On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 11:30:07AM -0400, Robert Cicconetti wrote:
Err.. I guess I wasn't clear. I'm not suggesting things to be included in the 2014 top 100. I'm asking which edition is on Greg's wish list... and I was guessing either the Cambridge or Globe.
"If I were king, I'd order an entirely fresh set of Shakespeare, partially based on our current items (we have four different versions of many of Shakespeare's plays in English). Use invisible tags to mark players, so that readers could use them for performance (for example, have all of Hamlet's lines be highlighted). That would bring a lot of benefit from the markup, in addition to looking a lot better than the plain text versions we already have."
-Bob
I agree that First Folio is problematic. Otherwise, I don't have a basis for a preference. Actually, I don't even know the was used our #100 (http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/100/pg100.txt), and would be curious to know. For Shakespeare, like other plays, the main idea is to make it far easier to create custom versions for each player/part (plus stage direction). The markup mentioned above would also make it easy to have a computer-based "minus one" performance, in which a live human performer would read his parts, in the midst of a computer-generated play troup. (This type of thing is already done with MIDI and musical scores, for musical performances.) It would also make it trivial to do speaker-based text analysis or other research. More importantly, it would give us a much cleaner complete Shakespeare! -- Greg
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 11:11 AM, James Adcock <jimad@msn.com> wrote:
*>*Volume 1 of the Cambridge went through DP and is on PG. 23041.
Well, 23041 is just the index, a selection of five of plays follow. So if one wanted the index plus the five plays included it would require ?special handling.?****
And the plays (while I personally like them) are not the most famous, leading to the question ?Why not the most famous??****
And then one has the problem that the generated epub and kindle (mobi) for these plays is really pretty bad.****
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