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Memorial reconstruction is the hypothesis that the scripts of some 17th century plays were written down from memory by actors who had played parts in them, and that those transcriptions were published. The theory is suggested as an explanation for the so-called "bad quarto" versions of plays, in which the texts differ dramatically from later published versions, or appear to be corrupted or confused. The theory however is facing growing criticism by a number of scholars for being overly applied, and for being an elaborate theory, yet with little evidence to support it.

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rdfs:label	Memorial reconstruction (en)
rdfs:comment	Memorial reconstruction is the hypothesis that the scripts of some 17th century plays were written down from memory by actors who had played parts in them, and that those transcriptions were published. The theory is suggested as an explanation for the so-called "bad quarto" versions of plays, in which the texts differ dramatically from later published versions, or appear to be corrupted or confused. The theory however is facing growing criticism by a number of scholars for being overly applied, and for being an elaborate theory, yet with little evidence to support it. (en)
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Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage	Romeo and Juliet Copyright infringement Christopher Marlowe Hamlet Q1 W. W. Greg First Folio The Merry Wives of Windsor Folios and Quartos (Shakespeare) Richard III (play) Hamlet James S. Shapiro Bad quarto History of literature in the United Kingdom History of theatre King Lear Thomas Heywood Circumstantial evidence The Massacre at Paris John Dover Wilson Pericles (play)
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has abstract	Memorial reconstruction is the hypothesis that the scripts of some 17th century plays were written down from memory by actors who had played parts in them, and that those transcriptions were published. The theory is suggested as an explanation for the so-called "bad quarto" versions of plays, in which the texts differ dramatically from later published versions, or appear to be corrupted or confused. The theory however is facing growing criticism by a number of scholars for being overly applied, and for being an elaborate theory, yet with little evidence to support it. In 1623, the preface to the First Folio of Shakespeare's works specifically marketed its content as correct, in contrast to the garbled texts of "stolen and surreptitious copies" published previously. Memorial reconstruction has been supposed to be one of the ways in which texts were "stolen". Examples of possible memorial reconstructions are early editions of Shakespeare, including the second quarto (1598) of Richard III and the 1603 first quarto of Hamlet. It has been theorized that the only version to survive of Christopher Marlowe's The Massacre at Paris is a text obtained in this way, although there is no persuasive evidence to support this assertion. The theory has been used to explain the content of some quartos, and also to suggest identities of the actors responsible, on the assumption that they would get their own parts right, along with cue-lines and possibly other lines performed when they were onstage, but would most likely make more errors when reconstructing scenes in which their character was not present. The cast members of an Elizabethan dramatic production had their own parts written out for them, with relevant entrances and cues, but they did not have their own individual copies of the play text as a whole. The theory has, however, been criticised on various grounds; that it is not based on serious research into the way actors actually remember or misremember lines; that texts may have been "stolen" by other means; and that the so-called "bad" quartos are early or alternative versions of plays that were later revised. (en)
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is Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage of	Christopher Marlowe Gabriel Spenser The Taming of the Shrew Fratricide Punished Hamlet Q1 Eric Sams Chronology of Shakespeare's plays Titus Andronicus Reconstruction Richard III (play) Hamlet Bad quarto A Knack to Know a Knave A rose by any other name would smell as sweet Henry VI, Part 2 Henry VI, Part 3 Shakespeare in Love The Massacre at Paris Thomas Kyd The Famous Victories of Henry V Shakespeare apocrypha
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