Memorial reconstruction
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Memorial reconstruction is the hypothesis that the scripts of some 17th century plays were written down from memory by actors who had played parts in them, and that those transcriptions were published
The "To be, or not to be" soliloquy from the 1603 quarto of Hamlet
The "bad" quarto of The Merry Wives of Windsor, the first text analysed by using the method.
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
Memorial reconstruction
…by actors who had played parts in them, and that those transcriptions were published. The theory is suggested as an explanation for the so-called "bad quarto" versions of plays, in which the texts differ dramatically from later published versions, or appear to be corrupted or confused. The theory however is…
Hamlet Q1 (1603), the first published text of Hamlet, is often described as a "bad quarto".