Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Comedy of George a Green, 1599
Whether Burby delayed acting upon this entry, or whether the original edition has perished, there is no means of telling, but no edition bearing an earlier date than 15-99 is at present known. Of the edition of 1 various copies are recorded. In the preparation of the present reprint those in the Bodleian and British Museum have been collated throughout, while reference has also been had to others in the possession of the Duke of Devonshire and Mr. T. J. Wise. No differences have been observed. The play is in quarto and is printed in an ordinary roman fount of which 20 lines measure 112 mm. This size is intermediate between modern English and Great Primer, and in the reprint it has consequently been necessary to replace it by English thin leaded.
The piece is known to have been performed, apparently as an old play, by the Earl of Sussex' men at the Rose playhouse in the winter of 1993 - 4, the following entries regarding it appearing in the Diary of Philip Henslowe (fol.
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