The Beggars Bush Play – Publication Chronology
This does not purport to be complete. All are in London except where stated. The list does not include Francis Kirkman‘s The Lame Commonwealth.
In addition a propmpt copy of the play survives, for which. see F. Bowers, ‘Beggars Bush: a reconstructed prompt-book and its copy’, Studies in Bibliography, 27 (1974) 113-136.
See also the Performance History.
1646 among 30 plays entered in Register of the Stationers Company by Robinson & Moseley
1647 Beggars Bush, Robinson & Moseley 1st folio, 7th of 37 plays
1661 Beggars Bush, Robinson & Moseley quarto (+ pirated edition by Francis Kirkman)
1668 Beggars Bush
1679 Beggars Bush, 2nd folio
1706 The Royal Merchant, or Beggars Bush, 1st ed.
1711 Beggars Bush in collected works 7 vols
1717 Beggars Bush
1724 Beggars Bush (in Dublin)
1735 Beggars Bush
1750 Beggars Bush, in collected works 10 vols
1761 The Royal Merchant, or Beggars Bush
1768 Hull, The Royal Merchant or Beggars Bush opera)
1778 Beggars Bush, in collected works 10 vols
1811 Beggars Bush, further edition
1812 Beggars Bush, in collected works 14 vols
1815 Kinnaird, The Merchant of Bruges
1816 The Royal Merchant, or Beggars Bush
1816 The Merchant of Bruges
1827 The Merchant of Bruges
1840 Beggars Bush, in collected works 2 vols
1845 Beggars Bush, in collected works 11 vols
1845 Beggars Bush, in collected works 11 vols (Boston)
1865 The Royal Merchant, or Beggars Bush
1865 The Merchant of Bruges
1866 Beggars Bush, in collected works 2 vols (as 1840)
1875 The Merchant of Bruges
1903-12 Beggars Bush, in collected works 4 vols
1905 Beggars Bush, Daniel edition
1906 Beggars Bush, in collected works 10 vols
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