Comedies and Tragedies

First edition.

The following pages are wrongly numbered as indicated in round brackets: 26 [Sig. E1] (28), 80 [Sig. Kk4] (08), 90 [Sig. Mmm2] (92), 100-101 [Sig. Nnn2-3] (80-81), 6 [Sig. Aaaa3] (2), 34 [Sig. Eeee1] (26), 17 [Sig. Ccccc1] (25), 65 [Sig. Iiiii1] (63), 117 [Sig. Ppppp3] (107), 147 [Sig. Sssss6] (143), 156 [Sig. Ttttt4] (56), 83 [Sig. Llllll2] (85), and 52 [Sig. Ggggggg4] (50).

Printed by at least ?8 printers including William Wilson, Edward Griffin, Thomas Warren, Susan Islip, Ruth Raworth --cf. Pforzheimer catalogue.

Includes all the plays not hitherto printed, except the Wild-goose chase, the manuscript of which was later recovered and printed in 1652.

"The Epistle dedicatorie" is signed by John Lowin, Joseph Taylor and eight others; "To the reader" is signed by Ja. Shirley, who is usually regarded as the editor.

Portrait of Fletcher by W. Marshall, and with J. Berkenhead in small type.

Indexed in: ESTC,

Indexed in: Wing (2nd ed),

Indexed in: W W Greg, A bibliography of the English printed drama to the Restoration,

Indexed in: Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, English literature, 1475-1700,