Talk:List of Shakespeare plays in quarto

Rationale and list of things to do

I believe this will be a useful tool for scholars hunting for this information in one easily-accessible place. Things to do: add images of selected title pages; identify bad quartos, complete page counts for each edition; start new section of apocrypha. Tom Reedy (talk) 05:45, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

Note: Add poems and move title to "List of Sh's works in Q"? Tom Reedy (talk) 06:19, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

Image review

Since these were all published centuries ago, the copyright has expired for all of them. US law says that a faithful photographic reporduction of a two-dimensional free work cannot itself be copyrighted, so any photos or scans are free under US Law. Since Wikimedia's servers are in Florida, US law applies. That said the licenses should be made consistent. I checked the first six images (Q1, Q2, and Q3 each of Henry VI part 2 and of Titus Andronicus) and they use five different licenses or combinations thereof (all are the Commons license templates, but I linked them here anyways):

The first image uses {{PD-US}} and {{PD-art}}, second uses {{PD-old-100}}, third uses {{PD-old}}, fourth uses {{PD-art-100}}, fifth uses just {{PD-US}}, and the sixth is back to just {{PD-old}}.

I see that the SAQ images of title pages that I checked used either PD-old or PD-old-100. Since PD-old-100 applies in any case and is applicable is a few more countries, I would use that. To be really safe I might use {{PD-Art|PD-old-100}}, but this is probably not needed. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 18:29, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

Spelling summary

Last Name	Year	Quarto	Play	Full Name
NONE	1594	Q1	Henry VI, Part 2	NONE
NONE	1594	Q1	Titus Andronicus	NONE
NONE	1595	Q1	Henry VI, Part 3	NONE
NONE	1597	Q1	Richard III	NONE
NONE	1597	Q1	Romeo and Juliet	NONE
NONE	1597	Q1	Richard II	NONE
NONE	1598	Q0	Henry IV, Part 1	NONE
NONE	1598	Q1	Henry IV, Part 1	NONE
NONE	1598	Q2	Richard II	NONE
NONE	1598	Q3	Richard II	NONE
NONE	1599	Q2	Romeo and Juliet	NONE
NONE	1600	Q1	Henry V	NONE
NONE	1600	Q2	Henry VI, Part 2	NONE
NONE	1600	Q2	Titus Andronicus	NONE
NONE	1600	Q2	Henry VI, Part 3	NONE
NONE	1602	Q2	Henry V	NONE
NONE	1602	Q3	Richard III	NONE
NONE	1605	Q4	Richard III	NONE
NONE	1609	Q3	Romeo and Juliet	NONE
NONE	1611	Q3	Titus Andronicus	NONE
NONE	1622	Q4A	Romeo and Juliet	NONE
Shake-speare	1598	Q2	Richard III	William Shake-speare
Shake-speare	1599	Q2	Henry IV, Part 1	W. Shake-speare
Shake-speare	1603	Q1	Hamlet	William Shake-speare
Shake-speare	1604	Q3	Henry IV, Part 1	W. Shake-speare
Shake-speare	1608	Q4	Henry IV, Part 1	W. Shake-speare
Shake-speare	1608	Q4A	Richard II	William Shake-speare
Shake-speare	1608	Q4B	Richard II	William Shake-speare
Shake-speare	1613	Q5	Henry IV, Part 1	W. Shake-speare
Shake-speare	1615	Q5	Richard II	WILLIAM Shake-speare
Shake-speare	1619	Q2	King Lear	M. VVilliam Shake-speare
Shake-speare	1619	Q3	Henry VI, Part 3	William Shake-speare, Gent.
Shake-speare	1619	Q3	Henry VI, Part 2	William Shake-speare, Gent.
Shake-speare	1622	Q4B	Romeo and Juliet	W. Shake-speare
Shake-speare	1622	Q6	Richard III	William Shake-speare
Shake-speare	1622	Q6	Henry IV, Part 1	William Shake-speare
Shakespeare	1600	Q	Much Ado About Nothing	William Shakespeare
Shakespeare	1600	Q	Henry IV, Part 2	William Shakespeare
Shakespeare	1600	Q1	A Midsummer Night's Dream	William Shakespeare
Shakespeare	1600	Q1	Merchant of Venice	William Shakespeare
Shakespeare	1602	Q1	Merry Wives of Windsor	William Shakespeare
Shakespeare	1604	Q2A	Hamlet	William Shakespeare
Shakespeare	1605	Q2B	Hamlet	William Shakespeare
Shakespeare	1609	Q1	Pericles, Prince of Tyre	William Shakespeare
Shakespeare	1609	Q2	Pericles, Prince of Tyre	William Shakespeare
Shakespeare	1609	QA	Troilus and Cressida	William Shakespeare
Shakespeare	1609	QB	Troilus and Cressida	William Shakespeare
Shakespeare	1611	Q3	Pericles, Prince of Tyre	VVilliam Shakespeare
Shakespeare	1611	Q3	Hamlet	WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Shakespeare	1612	Q5	Richard III	William Shakespeare
Shakespeare	1619	Q2	A Midsummer Night's Dream	VVilliam Shakespeare
Shakespeare	1619	Q2	Merchant of Venice	W. SHAKESPEARE
Shakespeare	1619	Q2	Merry Wives of Windsor	W. SHAKESPEARE
Shakespeare	1619	Q4A	Pericles, Prince of Tyre	W. SHAKESPEARE
Shakespeare	1619	Q4B	Pericles, Prince of Tyre	W. SHAKESPEARE
Shakespeare	1622	Q1	Othello	VVilliam Shakespeare
Shakespeare	1622	Q4	Hamlet	WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Shakespere	1598	Q	Love's Labour's Lost	W. Shakespere.
Shak-speare	1608	Q1	King Lear	M. William Shak-speare

Of 59 Quartos, 21 with no name, 21 with "Shakespeare," 15 with "Shake-speare," and 2 with other spellings.Jdkag (talk) 09:57, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

Mixed Old- and New-style dating

"The play known as King Henry VI, Part 2 was entered into the Stationers Register 12 March 1594 and printed that same year by Thomas Creede for Thomas Millington." As I read this, the 12 March part is Julian dating and the 1594 is Gregorian dating. Presumably the actual date was 12 March 1593/4, near the very end of 1593 in the Old Style. Is there an historian or Wikipedian standard which calls for this confusing mixed dating? Fotoguzzi (talk) 13:22, 22 April 2014 (UTC)