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Moseley's last will and testament named his "dear and loving wife" Anne
Moseley and his "dutiful child and only daughter," also named Anne, as his executrices. They carried on the business after his death. (Two of Moseley's workers, Henry Penton and John Langford, received bequests of ÂŁ5 each in the
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Moseley collected a large body of dramatic manuscripts during the years the theatres were closed during the
Puritan regime (1642–60), with the likely intent of future publication. Any such plans were forestalled by his untimely death at the very beginning of the
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were generally hostile to drama and imaginative literature, and closed the theatres during their rule. Moseley was known to have
Royalist sympathies himself—which makes his role as publisher to the Puritan Milton surprising.
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Moseley has earned the respect and praise of bibliographers and collectors for the quality and selection of his output. He is also a footnote in
Shakespeare studies, due to two sets of entries Moseley made in the
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Though elected a warden, Moseley never attended any of the sessions of the Court of
Assistants, which was one of the wardens' duties. Perhaps his health was already failing in 1659.
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will – provided they continued to work for the firm.) When the widow
Moseley eventually liquidated the business, many of the Moseley copyrights were purchased by
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conflict that dominated their generation, the poets and playwrights published by
Moseley were, in the main, Royalist sympathizers—almost inevitably, since the
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and Ianthe) – all allegedly by
Shakespeare. Scholars have generally rejected the idea of such plays as Shakespearean works, but now the
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Moseley dominated the market for English poetry, issuing a series of single-poet collections—most prominently
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Iphis and Iantha, or A Marriage Without a Man, a Comedy
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530:. Vol. 39. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
686:The Masque of the Inner Temple and Gray's Inn
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1048:Four Plays, or Moral Representations, in One
503:Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002.
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289:attribution and the supposed derived work
232:of the Stationers Company that touch upon
494:A Shakespeare Companion 1564–1964.
538:no. 6 (November 1934), pp. 73–108.
29:(died 31 January 1661) was a prominent
1265:English book and manuscript collectors
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73:. Moseley issued a range of important
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1098:with Massinger, Chapman & Jonson
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430:, and the Paradox of Licensing.""
59:first Beaumont and Fletcher folio
679:The Knight of the Burning Pestle
527:Dictionary of National Biography
514:Sutton, Charles William (1894).
426:"Sabrina Alcorn Baron, "Milton,
16:English publisher and bookseller
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258:as the work of Shakespeare and
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501:King Lear and Its Afterlife.
268:The History of King Stephen,
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1113:The Fair Maid of the Inn
1024:The Honest Man's Fortune
913:The Little French Lawyer
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465:The Careless Shepherdess
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1103:Rollo, Duke of Normandy
850:The Humorous Lieutenant
477:Plomer, pp. xviii, 133.
81:playwrights, including
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1280:Collectors from London
1139:Wit at Several Weapons
506:Plomer, Henry Robert.
1066:The Two Noble Kinsmen
1000:Thierry and Theodoret
574:Beaumont and Fletcher
21:Humphrey Moseley (MP)
1093:The Maid in the Mill
1031:The Queen of Corinth
941:The Lovers' Progress
871:The Wild Goose Chase
499:Holland, Peter, ed.
180:; he also published
47:St Paul's Churchyard
1275:English booksellers
1229:(possibly based on
1038:The Knight of Malta
927:The Double Marriage
857:The Island Princess
769:The Noble Gentleman
614:William Shakespeare
250:, and plays titled
244:William Shakespeare
948:The Spanish Curate
878:A Wife for a Month
748:A King and No King
741:The Maid's Tragedy
190:The Art of Angling
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794:The Woman's Prize
762:The Scornful Lady
755:Love's Pilgrimage
182:Sir Francis Bacon
137:Sir John Suckling
99:William D'Avenant
71:Francis Constable
67:Humphrey Robinson
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1194:Humphrey Moseley
1076:The Night Walker
1053:with Shakespeare
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601:Philip Massinger
587:Francis Beaumont
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1170:Performance
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1088:with Rowley
1014:Love's Cure
864:The Pilgrim
829:The Chances
801:Valentinian
734:The Captain
720:The Coxcomb
522:Lee, Sidney
461:The Old Law
299:Post mortem
234:Shakespeare
223:Shakespeare
200:edition of
168:Other works
158:Restoration
106:John Milton
1254:Categories
1184:King's Men
1059:Henry VIII
1043:with Field
989:and others
639:Ben Jonson
485:References
174:alchemists
117:John Donne
97:, and Sir
1158:(Shirley)
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897:Massinger
727:Philaster
634:John Ford
440:7 October
145:Roundhead
1231:Cardenio
987:Fletcher
779:Fletcher
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671:Beaumont
312:See also
287:Cardenio
256:Henry II
239:Cardenio
230:Register
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141:Cavalier
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75:Jacobean
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