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- Unauthorized copies of Shakespeare's plays, known as "bad quartos", were often compiled from shorthand notes or actors' memories, leading to variations in text.
- The First Folio, published in 1623 by Shakespeare's collaborators John Hemingford and Henry Connel, established the canon with 36 plays categorized into comedies, histories, and tragedies.
- Half of the plays in the First Folio were printed for the first time, while the remaining had previously appeared in quarto editions.
- Determining the chronology of Shakespeare's plays is challenging as they were not printed in composition order but grouped by genre, with dating relying on various documentary evidence.
- Chronology clues include contemporary events, literary sources, and stylistic elements common to Shakespeare's works, indicating when plays could have been written.
Different versions of Shakespeare's plays exist, as they circulated in unauthorised copies, known as "bad quartos", put together from shorthand notes taken during the performance of from memorial reconstruction by the actors of the company.
Good and bad quartos depended on the closeness to the original manuscript.
The canon was essentially established with the publication of Shakespeare's works in the First Folio edition of 1623 by John Hemingford and Henry Connel, actors and collaborators of Shakespeare.
Very little is known about the chronology of Shakespeare's plays, as they were not printed in the order of composition, but rather grouped by genre, Therefore, dating the plays depends on different kinds of documentary evidence.
Palladio Tania, a teatrise by Francis Meres which registered the plays performed.
Reference to contemporary events or to plays literary sources which gave evidence that a play could not have been written before that event or the composition of that literary work, as well as the staging of a play shoes that it could not have been written after that date.
Literary evidence provided by stylistic aspects common to Shakespeare's plays.
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