Quarto (abbreviated Qto, 4to or 4º) is the format of a book or pamphlet produced from full sheets printed with eight pages of text, four to a side, then...
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The Quarto Group is a global illustrated book publishing group founded in 1976. It is domiciled in the United States and listed on the London Stock Exchange...
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impression. Early quarto texts of Shakespeare's works: Folios and Quartos Bad quarto Quarto Group, a London-based publishing house Quarto, a traditional...
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A bad quarto, in Shakespearean scholarship, is a quarto-sized printed edition of one of Shakespeare's plays that is considered to be unauthorised, and...
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Early texts of Shakespeare's works (redirect from First Quarto)
published during the 16th and 17th centuries in quarto or folio format. Folios are large, tall volumes; quartos are smaller, roughly half the size. The publications...
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Genoa (redirect from Quarto di Genova)
Ligurian: Zêna [ˈzeːna]) is a city in and the capital of the Italian region of Liguria, and the sixth-largest city in Italy. As of 2025, 563,947 people...
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To be, or not to be (section First Quarto (1603))
the First Quarto, also known as the "Bad Quarto", published in 1603; the Second Quarto, or "Good Quarto" of 1604; and the version included in the First...
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1603 quarto text is considered a bad quarto, and was one of the original texts in relation to which Alfred W. Pollard coined the term. The 1603 quarto (Q1)...
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Quarto is a board game for two players invented by Swiss mathematician Blaise Müller. It is published and copyrighted by Gigamic. The game is played on...
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Shakespeare's sonnets (section The quarto of 1609)
published all together in a quarto in 1609. However, there are six additional sonnets that Shakespeare wrote and included in the plays Romeo and Juliet...
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In the cuisine of modern Rome quinto quarto (lit. 'fifth quarter') is the offal of butchered animals. The name makes sense on more than one level: because...
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Hamlet (category Plays set in Denmark)
different early versions of the play are extant: the First Quarto (Q1, 1603); the Second Quarto (Q2, 1604); and the First Folio (F1, 1623). Each version...
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survive: known as the First Quarto ("Q1"), Second Quarto ("Q2"), and First Folio ("F1"), each has lines—and even scenes—missing in the others, and some character...
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Quarto Oggiaro (Italian pronunciation: [ˈkwarto odˈdʒaːro]; Lombard: Quart Oggiee [ˈkwɑːrt uˈdʒeː]) is a district of Milan in the north-west of the city...
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Quarto d'Altino is a town in the Metropolitan City of Venice, Veneto, Italy. The name "Quarto D'Altino" is composed by the prefix "Quarto" because the...
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Bookbinding (redirect from Quarto (binding))
typically 15 in (38 cm) or more in height, the largest book of regular dimensions. A quarto volume (eight-page signature) is typically 9 by 12 in (23 by 30 cm)...
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Richard III (play) (category Plays set in the 15th century)
is labelled a history in the First Folio, and is usually considered one, but it is sometimes called a tragedy, as in the quarto edition. Richard III concludes...
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Quart, Aosta Valley (redirect from Quarto Pretoria)
[kaʁ] ; Valdôtain: Car; Issime Walser: Koart) is a comune (municipality) in the Italian region of Aosta Valley. The Quart Castle, built starting from...
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Quarto dei Mille is a residential district in the east of Genoa, Italy, overlooking the sea. Located between the Sturla and Quinto al Mare districts,...
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Hamlet Q1 (redirect from First Quarto of Hamlet)
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...
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The Fourth Estate (painting) (redirect from Il Quarto Stato)
The Fourth Estate (Italian: Il quarto stato) is an oil painting by Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, originally titled The Path of Workers and made between...
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Quarto was a unique protected cruiser built by the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy) in the 1910s. Her keel was laid in November 1909, she was launched...
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Tic-Tac-Toe Kaplansky's game Quarto (board game) Gobblet Pixel (board game): Four-in-a-row for 2 or 3 players, three-in-a-row for 4 players. This set...
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Othello (redirect from List of characters in Othello)
King Lear, and Hamlet. Unpublished in the author's life, the play survives in one quarto edition from 1622 and in the First Folio. Othello has been one...
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In Vanda's Room (Portuguese: No Quarto da Vanda, 2000) is a docufiction (a subgenre of cinéma vérité) film by Portuguese director Pedro Costa. This is...
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The Troublesome Reign of King John (category Plays set in the 12th century)
employed for his own King John (c. 1596). The play was printed three times in quarto in Shakespeare's era: Q1, 1591, was published by the stationer Sampson Clarke...
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King Lear (category Murder–suicide in fiction)
Saint Stephen's Day in 1606. Modern editors derive their texts from three extant publications: the 1608 quarto (Q1), the 1619 quarto (Q2, unofficial and...
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Quarto is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Naples in the Italian region Campania, located about 11 km northwest of Naples. Quarto borders...
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Associazione Sportiva Dilettante Quarto is an Italian association football club located in Quarto, Campania. The club was founded in 1986 and their official colours...
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