Bad quarto
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A bad quarto, in Shakespearean scholarship, is a quarto-sized printed edition of one of Shakespeare's plays that is considered to be unauthorised, and is theorised to have been pirated from a theatric
Hamlet Q1 (1603), the first published text of Hamlet, is often described as a "bad quarto".
First Folio
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Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies is a collection of plays by William Shakespeare, commonly referred to by modern scholars as the First Folio, published in 1623, about seven y
Bad quarto
…used "memorial reconstruction", a phrase later used by other scholars – meaning, literally, a reconstruction of it from memory. For Shakespeare, the First Folio of 1623 is the crucial document; of the 36 plays contained in that collection, 18 have no other source. The other 18 plays had been printed in quarto…
Title page of the first impression (1623)
Memorial to William Shakespeare in the Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey
Table of Contents from the First Folio
Memorial to John Heminges and Henry Condell, editors of the First Folio, at Bassishaw, London