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Not in the so-called Quartos; for they are said by Shakespeare's intimate and dear friends to have been "maimed and deformed by the frauds and stealthes of injurious impostors," and taken down perhaps from the lips of some of the actors, bribed by stoops of liquor at
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 Various
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The only form in which any of Shakespeare's plays found their way into print during his lifetime was that of small pamphlets, called Quartos, which were sold at sixpence each. [
The Facts About Shakespeare William Allan Nielson
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In consequence of a corispondence with my first friend Mr Lofft, in which I ventured to suggest the removal of his notes in the Quartos and Octavos of the new work,
Letter 64 2009
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Just returnd the first proof of the Quartos; found that the subject as stated in the headline was thrown out of the arrangement by the different size of the paper; all else correct. —
Letter 62 2009
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I beg of you to consider it, and to make the notes stand at the end in the Quartos and Octavos now printing, as they will meet the publick eye first.
Letter 58 2009
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The worldwide collection of Shakespeare Quartos wi ...
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The worldwide collection of Shakespeare Quartos wi ...
Drexel University Libraries’ Scholarly Communication Symposium 2008
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The worldwide collection of Shakespeare Quartos wi ...
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Scholars who work on publishing many of the plays make careful choices about whether to use words from the First Folio, or the Quartos.
How Culture Affected Shakespeare, and He Affected Culture 2010
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The Folger also has more than two hundred examples of Shakespeare's Quartos.
How Culture Affected Shakespeare, and He Affected Culture 2010
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