表題番号：2001A-043
日付：2002/06/10
研究課題英国ルネサンス期劇作品の電子テクスト編纂
| 研究者所属（当時） | 資格 | 氏名 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| （代表者） | 文学部 | 助教授 | アンソニー・マーティン |
- 研究成果概要
- Special Research Project: Electronic Edition of Gorboduc
Status Report: (May 2002)
The purpose of this project is to construct an electronic edition of the play Gorboduc, or Ferrex and Porrex, written by Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville, and published in 1565, 1570 and 1590. The electronic edition will be compiled in TEI-compliant XML, and it is hoped will receive ackowledgement from the Modern Language Association of America Committee on Scholarly Editions as a properly edited text of scholarly and critical value.
The project began in April 2001, with the production of copy texts, photographed (using an Olympus Camedia C3040 digital camera) from facsimile editions where possible, supplemented by photocopies from microfilm sources. These texts were transcribed into copy texts for each of the three sixteenth-century editions. (All transcriptions were made in Simple Text in order to facilitate later markup.) At the same time a full census of the primary texts, their locations, and a full secondary bibliography were compiled. The libraries holding copies of the primary texts are in Britain, the U. S. A., and France.
In September, libraries in Britain (the British Library, the National Art Library, and the Bodleian Library) were visited, and where possible a full manual collation was made of the library copies against the copy text transcribed from other copies.
Subsequently, two assistants began the process of re-transcribing the copy texts, which has allowed a full mechanical collation, using dedicated software, to be performed. This process has been very successful in achieving a final text to be made with a high degree of accuracy.
The finally collated text has since been marked up, using a tag set from the TEI (Text Encoding for Interchange), the leading group developing the use of XML in humanities computing. Eventually, the whole project, including three original spelling texts, a modernized text, critical and textual notes, an introduction, and a full bibliography of primary and secondary works, will be produced in XML, and published on the internet.
Two publications relating to the project have been completed:
Anthony Martin, "The End of History: Thomas Norton's 'V Periodes' and the Pattern of English Protestant Historiography," in John Foxe and His World edited by Christopher Highley and John King (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001)
Anthony Martin, "Elizabethan Textual Communities: The Editions and Contexts of Gorboduc", forthcoming.