Drama
In his substantial career, Cotes was a major producer of play texts of English Renaissance drama. He printed the first quarto of The Two Noble Kinsmen (1634) for publisher John Waterson, and the second edition of Fletcher's The Faithful Shepherdess (1629) for Richard Meighen, who was one of the partners in the Second Folio syndicate. He printed more than a dozen plays for Andrew Crooke and William Cooke, including many by James Shirley; he printed Pathomachia for Francis Constable. His quartos of Pericles, Prince of Tyre (1635) and The Bloody Banquet (1639) were rare instances in which Cotes functioned as both publisher and printer. In an age when the two functions were often separate, Cotes largely confined himself to printing, and left publishing to booksellers like Meighen, Crooke and Cooke, and others.
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