1611 | Shakespeare, William; Peele, George | Titus Andronicus | |
Reference InformationDEEP #:
173
Greg #: 117c
STC/Wing #: 22330
Record Type: Single-Play Playbook
Play Type: Adult Professional
Genre (Annals): Tragedy
Book Edition: 3
Play Edition: 3
Format: Quarto
Leaves: 40
Date of First Publication: 1594
Date of First Production: 1592 [1590-1592]
Company of First Production: Unknown
Company Attribution: King's Men
Total Editions: 3 quartos, 2 folios in collection
Title-Page FeaturesTitle: THE MOST LAMENTABLE TRAGEDIE of Titus Andronicus.
Author:
Performance: AS IT HATH SVNDRY times beene plaide by the Kings Maiesties Seruants.
Imprint: LONDON, Printed for Eedward White, and are to be solde at his shoppe, nere the little North dore of Pauls, at the signe of the Gun. 1611.
Paratextual MaterialNone
Stationer InformationPrinter: Allde, Edward
Publisher: White, Edward (1)
Imprint Location: A.1 (Paul's Churchyard - Little North Door)
Entries in Stationers' Register: Feb 6, 1594: Entered to John Danter: "a booke intituled a Noble Roman Historye of Tytus Andronicus".
Apr 19, 1602: Transferred from Thomas Millington to Thomas Pavier: "A booke called Titus and Andronicus". Aug 4, 1626: Transferred from the widow of Thomas Pavier to Edward Brewster and Robert Bird: "Tytus & Andronicus". Nov 8, 1630: Transferred from Robert Bird to Richard Cotes: "Titus and Andronicus." Additional Notes: 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. William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion dates the first production to 1592; Annals dates it to 1594 [Jan 24; possibly written in 1590-1592]. For the authorial collaboration between Peele and Shakespeare, see Brian Vickers, Shakespeare, Co-Author: A Historical Study of Five Collaborative Plays (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2002), 148-243.
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