Shakespeare quartos

E47931

bibliographical corpus early printed editions editions of plays

Shakespeare quartos are early, individually printed editions of William Shakespeare’s plays that provide crucial evidence about the texts’ original forms and their publication history.

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	bibliographical corpus → early printed editions → editions of plays →
associatedWith	William Shakespeare →
comparedWith	Shakespeare folios →
format	quarto →
genre	drama →
hasSubset	Pavier quartos → bad quartos → first quartos → good quartos → second quartos →
includesEditionOf	1 Henry IV → 2 Henry IV → A Midsummer Night’s Dream → Hamlet → Henry V → King John → King Lear → Love’s Labour’s Lost → Much Ado About Nothing → Othello → Pericles → Richard II → Richard III → Romeo and Juliet → The Merchant of Venice → The Merry Wives of Windsor → The Taming of the Shrew → The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York → The Two Gentlemen of Verona → The Whole Contention Between the Two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster → Titus Andronicus → Troilus and Cressida →
language	English →
materialForm	printed book →
printedIn	early modern England →
printingTechnique	letterpress printing →
providesEvidenceFor	original forms of Shakespeare’s plays → publication history of Shakespeare’s plays → textual variants in Shakespeare’s plays →
relatedTo	First Folio of Shakespeare →
studiedBy	Shakespeare scholars → bibliographers → textual critics →
timePeriod	early 17th century → late 16th century →
usedIn	bibliographical studies → editorial work on Shakespeare’s plays → textual criticism of Shakespeare →

Referenced by (1)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
British Library →	hasCollection