DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks

1637 Shakespeare, William Romeo and Juliet

Reference Information

DEEP #: 238
Greg #: 143g
STC/Wing #: 22326
Record Type: Single-Play Playbook
Play Type: Adult Professional
Genre (Annals): Tragedy
 
Book Edition: 5
Play Edition: 7
Format: Quarto
Leaves: 44
Date of First Publication: 1597
Date of First Production: 1595 [1594-1596]
Company of First Production: Lord Chamberlain's (Hunsdon's) Men
Company Attribution: King's Men
 
Total Editions: 5 quartos, 2 folios in collection

Title-Page Features

Title: THE MOST EXCELLENT And Lamentable Tragedie, of ROMEO and JULIET. ... Newly corrected, augmented, and amended.
Author: Written by W. Shake-speare.
Performance: As it hath been sundry times publikely Acted by the KINGS Majesties Servants at the GLOBE.
Imprint: LONDON, Printed by R. Young for John Smethwicke, and are to be sold at his Shop in St. Dunstans Church-yard in Fleetstreet, under the Dyall. 1637.

Paratextual Material

None

Stationer Information

Printer: Young, Robert
Publisher: Smethwick, John
Imprint Location: W.9 (Fleet St. - St. Dunstan's Church / Clifford's Inn)
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].