DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks

1575 Stevenson, William (?) Gammer Gurton's Needle

Reference Information

DEEP #: 95
Greg #: 67a
STC/Wing #: 23263
Record Type: Single-Play Playbook
Play Type: University
Genre (Annals): Comedy
 
Book Edition: 1
Play Edition: 1
Format: Quarto
Leaves: 20
Black Letter: Yes
Date of First Publication: 1575
Date of First Production: 1553 [c.1552-1563]
Company of First Production: n/a
Company Attribution: n/a
 
Total Editions: 1 quarto

Title-Page Features

Title: A Ryght Pithy, Pleasaunt and merie Comedie: Intytuled Gammer gurtons Nedle: [var.: "anp"]
Author: Made by Mr .S. Mr. of Art.
Performance: Played on Stage, not longe ago in Christes Colledge in Cambridge.
Imprint: Imprynted at London in Fleetestreat beneth the Conduit at the signe of S. Iohn Enangelist by Thomas Colwell. [var.: "Imprented" or "Impr nted"]

Paratextual Material

Character List: "The names of the Speakers in this Comedie" [A1v]
Explicit: Finis, Gurtou. Perused and alowed, &c. [E4v]

Stationer Information

Colophon: Imprinted at London in Fleetestreate beneath the Conduite, at the signe of S. Iohn Enangelist, by Thomas Colwell. 1575. [E4v]
Printer: Colwell, Thomas
Imprint Location: W.5 (Fleet St. - Conduit / Salisbury Court)
Entries in Stationers' Register: c. Jan, 1563: Entered to Thomas Colwell: "a playe intituled dyccon of dedlam &c".