20. The | Tragedy | Of The Dutchesse | Of Malfy. | As it was Preſented priuatly, at the Black- | Friers; and publiquely at the Globe, By the | Kings Maieſties Seruants. | The perfect and exact Coppy, with diuerſe | things Printed, that the length of the Play would | not beare in the Preſentment. | VVritten by John Webſter. | [Quotation] | London: | Printed by Nicholas Okes, for Iohn | Waterson, and are to be ſold at the | ſigne of the Crowne, in Paules | Church-yard, 1623.
The play was first acted about 1612.
A list of the actors' names is given on the verso of the title-page, and among them stands out that of Richard Burbage, who created the part of the Duke. The part of the Duchess was played by a boy named R. Sharpe.
It is the only play of Webster's presented on the modern stage. Miss Glyn played in it in 1851, and Miss May Rorke in 1892.
The first edition is called by Dyce, the most correct of the quartos.
Quarto.
Collation: A-N, in fours. Without pagination.