DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks

1630 Shakespeare, William Othello, the Moor of Venice

Reference Information

DEEP #: 695
Greg #: 379c
STC/Wing #: 22306
Record Type: Single-Play Playbook
Play Type: Adult Professional
Genre (Annals): Tragedy
 
Book Edition: 2
Play Edition: 3
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 A. M. for Richard Hawkins, and are to be sold at his shoppe in Chancery-Lane, neere Sergeants-Inne. 1630.

Paratextual Material

None

Stationer Information

Printer: Mathewes, Augustine
Publisher: Hawkins, Richard
Imprint Location: W.10c (Fleet St. - Chancery Lane near Serjeants' Inn)
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."