In 1607 he transferred 16 copyrights to John Smethwick, among them three Shakespeare plays (Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and Love's Labour's Lost) as well as The Taming of a Shrew.
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This edition, printed by Valentine Simmes, has been widely condemned as a wildly inaccurate and badly printed travesty of the play.
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The first edition of Hamlet in print, the 1603 "First Quarto" printed by Valentine Simmes for Nicholas Ling's bookshop, has a shorter and more direct version of the speech.