title: A Mad World, My Masters
title_page_title: A MAD WORLD, MY MASTERS.
title_page_author: Composed by T. M.
title_page_performance: <i>As it hath bin lately in Action by the Children of Paules</i>.
title_page_imprint: LONDON, Printed by <i>H. B.</i> for W<small>ALTER</small> B<small>VRRE</small>, and are to be sold in Paules Church-yard,  at the signe of the Crane. 1608.
stationer_entries_in_register: Oct 4, 1608: Entered to Walter Burre and Eleazar Edgar: "A booke called. A Mad World (my Maysters)".<br />Apr 19, 1613: Transferred from Eleazar Edgar to John Hodgets: "A half p<i>ar</i>te of A playe called A mad world my maisters".<br />Jul 3, 1630: Transferred from the widow of Walter Burre to John Spencer: "A mad world my masters."
stationer_additional_notes: <i>Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture</i> dates the first production to Summer 1605; <i>Annals</i> dates it to 1606 [1604-1607]. For the printers of this edition, see Peter Saccio, "A Mad World, My Masters," in <i>Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture</i>, 586-87.
transcript_modern_spelling: A mad world my masters as it hath been lately in action by the children of Paul's composed by T.M. London printed by H.B. for Walter Burre and are to be sold in Paul's Churchyard at the sign of the Crane 1608