The fatal contract : a French tragedy : as it vvas acted vvith great applause by her Majesties servants / written by William Hemings, Master of Arts of Oxon ; printed by the original copy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hemings, William, 1602?-

Contributor:

Collection of Early Editions of English Plays (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

Griffiths, Herbert T. (label) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

72 unnumbered pages ; 18 cm (4to)

Fingerprint:

P.T. y;s, e.n, ToSh (C) 1653 (A)

Place of Publication:

Printed at London : for J.M., in the year, 1653.

Notes:

Signatures: pi² B-I⁴ K².

Woodcut initials; head-pieces.

Dedication signed: A. T.; A. P.

Revived by Settle in 1675 as "Love and revenge", and reprinted in 1687, from text of 1653, under title: The eunuch.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has the label of Herbert T. Griffiths on front pastedown.

Culture Class Collection copy is from the Collection of Early Editions of English Plays; gift of Messrs. Burnham, Castner, Clark, Dale, Dickson, Harrison, Harvey, Lea, Lippincott, Milne, Rosengarten, Sellers, and Shipley.

Culture Class Collection copy has ms. bibliographic note on front free endpaper.

Cited in:

Woodward & Manaway. Check List of English Plays, 1641-1700, 626

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), H1422

ESTC R012659

OCLC:

84458649