The attached spreadsheet is a bibliography of the 695 documents (~60 million words) tentatively chosen for inclusion in the horizontal part of the L-shaped collection for MONK I. It includes mainly documents from the birth of Elizabeth to the death of King James (1533-1625).
626 texts parsed automatically. 25 texts parsed with minor manual corrections, typically responding to odd features in a file. 33 files will parse once some further amendments to TEI-A have been made. 21 files have not yet been converted to TEI-A
The spreadsheet is structured as a list or flat table that you can sort by various criteria, including
- author
- year
- title
- keywords (from the header and ultimately the Library Congress or STC catalog)
- category (masque, play, poetry, prose, sermon,witch)
- decade
- filename
- character count (divide by 5 to get an approximate word count)
- The MONKStatus column tells you whether the text parsed automatically, required corrections, has been quarantined for later processing, or has not been converted to TEI-A
The collection includes 272 plays. Together with the 40 plays from the WordHoard Shakespeare it will be a fairly comprehensive collection of drama before 1642.
215 texts are classified as sermons. Not perhaps the most riveting genre to us, but the genre that mattered to them and a genre that is represented in just about every decade.
There are 100 texts that address witchcraft in one form or another. The majority of these documents come from the middle and late seventeenth century.
28 texts are classified as poetry and 75 as prose.
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