New Shakespeare resource hits web

Subject: RE: New Shakespeare resource hits web
From: M.Ted
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 12:42 PM

The site is great--I shouldn't be looking at it at all today, because I have so much to do--Just read the bit about the short and oft ignored First Quarto of Hamlet--as always, the reality changes considerably when you go back look at primary sources--

Subject: RE: New Shakespeare resource hits web
From: GUEST,The Bard
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 06:30 AM

O, Peter, now my face is red of hue !
Before you search and seeke in every playce
To find those words of mine, so goode and true,
I must confess that they are newly writ
From where I dwell, adrift in Cyber Spayce !


The gentleness of all the gods go with thee !
W

Subject: RE: New Shakespeare resource hits web
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 05:20 AM

"Is this a new site I see before me? The text towards my eyes. Come let me read thee"
Thanks Peter...Best wishes.

Subject: RE: New Shakespeare resource hits web
From: GUEST,Gigix
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 05:04 AM

Gosh. Thanx for the fix. Giggle.
Do you know if something like that (I mean, the reproduction of the original prints) exists for the Sonnets?

Subject: RE: New Shakespeare resource hits web
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 20 Sep 04 - 07:51 PM

LOL! But how much of that is the real thing, Bard? I've seen the "school for life" reference attributed to Jonson before, but I've never pinned down the full quote, or found out where it comes from.

(Methinks poor Ben forgot to drop his "h" in his post above.)

Subject: RE: New Shakespeare resource hits web
From: GUEST,The Bard
Date: 20 Sep 04 - 02:14 PM

Indeed, Ben Jonson, Sir, if you be he !
Likewise your self, since first you layde down bricks
And then a soldier was before your worke
With words and honr'y Oxenforde degree.
For it is true, as sheathe goes with the knife,
The playce for learning is the School of Life.

W

Subject: RE: New Shakespeare resource hits web
From: GUEST,Ben Johnson
Date: 20 Sep 04 - 12:39 PM

Remarkable stuff for a lad who never went to college.

Subject: RE: New Shakespeare resource hits web
From: alanabit
Date: 10 Sep 04 - 06:11 AM

Thanks Peter.I'll bookmark that.

Subject: RE: New Shakespeare resource hits web
From: Jeanie
Date: 10 Sep 04 - 04:03 AM

Wonderful ! Many thanks, Peter.
- jeanie

Subject: New Shakespeare resource hits web
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 10 Sep 04 - 03:23 AM

Attention all Shakespeare addicts: go here for your next fix. If the link doesn't work first time, it may just be that the site is a bit overloaded in its first few days on air.

This facility has been put on the net by the British Library, and includes the full texts of many plays, as published in the earliest "quarto" editions held by the library. For some plays there is more than one quarto version (93 editions in total, covering 21 plays). The site allows side-by-side comparison of different editions - or even different copies of the same edition, which can themselves include textual divergences.

For those of us who don't have broadband, it's a bit slow, because it's all done in photostat (JPEGs). And for this reason the text is not searchable. It's a cracking site, all the same, with useful analysis and other supporting material.

(Full, searchable editions of the whole cannon exist elsewhere on the internet of course, notably at The Works of The Bard and the MIT Shakespeare. Both these sites appear to have been abandoned, but still do the business.)