| Title | Descensus Astraeae (The Descent of Astraea) |
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| Author | Peele, George |
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| Publication year (edition) | 1591 |
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| Genre (British Drama) | civic play; pageant |
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| Genre group (comparison) | other/multi — no single main genre in British Drama or Annals → outside the single-genre comparison · Annals: civic pageant |
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| Play type | Occasional;Nonprofessional |
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| Work / edition / TCP / DEEP | work 100 · edition 169 · TCP A09222 · DEEP 134 |
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| Edition role | Representative edition — used in the analysis |
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| First performance / composition (Annals) | 1591 [Oct 29] |
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| First performance (BritDrama) | 1591 [Oct 29] |
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| Printer | Scarlet, Thomas |
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| Publisher | Wright, William (1) |
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| Format | Quarto |
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| STC | 19532 |
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| Greg | 100a |
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| Genre (Annals) | Civic Pageant |
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| Genre (BritDrama) | Civic Pageant |
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| BritDrama no. | 898 |
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| Title page | Descensus Astrææ. THE DEVICE of a Pageant, borne before M. William Web, Lord Maior of the Citie of London ... Wherevnto is annexed A Speech deliuered by one clad like a Sea Nymph, who presented a Pinesse on the water brauely rigd and mand, to the Lord Maior, at the time he tooke Barge to go to Westminster. |
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| Title-page performance note | on the day he tooke his oath, beeing the 29. of October. 1591. |
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| Corpus build | corpus-v3-2026-09-08 · nodes 146 · witness single |
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