Excerpt from The Two Angry Women of Abington, 1599 No trace of the Two Angry Women has been found in the Register of the Stationers' Company, though there is nothing in the two editions which appeared with the date 1599 to suggest that the publication was surreptitious. Of these editions, which the ornaments show to have been both printed by Edward Allde, one purports to be published by William Ferrand, the other by Joseph Hunt and William Ferrand together, though only Firebrand's address is given. The latter was just starting in business, his first book having been entered in the Register on 3 May 1598. Typographical evidence is conclusive as to the edition bearing both names being the earlier, and since no other connexion between the two men is recorded it is legitimate to surmise that Hunts name only appears in acknowledgement of some rights claimed in the copy. The texts of the two editions do not differ very much. In the second the addition at 1. 2089 was clearly made by some one who had read the play; this, however, is made up for by the bodily omission of 1. 2096. Otherwise such corrections as are found may well have been the work of the compositor, while a plentiful crop of fresh errors appears. Altogether there seems no reason for selecting the second edition as the basis of a text, as is done by C. M. Gayley in his Representative English Comedies. Both editions are in quarto and both are printed in the same fount of roman type approximating in size to modern pica (20 11 = 82 mm.). 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.