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Shakespeare Quartos Scholars differ widely in their views of the quartos as faithful versions of Shakespeare's plays. Shakespeare probably would not have been involved in the printing of the quarto plays so we have no 'final draft' or authorised versions of the plays. Quarto editions are considered both as the texts most accurate to Shakespeare's time, compiled with probable use of working drafts, actors' remembrances of their performances and even plagerised versions by members of the audience, and as the least accurate of what Shakespeare actually wrote. Therefore their legitimacy is considered both wildly inaccurate as a final version and yet scholarly fascinating as a study of Shakespeare's process. Unlike the plays, Shakespeare's poems in Quarto form are considered to be solid, perhaps even edited by Shakespeare himself. . List of the plays and poems printed in Quarto editions Venus and Adonis 1593, 1594 The Rape of Lucrece 1594 Titus Andronicus 1594, 1600, 1611 Henry VI Part 2 1594, 1600, 1619 Henry VI Part 3 1595, 1600, 1619 Romeo and Juliet 1597, 1599, 1609 The Phoenix and the Turtle 1601, 1611 Richard II 1597, 1598, 1602, 1605, 1612, 1622 Richard III 1597, 1598, 1602, 1605, 1612, 1622 Love's Labour's Lost 1598 Henry IV Part 1 1598, 1599, 1604, 1608, 1613, 1622 Henry IV Part 2 1600 Henry V 1600, 1602, 1619 The Merchant of Venice 1600, 1619 A Midsummer Night's Dream 1600, 1619 Much Ado About Nothing 1600 The Merry Wives of Windsor 1602, 1619 Hamlet 1603, 1604, 1611, 1622, 1637 King Lear 1608, 1619 The Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint 1609 Troilus and Cressida 1609 Pericles 1609, 1611, 1619 Othello 1622 The Two Noble Kinsmen 1634
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