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Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare: Full Text

From the Full Text page, you can use the Page Toolbar to open a context-sensitive Help page, to refine your search, to look up a term in a dictionary, or to access a Text Only version of the Full Text, or a contextual Table of Contents. In addition, you can move straight to the first occurrence of your search term.

From every page in Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare you can use the Right-Hand Toolbar to consult general information about Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare, to start a new search, and to access the top-level Table of Contents page.

It is possible to compare editions of Shakespeare synchronising them to the same point.

You can access the Full Text page for a document in one of two ways:

The Full Text page contains the text of the plays in Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare. The order of the Full Text is the same as the order of the Table of Contents; editions are arranged chronologically. The contents of the editions themselves follow their copy texts in structure and order so that headings and divisions within the copy text are preserved. Each play is then broken down into subdivisions reflecting the structure of the original work. The original quarto texts are ordered by play chronologically; the apocrypha; Bell's Acting Edition preserves the structure of the copy text; and the adaptations are ordered alphabetically by source play.

A header is displayed in bold at the top of each Full Text page giving the title of the current item and the context of the item in the database. This is then followed by the main body of the text of the play. A number of standard display formats have been used.

In addition, the following elements may be accessed within the Full Text:

By means of various icons, Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare provides flexible and easy to use navigation of the Full Text.


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