10 Sep 04 - 03:23 AM (#1268317) Subject: New Shakespeare resource hits web From: Peter K (Fionn) 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.) |
10 Sep 04 - 04:03 AM (#1268341) Subject: RE: New Shakespeare resource hits web From: Jeanie Wonderful ! Many thanks, Peter. - jeanie |
10 Sep 04 - 06:11 AM (#1268420) Subject: RE: New Shakespeare resource hits web From: alanabit Thanks Peter.I'll bookmark that. |
20 Sep 04 - 12:39 PM (#1276497) Subject: RE: New Shakespeare resource hits web From: GUEST,Ben Johnson Remarkable stuff for a lad who never went to college. |
20 Sep 04 - 02:14 PM (#1276583) Subject: RE: New Shakespeare resource hits web From: GUEST,The Bard 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 |
20 Sep 04 - 07:51 PM (#1276823) Subject: RE: New Shakespeare resource hits web From: Peter K (Fionn) 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.) |
21 Sep 04 - 05:04 AM (#1277103) Subject: RE: New Shakespeare resource hits web From: GUEST,Gigix 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? |
21 Sep 04 - 05:20 AM (#1277113) Subject: RE: New Shakespeare resource hits web From: Georgiansilver "Is this a new site I see before me? The text towards my eyes. Come let me read thee" Thanks Peter...Best wishes. |
21 Sep 04 - 06:30 AM (#1277156) Subject: RE: New Shakespeare resource hits web From: GUEST,The Bard 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 |
21 Sep 04 - 12:42 PM (#1277447) Subject: RE: New Shakespeare resource hits web From: M.Ted 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-- |