@booklet {7053, title = {The Excellent Comedy, called The Old Law: Or A new way to please you. Acted before the King and Queene at Salisbury House, and at severall other places, with great Applause. Together with an exact and perfect Catalogue of all Players, with the Authors Names, and what are Comedies, Tragedies, Histories, Pastoralls, Masks, Interludes, more exactly Printed than ever before}, year = {1656}, note = {

Rpt. Ed. Catherine M. Shaw. New York: Garland, 1982. Critical ed. as \"An/The Old Law Or, A New Way to Please You\". Ed. Jeffrey Masten. In Thomas Middleton, Collected Works. Ed. Gary Taylor and Jay Lavagnino (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 2007), 1335-96 (Comment by Masten 1331-34). Additional textual commentary by Masten in Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture: A Companion to the Collected Works. Ed. Gary Taylor and Jay Lavagnino (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 2007), 1123-30.

}, month = {1656. Thomason{\textquoteright}s copy at the British Library indicates that it was published 6 August 1655, but it is 1656 in the book.}, publisher = {Ptd. for Edward Archer}, address = {London}, abstract = {

The establishment of a fixed period for the length of life and its effects. It was all a test of the people by the rulers.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Phil[ip] Massinger (1583-1640) and Tho[mas] Middleton (1580-1627) and William Rowley (1585?-1626)} }