quarto

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Or the notion that McCartney might very well have gleaned the phrase "let it be" from Shakespeare's "Hamlet" — but mercifully, not from the bad quarto, it turns out.

From Salon • Nov. 1, 2021

ESCADA, Brasil — Não se avistava viva alma na rua estreita e empoeirada, a não ser um gato que se esgueirava sob uma lua quarto minguante.

From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2017

Most editors of “Hamlet,” for instance, silently translate “porpentine” to “porcupine” without incurring outrage, though whether the porcupine is “fretful” or “fearful” depends on whether you follow the folio or the second quarto.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 6, 2015

While with plays such as Hamlet, Othello and King Lear we can compare the Folio against the quarto, for other plays – such as Antony and Cleopatra, The Tempest and Macbeth – we cannot.

From The Guardian • Jul. 12, 2013

In 1876 the cheap "quarto libraries" were started, reprinting an entire English novel, though on poor paper and often in dangerously poor type, for 10, 15, or 20 cents.

From Copyright: Its History and Its Law by Bowker, Richard Rogers