False Folio

Modern commentators argue that Pavier's role may have been more substantive than Jaggard's, and call the disputed texts the 'Pavier Quartos'.

[1] The texts in question were first examined with modern bibliographic procedures primarily by Alfred W. Pollard, W. W. Greg, and William J. Neidig.

[4] In summary, the stationer and printer William Jaggard reprinted ten plays in 1619, either to be bound together in a single volume or issued separately depending on customer choice.

There is much about the False Folio affair that remains unclear, such as subjective questions of Jaggard's motivation.

"[6][7] Pollard focused much of his attention on the concept of literary "piracy,"[8] and his viewpoint coloured much of the scholarly attitude and approach to the False Folio during the twentieth century.