Excerpt from The Tragical Reign of Selimus, 1594 No entry of Selimar has been found on the Stationers' Registers. The play was printed in quarto by Thomas Creede with the date 1594, and this is the only edition known. It is described on the title-page as The First part of the Tragicall raigne of Selimus, ' and the epilogue promises a continuation, but there is no evidence that any such second part was ever written. In 1 638 the unsold stock was issued by John Crooke and Richard Serger, with a new title-page as The Tragedy ...
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Excerpt from The Tragical Reign of Selimus, 1594 No entry of Selimar has been found on the Stationers' Registers. The play was printed in quarto by Thomas Creede with the date 1594, and this is the only edition known. It is described on the title-page as The First part of the Tragicall raigne of Selimus, ' and the epilogue promises a continuation, but there is no evidence that any such second part was ever written. In 1 638 the unsold stock was issued by John Crooke and Richard Serger, with a new title-page as The Tragedy of Selimus Emperour of the Turkes. Written [by] T. G.' These initials are supposed to refer to Thomas Goffe, whose Turkish tragedies were then fairly recent. The prologue, which occupied the verso of the cancelled title-page, was not reprinted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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