Re: Seeking input on "top 100" collection

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 <[email protected]> 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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