Liber B, folio 304 verso
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Creator: Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers
Title: Liber B
Date: 1576-1605
Repository: Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, London, UK
Call number and opening: Liber B, fol. 304v
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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 B
Date: 1576-1605
Repository: Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, London, UK
Call number and opening: Liber B, fol. 304v
Folger Shakespeare Library Staff, "Stationers’ Register entry for Titus Andronicus," Shakespeare Documented, https://doi.org/10.37078/393.
The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Maker, Liber B, folio 304 verso. See Shakespeare Documented, https://doi.org/10.37078/393.
Titus Andronicus was entered into Stationer's Liber B on February 6, 1594 as "a Noble Roman Historye of Tytus Andronicus." John Danter, the printer who entered the play, also created a separate entry for a ballad with the same storyline. Danter printed the first quarto version of Titus later in 1594, and it was sold by Edward White and Thomas Millington. Only one copy of this edition is known to survive.
There is debate as to the exact sequence of composition of the ballad, the play, and an additional prose composition of the story, but many scholars now agree that the play was written first, followed by the ballad, which was then followed by the prose. The second quarto of the play was printed by James Roberts in 1600, and the third appeared in 1602, printed by Edward Allde. It was next printed in 1623 in the First Folio, where the editors included expanded stage directions and an additional scene.
Liber B 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]
Annoque Regni Regine Elizabeth 36to
22o die Januarij./.
Richard Jones./. Entred for his Copie vnder the handes of the wardens
a newe songe of Londons Joyfull wellcome
to the Nobilitie, gentelemen and Communaltie
to Hillarye Terme vjd
26to Januarij./.
Nicholas Linge & Entred for their Copie vnder the handes of Mr
John Busbye Dickins and bothe the wardens a booke
called Cornelia Thomas Kydd beinge
the Authour vjd
Christopher Hunt./. Entred for his Copie vnder the handes of Mr
Hartwell and the wardens a booke
called Godfrey of Bolloigne an
heroyalcall poem of Sir Torquato
Tasso Englisshed./. by R E Esquier vjd./.
27o. Januarij
Abel Jeffes. Entred for his Copie vnder the handes
of the Wardens, a ballad of the
Lamentable lyfe and deathe of
Roberte Sturman who suffered at
Tyburne the 24th of Januarie vjd
primo die ffebruarij./. [1594]
John Danter./. Entred for his Copie vnder the handes of
bothe the wardens a booke intituled
Greene his funeralles vjd
vjto die ffebruarij
John Wolf./. Entred for his Copye vnder the handes of Mr
Hartwell and bothe the wardens a booke
entituled the newe founde arte of Catchinge of
Connye Catchers or a trapp to take a
knaue vjd
vjto die ffebruarij./.
John Danter./. Entred for his Copye vnder the handes of bothe
the wardens a booke intituled
a Noble Roman Historye of Tytus
Andronicus vjd
John Danter./. Entred alsoe vnto him by warraunt from
Mr Woodcock the ballad thereof 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), 2:644.
Martin Wiggins and Catherine Richardson, "928. Titus Andronicus," in British Drama, 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Vol. 3, 1590-1597 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), 179-185.
Last updated February 8, 2020
