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
While sifting through details of how in the course of history someone passed on an obscure quarto edition to someone else, it is hard not to think that the curse is on the reader.
From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2019
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
Without the Folio, Shakespeare's plays – scattered around in playscripts or in smaller quarto editions – might have been lost to posterity.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 12, 2013
Major-General Forlong, of the British army, has also fully presented this subject in his recent quarto in two volumes, entitled Rivers of Life; or, Sources and Streams of the Faiths of Man in all Lands.
From The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Richard B. Westbrook
Before then, only 18 had been printed, in small paperback editions known as quartos.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2023
Some of the plays were printed individually while the Bard was alive, in small editions called quartos, apparently without his permission.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 4, 2015
Our knowledge of changes made to the quartos, as well as Florio's treatment of Boccaccio and Montaigne, suggests that there is a strong chance that they were.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 12, 2013
After his handbook, King began producing big, voluptuous hardback quartos, often using the photographs he had assembled for his guide.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2010
However, demand was fully re-established in the decade 1600-1609, and not just for the new more complex commentaries such as that of Clavius, published in fat quartos, but also for cheap octavo editions.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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