The Thracian wonder : a comical history : as it hath been several times acted with great applause / written by John VVebster and VVilliam Rowley Webster, John, 1580?-1625? Rowley, William, 1585?-1642? Nolan, Michael creation of machine-readable version Nolan, Michael Text data (3 files : ca. 5.87, 156, 1.42 KB) Deposited by Nolan, Michael
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ota@bodleian.ox.ac.uk 2075 2075 http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/2075 Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Publication based on this text: The thracian wonder / by William Rowley and Thomas Heywood ; a critical edition by Michael Nolan. -- Salzburg : Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg ; Portland, Or. : Distributed by International Specialised Book Services, 1997. -- lxi, 218 p. ; 21 cm. -- (Salzburg studies in English literature. Elizabethan & Renaissance studies ; 123). Contents: File 1. The text [by the editor concerning the 1661 editions of the text that he consulted] ; File 2. The Thracian wonder ; File 3. Old-spelling apparatus [contains editorial decisions regarding spelling and punctuation ambiguities in the printed editions] "The play's title-page credits John Webster and William Rowley, but the attribution is now rejected. The Thracian wonder is probably either a solo or collaborative effort of William Rowley, but John Webster seems not to have helped."--from the editor's letter of deposit The Thracian wonder : a comical history : as it hath been several times acted with great applause / written by John VVebster and VVilliam Rowley Webster, John, 1580?-1625? Rowley, William, 1585?-1642? [60] p. ; 19 cm. (4to) Printed by Tho. Johnson, and are to be sold by Francis Kirkman London 1661 Based on Robert Greene's Menaphon (1589), itself based on William Warner's Albions England (1586) Reissued the same year along with A cure for a cuckold with the collective title Two new playes (Wing W1225)

Text produced from the examination of 17 of 24 available 1661 quartos of the play. This work had been examined as part of a ph.D. theseis and is therefore highly accurate

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 University of Oxford Text Archive Subject Headings Library of Congress Subject Headings 1661 English Plays Plays -- England -- 17th century legacy Free for non-commercial use 2001-01-12 Webb, AntonHeader changed in accordance with ISBD(ER) guidelines and expanded. Validated in the TEI Lite DTD using XMetal 2.0 1997-12-18
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