DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks

1604 Shakespeare, William 1 Henry the Fourth

Reference Information

DEEP #: 243
Greg #: 145d
STC/Wing #: 22282
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: 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 fourth, 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: LONDON Printed by Valentine Simmes, for Mathew Law, and are to be solde at his shop in Paules Churchyard, at the signe of the Fox. 1604.

Paratextual Material

None

Stationer Information

Printer: Simmes, Valentine
Publisher: Law, Matthew
Imprint Location: A.7 (Paul's Churchyard - Southeast)
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."