Note 600 — BOOK V PLAYS AND PLAYWRIGHTS
Reading edition
The Folio editors of Shakespeare condemn the Quartos, or some of them, as ‘stolne, and surreptitious copies’; ‘piratical’, although freely used by Mr. Pollard and others, is not a very happy term, since no piracy of copyright is involved. The authorized Q2 of Roxana (1632) claims to be ‘a plagiarii unguibus vindicata’.