DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks

1599 Shakespeare, William 1 Henry the Fourth

Reference Information

DEEP #: 242
Greg #: 145c
STC/Wing #: 22281
Record Type: Single-Play Playbook
Play Type: Adult Professional
Genre (Annals): History
 
Book Edition: 3
Play Edition: 3
Format: Quarto
Leaves: 40
Date of First Publication: 1598
Date of First Production: 1597 [1596-1597]
Company of First Production: Lord Chamberlain's (Hunsdon's) Men
Company Attribution: n/a
 
Total Editions: 9 quartos, 2 folios in collection

Title-Page Features

Title: THE HISTORY OF HENRIE THE FOVRTH; With the battell at Shrewsburie, betweene the King and Lord Henry Percy, surnamed Henry Hotspur of the North. With the humorous conceits of Sir Iohn Falstalffe.
Author: Newly corrected by W. Shake-speare.
Performance:
Imprint: AT LONDON, Printed by S. S. for Andrew Wise, dwelling in Paules Churchyard, at the signe of the Angell. 1599.

Paratextual Material

None

Stationer Information

Printer: Stafford, Simon
Publisher: Wise, Andrew
Imprint Location: A.3 (Paul's Churchyard - Northeast)
Entries in Stationers' Register: Feb 25, 1598: Entered to Andrew Wise: "a booke intituled The historye of Henry the iiijth with his battaile of Shrewsburye against Henry Hottspurre of the Northe wth the conceipted mirthe of Sr Iohn ffalstoff".
Jun 25, 1603: Transferred from Andrew Wise to Matthew Law: "iij enterludes or playes. ... The Third of Henry the .4 the first parte. all kinges."