DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks

1622 Shakespeare, William Othello, the Moor of Venice

Reference Information

DEEP #: 694
Greg #: 379a
STC/Wing #: 22305
Record Type: Single-Play Playbook
Play Type: Adult Professional
Genre (Annals): Tragedy
 
Book Edition: 1
Play Edition: 1
Format: Quarto
Leaves: 48
Date of First Publication: 1622
Date of First Production: 1604 [1603-1604]
Company of First Production: King's Men
Company Attribution: King's Men
 
Total Editions: 3 quartos, 2 folios in collection

Title-Page Features

Title: THE Tragœdy of Othello, The Moore of Venice.
Author: Written by William Shakespeare.
Performance: As it hath beene diuerse times acted at the Globe, and at the Black-Friers, by his Maiesties Seruants.
Imprint: LONDON, Printed by N. O. for Thomas Walkley, and are to be sold at his shop, at the Eagle and Child, in Brittans Bursse. 1622.

Paratextual Material

To the Reader: "The Stationer to the Reader" signed "Thomas Walkley" [A2r]

Stationer Information

Printer: Okes, Nicholas
Publisher: Walkley, Thomas
Imprint Location: X.10 (Westminster - Britain's Burse)
Entries in Stationers' Register: Oct 6, 1621: Entered to Thomas Walkley: "The Tragedie of Othello, the moore of Venice."
Mar 1, 1628: Transferred from Thomas Walkley to Richard Hawkins: "Orthello the more of Venice."
May 29, 1638: Transferred from the widow of Richard Hawkins to Robert Mead and Christopher Meredith: "Orthello the More of Venice a play."
Jan 25, 1639: Transferred from Robert Mead and Christopher Meredith to William Leake (2): "Orthello the more of venice a Play."