• The Stationers' Register was a record book maintained by the Stationers' Company of London. This was a trade guild given a royal charter in 1557 to regulate...
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    Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers (until 1937 the Worshipful Company of Stationers), usually known as the Stationers' Company, is one of...
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    and private documents, allusions in other plays, entries in the Stationers' Register, and records of performance and publication), and internal evidence...
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    the Register of the Stationers' Company. The spoken epilogue is written in the form of a sonnet. 20 May 1609 – The entry in the Stationers' Register announces...
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    probably written in 1592 or 1593. It may have been entered into the Stationers' Register on 18 December 1592, though the records are confused and appear to...
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    Marlowe exist for this play. Parts I and II were entered into the Stationers' Register on 14 August 1590. The two parts were published together by the London...
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    Calender, published under the pseudonym "Immerito" (entered into the Stationers' Register in December) Iambicum Trimetrum 1590: The Faerie Queene, Books 1–3...
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    renew the Licensing Act, ending the Stationers' monopoly and press restrictions. Over the next 10 years the Stationers repeatedly advocated bills to re-authorize...
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    thought to have been composed sometime between 1603 and 1606. A Stationers' Register entry notes a performance before James I on 26 December 1606. The...
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  • plays in 1623. He was baptised in London on 31 January 1562; the Stationers' Register states that he was the son of Ralph Blount or Blunt, merchant tailor...
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    divisions. The first part was completed in 1677 and entered into the Stationers' Register on 22 December 1677. It was licensed and entered in the "Term Catalogue"...
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    entered in the Stationers' Register 2 December 1578 and published that same year. It was followed by Euphues and his England, registered on 25 July 1579...
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    the Stationers' Register on 14 May 1594, by stationer Adam Islip; but Islip's name is crossed out of the record and the name of fellow stationer Edward...
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    throughout the sixteenth century (an English version entered into the Stationers' Register in 1569 has not survived). In the story, a married nobleman with...
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  • earliest known broadside version of the ballad was entered in the Stationers' Register on 21 February 1657. There are a number of different versions of...
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  • Company to the Stationers' Company. Despite Barker's assignment of £80 worth of printing, Wolfe did not become a member of the Stationers' Company; moreover...
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    the play's style.[citation needed] The play was entered in the Register of the Stationers Company, the method at that time of obtaining copyright for a...
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    and his cat. A lost ballad is also known to have existed from the Stationers' Register of 1605. It records "A ballad, called The vertuous Lyfe and memorable...
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    Cardenio – Attributed to William Shakespeare and John Fletcher in a Stationers' Register entry of 1653 (alongside a number of erroneous attributions), and...
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    entered The Tempest into the Stationers' Register on 8 November 1623. It was one of 16 Shakespeare plays that Blount registered on that date. There is no...
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  • play is attributed to William Shakespeare and John Fletcher in a Stationers' Register entry of 1653. The content of the play is not known, but it was likely...
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    Shakespearean play. The intended publication of the play is entered in the Stationers' Register in 1602 by James Roberts, but Q1 was not published until summer or...
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    later expanded as Four Letters and Certain Sonnets, entered in the Stationers' Register on 4 December 1592. Harvey attributed Greene's demise to "a surfeit...
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    Tarquin and his family. The Rape of Lucrece was entered into the Stationers' Register on 9 May 1594, and published later that year, in a quarto printed...
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    18th century, Edmond Malone suggested that a "book" listed in the Stationers' Register on 22 May 1594, under the title "a Wynters nightes pastime", might...
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    soon after the masque.: 53–54, 306  The play was entered into the Stationers' Register on 8 April 1634; the quarto was published later that year by the...
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    1622 and early November 1623, and the book was entered into the Stationers' Register on 8 November 1623 (Julian calendar). It is possible that the printer...
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  • rather than English. There is a reference in the London Company of Stationers' Register of 1580 to "A Moste Strange Weddinge of the Frogge and the Mouse...
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    alleged printer is an anagram of "Jacobum Castelvetrum." In the Stationers' Register (June 20, 1589) the printing is said to have been allowed by Archbishop...
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  • had delivered his own death sermon. The sermon was entered in the Stationers' Register on 30 September 1631, although not with its title which first appeared...
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