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A list of texts by version (quarto and folio)

Listings are also available by alphabetical arrangement and by chronology.

As originally published, Shakespeare's plays include several in which there are significant differences between the quarto versions -- most published in Shakespeare's lifetime -- and those published in the First Folio, seven years after his death. In other cases the Folio text was simply printed from a copy of the quarto, and there is a group of eighteen plays that were published in the Folio for the first time. Some quarto texts are so radically different from their Folio counterparts that they have been called "bad" quartos, though recent scholarship has suggested that these texts often provide unique insights into the actual performance of the plays.

To complicate things further, some quartos are "good" in that they appear to represent different states of the plays rather than inaccurate recording of them, but they differ markedly from the Folio versions. The listing that follows makes no attempt to distinguish "bad" from "good," but does indicate those texts in which there is a marked difference between quarto and Folio.

• The Prefatory materials to the First Folio

• Plays where the Folio differs markedly from the earlier version(s)
  • Henry the Sixth, Part Two
  • Henry the Sixth, Part Three
  • Richard the Third
  • Romeo and Juliet
  • The Merry Wives of Windsor
  • Henry the Fifth
  • Troilus and Cressida
  • Hamlet
  • Othello
  • King Lear
• Plays where the Folio differs somewhat from the earlier version
  • Richard the Second
  • Henry the Fourth, Part Two
  • Titus Andronicus
• Plays where the Folio was printed from the quarto with little significant change
  • Love's Labor's Lost
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • Henry the Fourth, Part One
  • The Merchant of Venice
  • Much Ado About Nothing
• Plays that were published in the Folio only
  • Henry the Sixth, Part One
  • The Comedy of Errors
  • The Taming of the Shrew
  • The Two Gentlemen of Verona
  • King John
  • Julius Caesar
  • As You Like It
  • Twelfth Night
  • Macbeth
  • Measure for Measure
  • All's Well That Ends Well
  • Antony and Cleopatra
  • Timon of Athens
  • Coriolanus
  • Cymbeline
  • The Winter's Tale
  • The Tempest
  • Henry the Eighth
• Poems
  • Venus and Adonis
• Plays attributed to Shakespeare not published in the First Folio
  • Pericles
  • The Two Noble Kinsmen
  • Edward III