DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks

1613 Cary, Elizabeth Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry

Reference Information

DEEP #: 586
Greg #: 308a(i)
STC/Wing #: 4613
Record Type: Single-Play Playbook
Play Type: Closet
Genre (Annals): Tragedy
 
Book Edition: 1
Play Edition: 1
Format: Quarto
Leaves: 36
Date of First Publication: 1613
Date of First Production: 1604 [1602-1605]
Company of First Production: n/a
Company Attribution: n/a
 
Total Editions: 1 quarto
 
Variants: The preliminaries exist in two states: Greg 308a(i) contains dedicatory verses [A1r] and "The names of the Speakers" [A1v]; Greg 308a(ii) lacks leaf A1. See also Greg 308a(ii)

Title-Page Features

Title: THE TRAGEDIE OF MARIAM, THE FAIRE Queene of Iewry.
Author: Written by that learned, vertuous, and truly noble Ladie, E. C.
Performance:
Imprint: LONDON. Printed by Thomas Creede, for Richard Hawkins, and are to be solde at his shoppe in Chancery Lane, neere vnto Sargeants Inne. 1613.

Paratextual Material

Dedication: Verses to: Elizabeth (Bland) Cary (sister-in-law of author); from: Elizabeth Cary [A1r]
Argument: "The Argument" [A2r]
Character List: "The names of the Speakers" [A1v]

Stationer Information

Printer: Creede, Thomas
Publisher: Hawkins, Richard
Imprint Location: W.10c (Fleet St. - Chancery Lane near Serjeants' Inn)
Entries in Stationers' Register: Dec 17, 1612: Entered to Richard Hawkins: "A Booke called. Mariamme The tragedie of the fayre Mariamme Queen of Iurye".
May 29, 1638: Transferred from the widow of Richard Hawkins to Robert Mead and Christopher Meredith (in whole or part): "The Tragedie of Mariam the Queene of Iurie".
Jan 25, 1639: Transferred from Robert Mead and Christopher Meredith to William Leake (2): "The Tragedy of Mariam the Queene of Iury."