Re: Seeking input on "top 100" collection

Which edition of Shakespeare? There are approximately 5 million and 6 to
choose from.

-Bob


On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 4:33 AM, Greg Newby <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 08:48:03AM +0200, Jeroen Hellingman wrote:
> > On 2013-09-01 23:13, Greg Newby wrote:
> > > On Sun, Sep 01, 2013 at 01:37:29PM -0700, James Adcock wrote:
> > >>> Any.  Translated into English is fine.
> > >>
> > >> OK, I guess I just didn't understand why you didn't have the Russians
> in
> > >> there.
> > >
> > > Tolstoy is, and Marx/Engels.  If you think I'm missing
> > > something, let me know.
> >
> > Marx was German, as was Engels.
>
> Now I'm embarrassed.  Will add Dostoyevsky to make up for it.
>
> > I think this sounds like a good opportunity to redo some of the
> > oldy-moldies in PGDP. Anything with an ebook number under 10000 is ripe
> > for a revision. Some maybe very good, we even then it would be good to
> > know that.
>
> Widger & Haines have rehabilitated thousands of those, and wonderfully
> so.  But there are many left, most of which are very non-trivial to
> work on (among other things, many of them will require going back to a
> print source).
>
> 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.
>
> Anyway, any time you want suggestions for some items that need
> rehabilitation, ask DW & AH.  They have deep awareness of what's left
> to work on, and the challenges involved.
>
> Thanks,
>   Greg
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