Conduct books were written to educate young people in proper behavior for persons of thei
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Commonplace books were personal notebooks in which people copied quotations that appealed to
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...nd physical bibliography and textual criticism for more than 40 years-- 15 books, 75+ articles, and more than 100 book reviews. A current cv can be supplie
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...press into England, in 1476, and was the first English retailer of printed books. (Wikipedia)
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...l Fellow (English and Theatre Studies) at the University of Melbourne. His books include studies of Jonson and Shakespeare, Renaissance comedy, modern Europ
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...l Fellow (English and Theatre Studies) at the University of Melbourne. His books include studies of Jonson and Shakespeare, Renaissance comedy, modern Europ
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...s A. Dana Professor Emerita of English, Lafayette College, Easton, PA. Her books include Reading Shakespeare in Performance: King Lear (1991, with James P.
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...rn Literature and Culture at Bath Spa University. She is the author of two books – ''Pageantry and Power: a cultural history of the early modern Lord Mayo
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...s A. Dana Professor Emerita of English, Lafayette College, Easton, PA. Her books include ''Reading Shakespeare in Performance: King Lear'' (1991, with James
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...r and co-editor of the Lost Plays Database. He has also edited a number of books, including ''Lost Plays in Shakespeare’s England'' (Palgrave, 2014; co-ed
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...esented the company in various transactions including the purchase of play books and apparel. He continued with the company when it acquired the patronage o
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...y, included what appears to be a group of eight plays in a section headed "Books in the Press and Now Printing". None of them, as far as is known, were eve
:Books in the Presse, and ready for Printing.<br>
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:He hath also compleated other books, which are not yet printed as (1) A comical entertainment called ''The Refo
...speculates that Wright's play "perhaps perished in January 1679, among the books and manuscripts of his son James, in the disastrous fire in the Temple whic
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"The Fair Spanish Captive: a Trage-Comedy" appears in a list of "
Books in the Press and Now Printing" which were advertised by the printer Nathani
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Books in the Presse, and ready for Printing.<br>
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...latery" appears in one theatrical document, Philip Henslowe's inventory of books owned by the Admiral's men and dated 3 March 1598 (l599?). And that documen
...] renders the title as "Sturgflaterey" in his transcription of the list of books in the stock of the Admiral's men at the Rose that Henslowe dated "March 15
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...(wife, daughter, and grandchildren), and substantial properties including books and real estate (Honigmann and Brock, p. 138).
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...anslated by William Adlington. The story of Cupid and Psyche is covered in books four, five, and six. Adlington's translation of Apulieus was first publishe
Apuleius, ''The Eleven Books of the Golden Asse.'' trans. William Adlinton. London: Valentine Symmes, 15
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...ve Actions]'' (1582), Stephen Gosson lists 'The Golden Asse' as one of the
books that had been 'ransackt to furnish the Play houses in London' ([http://quod
<div style="padding-left: 2em; text-indent: -2em">Apuleius. ''The XI
Books of the Golden Asse.'' trans. William Adlington (London: Valentine Symmes, 1
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...846). Collier produced an elaborate printed catalogue of the rarer English books in the Bridgewater collection (1837), and in 1840 edited a selection of Ege
...y (1814-1881), Collier's nephew by marriage, and the bulk of his remaining books and papers were offered by Sothebys on 7-9 August 1884, when they made £21
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...the Fortune playhouse in Middlesex, for he appears "in the Southwark token books during 1600-07" (Nungezer, p. 377). He was buried out of St. Saviour's in J
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The list of "Books very lately Printed, and in the Press now printing" appended to Flatman's '
A running title reads "''Books sold by'' Nath. Brook ''at the Angell in'' Cornhill".
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Appended to Francis Kirkman, ''The Wits'' (1662): "Courteous Reader, these Books following are sold by ''Henry Marsh'' at the ''Princes Arms'' in ''Chancery
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...ished by Boydell & Brewer. Other current work in progress includes two books to be published by Manchester University Press: a monograph on the Roman pl
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<blockquote>The Hill note-books, ten in number and representing miscellaneous material assembled by him at
...rials, though it may be significant that folios 150-92 consist of lists of books and detailed notes on certain London auctions....
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This page documents any publications (journals, books, etc.) arising out of research conducted for the ''Lost Plays Database''.
==Books==
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The Hill note-books, ten in number and representing miscellaneous material assembled by him at
...rials, though it may be significant that folios 150-92 consist of lists of books and detailed notes on certain London auctions....
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...iting, "Aleumista" remains entirely unknown to EEBO-TCP and even to google books, except for hits generated by this record and - perhaps significantly - one
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| [http://eebo.chadwyck.com/home ''Early English Books Online'']. Chadwyck-Healey & Proquest, 2003-.
| [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebogroup/ ''Early English Books Online, Text Creation Partnership'' (Open Access)]. U of Michigan and U of
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..., in the library of Richard Heber," followed by two more titles of printed books by Chapman known to Bliss from other sources, after which Bliss listed five
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...''The Boar's Head Playhouse.'' Illus. C. Walter Hodges. Washington: Folger Books. London: Associated University Press, 1986.</div>
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...ave been significant to the entertainment, which may have incorporated the books themselves. Noting the potential exotic or colonial themes in the entertain
...ssical archways that often adorned the title-pages of early modern printed books?
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...alms, 2 Copies. 2 bundles of old bound. 1 vnbound. Cast Candles. <br>Loose books. — Aiaz. Lidiat. Alminacks. Duello. Guiana. mandevil & Virginia. Arth
Books to Cary down. — M<sup>r</sup> Hall. Ball and Pynet. Bellarmin. Tortura to
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Mark Eccles notes the spelling of Cowley's name ("Coolye") in the assessor's books of Holywell Street, Shoreditch, in 1598 as evidence of the pronunciation of
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...s]'' (1582), Stephen Gosson mentions an 'Aethiopian History' as one of the books "ransackt to furnish the Play houses in London" ([http://quod.lib.umich.edu
...ethiopian History'], the probable source text for this play, as one of the books "ransackt to furnish the Play houses in London". The passage reads,
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Cooke lived in the parish of St. Saviour's, Southwark, where the token books identify his dwelling in Hill's Rents in the 1600s. The parish register of
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...ollier, John Payne. ''A Bibliographical and Critical Account of the Rarest Books in the English Language''. 2 vols. London, 1865.</div>
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...eals a family conflict, in that he gives his son "Thomas" his "librarie of books both of Devinitie & humainitie" except for those his wife might like to hav
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...unds a yeare towards your maintenance, and three hundred pounds to buy you books, as his brother, he weeping answer'd, I trust father you shall live to enjo
...e; given to the youngest son, who is a scholar, and had actually requested books as his inheritance). Inasmuch as the father bequeaths land to one son and h
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...h'', an old play, allowed by Sir George Bucke, and ''burnt, with his other books''.'" Adams then quotes the entry in Henslowe's ''Diary'' (above) for the pa
...(p. 151, #99). Bawcutt adds the clarification by Bentley (below) that "the books destroyed by fire were those belonging to the Fortune theatre, burnt down o
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...VHRiYKHY7DBpsQ6AEIUTAM#v=onepage&q=Boss%20of%20Billingsgate&f=false Google Books]). Jonson characteristically calls the site "Belinsgate," a reminder of the
...VHRiYKHY7DBpsQ6AEIUTAM#v=onepage&q=Boss%20of%20Billingsgate&f=false Google Books])</div>
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...n he finished his apprenticeship in London. According to Baldwin, Hunt had books shipped to him at his new location, and this manuscript leaf was part of th
...of plays on the manuscript leaf as bookshop stock, suggesting an order for books rather than an inventory (412-3). '''James G. McManaway''' (who signed his
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===Dorset Quarter Sessions Order and Minute Books===
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...ilworth in 1575 that "Lucrece and Euryalus" was one of the favourite story-books [https://archive.org/stream/lanehamsletterde00lane#page/36/mode/2up (Laneha
...Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English Books Printed Abroad, 1475-1640.'' 2nd edn. W. A.Jackson, F. S. Ferguson, Kathari
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===Bristol Mayors' Audit Books===
...1188 NaT 7]). An early witness is Bodleian Library, MS Mus. f. 16-19, part books compiled c. 1641–62 by Thomas Hammond of Hawkedon, Suffolk. The words in
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...Prize)|Welchmans price]]," a play title listed in Henslowe's inventory of books belonging to the Admiral's men, 3 March 1598 ([http://www.archive.org/strea
...of Wales" with the listing of "Welchmans price" in Henslowe's inventory of books in March 1598 (#90, p. 234; also, p. 102). He reads the specification of "a
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...g, that histrionicall iesters and stage players should bee suffred to writ books of such matters and in deed a greate disgrace to our Religion.")
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...Henry I"]). On the other hand, in a discussion of Henslowe's inventory of books in March 1598 (p. 102), Gurr identifies "Welchmans price" as "The Famous Wa
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...rontcover&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=&f=false (xxxi, Google Books)]. [[WorksCited|Fleay, ''BCED'']] follows suit, expanding Collier's identi
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....google.it/books?id=vnFJAQAAMAAJ&hl=it&pg=PA437#v=onepage&q&f=false Google Books]:
...atin. Given that ''Cleopatra'' was performed in 1626, that the first three books of May's translation of Lucan were published in the same year and the compl
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===Norwich Quarter Sessions Minute Books VI===
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