Excerpt from A Pleasant Conceited Comedie: Wherein Shewed How a Man May Choose a Good Wife From a Bad The attribution to joseph Cooke inserted on the title page is puzzling. The hand is similar to that of other inscriptions on the title-pages of plays formerly in the Garrick Collection, to which this particular volume also once belonged. Beyond this attribution nothing, apparently, seems known of the name. It may, or may not, be a mistaken reading of Jo. (i.e. John) Cooke, described by Hazlitt as an actor, and the writer of Greene's Tu Quoque, who, according to the 1614. The e.m. Catalogue makes a triple entry - under the main. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.