The wild-goose chase. A comedie. As it hath been acted with singular applause at the Black-Friers: being the noble, last, and onely remaines of those incomparable drammatists, Francis Beaumont, and John Fletcher, gent. Retriv'd for the publick delight of all the ingenious; and private benefit of John Lowin, and Joseph Taylor, servants to His late Majestie. By a person of honour.

People / Organizations

• Humpherey Moseley ("printed for")
• John Fletcher (Author)

Imprint

London: printed [by William Wilson] for Humpherey Moseley, and are to be sold at the Princes Armes in St Paules Church-yard, 1652.

Publication year

1652-1652

ESTC No.

R13818

Grub Street ID

61892

Description

[8], 56 p. ; 2⁰

Note

In fact by Fletcher alone (see dedication).

Acted at court in 1621, but not printed until 1652. In 1647 when the folio of Beaumont's and Fletcher's works was published, this play was omitted, as it had long been lost and was supposed to be irrecoverable. Cf. Preface to edition of 1647; Cambridge hist. of Eng. lit.; and Dyce, A. Works of Beaumont & Fletcher, 1845, v. 8, p. 102.

"The dedication to the honour'd, few, lovers of drammatick poesie" signed: John Lowin, Joseph Taylor.

Title words "Francis ... Fletcher" are gathered within braces.