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How-to Guides For Difficult Productions

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This section is for guides to help produce ebooks that contain complex formatting.

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How-to Guides For Difficult Productions

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How to Produce a Shakespeare Play

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How to Produce a Shakespeare Play

William Shakespeare’s plays are notoriously complex. Everything from archaic language to unusual play formatting can make producing one of his plays quite scary. Don’t panic! This is written to help guide any brave soul through the MIT transcriptions and William George Clark and William Aldis Wright’s 1887 Victoria Edition.

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    Sources

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      Transcriptions

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      Transcriptions

      SE’s productions of William Shakespeare’s plays are based on Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s transcriptions produced by Jeremy Hylton.

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      Page Scans

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      Page Scans

      When it comes to Shakespeare’s plays, there are infinite page scans available, but each edition can differ in stage directions, stage direction formatting, punctuation, spelling, personas, and even dialogue. For SE’s productions, William George Clark and William Aldis Wright’s 1887 Victoria Edition is used as the gold standard.

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    Dramatis Personaes

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    Dramatis Personaes

    • The MIT transcriptions do not include the dramatis personaes and must be restored.

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    Prologues

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    Prologues

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      Locations

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      • Prologues can appear at the beginning of the whole play and within certain acts.

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      Structure

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      Structure

      • Prologues follow a verse structure. See section 7.5 in the manual. Hint: the first letter of a verse line is capitalized.

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      Chorus or No Chorus

      • The decision on whether or not the Prologue contains a chorus persona and a stage direction is dependent on the page scans.

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      Indents

      • Some Prologues have indents, some don’t. Assume the indents begin at level “i1.”

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    Acts and Scenes

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    Acts and Scenes

    Overall file structuring and styling can be found in section 7.6.6 in the manual.

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      • Each scene has a scene description. Any personas named in the scene description need to be wrapped in a <b epub:type="z3998:persona">.

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      Stage Directions

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        MIT Transcription Stage Directions

        • The MIT transcriptions do not distinguish between “major” and “minor” stage directions. This will need to be addressed in the production.

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        “Major” Stage Directions

        • This is referring to the stage directions that are shown appear on a separate line and centered in the page scans. The names of main characters are capitalized.

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        “Minor” Stage Directions

        • This is referring to the stage directions that are surrounded by brackets in the page scans.

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        Personas in Stage Directions

        • Personas that are in small caps in “major” stage directions are also in small caps in “minor” stage directions.

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      Personas and Their Dialogue

      • In the page scans, the personas are abbreviated. These need to be expanded.

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      Prose vs. Verse

      • For the purpose of Shakespeare’s plays, we are going to use verse semantics for file structuring purposes rather than labeling meters within text. Counting iambic pentameter is a cruel and unusual punishment.

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      Right-aligned Verse and Prose Lines

      • Converting right-aligned to indents is too complicated. Is the size of the indent measured from the left margin of the column to the beginning of the line? Should the indent be the distance between the persona and the beginning of the line? Could these indents be standardized? How do we relate right-aligned words followed by extra spaces to indents? Why are middle verse lines right aligned? Why are the spaces in between words not the same size? What is the standard space size? Why did I choose Shakespeare? All of these factors resulted in using over 15 different levels of indenting (depending on how you measure), lines looking like they are right aligned (looks weird on large screens), and a terrible drinking habit. I don’t see how we can stay faithful to Wright and Clark’s 1887 Edition if every producer is measuring indents a different way.

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        Titles and Labels

        • Some songs are given a title. Treat these as stage directions.

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        Indents and Right Alignments

        • Most songs are styled with indents and are easy to style.

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        Locations

        • Epilogues appear at the end of the whole play.

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        Chorus or No Chorus

        • The decision on whether or not the Epilogue contains a chorus persona and a stage direction is dependent on the page scans.

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          Content.opf

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          Because their are countless editions of Shakespeare’s plays our productions note the Victoria Edition at the end of our long descriptions. Add “This Standard Ebooks production is based on William George Clark and William Aldis Wright’s 1887 Victoria edition, which is taken from the Globe edition.”