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Q1 of Hamlet (also called the " First Quarto ", full title The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke) is a short early text of the Shakespearean play. The intended publication of the play is entered in the Stationers' Register in 1602 by James Roberts, but Q1 was not published until summer or autumn 1603.
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Q1 of Hamlet (also called the " First Quarto ", full title The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke) is a short early text of the Shakespearean play. The intended publication of the play is entered in the Stationers' Register in 1602 by James Roberts, but Q1 was not published until summer or autumn 1603.
Hamlet was published in three widely variant versions. The First Quarto (Q1, 1603) was apparently unauthorized, and differs greatly from the Second Quarto (Q2, 1604), which may have been based on Shakespeare's own papers.
The term quarto refers to the size of paper many of Shakespeare’s plays were originally printed on. A quarto is formed when a full sheet of paper is folded in fourths, creating eight pages. Quartos were about half the size of folios, and cheaper to produce. Eighteen, or half, of the plays in the First Folio were printed separately as quartos.
