Ebook Shakespere's Macbeth

The quartos, on the other hand, are small books, about eight and a quarter by five and a half inches, containing each a single play. They began to appear as early as 1594, sometimes with the permis sion of Shakspere and his partners in the theatre,' sometimes against their wish, the manuscript having been Obtained fraudulently. Before 1623 seventeen of the thirty-seven plays had appeared in quarto.