DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks

1622 Marlowe, Christopher Edward the Second

Reference Information

DEEP #: 201
Greg #: 129d(*)
STC/Wing #: 17440
Record Type: Single-Play Playbook
Play Type: Adult Professional
Genre (Annals): History
 
Book Edition: 4
Play Edition: 4
Format: Quarto
Leaves: 40
Date of First Publication: 1594
Date of First Production: 1592 [1591-1593]
Company of First Production: Pembroke's Men
Company Attribution: Pembroke's Men
 
Total Editions: 4 quartos
 
Variants: The title page exists in two states: Greg 129d(*) lists Pembroke's Men and no theater; Greg 129d(†) lists Queen Anne's Men and the Red Bull theater. See also Greg 129d(†)

Title-Page Features

Title: THE TROVBLESOME RAIGNE AND LAMENtable death of EDWARD the second, King of England: WITH The Tragicall fall of proud MORTIMER. And also the life and death of Peirs Gauestone, the great Earle of Cornewall, and mighty Fauorite of King EDWARD the second.
Author: Written by Christopher Marlow Gent.
Performance: As it was publikely acted by the right Honourable the Earle of Pembrooke his seruantes.
Imprint: LONDON, Printed for Henry Bell, and are to be sold at his Shop, at the Lame-Hospitall Gate, neere Smithfield, 1622.

Paratextual Material

None

Stationer Information

Printer: Eliot's Court Press
Publisher: Bell, Henry
Imprint Location: E.8 (Smithfield - Little St. Bartholomew's Church)
Entries in Stationers' Register: Jul 6, 1593: Entered to William Jones (2): "A booke. Intituled The troublesom Reign and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, king of England, wth the tragicall fall of proud Mortymer".
Dec 16, 1611: Transferred from William Jones (2) to Roger Barnes: "A booke called the troublesome raygne & lamentable deathe of Edward the 2d. by Chr[is]. Marlowe gent[leman]".
Apr 17, 1617: Transferred from Roger Barnes to Henry Bell: "a booke Called The tragedie of Edward the seconde written by Christofer Marloe."
Sep 4, 1638: Transferred from Henry Bell and Moses Bell to John Haviland and John Wright (1): "Saluo Iure Cuiuscunque. ... Edward the Second by Mr Marloe. a Play."