DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks

[1544?] Heywood, John The Four P's

Reference Information

DEEP #: 27
Greg #: 21a
STC/Wing #: 13300
Record Type: Single-Play Playbook
Play Type: Interlude
Genre (Annals): Comic Interlude
 
Book Edition: 1
Play Edition: 1
Format: Quarto
Leaves: 20
Black Letter: Yes
Date of First Publication: [1544?]
Date of First Production: 1520 [c.1520-1522]
Company of First Production: n/a
Company Attribution: n/a
 
Total Editions: 3 quartos

Title-Page Features

Title: The playe called the foure PP. A newe and a very mery enterlude of A palmer. A pardoner. A potycary. A pedler.
Author: Made by Iohñ Heewood
Performance:
Illustration: Three woodcuts of figures on title page, with blank labels
Imprint:

Paratextual Material

None

Stationer Information

Colophon: Imprynted at London in Fletestrete at the sygne of the George by Wyllyam Myddylton. [E4v]
Printer: Middleton, William
Imprint Location: W.9 (Fleet St. - St. Dunstan's Church / Clifford's Inn)
Entries in Stationers' Register: Jan 15, 1582: Transferred from late Sampson Awdely (alias for John Awdely) to John Charlewood (conditionally): "Plaiebookes ... iiijP".