

DEEP #: 939
Greg #: 568a
STC/Wing #: 17750
Record Type: Single-Play Playbook
Play Type: Private (Nonprofessional); Adult Professional
Genre (Annals): Comedy
 
Book Edition: 1
Play Edition: 1
Format: Folio
Leaves: 36
Date of First Publication: 1639
Date of First Production: 1637 [1637-1638(?)]
Company of First Production: King's Men
Company Attribution: King's Men
 
Total Editions: 1 folio, 1 edition issued in both quarto (in collection) and octavo (single-play playbook)

Title-Page Features

Title: THE CITYE MATCH. A COMOEDYE.
Author:
Performance: PRESENTED TO THE KING and QVEENE AT WHITE-HALL. ACTED SINCE AT BLACK-FRIERS BY HIS MAIESTIES Servants.
Latin Motto: HORAT. de Arte Poet. Versibus exponi Tragicis res Comica non vult.
Imprint: OXFORD, Printed by LEONARD LICHFIELD, Printer to the UNIVERSITY. Anno Dom. M. DC. XXXIX.

Paratextual Material

To the Reader: "To the Reader" [A2v]
Character List: "The Persons of the Play" [B1v]

Stationer Information

Printer: Lichfield, Leonard
Imprint Location: Oxford
Entries in Stationers' Register: None
 
Additional Notes: The City Match was first performed in private court performances and afterward by the King's Men at the Blackfriars.