8/ Why, in the 1st Folio, didn't Jonson just write plainly that Shakespeare shouldn't be praised & North should get the credit? Because this was a collection being sold to Shakespeare fans--& the publishers would have nixed it. Why don't we see the truth about Walt Disney in Disney collections?

5/ They also probably preferred longer, unpublished versions. So no conspiracies. Publishers couldn't get rights to Shakespeare's own adaptations (bad quartos & apocryphal plays)--so they published the plays as the Folio advertised on the title page: "According to the True Original Copies."

1/ Thread: I'll address Ben Jonson at end of thread but first: Great question, but as I show with the list of ALL pre-1621 title pages below, no one was trying to fool anyone. The title-pages confirm Shakespeare wrote/adapted the bad quartos and apocryphal plays. There is no mystery.

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