DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks

1634 Shakespeare, William Richard the Second

Reference Information

DEEP #: 223
Greg #: 141h(*)
STC/Wing #: 22313
Record Type: Single-Play Playbook
Play Type: Adult Professional
Genre (Annals): History
 
Book Edition: 6
Play Edition: 8
Format: Quarto
Leaves: 40
Date of First Publication: 1597
Date of First Production: 1595
Company of First Production: Lord Chamberlain's (Hunsdon's) Men
Company Attribution: King's Men
 
Total Editions: 6 quartos, 2 folios in collection
 
Variants: Leaf A2 exists in two states: the original pages in Greg 141h(*) were reset in Greg 141h(†), which contain a somewhat narrower measure. In the process, the decorated woodcut initial in 141h(*) was replaced with an ordinary type-metal capital, one line of text was moved from A2r to A2v, and the half-title was relineated from "Death of / King" to "Death / of King". See also Greg 141h(†)

Title-Page Features

Title: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF KING RICHARD THE SECOND. With new Additions of the Parliament Scene, and the Deposing of King Richard.
Author: By William Shakespeare.
Performance: As it hath beene acted by the Kinges Majesties Servants, at the Globe.
Imprint: LONDON, Printed by IOHN NORTON. 1634.

Paratextual Material

None

Stationer Information

Printer: Norton, John (2)
Entries in Stationers' Register: Aug 29, 1597: Entered to Andrew Wise: "The Tragedye of Richard the Second".
Jun 25, 1603: Transferred from Andrew Wise to Matthew Law: "iij enterludes or playes. ... The second of Richard the .2. ... all kinges."