DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks

[1592] Kyd, Thomas The Spanish Tragedy (Hieronimo is Mad Again)

Reference Information

DEEP #: 150
Greg #: 110a
STC/Wing #: 15086
Record Type: Single-Play Playbook
Play Type: Adult Professional
Genre (Annals): Tragedy
 
Book Edition: 1
Play Edition: 1
Format: Quarto
Leaves: 42
Date of First Publication: [1592]
Date of First Production: 1587 [1585-1589; revised c.1597(?) and 1601-2]
Company of First Production: Derby's (Strange's) Men
Company Attribution: n/a
 
Total Editions: 10 quartos

Title-Page Features

Title: THE SPANISH TRAGEdie, Containing the lamentable end of Don Horatio, and Bel-imperia: with the pittifull death of olde Hieronimo.
Author:
Performance:
Imprint: Newly corrected and amended of such grosse faults as passed in the first impression. AT LONDON Printed by Edward Allde, for Edward White.

Paratextual Material

None

Stationer Information

Printer: Allde, Edward
Publisher: White, Edward (1)
Entries in Stationers' Register: Oct 6, 1592: Entered to Abel Jeffes: "a booke wche is called the Spanishe tragedie of Don Horatio and Bellimpera &c".
Dec 18, 1592: Ordered in full Court that, "Whereas Edward white and abell Ieffes haue eche of them offendyd. viz Edw White in havinge printed the spanish tragedie belonging to Abell Ieffes / and Abell Ieffes in having printed the tragedie of arden of kent belonginge to Edw White. yt is agreed that all the bookes of eche ympression shalbe as confiscated and forfayted, according to thordonnances, disposed to thuse of the poore of the companye / for that eche of them hath seuerally transgressed the ordonnances of the seid impressions"; each to pay a fine of 10s., and the question of their imprisonment be referred to the Master, Wardens, and Assistants (Court Book B, fol. 456b).
Aug 13, 1599: Transferred from Abel Jeffes to William White: "The spannishe tragedie of horatio and bellimpera".
Aug 14, 1600: Entered "These Copyes followinge beinge thinges formerlye printed & sett over to" Thomas Pavier: "The Spanishe Tragedie".
Aug 4, 1626: Transferred from the widow of Thomas Pavier to Edward Brewster and Robert Bird: "The spanish tragedie".
 
Additional Notes: There was probably a previous first edition printed by Abel Jeffes that is no longer extant and is therefore not included in DEEP; see Lukas Erne, Beyond the Spanish Tragedy: A Study of the Works of Thomas Kyd (Manchester: Manchester UP, 2001), 59-67. Greg calls this edition a quarto-form octavo [(4°-form) 8°], but it is better described as a large-paper quarto; see G.T. Tanselle, "The Concept of Format," Studies in Bibliography 53 (2000): 67-115.