quarto

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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

ESCADA, Brasil — Não se avistava viva alma na rua estreita e empoeirada, a não ser um gato que se esgueirava sob uma lua quarto minguante.

From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2017

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

The English quarto, like the Dutch, also gave rise in time to a call for a cheap abridgment, and it appeared in 1639, as “The Most delectable history of Reynard the Fox.”

From The Grotesque in Church Art by Wildridge, T. Tindall