Dialogue for stage plays
Capture each block of dialogue from a stage play in a displayText class="dialogue" element. Stage plays may be made up of either verse, prose, or a combination of verse and prose.
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DIA:Prose |
Lines of Prose within Dialogue |
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DIA:Verse |
Lines of Verse within Dialogue |
Capture the spoken dialogue in a line element.
Verse dialogue can be distimguished from prose by
- Verse is right-jagged (prose text is justified)
- Each line begins with a capital letter
- Speaker name is on a seperate line (except in the cases where the first line of the speech is a partial line
When a speech contains verse, use a line element for each line in the speech.
Capture a speech in prose dialogue that has line numbers with a line role="proseDialogue" element for each line, and a milestone unit="line" for the line number.
Capture a speech in prose dialogue that does not have line numbers using a single line role="proseDialogue" element, even if the speech spans multiple lines in the print layout.
Use the part attribute to split a line of verse into more than one line of text. For more information on this see: Split lines
Capture line numbers with the milestone element.
speech/speaker
Capture each speech element with a single speaker element as the first piece of content (a milestone for the line number may preceed it). This should contain the name of the speaker, or in the case of multiple speakers, the names of all the speakers.
Where line numbering indicates that the speaker is on a seperate line, capture an empty line element after the speaker element.
speech/stageDirection
Capture stage directions in a stageDirection element.
Dialogue: Prose
<displayText class="dialogue" id="actrade-9780198129929-displayText-2">
<stageDirection><milestone unit="line" num="0.1" id="actrade-9780198129929-milestone-108"/>
<i>Enter
Leonato, governor of Messina, Hero his <milestone unit="line" num="0.2" id="actrade-9780198129929-milestone-109"/>daughter, and Beatrice his niece, with a
Messenger</i>
</stageDirection>
<speech><milestone unit="line" num="1" id="actrade-9780198129929-milestone-110"/><speaker>
<sc>leonato</sc>
</speaker><line role="proseDialogue">I learn in this letter that Don Pedro of Aragon</line><line role="proseDialogue">
<milestone unit="line" num="2" id="actrade-9780198129929-milestone-111"/>comes this night to Messina.</line>
</speech>
<speech><milestone unit="line" num="3" id="actrade-9780198129929-milestone-112"/><speaker>
<sc>messenger</sc>
</speaker><line role="proseDialogue">He is very near by this. He was not three</line><line role="proseDialogue">
<milestone unit="line" num="4" id="actrade-9780198129929-milestone-113"/>leagues off when I left him.</line>
</speech>
<speech><milestone unit="line" num="5" id="actrade-9780198129929-milestone-114"/><speaker>
<sc>leonato</sc>
</speaker><line role="proseDialogue">How many gentlemen have you lost in this</line><line role="proseDialogue">
<milestone unit="line" num="6" id="actrade-9780198129929-milestone-115"/>action?</line>
</speech>
</displayText>
Dialogue: Verse and Prose
<displayText class="dialogue" id="actrade-9780198129011-displayText-800">
<speech>
<milestone unit="line" num="20" id="actrade-9780198129011-milestone-811"/><speaker>
<sc>macduff</sc>
</speaker><line>Was it so late, friend, ere you went to bed,</line><line>
<milestone unit="line" num="21" id="actrade-9780198129011-milestone-812"/>That you
do lie so late?</line>
</speech>
<speech>
<milestone unit="line" num="22" id="actrade-9780198129011-milestone-813"/><speaker>
<sc>porter</sc>
</speaker><line role="proseDialogue">Faith sir, we were carousing till the second cock;</line><line role="proseDialogue">
<milestone unit="line" num="23" id="actrade-9780198129011-milestone-814"/>and drink, sir, is a great provoker of three
things.</line>
</speech>
<speech>
<milestone unit="line" num="24" id="actrade-9780198129011-milestone-815"/><speaker>
<sc>macduff</sc>
</speaker><line role="proseDialogue">What three things does drink especially pro-</line><line role="proseDialogue">
<milestone unit="line" num="25" id="actrade-9780198129011-milestone-816"/>voke?</line>
</speech>
<speech>
<milestone unit="line" num="26" id="actrade-9780198129011-milestone-817"/><speaker>
<sc>porter</sc>
</speaker><line role="proseDialogue">Marry sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lech-</line><line role="proseDialogue">
<milestone unit="line" num="27" id="actrade-9780198129011-milestone-818"/>ery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes: it
provokes the</line><line role="proseDialogue"><?Page pageId="132"?>
<milestone num="132" unit="page" id="actrade-9780198129011-milestone-819"/>
<milestone unit="line" num="28" id="actrade-9780198129011-milestone-820"/>desire, but it
takes away the performance. Therefore</line><line role="proseDialogue">
<milestone unit="line" num="29" id="actrade-9780198129011-milestone-821"/>much drink may be said to be an equivocator
with</line><line role="proseDialogue">
<milestone unit="line" num="30" id="actrade-9780198129011-milestone-822"/>lechery: it makes him, and it mars him; it
sets him on,</line><line role="proseDialogue">
<milestone unit="line" num="31" id="actrade-9780198129011-milestone-823"/>and it takes him off; it persuades him, and
disheartens</line><line role="proseDialogue">
<milestone unit="line" num="32" id="actrade-9780198129011-milestone-824"/>him; makes him stand to, and not stand
to—in conclu-</line><line role="proseDialogue">
<milestone unit="line" num="33" id="actrade-9780198129011-milestone-825"/>sion, equivocates him in a sleep, and giving
him the lie,</line><line role="proseDialogue">
<milestone unit="line" num="34" id="actrade-9780198129011-milestone-826"/>leaves him.</line>
</speech>
<speech role="proseDialogue">
<milestone unit="line" num="35" id="actrade-9780198129011-milestone-827"/><speaker>
<sc>macduff</sc>
</speaker><line>I believe, drink gave thee the lie last night.</line>
</speech>
<speech>
<milestone unit="line" num="36" id="actrade-9780198129011-milestone-828"/><speaker>
<sc>porter</sc>
</speaker><line role="proseDialogue">That it did, sir, i'the very throat on me; but I</line><line role="proseDialogue">
<milestone unit="line" num="37" id="actrade-9780198129011-milestone-829"/>requited him for hislie and, I think, being
too strong for</line><line role="proseDialogue">
<milestone unit="line" num="38" id="actrade-9780198129011-milestone-830"/>him, though he took up my legs sometime, yet
I made a</line><line role="proseDialogue">
<milestone unit="line" num="39" id="actrade-9780198129011-milestone-831"/>shift to cast him.</line>
</speech>
<stageDirection><milestone num="39.1" unit="line" id="actrade-9780198129011-milestone-832"/>
<i>Enter
Macbeth</i>
</stageDirection>
<speech>
<milestone unit="line" num="40" id="actrade-9780198129011-milestone-833"/><speaker>
<sc>macduff</sc>
</speaker><line>Is thy master stirring?</line><line>
<milestone unit="line" num="41" id="actrade-9780198129011-milestone-834"/>Our
knocking has awaked him: here he comes.</line>
</speech>
<speech>
<milestone unit="line" num="42" id="actrade-9780198129011-milestone-835"/><speaker>
<sc>lennox</sc>
</speaker><stageDirection>(<i>to Macbeth</i>)</stageDirection><line part="initial">Good morrow, noble sir.</line>
</speech>
<speech><speaker>
<sc>macbeth</sc>
</speaker><line part="final">Good morrow both.</line>
</speech>
<speech>
<milestone unit="line" num="43" id="actrade-9780198129011-milestone-836"/><speaker>
<sc>macduff</sc>
</speaker><line part="initial">Is the King stirring, worthy thane?</line>
</speech>
<speech><speaker>
<sc>macbeth</sc>
</speaker><line part="final">Not yet.</line>
</speech>
<speech><?Page pageId="133"?>
<milestone num="133" unit="page" id="actrade-9780198129011-milestone-837"/><milestone unit="line" num="44" id="actrade-9780198129011-milestone-838"/><speaker>
<sc>macduff</sc>
</speaker><line>He did command me to call timely on him,</line><line>
<milestone unit="line" num="45" id="actrade-9780198129011-milestone-839"/>I have
almost slipped the hour.</line>
</speech>
<speech>
<milestone unit="line" num="46" id="actrade-9780198129011-milestone-840"/><speaker>
<sc>macbeth</sc>
</speaker><line>I'll bring you to him.</line>
</speech>
<speech>
<milestone unit="line" num="47" id="actrade-9780198129011-milestone-841"/><speaker>
<sc>macduff</sc>
</speaker><line role="proseDialogue">I know this is a joyful trouble to you: but yet 'tis</line><line role="proseDialogue">
<milestone unit="line" num="48" id="actrade-9780198129011-milestone-842"/>one.</line>
</speech>
<speech>
<milestone unit="line" num="49" id="actrade-9780198129011-milestone-843"/><speaker>
<sc>macbeth</sc>
</speaker><line role="proseDialogue">The labour we delight in physics pain—this is</line><line role="proseDialogue">
<milestone unit="line" num="50" id="actrade-9780198129011-milestone-844"/>the door.</line>
</speech>
<speech>
<milestone unit="line" num="51" id="actrade-9780198129011-milestone-845"/><speaker>
<sc>macduff</sc>
</speaker><line role="proseDialogue">I'll make so bold to call, for 'tis my limited</line><line role="proseDialogue">
<milestone unit="line" num="52" id="actrade-9780198129011-milestone-846"/>service.</line>
</speech>
<stageDirection alignment="right">
<milestone unit="line" num="52.1" id="actrade-9780198129011-milestone-847"/>
<i>Exit Macduff</i>
</stageDirection>
</displayText>
Speaker on seperate line
<speech>
<milestone unit="line" num="80" id="actrade-9780520003590-milestone-7328"/>
<speaker alignment="centre">High Priest</speaker>
<line/>
<line>
<milestone unit="line" num="81" id="actrade-9780520003590-milestone-7329"/>You who att
y<sup>e</sup> Alter Stand</line>
<line>
<milestone unit="line" num="82" id="actrade-9780520003590-milestone-7330"/>Waiting for
y<sup>e</sup> Dread Comand</line>
<line>
<milestone unit="line" num="83" id="actrade-9780520003590-milestone-7331"/> ye
fatall Word</line>
<line>
<milestone unit="line" num="84" id="actrade-9780520003590-milestone-7332"/> shall
soon be heard</line>
<line>
<milestone unit="line" num="85" id="actrade-9780520003590-milestone-7333"/>Answer then
is all prepard</line>
</speech>
<speech>
<milestone unit="line" num="86" id="actrade-9780520003590-milestone-7334"/>
<speaker alignment="centre">Cho</speaker>
<line/>
<line alignment="centre">
<milestone unit="line" num="87" id="actrade-9780520003590-milestone-7335"/>alls prepard</line>
</speech>
<speech>
<milestone unit="line" num="88" id="actrade-9780520003590-milestone-7336"/>
<speaker alignment="centre">High Priest</speaker>
<line/>
<line>
<milestone unit="line" num="89" id="actrade-9780520003590-milestone-7337"/>Lett all
vnhallowd Souls begon</line>
<line>
<milestone unit="line" num="90" id="actrade-9780520003590-milestone-7338"/>before our
Sacred rites Come on</line>
<line>
<milestone unit="line" num="91" id="actrade-9780520003590-milestone-7339"/>Take Care
that this is allso done</line>
</speech>