The preface to one of thequartos of 1609 classes it with the comedies, and the prologue inclines that way.
Vom Satiromastix sind, so viel mir bekannt wurde, vier Quartos vorhanden; und zwar befinden sich zwei in der Bibliothek des Britischen Museums, eine in der Dyce-Library und eine in der Bodleiana zu Oxford.
As he had the power of promoting and deposing whom he pleased, the 'crazy quartos and tottering folios' came creeping in as gifts instead of the ordinary fees and New Year's presents.
Now, to pass by the fact that these arrangements are in flat contradiction with the stage-directions of the Quartos and the Folio, consider their effect upon the scene.
The Quartos show other variations which seem to point to the fact that the MS.
We have no Quarto of Macbeth; and generally, where we have a Quarto or Quartos of a play, we find them longer than the Folio text.
Lintott engaged not to print any quartos except for Pope, but he printed the quarto pages on small folio, and sold each volume for half-a-guinea.
I mistake not, the man who publishes quartos on furniture and costume.
In the old quartosthere appears not a line in any foreign language.
Shakespeare's work is evidenced both by the imprint of the anonymous quartos and by the company which is stated to have produced them; for none of Shakespeare's genuine plays was published by this publisher or played by this company.
If the early quartos are founded on a text taken down by ear, we can readily understand that the foreign expressions, not being understood, should be omitted.
Thanks are due to Mrs Arnold Glover for collations of quartos in the British Museum and to R.
Misprints in the Quartos and the First Folio are recorded when they appear to be interesting.
Several quartos without date were printed in the same type.
A second quotation from Hamlet in the two quartos illustrates the same point even better.
In these parallel passages from the two quartos of Hamlet, is not the right-hand column, with its mingling of rapidly exchanged speech and description, much more vivid and moving?
Bergeret hereupon suddenly emerged from his day-dream, and leant forward to push the tottering pile of quartos close against the wall.
Roux cleared a seat for Madame Bergeret, while her husband’s thoughts strayed, first to the quartos stacked against the wall and then to his wife who had taken their place in the arm-chair.
They are not well written, these Four-and-twenty Quartos of his; written hastily, with quite other than literary objects.
By the results of that research he backs his opinion (and mine), that some of the quartos are surreptitious and bad, while others are good "and were honestly obtained.
We all know that these two friends of Shakespeare assert in their Preface to the Folio that they had used the Author's manuscripts, and in the same breath denounce the Quartos as stolen and surreptitious.
The Grand Possessors" of the play referred to in the Preface to one of the two quartos of 1609 we may suppose to be Shakespeare's Company.
We cannot be sure that he and his company, in fact, did not provide publishers with the copy for the better Quartosor pamphlets of separate plays, as Mr. Pollard argues on good grounds that they sometimes did.
Can the wit of man suggest any other explanation than that the editing of the Folio was carelessly done; out of the best quartos and MSS.
The Preface never denies this; never says that all the quartos contain maimed and disfigured texts.
King John, and Taming of the Shrew, appeared now in other form than in the hitherto published Quartos bearing these or closely similar names.
Great quartos and folios are mere mausoleums or repositories for expensive prints, too huge to handle, and too extensive for any one ever to look through, and therefore they afford little pleasure to the owners or their guests.
The quartos were separated from the octavos by a pile of smaller vessels, which rose in a delightful pyramid.
Boots handed in one larger jar, a Portuguese conserve, quartos de marmelas.
Portuguese beat all the world in sweetmeats, and quartos de marmelas beat all the rest.
Until the decline of the coloured engraving in the 'fifties of last century they were legion in number, both quartos and octavos, and many are still to be had for a few shillings.
There can be little doubt that in fifty years' time a collection of Beaumont and Fletcher's or Massinger's plays in the original quartos will be worth not merely double its present value, but quadruple and more.
On the other hand, the printing of the Nurse's speeches in italics in both Quartos is conclusive for identity of origin in that scene.
Nor can I enter, unless in a special monograph, on the relations of the Quartos to each other.
The usual explanation of the peculiar text of imperfectQuartos is, that notes were taken in shorthand at the theatre, which, eked out by the vampings of some playdresser, made up a saleable version, however incorrect.
When these alterations are compleated, not forgetting the watercloset, few authors of six Volumes in quartos will be more agreeably lodged than myself.
Certainly I am not lazy; elaborate quartos have proved, and will abundantly prove my diligence.
The three quartos will appear in the spring, but as to remaining in this country, he has not the slightest notion of it.
Now in comparing the Quartos with the First Folio Mr. Bayfield finds that of all the differences the most conspicuous is the elimination of resolutions, the tendency shown by the Quartos in this direction being aggravated in the Folio.
The trifling variations from the quartos were introduced when the matter was put into the folio size.
The simplest method is to have three sequences, for octavos, quartos and folios respectively, in appropriately sized shelves, in three different parts of the room.
The distance is abbreviated if the octavos, quartos and folios follow one another in each class.
A quarto volume was also found about the same time thrust in amongst other quartos in a shelf near the door, but the particulars of this case have been forgotten.
There are first quartosof many of Shakespeare's plays, and second editions of others[303]; of his collected works there are both the first and second folios.
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