The Thracian wonder : a comical history : as it hath been several times acted with great applause / written by John VVebster and VVilliam Rowley
| dc.contributor | Nolan, Michael |
| dc.contributor.author | Webster, John, 1580?-1625? |
| dc.contributor.author | Rowley, William, 1585?-1642? |
| dc.contributor.editor | Nolan, Michael |
| dc.coverage.placeName | London |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T10:02:23Z |
| dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T10:02:23Z |
| dc.date.created | 1661 |
| dc.date.issued | 1994-06-30 |
| dc.identifier | ota:2075 |
| dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/2075 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/2075 |
| dc.description.abstract | 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) |
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| dc.format.medium | Digital bitstream |
| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Core Collection |
| dc.rights | Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
| dc.rights.label | PUB |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Plays -- England -- 17th century |
| dc.subject.other | Plays |
| dc.title | The Thracian wonder : a comical history : as it hath been several times acted with great applause / written by John VVebster and VVilliam Rowley |
| dc.type | Text |
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| files.count | 4 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1600-1699 |
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The quarto title-page reads:
THE / THRACIAN / WONDER. / A COMICAL / HISTORY. /
As it hath been several times Acted / with great
Applause. // Written by John VVebster and /
VVilliam Rowley. // Placere Cupio. // L O N D O N:
/ Printed by Tho. Johnson, and are to be sold by
Francis Kirkman, / at his Shop at the Sign of John
Fletchers Head, over / against the Angel-Inn, on
the Back-side of St. Cle- / ments, without Temple-
Bar. 1661.
There was only one seventeenth century edition. In his
preface to A Cure for a Cuckold, Francis Kirkman notes of
his first three publications: "I have now this Tearm printed
and published three, viz. This called A Cure for a Cuckold,
and another called, The Thracian Wonder; and the third
called, Gammer Gurtons Needle. Two of these three were never
printed, the third, viz. Gammer Gurtons Needle, hath been
formerly printed, but it . . .
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THE
THRACIAN
WONDER.
A COMICAL
HISTORY.
Asit hath been several times Acted
with great Applause.
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Written by JOHN VVEBSTER and
VVILLIAM ROWLEY.
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Placere Cupio.
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LONDON:
Printed by Tho. Johnson, and are to be sold by Francis
Kirkman, at his Shop at the Sign of John Fletchers Head,
over against the Angel-Inn, on the Back-side of St. Cle-
Ments, without Temple-Bar, 1661.
<A2r> The Stationer to the Reader.
Gentlemen,
IT is now the second time of my appearing in Print in this
nature, I should not have . . .
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Dramatis Personae A2v (line 6) Husband to Ariadne.] The
period is often faint and, in photocopies, sometimes absent.
B3v (line 26) by your leave:] No true colon has been noted.
However, the upper half is ghosting in all copies, either
faintly or strongly.
B4r (line 36) Snick-fail] Only a faint hyphen is noted, and
nothing is seen in some copies, particularly the
photocopies.
C1v (line 16) fits the time.] The period may actually be a
possible colon. The period is clear, but the upper half is
not: a half-dot smudge is just visible.
D2r (line 8) Exeunt:] The upper-half of the colon is
obscure or absent in some copies.
D4r (line 32) mid-way] The hyphen is faint; sometimes
nothing is visible.
E2r (line 6) no coward] Sometimes printed "n ocoward," but
the words are corrected for majority of copies.
E4v (line 12) Lover] Some copies read "Loufe."
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