Figure 2: Structural tags for Shakespeare texts
Literary Structure
Authorship Attribution
<AUTH Shakespeare>
Title
<TITLE Hamlet>
Genre
<GENR Tragedy>
Date of Composition
<CDATE 1601>
Act
<ACT 1>
Scene
<SCENE 1>
Act-Scene
<AS 1.1>
Classical Scene (Counter)
*CSCENE
Line (Counter)
*LIN
Riverside Line Number
<RIV 1.1.14>
Speech Prefix
<SP {Bar.}>
Speaker
<NSP Barnardo>
Stage Directions
<SP DIR><NSP DIR>
Printer's Matter
<SP PRT><NSP PRT>
Language
<LANG English>
Verse/Prose
<STYLE Verse>
Bibliographical Structure
Version
<VERS Q2>
Printer
<PRT James Roberts>
Publisher
<PUB Nicholas Ling>
Place of Publication
<PPUB London>
Compositor (if known)
<COMP A>
Copytext
<COPYT Huntington 69305>
Short Title Catalogue No.
<STC 22276>
Publication Date
<PDATE 1604/5>
Signature
<SIG [A1]>
Forme
<FRME A outer>
Typeface
<FONT Italic>
Turned-Over Lines
<TYPE Over>
Turned-Under Lines
<TYPE Under>
Full/Partial Line Length
<TYPE Full>
Catchwords
<SP Catchword><NSP Catchword>
Title Page
<WORK Front>
Stop-Press Corrections
<CORR ...>
Electronic Structure
MakBas and TACT also automatically index items such as File
Name, Sentence
Numbers, Line Numbers (each physical line of the file), and Word Numbers.