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LIST OF QUARTO EDITIONS OF SHAKESPEARE’S WORKS BEFORE 1628


  Entry in Stationers’ Register Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9
Venus and Adonis Apr. 18, 1593 1593 1594 ?[1] 1596 1599 1599 1602 1617 1620
Lucrece May 9, 1594 1594 1598 1600 1607 1616        
Titus Andronicus Feb. 6, 1594 1594 1600 1611            
Richard II Aug. 29, 1597 1597 1598 1598 1608[2] 1615        
Richard III Oct. 20, 1597 1597 1598 1602 1605 1612 1622      
Romeo and Juliet } No entry of either till Jan. 22, 1607 1597 1599 1609 n.d.[2]          
Love’s Labour’s Lost ?[3] 1598              
1 Henry IV Feb. 25, 1598 1598[4] 1599 1604 1608 1613 1622      
Merchant of Venice July 17, 1598[5] 1600 ‘1600’
(1619)[6] 		             
Henry V Aug. 4, 1600 1600 1602 ‘1608’
(1619)[6] 		           
Much Ado about Nothing Aug. 4, 1600[5] 1600                
2 Henry IV Aug. 23, 1600 1600                
Midsummer Night’s Dream Oct. 8, 1600 1600 ‘1600’
(1619)[6] 		             
Merry Wives of Windsor Jan. 18, 1602 1602 1619              
Hamlet July 26, 1602 1603 1604
1605[7] 		1611 n.d.          
Lear Nov. 26, 1607 1608 ‘1608’
(1619)[6] 		             
Sonnets May 20, 1609 1609                
Troilus and Cressida Feb. 7, 1603[5] 1609[2]                
Pericles May 20, 1608 1609 1609 1611 1619          
Othello Oct. 6, 1621 1622                
  1. ↑ Only one fragmentary copy known, from which title-page and date are missing.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 There are two issues of this edition with differing title-pages only. (The later issue of Troilus and Cressida adds a preface.)
  3. ↑ No copy known, but there is reason to believe that the 1598 edition was not the first.
  4. ↑ There is a fragmentary copy thought to be earlier than this.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Provisional entries. Later entries of Merchant of Venice, Oct. 28, 1600; Much Ado, Aug. 28, 1600; Troilus and Cressida, Jan. 28, 1609.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Spurious edition bearing false date, really printed in 1619.
  7. ↑ Some copies of the second edition of Hamlet are dated 1604, others 1605.
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