Talk:List of Shakespeare plays in quarto

Rationale and list of things to do
I believe this will be a useful tool for scholars hunting for this information in one easily-accessible place. Things to do: add images of selected title pages; identify bad quartos, complete page counts for each edition; start new section of apocrypha. Tom Reedy (talk) 05:45, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: Add poems and move title to "List of Sh's works in Q"? Tom Reedy (talk) 06:19, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

Image review
Since these were all published centuries ago, the copyright has expired for all of them. US law says that a faithful photographic reporduction of a two-dimensional free work cannot itself be copyrighted, so any photos or scans are free under US Law. Since Wikimedia's servers are in Florida, US law applies. That said the licenses should be made consistent. I checked the first six images (Q1, Q2, and Q3 each of Henry VI part 2 and of Titus Andronicus) and they use five different licenses or combinations thereof (all are the Commons license templates, but I linked them here anyways):

The first image uses PD-US and PD-art, second uses PD-old-100, third uses PD-old, fourth uses PD-art-100, fifth uses just PD-US, and the sixth is back to just PD-old.

I see that the SAQ images of title pages that I checked used either PD-old or PD-old-100. Since PD-old-100 applies in any case and is applicable is a few more countries, I would use that. To be really safe I might use, but this is probably not needed. Ruhrfisch &gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 18:29, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

Spelling summary
Of 59 Quartos, 21 with no name, 21 with "Shakespeare," 15 with "Shake-speare," and 2 with other spellings.Jdkag (talk) 09:57, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

Mixed Old- and New-style dating
"The play known as King Henry VI, Part 2 was entered into the Stationers Register 12 March 1594 and printed that same year by Thomas Creede for Thomas Millington." As I read this, the 12 March part is Julian dating and the 1594 is Gregorian dating. Presumably the actual date was 12 March 1593/4, near the very end of 1593 in the Old Style. Is there an historian or Wikipedian standard which calls for this confusing mixed dating? Fotoguzzi (talk) 13:22, 22 April 2014 (UTC)