ENGL 3203 / 3313 Mercer

“Shakespeare’s Text,” 55-69

folio (F)

First Folio (F1): 1623

quarto (Q)

“good”quarto

“bad” quarto

memorial reconstruction

“foul papers”

“fair copy”

prompt-book

“He was not of an age, but for all time!” --Ben Jonson

compositors

stop-press correction

collation / collator

editors

copy-text

theatrical cut

emendation

old-spelling text

modern-spelling text

Textual Notes

concordance

Harvard Concordance to Shakespeare

Hinman’s Norton Facsimile: The First Folio of Shakespeare