DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks

1640 Jonson, Ben Every Man in His Humor

Reference Information

DEEP #: 5076.01
Greg #: 176c
STC/Wing #: n/a
Record Type: Play in Collection
Play Type: Adult Professional
Genre (Annals): Comedy
 
Book Edition: n/a
Play Edition: 3
Format: Folio
Leaves: 31
Date of First Publication: 1601
Date of First Production: 1598
Company of First Production: Lord Chamberlain's (Hunsdon's) Men
Company Attribution: Lord Chamberlain's (Hunsdon's) Men
 
Total Editions: 1 quarto, 2 folios in collection
 
In Collection: The Works (1640)

Title-Page Features

Title: [B1r] EVERY MAN IN HIS HUMOUR. A Comedy. [var.: "Comedie."]
Author: The Author B. I.
Performance: Acted in the yeere 1598. By the then Lord CHAMBERLAINE his Servants.
Latin Motto: JUVEN. Haud tamen invideas vati, quem pulpita pascunt. [var.: "invidias"]
Imprint: LONDON, Printed by RICHARD BISHOP. M.DC.XL.

Paratextual Material

Dedication: Epistle to: William Camden (historian and herald); from: Ben Jonson [B2r]
Character List: "The Persons of the Play" [B2v]
Actor List: "The principall Comedians" [B2v]
Other Paratexts: Note on performance and license [B2v]

Stationer Information

Printer: Bishop, Richard
Entries in Stationers' Register: Aug 4, 1600(?): "Euery man in his humor. / a booke ... to be staied".
Aug 14, 1600: Entered to Cuthbert Burby and Walter Burre: "a booke called Euery man in his humor".
Oct 16, 1609: Transferred from the widow of Cuthbert Burby to William Welby (any indirect dealing to render entrance void): "her parte with mr Burre, in euery man in his humor".
Mar 2, 1618: Transferred from William Welby to Thomas Snodham: "Every man in his humor. his parte."
Feb 23, 1626: Transferred from the widow of Thomas Snodham to William Stansby: "Every one [sic] in his humor his [sic] parte".
Jul 4, 1635: Transferred from Walter Burre decd. to William Stansby: "by vertue of a noate vnder the hand" of Walter Burre and Matthew Lownes, Warden, "bearing date the 10th of Iune 1621 ... Euery Man in his humor".