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bad quartos

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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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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
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