Encoding of plays [Was: Re: Seeking input on "top 100" collection]

On 2013-09-04 07:39, Greg Newby wrote:

> 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.


I've prepared some Dutch translations of Shakespeare, (Three plays
so-far, I do have a complete set of books, but it is quite a lot of work
to handle these)

In those, in my TEI master files, I've taken care to indicate the
speaker with each line in a unambigious, machine readable way. This way
it would be a matter of preparing a aural style sheet, for example, to
have it read with different voices, or to pull out an extract for a
single actor, as you mention.

The encoding looks like this (from the translation of Midsummer night's
Dream):


<stage type=entrance>(<hi rend=sc>Egeus</hi>, <hi rend=sc>Hermia</hi>,
<hi rend=sc>Lysander</hi> <hi>en</hi> <hi rend=sc>Demetrius</hi>
<hi>komen op</hi>.)</stage>

<sp who=ege>
<speaker>Egeus.</speaker> <l id=mz.i.1.21>Heil Theseus, onzen grooten
hertog heil!
</sp>

<pb n=237><sp who=the>
<speaker>Theseus.</speaker> <l>Dank, Egeus, dank!&mdash;Gij wilt iets
vragen? Spreek!
</sp>




Jeroen



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