DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks

1622 Beaumont, Francis; Fletcher, John The Maid's Tragedy

Reference Information

DEEP #: 662
Greg #: 357b
STC/Wing #: 1678
Record Type: Single-Play Playbook
Play Type: Adult Professional
Genre (Annals): Tragedy
 
Book Edition: 2
Play Edition: 2
Format: Quarto
Leaves: 42
Date of First Publication: 1619
Date of First Production: 1610 [c.1610-1611]
Company of First Production: King's Men
Company Attribution: King's Men
 
Total Editions: 6 quartos

Title-Page Features

Title: The Maids Tragedie.
Author:
Performance: AS IT HATH BEENE diuers times Acted at the Black-Friers by the Kings Maiesties Seruants.
Illustration: Woodcut on title page of "Amintor" stabbing the cross-dressed "Aspatia"
Imprint: Newly perused, augmented, and inlarged, This second Impression. LONDON, Printed for Francis Constable and are to be sold at the White LION in Pauls Church-yard. 1622.

Paratextual Material

Character List: "Speakers" [A1v]

Stationer Information

Printer: Purslowe, George
Publisher: Constable, Francis
Imprint Location: A.2 (Paul's Churchyard - Great North Door)
Entries in Stationers' Register: Apr 28, 1619: Entered to Richard Higgenbotham (2) and Francis Constable: "A play Called The maids tragedy".
Oct 27, 1629: Transferred from Richard Higgenbotham (2) and Francis Constable to Richard Hawkins: "The Maides Tragedie".
May 29, 1638: Transferred from the widow of Richard Hawkins to Robert Mead and Christopher Meredith: "The maides Tragedie".
Jan 25, 1639: Transferred from Robert Mead and Christopher Meredith to William Leake (2): "The Maides Tragedy".