DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks

1633 Marlowe, Christopher The Jew of Malta

Reference Information

DEEP #: 812
Greg #: 475a
STC/Wing #: 17412
Record Type: Single-Play Playbook
Play Type: Adult Professional
Genre (Annals): Tragedy
 
Book Edition: 1
Play Edition: 1
Format: Quarto
Leaves: 38
Date of First Publication: 1633
Date of First Production: 1589 [c.1589-1590]
Company of First Production: Derby's (Strange's) Men
Company Attribution: Queen Henrietta Maria's Men
 
Total Editions: 1 quarto

Title-Page Features

Title: The Famous TRAGEDY OF THE RICH IEW OF MALTA.
Author: Written by CHRISTOPHER MARLO.
Performance: AS IT WAS PLAYD BEFORE THE KING AND QVEENE, IN HIS MAJESTIES Theatre at White-Hall, by her Majesties Servants at the Cock-pit.
Imprint: LONDON; Printed by I. B. for Nicholas Vavasour, and are to be sold at his Shop in the Inner-Temple, neere the Church. 1633.

Paratextual Material

Dedication: "The Epistle Dedicatory" to: Thomas Hammond (of Gray's Inn); from: Thomas Heywood [A3r]

Stationer Information

Printer: Beale, John
Publisher: Vavasour, Nicholas
Imprint Location: W.11 (Fleet St. - Inner Temple / Temple Church)
Entries in Stationers' Register: May 17, 1594: Entered to Nicholas Ling and Thomas Millington: "the famouse tragedie of the Riche Iewe of Malta".
Nov 20, 1632: Entered to Nicholas Vavasour: "a Tragedy called the Iew of Malta."