Renaissance Drama — Topics · seed 42

London's Tempe, or The Field of Happiness

Dekker, Thomas, published 1629 · civic play; pageant · Occasional;Nonprofessional

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Metadata

TitleLondon's Tempe, or The Field of Happiness
AuthorDekker, Thomas
Publication year (edition)1629
Genre (British Drama)civic play; pageant
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 421 · edition 915 · TCP B01146 · DEEP 736
Edition roleRepresentative edition — used in the analysis
First performance / composition (Annals)1629 [Oct 29]
First performance (BritDrama)1629 [Oct 29]
PrinterOkes, Nicholas
PublisherOkes, Nicholas
FormatQuarto
STC6509
Greg421a
Genre (Annals)Civic Pageant
Genre (BritDrama)Civic Pageant
BritDrama no.2284
Title pageLondons Tempe, OR, The Feild of Happines. In which Feild are planted seuerall Trees of Magnificence, State and Bewty, to Celebrate the Solemnity of the Right Honorable Iames Campebell, At his Inauguration into the Honorable Office of Prætorship, or Maioralty of London, ... All the particular Inuentions, for the Pageants, Showes of Triumph, both by Water and land being here fully set downe,
Title-page performance noteon Thursday the 29 of October, 1629. ... At the sole Cost, and liberall Charges of the Right worshipfull Society of Ironmongers.
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10–79563unassignedTHus Mounted, hither comes the King of waves, Whose voice Charms roughest Billows into slaves, Whose Foot, tre…
280–140477T12 Olympian gods: Jupiter, Juno, Venus and 0.67Stop your Hammers: what ails Ioue? We are making arrows for my slip-string son, Here,— reach him those two doz…
3141–182453unassignedWElcome (great Praetor) Now hear Titan speak, Whose beams to Crown this Day, through Clouds thus Break My coac…