DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks

1655 Shakespeare, William Othello, the Moor of Venice

Reference Information

DEEP #: 696
Greg #: 379e
STC/Wing #: S2939
Record Type: Single-Play Playbook
Play Type: Adult Professional
Genre (Annals): Tragedy
 
Book Edition: 3
Play Edition: 5
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 divers times Acted at the Globe, and at the Black-Friers, by his Majesties SERVANTS.
Imprint: The fourth Edition. LONDON, Printed for William Leak at the Crown in Fleet-street, between the two Temple Gates, 1655.

Paratextual Material

None

Stationer Information

Printer: [unknown]
Publisher: Leake, William (2)
Imprint Location: W.12 (Fleet St. - between the Temples)
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."