L-04a (T-04) First Folio & Quartos|10 PYQs | Editorial Tradition | UGC NET TGT PGT English

🎯 UGC NET / JRF • TGT • PGT • GIC • DSSSB — English Literature CH-04 | Elizabethan Age | Lesson 04a (Topic 04) — The First Folio, the Quartos & Textual History 1623 — the single most repeated date in the entire Shakespeare syllabus. Asked by at least TEN different examinations. Yet every year students still pick 1631, 1650, 1660 or 1664. This video solves 10 PYQs from UGC NET, UP TGT, UKPSC, M.P. Asst. Prof., Uttarakhand GIC and Chhattisgarh Asst. Prof. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHY THIS VIDEO IS DIFFERENT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Everywhere else you get only the fact — "The First Folio appeared in 1623." That is all. Here you get three things: ① THE FACT — what you need to know ② THE TRAP — how the examiner confuses you ③ THE HOOK — the line that makes it stay forever Making difficult topics simple — that is the identity of this channel. A concept stays only when it is understood. Not by cramming. By understanding. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS VIDEO ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ THE FIRST FOLIO (1623) — the complete fact file 36 plays | 2 editors | 1 missing play | 7 years after his death Editors: JOHN HEMINGES + HENRY CONDELL — fellow actors, not scholars TRAP: distractors are Thomas Sackville, Thomas Norton and Nicholas Udall Division: COMEDIES 14 | HISTORIES 10 | TRAGEDIES 12 18 plays printed for the FIRST TIME — Macbeth, Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar, The Tempest and more. Without the Folio these would have been lost. Front matter: Ben Jonson's poem + the DROESHOUT ENGRAVING Dedication: the Herbert brothers | ~750 copies printed, ~235 survive ✅ WHAT IS MISSING FROM THE FOLIO PERICLES — the standing answer to "which play was omitted" Also absent: Two Noble Kinsmen, the Sonnets and poems, the lost Cardenio TRAP: Titus, Cymbeline, Macbeth and Winter's Tale ARE all included ✅ QUARTO vs FOLIO — the format question NET loves QUARTO = folded TWICE → 4 leaves, 8 pages (small, cheap) FOLIO = folded ONCE → 2 leaves, 4 pages (large, expensive) June 2013 Assertion–Reason trap: Assertion correct, Reason WRONG — two folds make four leaves. ✅ GOOD QUARTO vs BAD QUARTO Good quartos come from reliable manuscripts. Bad quartos are memorial reconstructions. Hamlet Q1 (1603) = bad | Q2 (1604) = good | Folio (1623) = the received text KEY FACT: quartos appeared DURING his lifetime, the Folio appeared POSTHUMOUSLY. Never reverse this. ✅ TEXTUAL TERMINOLOGY FOUL PAPERS — the author's uncorrected draft PROMPT-BOOK — the theatre's licensed script MEMORIAL RECONSTRUCTION — explains the bad quartos COMPOSITOR — printing-house errors in the Folio ✅ THE FOUR FOLIOS 1623 First → 1632 Second (Milton's On Shakespeare — his FIRST published poem) → 1663 Third (1664 issue added Pericles) → 1685 Fourth ✅ THE EDITORIAL TRADITION — R–P–T–J–C–M 1709 ROWE — first editor | first biography | act & scene divisions 1725 POPE — emended freely to his own taste 1733 THEOBALD — first true scholar | Shakespeare Restored 1765 Dr JOHNSON — the Preface to Shakespeare 1768 CAPELL — returned to earliest texts | 1790 MALONE — first chronology ✅ THE SONNETS — THOMAS THORPE, 1609 Dedicated to "Mr. W.H." | probably unauthorised Some papers ask this as 1601 — the answer is still THORPE ✅ THE AUTHORSHIP QUESTION Baconian, Oxfordian, Marlovian, Derbyite theories — rejected by scholars but examinable Counter-evidence: First Folio testimony + the Hand D pages of Sir Thomas More ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE NET-JRF BY AMITVEER APPROACH ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ No topic is difficult — only the method of explaining it can be wrong. • Every lesson discusses PYQs — theory and exam are never separate • Every trap is revealed in advance — no surprises in the exam hall • Comparison tables and memory hooks — revision takes 10 minutes, not 10 hours • Taught on a digital panel — like sitting in a classroom This course covers the complete British Literary History syllabus for UGC NET Paper II — Anglo-Saxon Age to Modern Age, chapter-wise, PYQ-wise. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📅 NEW LECTURE EVERY SINGLE DAY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ We upload a new lesson DAILY until the entire course is complete. No gaps. No waiting. No incomplete playlists. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📖 SERIES INFORMATION ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Channel : Net-JRF By AmitVeer Series : British Literary History — Complete UGC NET Syllabus Chapter : CH-04 | Elizabethan Age Lesson : 04a — Topic 04 | First Folio, Quartos & Textual History Previous : Topic 03 | Contemporary References — link in playlist ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 Subscribe and turn on the bell — a new lecture is uploaded every day. 👍 Like this video if something finally stayed in your memory today. 💬 Drop your doubt in the comments — AmitVeer Sir replies personally. #UGCNET #JRF #TGT #PGT #Shakespeare #FirstFolio #Quartos #HemingesCondell #Pericles #EnglishLiterature #NetJrfByAmitVeer #10PYQs #UGCNETEnglish #BritishLiteraryHistory