title: Love's Cruelty
title_page_title: LOVES CRVELTIE. A TRAGEDY,
title_page_author: Written by <i>James Shirley</i> Gent.
title_page_performance: As it was presented by her Majesties Servants, at the private House in <i>Drury</i> Lane.
title_page_imprint: <i>LONDON</i>, Printed by <i>Tho. Cotes</i>, for <i>Andrew Crooke</i>. 1640.
paratext_dedication: Epistle <i>to</i>: George Porter (<i>royalist army officer</i>); and Charles Porter (<i>son of Endymion Porter; brother of George</i>); <i>from</i>: "W. A." [A2r]
stationer_entries_in_register: Apr 25, 1639: Entered to Andrew Crooke (1) and William Cooke: "these five playes  vidlt ... Loues Cruellty".<br />Nov 29, 1639: Entered to John Williams (1) and Francis Eglesfield: "Two Playes viz<sup>t</sup>. ... a Tragedy called Loues Crueltie. by Iames Shirley". Entry canceled, with note in margin: "Loues Crueltie is Entred before to m<sup>r</sup> Crooke".
transcript_modern_spelling: Love's cruelty a tragedy as it was presented by her majesty's servants at the private house in Drury Lane written by James Shirley Gent. London printed by Tho. Cotes for Andrew Crooke 1640