Thomas Creede was responsible for a number of play texts beyond the confines of Shakespeariana.
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11 Facts About Thomas Creede
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Thomas Creede printed the sole quartos of the anonymous plays The Maid's Metamorphosis and The Wisdom of Doctor Dodypoll, both for Richard Olive, in 1600; he printed the first quartos of George Chapman's Monsieur D'Olive for William Holmes, and Beaumont and Fletcher's Cupid's Revenge and Wentworth Smith's Hector of Germany, both for Josias Harrison, and the second quarto of John Lyly's Mother Bombie for Cuthbert Burby.
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For Richard Hawkins, Thomas Creede printed The Tragedy of Mariam by Elizabeth Tanfield Cary, the first original tragedy by a woman author published in English.
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Richard Olive, Thomas Creede printed one of the more significant non-dramatic texts of English Renaissance drama, the 1592 pamphlet by Robert Greene known as Greene's Groats-Worth of Wit, which contains the earliest citation of Shakespeare in a theatrical context yet discovered.
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Inevitably, Thomas Creede worked on many non-dramatic projects, some of serious merit; in 1597 he printed the fifth edition of Spenser's The Shepherd's Calendar for John Harrison the Younger.
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Thomas Creede printed many of the prose romances of chivalry that were immensely popular in his era.
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For Cuthbert Burby, Thomas Creede printed the eighth volume of perhaps the most popular novel of the period, The Mirror of Knighthood.
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In some cases Thomas Creede functioned as a publisher as well as a printer, like Valentine Simmes and some others.
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Prose works by playwrights of the era, including Middleton, Greene, and Thomas Creede Dekker, issued from his press; Dekker's The Wonderful Year 1603, his account of the bubonic plague epidemic, is a noteworthy example.
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The records of the Stationers' Company show that in the summer of 1595, Thomas Creede was fined twice for violating the rules of the company.
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In 1616, Thomas Creede entered into a business partnership with Bernard Alsop, who took over the business in 1617, after Thomas Creede's death or retirement.
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