Let us not forget Shakespeare's works have been "improved " and bashed about so much by directors, actors, scholars, Elizabethan con-men, monarchs,school exams.......
Performances using original folios are not an easy breeze to sit/work through, so I suppose you could say the working, much more "polished" scripts we have/use now are a result of evolutionary process.
Shaksper probably dashed 'em off as quick as he could and took the cash !
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