title: The Variety
title_page_title: THE VARIETIE, A COMOEDY,
title_page_performance: Lately presented by His Majesties Servants at the <i>Black-Friers</i>.
title_page_imprint: <i>LONDON</i>, Printed for <i>Humphrey Moseley</i>, and are to be sold at his Shop at the <i>Princes Armes</i> in St. <i>Pauls</i> Church-yard. 1649.
paratext_charachter_list: "Dramatis personæ" [A2r]
stationer_entries_in_register: Sep 4(?), 1646: Entered to Humphrey Robinson and Humphrey Moseley: "these seu<i>er</i>al Tragedies & Comedies herevnder menc<i>i</i>oned (viz<sup>t</sup>.) [(Saluo iure cuiusumq<i>ue</i>) <i>deleted</i>] ... Varieties ... by my Lord of Newcastle."
stationer_additional_notes: <i>Annals</i> dates the first production of this play to 1639-1642, but N. W. Bawcutt supplies a transcript of Henry Herbert's license from 1641: "Variety Com: with several reformations made by Shirley 1641. My Lo<sup>d</sup> Newcastle, as is said hath some hand in it. 1641 allowed upon review without exception" (<i>The Control and Censorship of Caroline Drama</i> [Clarendon, 1996], 209).
transcript_modern_spelling: The variety a comedy lately presented by his majesty's servants at the blackfriars London printed for Humphrey Moseley and are to be sold at his shop at the Prince's arms in St. Paul's Churchyard 1649