The gentleman usher Chapman, George, 1559?-1634 Text data (1 file : ca. 216 KB) Deposited by Smith, M.W.A. D Information Systems U of Ulster at Jordanstown
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1989-01-27 Oxford Text Archive Oxford
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ota@bodleian.ox.ac.uk 1298 1298 http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/1298 Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Title proper taken from deposit form Modern English spelling Publication based on this text: An investigation of Morton's method to distinguish Elizabethan playwrights / M.W.A. Smith. -- p. 3-21, 144. In Computers and the Humanities. -- Vol. 19. (1985). Transcribed from: The gentleman usher / George Chapman ; edited by John Hazel Smith. -- [London] : Edward Arnold, 1970. -- (Regents Renaissance drama series). -- First published: Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, 1970. -- ISBN 0-7131-5543-4 (cased). -- ISBN 0-7131-5544-2.

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First 7 characters of each line form a key in the form ABCDEFG

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G = numbering of continuation lines

After an abbreviated form of the name of the speaker appears a P or a V, where P stands for "prose" and V stands for "verse"

 University of Oxford Text Archive Subject Headings Library of Congress Subject Headings 1606 English Plays Plays -- England -- 17th century Tragedies -- England -- 17th century Comedies -- England -- 17th century legacy Free for non-commercial use 2001-04-19 Webb, AntonHeader changed in accordance with ISBD(ER) guidelines and expanded. Validated against the TEI Lite DTD using XMetal 2.0 14 Jan 1998 Burnard, LouHeader auto-generated from TOMES
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