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Five new playes, (viz.) The madd couple well matcht. Novella. Court begger. City witt. Damoiselle. By Richard Brome.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brome, Richard, -1652?
- Series:
- Early English books online
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (482 unnumbered pages) : portrait (metal cut)
- Other Title:
- Novella.
- Court begger.
- Place of Publication:
- London : printed [by T[homas] R[oycroft]] for Humphrey Moseley, Richard Marriot, and Thomas Dring, and are to be sold at their shops, 1653.
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- Partly in verse.
- Editor's dedication signed: A. Brome.
- The words "madd couple .. Damoiselle." are bracketed together on title page.
- The portrait is signed: T. Cross sculpsit.
- Printer's name from the Pforzheimer Catalogue. "The copy was divided between two compositors. One set-up through sheet S; the other, the remainder"--Pforzheimer Catalogue.
- Signatures: pi1 A (-A6-8) B-S; A-F G⁴; A⁴ B-F G1-3 (=A6-8).
- "The novella" and "The court begger" each have separate dated title page; register is continuous. "The city wit" (Wing B4866) and "The damoiselle" (Wing B4868) each have separate register and dated title page with "printed by T.R." in imprint. There is no indication that the latter two plays were ever issued separately, though they are sometimes found so (Greg).
- Annotation on Thomason copy: "May 20".
- "The Novella" identified at reel 1773:4 as Wing B4880 (number cancelled); Wing 2nd edition, revised identifies this as part of B4870.
- Reproductions of the originals in the British Library and the Harvard University Library.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1436:15-16, 1773:4) s1999 miun s
- Cited in:
- Wing (2nd edition, 1994) B4870
- Wing (2nd edition, 1994) B4866
- Wing (2nd edition, 1994) B4868
- Pforzheimer 107
- Thomason E.1423[1]
- Greg, III, pages 1021-22
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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