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

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