Stationers' Register

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Textual Production Aemilia Lanyer
AL 's long narrative poem on the passion of Christ, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum, was entered in the Stationers' Register .
Woods, Susanne, and Aemilia Lanyer. “Introduction”. The Poems of Aemilia Lanyer, Oxford University Press, p. xv - li.
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Textual Production Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
Mary Sidney 's publisher, William Ponsonby , entered The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (by her brother Philip ) in the Stationers' Register .
The title refers to the fact that the work was addressed to...
Textual Production Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke 's printer, William Ponsonby , entered Philip Sidney 's The Defence of Poesie in the Stationers' Register .
Sidney, Sir Philip. “Editorial Materials”. Miscellaneous Prose of Sir Philip Sidney, edited by Katherine Duncan-Jones and Jan Van Dorsten, Clarendon Press, p. various pages.
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Textual Production Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke , issued her collected edition of her brother 's works: the title was still The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia, with sundry new additions.
This is the date...
Textual Production Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke 's translated tragedy Antonius and her A Discourse of Life and Death were entered in the Stationers' Register by William Ponsonby .
Waller, Gary F. Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke: A Critical Study of Her Writings and Literary Milieu. University of Salzburg, http://BLC.
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2 October 1600: Another influential poetry anthology, entitled...

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2 October 1600

Another influential poetry anthology, entitled Englands Parnassus, was entered in the Stationers' Register ; it appeared this year.

26 July 1602: Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet was entered...

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26 July 1602

Shakespeare 's tragedy Hamlet was entered in the Stationers' Register , probably not long after its first performance.

1604: Christopher Marlowe's The Tragicall History...

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1604

Christopher Marlowe 's The Tragicall History of D. Faustus was posthumously published, though this edition may not have been the first.

14 June 1604: John Cawdrey entered in the Stationers' Register...

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14 June 1604

John Cawdrey entered in the Stationers' Register the first dictionary not involving Latin: A Table Alphabeticall . . . of Hard Unusual English Words, for the benefit & help of Ladies, gentlewomen or any...

9 November 1604: Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton entered...

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9 November 1604

Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton entered in the Stationers' CompanyThe Honest Whore (part one); it was published this year.

7 October 1607: The Revenger's Tragedy (formerly ascribed...

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7 October 1607

The Revenger's Tragedy (formerly ascribed to Cyril Tourneur but now seen by scholars as Thomas Middleton 's answer to Shakespeare 's Hamlet) was entered in the Stationers' Register .

26 November 1610: Thomas Coryate entered in the Stationers'...

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26 November 1610

Thomas Coryate entered in the Stationers' RegisterCoryats Crudities (his narrative of travels inEurope), which was published the next year.

29 March 1614: Sir Walter Ralegh, aged about seventy, published...

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29 March 1614

Sir Walter Ralegh , aged about seventy, published his History of the World, written as a prisoner in the Tower of London: it is a pessimistic work, without heroes and without the usual...

8 February 1615: Joseph Swetnam's The Araignment of Lewde,...

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8 February 1615

Joseph Swetnam 's The Araignment of Lewde, Idle, Froward, and Unconstant Women was entered in the Stationers' Register ; it appeared as by Thomas Tel-troth.

28 April 1619: The Maid's Tragedy, written jointly in 1610-11...

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28 April 1619

The Maid's Tragedy, written jointly in 1610-11 by John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont (who had since died), was entered in the Stationers' Register ; it was published this year.

22 March 1620: The first English translation of Boccaccio's...

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22 March 1620

The first English translation of Boccaccio 's cycle of tales generally known as the Decameron was entered in the Stationers' Register ; it was printed this year, possibly the work of John Florio .

30 March 1638: John Wilkins entered in the Stationers' Register...

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30 March 1638

John Wilkins entered in the Stationers' RegisterDiscovery of a World in the Moone, an early fictional response to features of the moon's surface newly made visible by telescopes; it was printed this year.

30 August 1667: Anne Maxwell of Thames Street in London (a...

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30 August 1667

Anne Maxwell of Thames Street in London (a master printer with about a hundred imprints between 1660 and 1684) entered as hers in the Stationers' RegisterThe life and death of Mother Shipton (a folk...

3 May 1687: The Stationers' Register licensed John Hill's...

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3 May 1687

The Stationers' Register licensed John Hill 's The Young Secretary's Guide: or, A Speedy Help to Learning, a manual of letter-writing and drafting business documents: published this year, it had ten editions by 1699.

19 April 1791: Wilberforce's motion to abolish the slave-trade...

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19 April 1791

Wilberforce 's motion to abolish the slave-trade (put on 18 April) was defeated in the House of Commons .

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