Sixe court comedies often presented and acted before Queene Elizabeth by the children of Her Maiesties chappell, and the children of Paules / witten by the onely rare poet of that time, the witie, comicall, facetiously-quicke and vnparalelld Iohn Lilly ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lyly, John, 1554?-1606.

Contributor:

Stansby, William, active 1597-1638, printer.

Blount, Edward, active 1588-1632, bookseller.

STC Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mythology, Classical--Drama.

Mythology, Classical.

Genre:

Drama.

Penn Provenance:

Ogden, W. S. (autograph, 1885)

Burnham, Mr. (donor)

Castner, Mr. (donor)

Clark, Mr. (donor)

Dale, Mr. (donor)

Dickson, Mr. (donor)

Harrison, Mr. (donor)

Harvey, Mr. (donor)

Lea, Mr. (donor)

Lippincott, Bertram, 1897- (donor)

Milne, Mr. (donor)

Rosengarten, J. G. (Joseph George), 1835-1921 (donor)

Sellers, Mr. (donor)

Shipley, Mr. (donor)

Physical Description:

636 unnumbered pages ; 14 cm (12mo)

Other Title:

Six court comedies

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by William Stansby for Edward Blount, 1632.

Contents:

Endimion

Campaspe : played before the Queenes Maiestie on Twelfe Day at night by her Maiesties children and the children of Paules

Sapho and Phao : played before the Queenes Maiestie on Shroue-tuesday by her Maiesties children and the children of Paules

Gallathea : played before the Queenes Maiestie at Greenwich on New-yeeres Day at night by the children of Pauls

Mydas : played before the Queenes Maiestie vpon Twelfe Day at night by the children of Pauls

Mother Bombie : as it was sundry times played by the children of Pauls.

Notes:

Each play except Endimion has special t.p.

Signatures: A⁶ B-2D¹².

Leaf A1 is blank. Cf. ESTC.

Dedication signed "Ed. Blount".

Variant 1: title has "actted" and "eacetiously-"; dedication signed "Ed. Blunt". These states represent stages of stop-press correction of sheet A; the fully corrected state, with "wittie" in the title, is STC 17089. Cf. ESTC.

Variant 1: leaves O7-10 and 2C9-10 are correctly imposed. Variant 2: leaves O3-10 and 2C3,4,9,10 in an earlier setting, wrongly imposed. This variant is independent of the title-page variants. Cf. ESTC.

Woodcuts: vignettes, initials, head- and tail-pieces.

Local Notes:

Library copy is variant 2 with leaves O3-10 and 2C3,4.9,10 wrongly imposed.

Imperfect: blank leaf A1 wanting; title page mended at outer margin.

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.) 17088

ESTC S108991

OCLC:

58648096