DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks

1608 Shakespeare, William 1 Henry the Fourth

Reference Information

DEEP #: 244
Greg #: 145e
STC/Wing #: 22283
Record Type: Single-Play Playbook
Play Type: Adult Professional
Genre (Annals): History
 
Book Edition: 5
Play Edition: 5
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 Henry the fourth, With the battell at Shrewseburie, betweene the King, and Lord Henry Percy, surnamed Henry Hotspur of the North. With the humorous conceites of Sir Iohn Falstalffe.
Author: Newly corrected by W. Shake-speare.
Performance:
Imprint: LONDON, Printed for Mathew Law, and are to be sold at his shop in Paules Church-yard, neere vnto S. Augustines gate, at the signe of the Foxe. 1608.

Paratextual Material

None

Stationer Information

Printer: Windet, John
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."