title: The Sophy
title_page_title: THE SOPHY.
title_page_performance: As it was acted at the Private House in Black  Friars by his Majesties Servants.
title_page_imprint: L<small>ONDON</small>,  Printed by <i>Richard Hearne</i> for <i>Thomas Walkley</i>, and are to be sold  at his shop at the Signe of the Flying Horse betweene York-house and Britaines  Burse. 1642.
paratext_charachter_list: "Actors" [A2v]
stationer_entries_in_register: Aug 6, 1642: Entered to Thomas Walkley: "two bookes viz<sup>t</sup>. A Tragedy called *The Sophy. ... both of them by M<sup>r</sup> Iohn Denham" [<i>in margin</i> "vide Liber E: fol. 179"].<br />Feb 4, 1650: Transferred from Thomas Walkley to Humphrey Moseley: "a play called The Sophy a tragedy written by M<sup>r</sup> Iohn Denham Esq<sup>r</sup>".
stationer_additional_notes: <i>Annals</i> dates the first production of this play to 1641(?), but N. W. Bawcutt supplies a transcript of Henry Herbert's license from 1642: "The <i>Sophy</i>, by Sir John Denham all<sup>d</sup> to kings Comp. 1642" (<i>The Control and Censorship of Caroline Drama</i> [Clarendon, 1996], 210).
transcript_modern_spelling: The Sophy as it was acted at the private house in Blackfriars by his majesty's servants London printed by Richard Hearne for Thomas Walkley and are to be sold at his shop at the sign of the flying horse between York House and Britain's Burse 1642