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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

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

While with plays such as Hamlet, Othello and King Lear we can compare the Folio against the quarto, for other plays – such as Antony and Cleopatra, The Tempest and Macbeth – we cannot.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 12, 2013

In a library full of old and obscure texts, the 234-page quarto was older and more obscure than most.

From Slate ● Dec. 12, 2012

The Dramatis Personæ are not given in the quarto of 1640 nor in the 2nd folio.

From Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (3 of 10): The Loyal Subject by Francis Beaumont

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

During his lifetime, quartos, small hand-held books sold on the street like paperbacks, were published, without his permission or approval, in pirated editions.

From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2021

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