DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks

1597 Shakespeare, William Romeo and Juliet

Reference Information

DEEP #: 233
Greg #: 143a
STC/Wing #: 22322
Record Type: Single-Play Playbook
Play Type: Adult Professional
Genre (Annals): Tragedy
 
Book Edition: 1
Play Edition: 1
Format: Quarto
Leaves: 40
Date of First Publication: 1597
Date of First Production: 1595 [1594-1596]
Company of First Production: Lord Chamberlain's (Hunsdon's) Men
Company Attribution: Lord Chamberlain's (Hunsdon's) Men
 
Total Editions: 5 quartos, 2 folios in collection

Title-Page Features

Title: AN EXCELLENT conceited Tragedie OF Romeo and Iuliet.
Author:
Performance: As it hath been often (with great applause) plaid publiquely, by the right Honourable the L. of Hunsdon his Seruants.
Imprint: LONDON, Printed by Iohn Danter. 1597.

Paratextual Material

None

Stationer Information

Printer: Danter, John; Allde, Edward
Entries in Stationers' Register: Jan 22, 1607: Transferred from Cuthbert Burby to Nicholas Ling: "Romeo & Iuliett."
Nov 19, 1607: Transferred from Nicholas Ling to John Smethwick: "Romeo and Iulett".
Aug 24, 1642: Transferred from John Smethwick decd. to Francis Smethwick: "salvo iure cuiuscunque ... Romeo & Iuliett."
Sep 14, 1642: Transferred from Francis Smethwick to Miles Flesher: "Romeo & Iuliett".
 
Additional Notes: William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion dates the first production to 1595; Annals dates it to 1596 [1594-1596].