title: The Old Law, or A New Way to Please You
title_page_title: THE <i>Excellent Comedy, called</i> THE OLD LAW: OR A new way to please you. ... Together with an exact and perfect Catalogue of all the Playes, with the Authors Names, and what are Comedies, Tragedies, Histories, Pastoralls, Masks, Interludes, more exactly Printed then ever before.
title_page_author: By {<i>Phil. Massinger.</i> | <i>Tho. Middleton</i>. | <i>William Rowley</i>.
title_page_performance: Acted before the King and Queene at <i>Salisbury House</i>, and at severall other places, with great Applause.
title_page_imprint: <i>LONDON</i>, Printed for <i>Edward Archer</i>, at the signe of the <i>Adam</i> and <i>Eve</i>, in <i>Little Britaine</i>. 1656.
paratext_charachter_list: "Persons of the Play" [A2v]
paratext_other_paratexts: "An Exact and perfect Catalogue of all the Plaies that were ever printed; together, with all the Authors names; and what are Comedies, Histories, Interludes, Masks, Pastorels, Tragedies: And all these Plaies you may either have at the Signe of the Adam and Eve, in Little Britain; or, at the Ben Johnson's Head in Thredneedle-street, over against the Exchange" [a1r]
stationer_additional_notes: <i>Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture</i> attributes the play to Middleton, Rowley, and Heywood and dates the first production to 1618-1619; <i>Annals</i> attributes it to Middleton, Rowley, and Massinger and dates it to 1618(?).
transcript_modern_spelling: The excellent comedy called the old law or a new way to please you by Phil. Massinger Tho. Middleton William Rowley acted before the king and queen at Salisbury house and at several other places with great applause together with an exact and perfect catalogue of all the plays with the authors' names and what are comedies tragedies histories pastorals masques interludes more exactly printed than ever before London printed for Edward Archer at the sign of the Adam and Eve in Little Britain 1656