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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

Among his numerous works, several of which have been translated into German, is a valuable “History of Monmouthshire,” in two volumes, quarto.

From A Biographical Sketch of some of the Most Eminent Individuals which the Principality of Wales has produced since the Reformation by Robert Williams

Before then, only 18 had been printed, in small paperback editions known as quartos.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2023

A couple of these men, John Heminges and Henry Condell, come up with the wild idea to publish all of Shakespeare’s scripts in a handsome bound folio rather than the cheap unauthorized quartos then available.

From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2017

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

Nor should we assume that Shakespeare's quartos represent "pure", unadulterated texts.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 12, 2013

Between the rose bowls the books were duly set out—a row of nursery quartos opened invitingly each at some gaily coloured image of beast or fish or bird.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley