DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks

[1534?] Anonymous The Summoning of Everyman

Reference Information

DEEP #: 7
Greg #: 4d
STC/Wing #: 10606.5
Record Type: Single-Play Playbook
Play Type: Interlude
Genre (Annals): Morality
 
Book Edition: 4
Play Edition: 4
Format: Quarto
Leaves: 16
Black Letter: Yes
Date of First Publication: [1518?]
Date of First Production: c.1519
Company of First Production: n/a
Company Attribution: n/a
 
Total Editions: 4 quartos

Title-Page Features

Title: Here begynneth a treatyse how the hye fader of heuen sendeth dethe to somon euery creature to come and gyue a counte of theyr lyues in this worlde and is in maner of a morall playe.
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Performance:
Illustration: Two woodcuts on title page, one of a man (with "Eueryman" in label), one of death
Imprint:

Paratextual Material

Other Paratexts: Five woodcuts of six characters, with their names in labels [A1v]

Stationer Information

Printer: Skot, John
Entries in Stationers' Register: None
 
Additional Notes: In The Stationers' Company and the Printers of London, 1501-1557 (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2013), Peter W. M. Blayney dates this edition to "1534?" (Appendix K, 2:1045).