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A pleasant conceited comedie, wherein is shewed how a man may chuse a good wife from a bad / as it hath bene sundry times acted by the Earle of Worcesters Seruants.
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Old English drama
- Old English drama. Students' facsimile edition
- Standardized Title:
- How a man may choose a good wife from a bad.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 82 unnumbered pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for Mathew Lawe, and are to be solde at his shop in Paules Chursh-yard, neare vnto S. Augustines gate, at the signe of the Foxe, 1602.
- Notes:
- A ms. note on t.-p. ascribes the play to Joshua Cooke. "Joshua" may or may not be a mistaken reading of Jo. (i.e. John) Cooke) cf. Pref., Tudor facsimile texts.
- Label pasted on front end-paper reads: ... How a man may choose a good wife from a bad / Date of earliest known ed., c. 1602. <B.M. press-mark C. 34, b. 53> Reproduction in facsimile [Tudor facsimile texts] 1912.
- Also attributed to Thomas Heywood. cf. Camb. Eng. lit.
- Cited in:
- STC (2nd ed.) 5594
- ESTC S119222
- OCLC:
- 248945789
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