The Interlude of Wealth and Health

Language

en

Duration

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Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

[S.l.]: The Malone Society, 1907 (printed by $f Charles Whittingham & Co.)

Credits

Produced by Jason Isbell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)

Release date

2005-12-09

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Description

Stage play, origin dated to 1557, when a play of the same title was registered by John Waley, or Wally; appeared on a list of plays appended to the edition of Goffe's Careless Shepherdess, printed for Rogers and Ley in 1656; an accurate description was given by D.E. Baker in his Companion to the Play-House of 1764; original was discovered in Ireland in the spring of 1906 and sold at Sotheby's on 30 June 1906 to the British Museum; 1907 transcribed reprint was prepared by the Malone Society General Editor and checked by Percy Simpson, with facsimiles of the original 16th-century first page produced by Horace Hart, M.A., at the Oxford University Press.