Bad quarto
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bad-quarto-242-8007943
title:
Bad quarto
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A bad quarto, in Shakespearean scholarship, is a quarto-sized printed edition of one of Shakespeare's plays that is considered to be unauthorised, and is theorised to have been pirated from a theatrical performance without permission by someone in the audience writing it down as it was spoken or, alternatively, written down later from memory by an actor or group of actors in the cast – the latter process has been termed "memorial reconstruction". Since the quarto derives from a performance, henc
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Poorly transcribed works of Shakespeare
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2024-04-10T23:17:08Z
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