Tarlton's News out of purgatory (1590) : a modern-spelling edition ...

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in, and then a further note by Malone:
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20 Dec 1576 Richd Jones entered in the Stat.
Register Tarleton's Toyes
5 Peb 1577-8 Tarletons Tragicall Treatises
eonteyning sundrie discourses and pretle eonceiptes
both in prose and verse entered by H. Bynneman
7 Feb 1578-9 Tarletons Devise upon these unlocked
for great snowe" ent. by Jn Aide
Tarletons Farewell entered in Sept 1588
On the fly leaf Malone has written a list of the contents of
the volume, on which Tarltons Newes Out of Purgatorie is the
second item:
2 Tarlton f s Newes out of Purgatorie
no date but probably
printed in ———— 1591
After f in f a date (which looks like 1591) has been scratched
out and a line drawn over the mark. There are ten items in
the volume, and at the end of the list is written,
On these pieces Shakspeare founded the following
plays - As You Like It - [The Mer crossed out] -
one incident in the Merry Wives of Windsor - The
Winter's Tale - The Taming of the Shrew - King
John - 2pts of Henry IV & Henry V - Measure for
Measure - Comedy of Errors - King Lear - Romeo
and Juliet. E.M.
On the title page of the copy of Tarltons Newes Out of
Purgatorie Malone has added '1590' after the word 'White 1 on
the last line. On the verso of the title page he has written,
The following Entry is on the Stationers'
Books. 26 Jun. 1590 Thomas Gubbins - Thomas
Newman - Allowed unto them for their copie
under the hand of the Bishop of London and
both the Wardens Tarlton's "Newes out of
Purgatorie or a Casket full of pleasaunt
conceipts stuffed with delightful devises
and quainte myrthe as his humours may afforde
to feede gentlemen's fancies"
This piece was therefore probably published
in 1590; and was entered by Gubbins & Newman
for Edw. White - In like manner Elizabetha
Triumphans was printed in 1588 by Gubbins &
Newman and sold by Th. Orwin: ,, M n
E. Malone