title: Christ's Passion
variant_description: There are three issues of this edition, each of which exists in variant states. <b>Issue 1</b> contains the original preliminary half-sheet a<sup>4</sup>, the imprint for which lists Legat as printer. There are two settings of the inner form of sheet A: Greg 579a(i*) contains the readings "<i>Herods</i>" [A1v, line 8] and "conscious of" [A8r, line 15]; Greg 579a(i†) contains "Herods" and "conscious to." <b>Issue 2</b>, Greg 579a(ii*) and Greg 579a(ii†), the original half-sheet a<sup>4</sup> was replaced by the cancel sheet a<sup>8</sup>, which adds commendatory verses [a5r], a list of errata [a8r], and "In the Annotations" [a8r]. This issue contains the same variant states of the inner form of sheet A. <b>Issue 3</b>, the title leaf of the second issue [a3r] was replaced by a cancel title leaf, which lists "I. L." as printer and Leake as bookseller. It contains the same variant states of the inner form of sheet A, and its title page also exists in two states: Greg 579a(iii*<sup>1</sup>,*<sup>2</sup>) and Greg 579a(iii†<sup>1</sup>,*<sup>2</sup>) list the play as a "TRAGEDIE"; Greg 579a(iii*<sup>1</sup>,†<sup>2</sup>) and Greg 579a(iii†<sup>1</sup>,†<sup>2</sup>) list the play as a "TRAGEDY." See also Greg 
title_page_title: CHRISTS PASSION. A TRAGEDY. WITH ANNOTATIONS.
title_page_imprint: LONDON, Printed by <i>I. L.</i> and are to be sold by <i>William Leake</i>, at his Shop in Chancery-lane, neere unto the Rowles. 1640.
paratext_dedication: Epistle <i>to</i>: Charles I, King; <i>from</i>: George Sandys [a4r]
  
paratext_charachter_list: "The Persons" [a8v]
paratext_other_paratexts: Note on authorship [E5v]; "Annotations" [E6r]
stationer_entries_in_register: Oct 9, 1639: Entered to John Legat (2): "a booke called Christs Passion. a Tragedy. w<sup>th</sup>. Annotations by Geo: Sands Esq<sup>r</sup>."
transcript_modern_spelling: Christ's passion a tragedy with annotations London printed by J.L. and are to be sold by William Leake at his shop in Chancery lane near unto the Rolls 1640