ELECTRONIC CATALOGUE OF LACY'S COLLECTED VOLUMES OF VICTORIAN PLAYS

All plays are copyright the Victorian Plays Project (Director: Richard Pearson) at the University of Worcester, UK, and the Birmingham Central Library, UK.

Play texts were scanned and formatted by the University of Central England Electronic Library.

Transcription and encoding was undertaken by the Victorian Plays Project

(Professor Richard Pearson, Dr kate Mattacks)

May 2006

The Victorian Plays Project has a number of distinct phases: to produce an on-line catalogue of the Lacy's Acting Edition from the collections at the Birmingham Central Library; to generate e-texts in .pdf format that replicate the original texts re-edited for electronic usage; to create a database of plays marked up using TEI encoding in XML that will be searchable and enhance the research potential of the collection.

This section represents the .pdf e-texts of a series of the plays from the collection. All of these e-texts have been created with fidelity to the original in mind and there have been no emendations to spelling or error in the original printed copy. Where these are identified, any errors or confusions have been clarified using Acrobat's notes system and a layer of editorial comment on the text has been provided. All original phoenetic or dialect spellings have been retained.

The highest possible editorial standards and checking of texts has been employed to make these texts as faithful as possible. However, no editorial process can be 100% accurate and errors in the OCR process and editorial checking may still exist. If any scholars wish to check the accuracy of a text, original .tif files (photographic images from the scanning process) are held by the Birmingham Central Library and the Victorian Plays Project. Please contact us for information.

2006: The Victorian Plays Project, www.worc.ac.uk/victorian

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