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The Entertainment at Sir Francis Jones's Welcome (Comus the Great Sir of Feasts) (The Servant of Comus)

Middleton, Thomas, published 1621 · entertainment; civic play · Occasional;Nonprofessional

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TitleThe Entertainment at Sir Francis Jones's Welcome (Comus the Great Sir of Feasts) (The Servant of Comus)
AuthorMiddleton, Thomas
Publication year (edition)1621
Genre (British Drama)entertainment; civic play
Genre group (comparison)other/multi — no single main genre in British Drama or Annals → outside the single-genre comparison · Annals: civic pageant
Play typeOccasional;Nonprofessional
Work / edition / TCP / DEEPwork 374 · edition 833 · TCP A07502 · DEEP 5078.06
Edition roleRepresentative edition — used in the analysis
First performance / composition (Annals)1621 [1620-1621]
First performance (BritDrama)1620 [late Oct or early Nov]
FormatOctavo
Greg374a
Genre (Annals)Entertainment
Genre (BritDrama)Civic Entertainment
BritDrama no.1964
Title page[HT; C3v] The property, to which this Speech especially hath Respect, was a deuice like a made Dish, expressing Two naked Armes breaking through a Cloud, supporting a wreath of Lawrell, being part of the Haberdashers Armes. { The First Entertainement, at his first Great Feast præparde to giue Welcome to his Owne Noble Fraternitie, the Company of Haberdashers.
Title-page performance noteAt the House of the Right Honorable Sir Francis Ihones.
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10–54429T19 Virtue, Fortune and Vice as abstractions0.73FRee Love, full welcome, bounty fair, & clear, E'en as it flows from Heaven, inhabit here, And with your Liber…
255–117408unassignedWHy well said, thus should Christmas be Lightsome, jocund, blithe and free, Now it looks like bounty's Palace,…
3118–134400unassignedAs I stand now between you, so it makes A perfect Virtue up, when it partakes Of each, and comes no nearer tha…