History
The play was entered into the Register of the Stationers Company on 2 November 1604, and published in quarto in 1605 by the bookseller Thomas Thorpe (printing by George Eld). The text is preceded by commendatory verses from George Chapman and John Marston, among others, as well as an Epistle, in which Jonson states that the printed text is not the same as the version acted on stage two years previously by the King's Men.
A later 1616 edition features Jonson's Epistle to Lord Aubigny, in which the dramatist indicates that Sejanus was a flop when acted at the Globe Theatre. In the winter of 1618–19 Jonson told William Drummond of Hawthornden that the Earl of Northampton was his "mortal enemy" because Jonson had beaten one of the Earl's servants, and that Northampton had had Jonson called before the Privy Council on an accusation of "Popery and treason," based on Sejanus.
Read more about this topic: Sejanus His Fall
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