Shakespeare quartos

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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.


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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

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
British Library
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