First Quarto

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First quarto is a bibliographic term, usually encountered in the study of English literature in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, especially in regard to the early printings of the plays of English Renaissance theatre. In the Tudor and Stuart periods, stage plays were generally published individually in quarto format. Popular works were published in multiple editions over time, then as now. They were small and cheap pamphlets called quarto due to way they were printed.

Method of printing

Quartos were printed on the two sides of large paper sheets, four printed pages to the side. This was folded twice and bound, giving eight printed pages. A few plays were printed in octavo, the sheet being folded thrice and yielding sixteen smaller pages for each "gathering."

Importance

None of Shakespeare’s original manuscripts survives, thus printed texts are the only source of his works. The quarto texts are the earliest references, and may preserve the foul papers (fair copies) he originally wrote.

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Bibliography^[1] (from Greek: βιβλιογραφία, bibliographia; lit. book writing) in its most general sense is the academic study of books as physical, cultural objects.
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The term English literature refers to literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; Joseph Conrad was Polish, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, Edgar Allan Poe
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English Renaissance theatre is English drama written between the Reformation and the closure of the theatres in 1642. It may also be called early modern English theatre. It includes the drama of William Shakespeare along with many other famous dramatists.
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The Tudor dynasty or House of Tudor (Welsh: Tudur) was an English royal dynasty that lasted 118 years, beginning in 1485.
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House of Stuart or Stewart was a royal house of the Kingdom of Scotland, later also of the Kingdom of England, and finally of the Kingdom of Great Britain. Mary Queen of Scots adopted the French spelling Stuart while in France to ensure that the Scots Stewart
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The size of a specific book is measured from the head to tail of the spine, and from edge to edge across the covers.

However, in bookbinding, printing, and publishing, a series of terms are used to indicate the approximate size of a book.
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Quarto could refer to:

Quarto, in bookbinding and publishing, when four leaves of a book are created from a standard size sheet of paper
Quarto (board game), a board game for two players made by Family Games Inc.

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Quarto could refer to:

Quarto, in bookbinding and publishing, when four leaves of a book are created from a standard size sheet of paper
Quarto (board game), a board game for two players made by Family Games Inc.

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Octavo (usually abbreviated 8vo, 8°, 8o, or Oct.) is a book size resulting from the use of standard size sheets of paper folded three times to make eight leaves. Each leaf is usually printed on each side, so this creates a signature of 16 pages in total.
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Foul papers is a term that refers to an author's working drafts, most often applied in the study of the plays of Shakespeare and other dramatists of English Renaissance drama.
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William Shakespeare

The Chandos portrait, artist and authenticity unconfirmed. National Portrait Gallery, London.
Born: April 1564 (exact date unknown)
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England
Died: 23 March 1616
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England
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William Shakespeare's earliest published plays are referred to as folios or quartos according to the size of the book. Folios are large, tall volumes; quartos are smaller, roughly half the size [see: Bookbinding].
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Bad quarto is a term and concept developed by twentieth-century Shakespeare scholars to explain some problems in the early transmission of the texts of Shakespearean works.
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Second quarto is a bibliographic term, most often encountered in the study of English literature in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, especially in regard to the early printings of the plays of English Renaissance theatre.
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First Folio is the term applied by modern scholars to the first published collection of William Shakespeare's plays; its actual title is Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies.
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Second Folio is the term applied to the 1632 edition of the works of William Shakespeare, updated after the First Folio of 1623.

Much language was updated; there are almost 1,700 changes from the First Folio.
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False Folio is the term that Shakespeare scholars and bibliographers have applied to William Jaggard's printing of ten Shakespearean and pseudo-Shakespearean plays together in 1619, the first attempt to collect Shakespeare's work in a single volume.
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