DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks

1639 Shakespeare, William 1 Henry the Fourth

Reference Information

DEEP #: 248
Greg #: 145k
STC/Wing #: 22287
Record Type: Single-Play Playbook
Play Type: Adult Professional
Genre (Annals): History
 
Book Edition: 9
Play Edition: 11
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 HISTORIE OF Henry the Fourth: WITH THE BATTELL AT Shrewsbury, betweene the King, and Lord Henry Percy, surnamed Henry Hotspur of the North. With the humorous conceits of Sir IOHN FALSTAFFE.
Author: Newly corrected, By WILLIAM SHAKE-SPEARE.
Performance:
Imprint: LONDON, Printed by JOHN NORTON, and are to be sold by HVGH PERRY, at his shop next to Ivie-bridge in the Strand, 1639.

Paratextual Material

None

Stationer Information

Printer: Norton, John (2)
Bookseller: Perry, Hugh
Imprint Location: X.8 (Strand / Drury Lane - Ivy Bridge)
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."