The shoemakers' holiday
dc.contributor | Oxford Text Archive |
dc.contributor.author | Dekker, Thomas, ca. 1572-1632 |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-06-14 |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-21T09:38:01Z |
dc.date.available | 2022-08-21T09:38:01Z |
dc.date.created | 1599 |
dc.identifier | ota:3007 |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/3007 |
dc.description.abstract | This text is created direct from the earliest printed text — the small, cheap books in quarto format sold by the booksellers of St Paul's Churchyard for around sixpence. It has not been edited, and so you can experience the idiosyncrasies of early modern print. In an age when spelling was not standardised, a range of ways of spelling even quite simple words was usual. Often homophones — words such as to and too which sound the same but are distinguished in modern spelling — are not clear, and this is one of the great sources of puns for early modern writers. Speech prefixes and stage directions are also not presented in the form readers of modern playtexts are used to, and nor did these early texts include a list of characters or an index of acts and scenes. Some features of early modern printing may also be unfamiliar — the interchangeability of the letters u and v, for example, or i and y. There was no letter j in the sets of type used by printers, so that letter is signalled with the letter i or I. |
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dc.language | English |
dc.language.iso | eng |
dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Core Collection |
dc.relation.replaces | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/1204 |
dc.rights | Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ |
dc.rights.label | PUB |
dc.subject.lcsh | Plays -- England -- 16th century |
dc.subject.lcsh | Comedies -- England -- 16th century |
dc.title | The shoemakers' holiday |
dc.type | Text |
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branding | Oxford Text Archive |
files.size | 1718867 |
files.count | 5 |
otaterms.date.range | 1500-1599 |
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THE SHOMAKERS Holiday. OR The Gentle Craft. With the humorous life of Simon Eyre., shoomaker, and Lord Maior of London. As it was acted before the Queenes most excellent Ma iestie on New-yeares day at night last, by the right honourable the Earle of Notingham, Lord high Ad mirall of England, his servants. Printed by Valentine Sims dwelling at the foote of Adling hill, neere Bainards Castle, at the signe of the White Swanne, and are there to be sold. 1600. EPISTLE To all good Fellowes, Professors of the Gentle Craft; of what degree soever. Kinde Gentlemen, and honest boone Companions, I present youhere with a merrie conceited Comedie, called, the Shoemakers Holyday , acted by my Lorde Admiralls Players this presentChristmasse, before the Queenes most excellent Majestie. For themirth and plesant matter, by her Highnesse graciously accepted;being indeed no way offensive. The Argument of the play I willset downe in this Epistle: Sir Hugh Lacie Earle of Lincolne , had ayong Gentleman of his . . .
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