title: The Misfortunes of Arthur (Certain Devices and Shows Presented to Her Majesty)
title_page_title: CERTAINE Deu[is]es and shewes
title_page_performance: presented to her MAIESTIE by the Gentlemen of <i>Grayes-Inne</i> at her Highnesse Court in Greenewich, <i>the twenty eighth day of</i> Februarie in  the thirtieth yeare of her MAIESTIES most happy Raigne.
title_page_imprint: AT LONDON  Printed by Robert Robinson. 1587.
paratext_charachter_list: "The names of the speakers" [A1v]
paratext_other_paratexts: Half-title [π4v]; note on speeches penned by others instead of by Thomas Hughes [F4v]; "A speach penned by William Fulbecke gentleman, one of the societie of Grayes-Inne" [G1r]; "One other speeche penned by the same gentleman" [G1v]; note on choruses for the first and second acts written by Francis Flower, and dumb shows devised by Christopher Yelverton, Francis Bacon, John Lancaster, Francis Flower, and others, and directed at court by Flower, "Maister Penroodocke" and "Maister Lancaster" [G2r]
stationer_additional_notes: The imprint date follows the legal reckoning. The half-title reads [π4v]: "The misfortunes of Arthur (V<i>ther Pendragons Sonne) reduced into Tragicall notes by</i> THOMAS HVGHES <i>one of the societie of</i> Grayes-Inne. <i>And here set downe as it past from vnder his handes and as it was presented, excepting certaine wordes and lines, where some of the Actors either helped their memories by brief omission: or fitted their acting by some alteration. With a note in the ende, of such speaches as were penned by others in lue of some of these hereafter following." 
transcript_modern_spelling: Certain devices and shows presented to her majesty by the gentlemen of Gray's Inn at her highness' court in Greenwich the twenty-eighth day of February in the thirtieth year of her majesty's most happy reign. At London Printed by Robert Robinson. 1587.