Entered on the Stationers’ register 2 May, 1608, as by "Wylliam Shakespeare". Evidence available is not sufficient to ascribe the play to him - cf. Camb. Engl. lit., etc.
Printed [by Nicholas Okes] for Nathaniel Butter, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the Pide Bull neere St. Austins Gate
Subject (Name):
Butter, Nathaniel, d. 1664, publisher and Okes, Nicholas, printer
Manuscript copy, in an unidentified seventeenth-century hand, of a text of Macbeth very similar to the Sir William Davenant version published in 1674. Ten pages supplied in a modern hand.
Description:
Binding: 18th century marbled boards; contemporary cloth case.
Subject (Name):
D'Avenant, William,--Sir,--1606-1668, Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616, Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616.--Macbeth, and Turner, William,--Sir,--1615-1692--Ownership