ENG 204 Lecture Notes - Polonius, First Folio, Bad Quarto
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View work and click on go to get the whole text to load. Change conceded tragedy to lamentable tragedy: could have be an publishing gimmick. Cut off right at the the: might have been an accident of the binding itself. Long s, looks like a f, it is an s it"s a font that is made based on a hand written font. Hamlet, 2nd quarto, 1605: bad quarto possibly based on reconstruction from the actor who play marcellus. Very short, about half the length of. Good quarto possibly based on a manuscript of shakespeare"s fair papers: actually had a byline, with his name later versions spelt correctly. Scenes are placed in different: name of the play was actually in the sequence. Corambis, completely different name for polonius: there were about 16 quarto"s printed. There is a difference in language between the two of them. Much more similar to the 1605 edition. A process of revising and correcting is going on.
