Three different early versions of the play are extant, the First Quarto ( Q1, 1603 ), the Second Quarto ( Q2, 1604 ), and the First Folio ( F1, 1623 ).

The phrase " little eyases " in the First Folio ( F1 ) may allude to the Children of the Chapel, whose popularity in London forced the Globe company into provincial touring.

* First Folio ( F1 ) In 1623 Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard published the First Folio, the first edition of Shakespeare's Complete Works.

Comparison of the ' To be, or not to be ' soliloquy in the first three editions of Hamlet, showing the varying quality of the text in the Bad Quarto, the Good Quarto and the First Folio

References to the First Quarto and First Folio are marked Hamlet Q1 and Hamlet F1, respectively, and are taken from the Arden Shakespeare " Hamlet: the texts of 1603 and 1623 " ( Thompson and Taylor, 2006b ).

The Shakespeare First Folio, its Bibliographical and Textual History.

Facsimile of the first page of Macbeth from the First Folio, published in 1623Scholars also cite an entertainment seen by King James at Oxford in the summer of 1605 that featured three " sibyls " like the weird sisters ; Kermode surmises that Shakespeare could have heard about this and alluded to it with the weird sisters.

Macbeth was first printed in the First Folio of 1623 and the Folio is the only source for the text.

One year later, the play was included among the plays in the First Folio of Shakespeare's collected plays.

While there is no documentary evidence connecting Oxford ( or any authorial candidate ) to the plays of Shakespeare, Oxfordian researchers, including Mark Anderson and Charlton Ogburn, believe the connection is provided by considerable circumstantial evidence inferred from Oxford's connections to the Elizabethan theatre and poetry scene ; the participation of his family in the printing and publication of the First Folio ; his relationship with the Earl of Southampton ( believed by most Shakespeare scholars to have been Shakespeare's patron ); as well as a number of specific incidents and circumstances of Oxford's life that Oxfordians believe are depicted in the plays themselves.

Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece were dedicated to Southampton ( whom many scholars have argued was the Fair Youth of the Sonnets ), and the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays was dedicated to Montgomery ( who married Susan de Vere ) and Pembroke ( who was once engaged to Bridget de Vere ).

Shakespeare's native Avon and Stratford are referred to in two prefatory poems in the 1623 First Folio, one of which refers to Shakespeare as " Swan of Avon " and another to the author's " Stratford monument ".

Furthermore, while the First Folio shows traces of a dialect identical to Shakespeare's, the Earl of Oxford, raised in Essex, spoke an East Anglian dialect.

After the publication of the Q1 and Q2 Hamlet in 1603, regular new play publication ceased for almost five years ( three new plays were issued in 1608 and 1609, the last ones until 18 plays made their publication debut in the First Folio of 1623 ).

* November 8 – Publication in London of the " First Folio " ( Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies ), a collection of 36 of the plays of Shakespeare, half of which have not previously been printed.

* Troilus and Cressida was listed in the First Folio as a tragedy, but is now sometimes regarded as a dark comedy.

* Cymbeline was listed in the First Folio as a tragedy, but is now sometimes regarded as a dark comedy.

Although listed as a tragedy in the First Folio, modern critics often classify Cymbeline as a romance.

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First published as a pamphlet by the Gawler Humbug Society in 1863, the name was chosen because " the Bunyip is the true type of Australian Humbug!

Traditional stories from many Native American, First Nations, and Aboriginal cultures include a deity whose name is translated into English as " Coyote ".

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The " European War " became known as " The Great War ", and it was not until 1920, in the book " The First World War 1914 – 1918 " by Charles à Court Repington, that the term " First World War " was used as the official name for the conflict.

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First of all, it is now known that Pope John sees the renewal and purification of the Church as an absolutely necessary step toward Christian unity.

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First is the long and still somewhat obscure process of preparation, planning and discussion.

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First, it appears to be based on the fact that on its title page Utopia is described as `` festivus '', `` gay ''.

In one now-historic first interview, for example, the transcript ( reproduced from the book, The First Five Minutes ) goes like this: The therapist's level tone is bland and neutral -- he has, for example, avoided stressing `` you '', which would imply disapproval ; ;

One of Mrs. Kennedy's initial concerns as First Lady was the sad state of the furnishings in a building which is supposed to be a national shrine.

First, the State Department is unique among government agencies for its lack of public supporters.

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More than 300 teenagers last Sunday proved there is and as many more are expected to prove it again for Jim Kern and his wife Lynn from 4 to 8 p.m. Sunday at First Presbyterian Church.

To be sure, when this is pointed out, a common response among certain churchmen is to fulminate about `` the little flock '' and `` the great crowd '' and to take solace from Paul's castigation of the `` wisdom of the wise '' in the opening chapter of First Corinthians.

One can even argue -- though this is a delicate matter -- that every justification existed for their returning the Public Lecture to the First Church, and so to suppress it, rather than let Parker use it as a sounding board for his propaganda when his turn should come to occupy it.

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First of all, and this has been calculated by observation, the universe is expanding -- that is, the galaxies are receding from each other at immense speeds.

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