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unusual facts about Bad Quarto


Bad quarto

A few critics — Eric Sams is one example, Hardin Craig another — disputed the entire concept of memorial reconstruction, pointing out that, unlike shorthand reporting, there was no reliable historical evidence that actors ever reconstructed plays from memory.


Corambis

Corambis is also the name of a character equivalent to Polonius in the Bad Quarto of Hamlet.

Quarto

Bibliographer Alfred W. Pollard named those editions Bad quartos, and it is speculated that they may have been produced, not from manuscript texts, but from actors who had memorized their lines.


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