bad quarto
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.50 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A quarto-sized publication of a play, especially a Shakespearean play, that is considered spurious by virtue of having been copied down during a performance or later reconstructed from memory.
Example Sentences
- "The implication is that theatrical practitioners have access to the “bad quarto” that is unmediated by the history of its scholarly reception; these practitioners can therefore be depended upon to discover in their performance of the text the true nature of its origin."