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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

And in Henry VI, Part Two, the Folio version has the King enter "on the Tarras", a somewhat redundant elaboration on the King's entrance in the quarto.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 12, 2013

Suddenly, she got to her feet, unrolled the last quarto, and placed the cover over the machine.

From Submarine U93 by Charles Gilson

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

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2023

The others, often differing in numerous details, first appeared in the 1590s and early 1600s as cheap pamphlets called quartos.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 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

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

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