Liber C, folio 65 verso
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Creator: Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers
Title: Liber C
Date: 1595-1620
Repository: Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, London, UK
Call number and opening: Liber C, fol. 65v
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The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers has graciously contributed the above image from their collections to Shakespeare Documented under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. For any further use, visitors should contact the Clerk of the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers at clerk@stationers.org.
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Creator: Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers
Title: Liber C
Date: 1595-1620
Repository: Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, London, UK
Call number and opening: Liber C, fol. 65v
Folger Shakespeare Library Staff, "Stationers' Register entry for A Midsummer Night's Dream," Shakespeare Documented, https://doi.org/10.37078/404.
The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, Liber C, folio 65 verso. See Shakespeare Documented, https://doi.org/10.37078/404.
A Midsummer Night's Dream was entered into Liber C of the Stationer's Company on October 8, 1600. The play was entered under the title "A mydsommer nightes Dreame." Thomas Fisher, the London publisher who entered the title, had the first quarto edition printed by Richard Braddock before the end of the year. The second quarto edition was printed in 1619 by William Jaggard, though falsely dated as having been printed in 1600. No further quarto editions were printed before 1642, and the play was included in both the First and Second Folios.
Liber C and the other registers with Shakespeare’s works are still kept by the Stationers’ Company in their archives.
[This transcription is pending final vetting]
[Current transcription based on Arber; check back soon for a transcription that conforms to Shakespeare Documented conventions]
1600 42 Regin
7. Octobris
Ric Olyffe Entred for his copie vnder
the handes of the wardens
A booke called The Wisdom
of Doctor Dodepole Plaied
by the Children of Paules . . . . vjd
8. octobris
Tho. ffyssher Entred for his copie vnder the
handes of mr Rodes / and the
Wardens. A booke called
A mydsommer nightes Dreame . vjd
10 Octobris
Mr Ponsonby Entred for his Copye vnder the
handes of Mr Barley and Mr
whyte warden An historicall
Colleccon of the Continuall factions
tumultes and Massacres of the
Romans & Italians Duringe the space
of One hundred and Twentye
yeres next before the peaceable
Empire of Augustus Cesar . . . . . . . vjd
13 Octobris
Mathue Selman. Entred for his copie vnder the
Wm ffyerbrand handes of mr Vycars and the
Wardens, A true Discours
of the conference holden at
Ffountaynebelleau the iiijth
of Maie 1600 . . . . . . vjd
16. Octobris
wm white Entred for his Copye vnder the handes
of Mr Pasfeild and the wardens A
booke Called the lettinge of Humours
blood in the head vayne with a newe
morisco Daunced by Seven
Satyres vppon the bottome of
Diogenes tubbe . . . . . . . . vjd
Sources
Edward Arber, ed., A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London: 1554–1640 A.D. 5 vols. (London: privately printed, 1875–94), 3:174.
DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks, "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Ed. Alan B. Farmer and Zachary Lesser. Created 2007. Accessed 15 January 2016. http://deep.sas.upenn.edu.
Martin Wiggins and Catherine Richardson, "1012. A Midsummer Night's Dream," in British Drama, 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Vol. 3, 1590-1597 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), 299-303.
Last updated February 8, 2020
