Liber C, folio 167 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. 167
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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. 167
Folger Shakespeare Library Staff, "Stationers' Register entry for A Yorkshire Tragedy," Shakespeare Documented, https://doi.org/10.37078/417.
The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, Liber C, folio 167 recto. See Shakespeare Documented, https://doi.org/10.37078/417.
A Yorkshire Tragedy was entered into Liber C of the Stationers' Company on May 2, 1608, as "A booke Calle A yorkshire Tragedy written by Wylliam Shakespere." This is one of the four times Shakespeare's name appears in the Stationers' Register during his lifetime. His name also appears in two later entries for the First Folio and Two Noble Kinsmen. Although the entry states that the play was written by Shakespeare, most scholars now accepted as part of Thomas Middleton's canon, although it remains in the Shakespeare Apocrypha. Thomas Pavier, the publisher who entered the title into Liber C, published the first quarto edition later in 1608. He published a second edition in 1619, and the play was included in Philip Chetwinde's second impression of the Third Folio in 1664.
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]
1608 6to regis Jacobi 167
2do die maij
Mr Pavyer Entred for his Copie vnder the handes of
Mr Wilson & Mr Warden Seton A
booke Called A Yorkshire Tragedy
written by Wylliam Shakespere . . . . vjd
3 Maij
Geo Elde. Entred for his copie vnder the
handes of Mr Ga. Powell &
The wardens. A book called. The
Cittie of god. 22. bookes
wrytten by St Augustine. With the
Learned Commentaryes of John
Ludouick viues . . . vjd
4 Maij
Joseph Harrison. Entred for his copie vnder the handes
of Mr Da. Powell and the
Wardens A book called Epigramms
and Satyres made by Richard
Myddleton gent of York. . . . vjd
9 maij
Rog. Jackson Entred for his copie vnder the handes of
Mr Gab. Powel POWEL and the Wardens
a booke called A plaine & familiar
exposition of the Lordes prayer
whereunto is prefixed A Sermon
on the 2 verse of the 4. Chapter
of The epistle of St James
concerninge praier . . . vjd
By Jo. Dodd
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), 3:377.
DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks, "A Yorkshire Tragedy," Ed. Alan B. Farmer and Zachary Lesser. Created 2007. Accessed 15 January 2016. http://deep.sas.upenn.edu.
Martin Wiggins and Catherine Richardson, "1484a. A Yorkshire Tragedy," in British Drama, 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Vol. 5, 1603-1608 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015) 245-8.
Last updated February 23, 2021
