title: The Cardinal
title_page_title: THE CARDINAL, A TRAGEDIE,
title_page_author: WRITTEN By J<small>AMES</small> S<small>HIRLEY</small>.
title_page_performance: AS It was acted at the private House IN <i>BLACK FRYERS</i>,
title_page_imprint: <i>Not Printed before. LONDON</i>, Printed for <i>Humphrey Robinson</i> at the Three Pigeons, and <i>Humphrey Moseley</i> at the Prince's Arms in St. <i>Paul's</i> Church-yard. 1652.
paratext_dedication: Epistle <i>to</i>: "G. B. Esq;"; <i>from</i>: James Shirley [A2r, misprinted A3]
  
paratext_charachter_list: "Persons" [A4v]
paratext_other_paratexts: "A Catalogue of the Authors Poems already Printed" [F4r]
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>] ... Cardinall ... by M<sup>r</sup> Shirley".
stationer_additional_notes: Although this edition is bibliographically independent and although copies of the plays in the 1653 Shirley collection "sometimes occur singly," Greg writes that there is "no evidence" this play was "ever issued separately" (<i>Bibliography</i>, 3:1123).
transcript_modern_spelling: The cardinal a tragedy as it was acted at the private house in blackfriars written by James Shirley not printed before London printed for Humphrey Robinson at the three pigeons and Humphrey Moseley at the prince's arms in St. Paul's Churchyard 1652