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bad quartos

Early editions of Shakespeare's plays with incomplete or highly corrupt texts. They are (with dates publication): Henry VI, Part II (1594), Henry VI, Part III (1595), Henry V (1600), Romeo and Juliet (1597), Hamlet (1603), and The Merry Wives of Windsor (1602).

These were pirated editions published by printers who used foul papers (an author's drafts), prompt books (annotated editions used by theatre companies), or versions written down in shorthand during performances. The standard editions of these plays appeared in the First Folio of 1623.
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Bad quartos have been relieved of what might be taken as a moral stigma, and each of them has been claimed to be a good text, "a work of art in its own right" (265, citing Graham Holderness and Bryan Loughrey).
Shakespeare in Print: A History and Chronology of Shakespeare ... by Foakes, R.A. / Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England
In a rigorously constructed experiment, Maguire proceeds to examine the twenty-eight features, which for the New Bibliographers characterized the bad quartos, to ascertain what they might indicate.
Shakespearean Suspect Texts: The "Bad" Quartos and Their Contexts by Robinson, Marsha S. / Renaissance Quarterly
In terms of new plays (as opposed to reprints), the publication record beyond 1600 is sparse, particularly if we exclude the so-called bad quartos (and the apocrypha): Hamlet (1604/5), Lear (1608), Troilus and Cressida (1609), Othello (1622)--these were the only new plays to appear between 1601 and the publication of the First Folio in 1623.
Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist by Murphy, Andrew / Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England
 
 
 
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