Versions

Folger Encodings:
SHC encoding:
EEBO-TCP encoding:
Encoding path:
WCG
Call number:
Other editions:
Microfilm reel:
Thomason / 222:E.1782[1]

Bibliography

STC/Wing:
Wing B4872
ESTC:
Greg:
808a
DEEP:

Playbook

Title Page

General Title Page

Title:

Five nevv PLAYES, VIZ. The ENGLISH MOOR, or The MOCK-MARRIAGE. The LOVE-SICK COURT, or The AMBITIOUS POLITIQUE. COVENT GARDEN Weeded. The NEVV ACADEMY, or The NEVV EXCHANGE. The QUEEN and CONCUBINE.

Author(s):

RICHARD BROME

Imprint:

LONDON, Printed for A. Crook at the Green Dragon in Saint Pauls Church-yard, and for H. Brome at the Gunn in Ivy-Lane, 1659.

Internal Title Page

Title:

[2A1r] THE WEEDING OF THE COVENT-GARDEN. Or the Middlesex-JVSTICE OF Peace. A Facetious COMEDY

Author(s):

A POSTHUME of RICHARD BROME, An Ingenious Servant, and Imitator of his Master, that famously Renowned Poet Ben. Johnson.

Imprint:

LONDON, Printed for Andrew Crook, and are to be sold at the Green Dragon in St. Pauls Churchyard: And Henry Broom at the Gun in Ivy-lane. 1658.

Title page company(s):
Title page theater(s):
Title page date:

1659

Stationer Information

Location:
Printer(s):
Uncertain: 
No
Publisher(s):
Uncertain: 
No
Uncertain: 
No
Bookseller(s):
Uncertain: 
No

Physical Description

Format:
Paratextual materials:
COMMENDATORY VERSES: 3: by "Ben. Johnson"; "T. S."; "Alex. Brome" [πA6r]
TO THE READER: "To the Readers" (unsigned, but probably by Alexander Brome, editor) [π3r]; "The Stationers to the Reader" signed "A. C. H. B." (Andrew Crooke [1] and Henry Brome) [a3v]
OTHER PARATEXTS: Half-title, "Bromes Playes." (printed up the page) [πA1v]; advertisement for books "sold by Andrew Crook" [2O8r]
CHARACTER LIST: "The Actors Names" [A4v]
OTHER PARATEXTS: "Upon Aglaura printed in Folio" (verses) signed "R. B." (Richard Brome) [A2r]; "A Song" [A2v]; "To my Lord of Newcastle, on his Play called The Variety. He having commanded to give him my true opinion of it" (verses) signed "R. B." (Richard Brome) [A4r]
Title page imaged from Folger call number: STC B4872 copy 2. Image is not from the transcribed copy.

Performance

First performance:

1632

First performed by: