The maid's tragedy altered : with some other pieces
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Type of record: Book
Title: The maid's tragedy altered : with some other pieces
Classmark: BC Lt/WAL
Creator(s): Waller, Edmund (1606-1687)
Additional creator(s): Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616) (Other); Fletcher, John (1579-1625) (Other)
Related people: Beaumont, Francis; Fletcher, John
Publisher: Printed for Jacob Tonson
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1690
Language: English
Size and medium: [3], 3-100 p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/283030
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991001655169705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
First authorised edition.
The maid's tragedy altered is only a fragment, probably intended by Waller to form a new act V for Beaumont and Fletcher's tragedy, with some additions (cf. Greg, 357).
"Most of the following pieces, being unfinish'd, were never intended to be publish'd; but that a person, who had borrowed a manuscript copy of them, took upon him to print them. The copy from which they were printed, was very imperfect: and there being noe means left to suppress them, it was thought fit to suffer them to be more correctly printed from the last and truest copies."--Prefatory note.
Errata: p. 100.
Sig.B2 signed F2, sig.F3 signed E3, in error.
The maids tragedy, alter'd -- Poems upon several occasions -- Mr. Waller's speech to the House of Commons, April 22, 1640 -- Mr. Waller's speech, July 6, 1641.
Indexed in: Wing W502.
Indexed in: Woodward & McManaway 1271, i.e. the variant with "aboard my Yacht" correctly spelt on p.11 line 2.
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