Mucedorus: Publications

Introduction

Para1This edition follows the quarto numbering system outlined by DEEP, which includes the fragmented edition identified by Richard Proudfoot (Q7).

Publications

Quarto Year Printer Publisher Greg STC ESTC DEEP
Q1 1598 Gabriel Simson1 William Jones 151 (a) 18230 S106305 258
Q2 1606 William White William Jones 151 (b) 18231 S94249 259
Q3 1610 William White William Jones 151 (c) 18232 S106375 260
Q4 1611 William White William Jones 151 (d) 18233 S106307 261
Q5 1613 George Eld 2 William Jones 151 (e) 18234 S457 262
Q6 1615 Nicholas Okes William Jones 151 (f) 18235 S106373 263
Q7 3 1615-1618 William Jones or John Wright4 151 (f)i 18235.5 264
Q8 1618 George Eld John Wright 151 (g) 18236 S106372 265
Q9 1619 George Eld John Wright 151 (h) 18237 S106369 266
Q10 1621 George Eld John Wright 151 (i) 18237.5 267
Q11 1626 George Purslowe John Wright 151 (j) 18238 S106367 268
Q12 1629 5 George Purslowe John Wright 6 151 (k) 18238.5 S124579 269
Q13 1631 George Purslowe John Wright 151 (l) 18239 S105986 270
Q14 1634 Elizabeth Purslowe John Wright 151 (m) 18240 S112746 271
Q15 1639 Robert Young John Wright 151 (n) 18241 S917 272
Q16 1656 7 Unknown Francis Coles 151 (o) R11499 273
Q17 1663 Unknown Francis Coles 151 (p) R43218
Q18 1668 Edward Okes Francis Coles 151 (q) R13427

Notes

1.Katherine Pantzer identifies Gabriel Simson as the printer of Mucedorus Q1 in the third volume of Pollard and Redgraveʼs Short-Title Catalogue of English Books.↑
2.The printerʼs ornaments used in Mucedorus Q5 can be found in Eldʼs other publications. See Essaies, A Wife, and The VVindie Yeare. Eld also possessed a broken dropcap, which can be identified in Mucedorus Q5, Q7, and Q8.↑
3.Richard Proudfoot identified this quarto after discovering five of its leaves supplementing a copy of Greg 151 (o) held at the Folger Shakespeare Library. In Proudfootʼs estimation, this quarto must have been printed sometime after 1615 because its running titles differ significantly from the pattern observed in pre-1615 publications of Mucedorus. It also contains revisions present in the 1615 quarto but not any of its successors, meaning it must have been published sometime before 1618, when the next quarto was printed (Proudfoot 2002).↑
4.Following the death of William Jones in 1618, the right to reprint Mucedorus passed to John Wright. Although possible, it is highly unlikely that Wright published Q7 in 1618 given that he also published his own unique copy of Mucedorus in that same year.↑
5.Greg points to internal changes within the text as well as Isaac Reedʼs revision of the Biographia Dramatica to date this quarto. His full analysis can be accessed here (pg. 95–107).↑
6.John Wright maintained the rights to print Mucedorus until his death in 1646.↑
7.Rights to print Mucedorus were transferred to Francis Coles in 1656, and he retained them until at least 1668. Although Donald Wing tentatively dates this quarto to 1656, it could have been printed at any point between 1656 and 1663, the year in which the succeeding quarto (Q17) was printed.↑

Prosopography

Janelle Jenstad

Janelle Jenstad is a Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director of The Map of Early Modern London, and Director of Linked Early Modern Drama Online. With Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Mark Kaethler, she co-edited Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media: Old Words, New Tools (Routledge). She has edited John Stow’s A Survey of London (1598 text) for MoEML and is currently editing The Merchant of Venice (with Stephen Wittek) and Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody for DRE. Her articles have appeared in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Elizabethan Theatre, Early Modern Literary Studies, Shakespeare Bulletin, Renaissance and Reformation, and The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. She contributed chapters to Approaches to Teaching Othello (MLA); Teaching Early Modern Literature from the Archives (MLA); Institutional Culture in Early Modern England (Brill); Shakespeare, Language, and the Stage (Arden); Performing Maternity in Early Modern England (Ashgate); New Directions in the Geohumanities (Routledge); Early Modern Studies and the Digital Turn (Iter); Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Indiana); Making Things and Drawing Boundaries (Minnesota); Rethinking Shakespeare Source Study: Audiences, Authors, and Digital Technologies (Routledge); and Civic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London (Routledge). For more details, see janellejenstad.com.

Sofia Spiteri

Sofia Spiteri is currently completing her Bachelor of Arts in History at the University of Victoria. During the summer of 2023, she had the opportunity to work with LEMDO as a recipient of the Valerie Kuehne Undergraduate Research Award (VKURA). Her work with LEMDO primarily includes semi-diplomatic transcriptions for The Winterʼs Tale and Mucedorus.

Bibliography

Greg, W.W. On the Editions of Mucedorus . Jahrbuch der Deutschen Shakespeare-Gesellschaft 40 (1904): 95–107.
Greg, W.W., ed. A Bibliography of the English Printed Drama to the Restoration. 5 vols. London: Bibliographical Society, 1939–1959; rpt. 1962.
Pantzer, Katharine F. Pantzer. Addenda and Corrigenda. A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English Books Printed Abroad 1475–1640. By Katharine F. Pantzer and Philip R. Rider. London: Bibliographical Society, 1991. 261–318.
Proudfoot, Richard. Modernizing the Printed Play-Text in Jacobean London: Some Early Reprints of Mucedorus . A Certain Text: Close Readings and Textual Studies on Shakespeare and Others in Honor of Thomas Clayton. Ed. Linda Anderson and Janis Lull. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Press, 2003. 18–28. WSB aah268.

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