Liber C, folio 23 recto
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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. 23r
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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. 23r
Folger Shakespeare Library Staff, "Stationers' Register entry for Richard II," Shakespeare Documented, https://doi.org/10.37078/398.
The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, Liber C, folio 23 recto. See Shakespeare Documented, https://doi.org/10.37078/398.
Richard II was entered into Liber C of the Stationers' Company on August 29, 1597. The title as entered reads "The Tragedye of Richard the Second". Andrew Wise, the London publisher who entered the title, began selling the first quarto edition (printed by Valentine Simmes) later that year. Simmes produced and Wise sold two more quarto editions in 1598. Overall, the play appeared in six quarto editions before 1642, as well as in 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.
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[Current transcription based on Arber; check back soon for a transcription that conforms to Shakespeare Documented conventions]
23
22 Augusti
Mr Styrrop Entred for his copie vnder the hand
warden of Mr Dix. The victorie against
Rynebeck the xxth of August
1597 / . . . . vjd
Mr Stirrop. Item Entred for his copie any
Ballad that shalbe made thereof vjd
Jo. Danter. Entred for his copie vnder the
hand of master Peter Lyllie
Michaell Mumchance his
Discouery of the Art of chetinge
or false Dyce play & other
vnlaufull games with a discours of
the figginge crafte and the deceiptfull
practises vsed by Chetinge women &c
Entred also by appointment of Mr man warden . vjd
26 Augusti [1597]
Mr Windet Entred for his copie The aunswer made by
the States to the Ambassadour of
Polonia
Entred by mr warden mans appoyntment . vjd
29o Augusti./.
Andrew Wise./. Entred for his Copie by appoyntment
from mr Warden man / The
Tragedye of Richard the Second . . . . vjd
Entred the same daye at the hall before
the master and wardens a booke intituled
Raffe Jackson Entred for his copie when it shalbe
Laufully Aucthorised. A true
declaration of 7. persons whiche in
ye parishe of Cleworth in Lancashire
were strangly & really posessed of
Sathan and of their deliuery by praier
& fastinge . . . . . . . . . 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), 3:89.
DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks, "Richard the Second," Ed. Alan B. Farmer and Zachary Lesser. Created 2007. Accessed 15 January 2016. http://deep.sas.upenn.edu.
Martin Wiggins and Catherine Richardson, "1002. King Richard II," in British Drama, 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Vol. 3, 1590-1597 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), 287-292.
Last updated February 8, 2020
