A kingdom for a stage
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Three complete plays in the Folger editions, with passage context and one later engraving. The edited and encoded Folger texts carry their own noncommercial license; the reader code’s MIT license does not replace it.
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Julius Caesar
Folger Shakespeare Library · Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine · XML header July 2016
William Shakespeare. Edited by Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine. Folger Digital Texts, Folger Shakespeare Library. XML editing and encoding by Michael Poston and Rebecca Niles. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ . Source: https://www.folger.edu/explore/shakespeares-works/download/ . Changes: converted XML into scene and speech blocks, retained current lemma readings, supplied Unicode quotation and editorial brackets for encoded markup, represented source lineation and approximate shared-line indentation, moved source introductions/synopsis and encoded variants into separately accessible source matter. Print page furniture omitted. No deliberate changes to play wording. Explanatory notes are not included in these XML witnesses. Use of this adapted Folger text remains subject to the noncommercial license. These notices travel with exact-edition and bundle exports.
Henry V
Folger Shakespeare Library · Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine · XML header July 2016
William Shakespeare. Edited by Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine. Folger Digital Texts, Folger Shakespeare Library. XML editing and encoding by Michael Poston and Rebecca Niles. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ . Source: https://www.folger.edu/explore/shakespeares-works/download/ . Changes: converted XML into scene and speech blocks, retained current lemma readings, supplied Unicode quotation and editorial brackets for encoded markup, represented source lineation and approximate shared-line indentation, moved source introductions/synopsis and encoded variants into separately accessible source matter. Print page furniture omitted. No deliberate changes to play wording. Explanatory notes are not included in these XML witnesses. Use of this adapted Folger text remains subject to the noncommercial license. These notices travel with exact-edition and bundle exports.
The Tempest
Folger Shakespeare Library · Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine · XML header July 2016
William Shakespeare. Edited by Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine. Folger Digital Texts, Folger Shakespeare Library. XML editing and encoding by Michael Poston and Rebecca Niles. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ . Source: https://www.folger.edu/explore/shakespeares-works/download/ . Changes: converted XML into scene and speech blocks, retained current lemma readings, supplied Unicode quotation and editorial brackets for encoded markup, represented source lineation and approximate shared-line indentation, moved source introductions/synopsis and encoded variants into separately accessible source matter. Print page furniture omitted. No deliberate changes to play wording. Explanatory notes are not included in these XML witnesses. Use of this adapted Folger text remains subject to the noncommercial license. These notices travel with exact-edition and bundle exports.
Reading this edition
The XML headers identify July 2016; the download page’s update dates differ. Current lemma readings, speaker order, editorial brackets, encoded earlier readings, stage directions and songs remain available. The source release is labeled “Text released without textual notes”: print explanatory glosses are not included. Source introductions and the whole-play synopsis remain secondary; the synopsis is labeled for spoilers.
Comma-led speaker cues remain with their speakers. Independent singing and role cues have their own lines. Five independently laid-out embedded cues are separate stage-note blocks; the exact source characters and explicit separators, song emphasis and shared-line insets are retained. Reflow and approximate insets are not a facsimile of print geometry. Structural checks and representative source comparisons do not establish full human proofreading.
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Miranda · 1784
Caroline Watson after Robert Edge Pine, Miranda (Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 1, Scene 2), 1784; published by John Boydell. Stipple engraving printed in brown ink. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 53.600.4489, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953. Image DP859433.
The Met identifies this object image as public domain and supplies it through Open Access under CC0. The reader embeds a downsampled 1800 × 1515 JPEG retaining the complete supplied composition and inscription. This later interpretation is not a record of Shakespeare’s stage or an identified island.
Code and other contributions
The reader code, original geometric stage emblem and original fictional test samples use the MIT license. That permission includes the software; it does not relicense the Folger material. The Met image remains separately CC0. No provider logo or Folger website software is included.
The comparison in The Tempest retains a historical paragraph from Montaigne’s Of the Caniballes in John Florio’s 1603 translation, identified by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust’s source comparison. The historical quotation is distinct from that page’s modern prose. The reader’s historical context and interpretations are separately authored; linked modern essays and performance records are not reproduced.
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