DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks

1622 Beaumont, Francis; Fletcher, John Philaster, or Love Lies a-Bleeding

Reference Information

DEEP #: 679
Greg #: 363b
STC/Wing #: 1682
Record Type: Single-Play Playbook
Play Type: Adult Professional
Genre (Annals): Tragicomedy
 
Book Edition: 2
Play Edition: 2
Format: Quarto
Leaves: 42
Date of First Publication: 1620
Date of First Production: 1609 [May(?)]
Company of First Production: King's Men
Company Attribution: King's Men
 
Total Editions: 7 quartos

Title-Page Features

Title: PHILASTER. OR, Loue lies a Bleeding.
Author: Written by { Francis Beaumont. | and | Iohn Fletcher. } Gent.
Performance: As it hath beene diuerse times Acted, at the Globe, and Blacke-Friers, by his Maiesties Seruants.
Imprint: The second Impression, corrected, and amended. LONDON, Printed for THOMAS WALKLEY, and are to be solde at his shoppe, at the signe of Eagle and Childe, in Brittaines Bursse. 1622.

Paratextual Material

To the Reader: "To the Reader" signed "Thomas Walkley" (publisher) [A2r]

Stationer Information

Printer: Okes, Nicholas
Publisher: Walkley, Thomas
Imprint Location: X.10 (Westminster - Britain's Burse)
Entries in Stationers' Register: Jan 10, 1620: Entered to Thomas Walkley: "A Play Called Philaster".
Mar 1, 1628: Transferred from Thomas Walkley to Richard Hawkins: "Philaster or love lies ableeding."
May 29, 1638: Transferred from the widow of Richard Hawkins to Robert Mead and Christopher Meredith: "Philaster or loue lies a bleeding. a play."
Jan 25, 1639: Transferred from Robert Mead and Christopher Meredith to William Leake (2): "Philaster or Loue lyes a bleeding. a play."