The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 19.0442 Friday, 25 July 2008
[1] From: David Crystal <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Thursday, 24 Jul 2008 19:57:27 +0100
Subt: Re: SHK 19.0439 Character/Scene/Line Breakdown Charts
[2] From: John Cox <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Thursday, 24 Jul 2008 19:22:10 -0400
Subt: Re: SHK 19.0439 Character/Scene/Line Breakdown Charts
[3] From: Alan Horn <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Friday, 25 Jul 2008 03:55:28 -0400
Subt: Re: SHK 19.0439 Character/Scene/Line Breakdown Charts
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From: David Crystal <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Thursday, 24 Jul 2008 19:57:27 +0100
Subject: 19.0439 Character/Scene/Line Breakdown Charts
Comment: Re: SHK 19.0439 Character/Scene/Line Breakdown Charts
I don't know the book, but if you want an online version, go to the Special
Features section of the Shakespeare's Words website (www.shakespeareswords.com),
and you'll find some relevant tables there. Click on the menu heading The Book
to find it. It's not exactly what you want, but it's a step in that direction,
as tables give scene lengths and character totals. It would be easy for us to
generate a character x scene table, if that were needed.
David Crystal
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From: John Cox <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Thursday, 24 Jul 2008 19:22:10 -0400
Subject: 19.0439 Character/Scene/Line Breakdown Charts
Comment: Re: SHK 19.0439 Character/Scene/Line Breakdown Charts
I think Tom Salyers is describing T. J. King's book, *Casting Shakespeare's
Plays* (Cambridge UP, 1992).
Best,
John Cox
Hope College
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From: Alan Horn <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Friday, 25 Jul 2008 03:55:28 -0400
Subject: 19.0439 Character/Scene/Line Breakdown Charts
Comment: Re: SHK 19.0439 Character/Scene/Line Breakdown Charts
There is a table in the general introduction to The Complete Pelican Shakespeare
(ed. Alfred Harbage, Viking) that lists, along with other statistics, the
longest roles per play. The line count for those roles over 500 lines is given
parenthetically.
Hope this is all you need. The table is called "Table II: Comparative Analysis"
and it's on the second page of the article titled "Shakespeare's Technique,"
which is page 31 in my copy.
Alan Horn
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