| 1634 | Anonymous | Mucedorus (and Amadine) | |
Reference InformationDEEP #:
271
Greg #: 151m
STC/Wing #: 18240
Record Type: Single-Play Playbook
Play Type: Adult Professional
Genre (Annals): Romantic Comedy
Book Edition: 14
Play Edition: 14
Format: Quarto
Leaves: 24
Date of First Publication: 1598
Date of First Production: 1590 [1588-1598; revised 1610]
Company of First Production: Unknown
Company Attribution: King's Men
Total Editions: 16 quartos
Title-Page FeaturesTitle: A Most pleasant Comedy of Mucedorus The Kings Sonne of Valentia, and Amadine the Kings Daughter of Aragon. With the merrie conceits of Mouse. Amplified with new Additions, ... Very delectable and full of conceited mirth.
Author:
Performance: as it was acted before the Kings Maiestie in Whitehall, on Shrovesunday night. By his Highnesse Servants vsually playing at the Globe.
Imprint: LONDON, Printed for Iohn Wright, and are to be sold at his shop, at the signe of the Bible in Giltspur Street without Newgate 1634.
Paratextual MaterialCharacter List: "Ten persons may easily play it" [A2v]
Stationer InformationPrinter: Purslowe, Elizabeth
Publisher: Wright, John (1)
Imprint Location: D.3 (Newgate Without - Giltspur St.)
Entries in Stationers' Register: Sep 17, 1618: Transferred from the widow of William Jones (2) to John Wright (1): "The Comedy Called Mucedorus".
Jun 27, 1646: Transferred from John Wright (1) to Edward Wright: "The Comedie of Mucedorus." Apr 4, 1655: Transferred from Edward Wright to William Gilbertson: "The Comedy called Mucedorus." Jun 17, 1656: Transferred from William Gilbertson to Francis Coles: "the Comedie called Mucedorus". Additional Notes: Greg calls this edition a quarto and quarto-form octavo [4° and (4°-form) 8°], but it is better described as a quarto printed on sheets of two different sizes; see G.T. Tanselle, "The Concept of Format," Studies in Bibliography 53 (2000): 67-115.
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