Current news

January 13, 2004: All comedies finished. Only five more plays remain, all of them histories and three of them beginning with "Henry VI."
     Cymbeline
     King John
     Merry Wives of Windsor
     Pericles, Prince of Tyre
     Richard II

January 9, 2004: Yet another significant batch of plays, all of them (except "Troilus") comedies. Ten more to go. Here are the new ones:
     Troilus and Cressida
     The Tempest
     Two Gentlemen of Verona
     The Winter's Tale

January 8, 2004: Two new histories, completing the Henry IV/V cycle of plays: "Henry IV" and "Henry V." Plus, a slew of comedies:
     All's Well That Ends Well
     Comedy of Errors
     Love's Labour's Lost
     Measure for Measure
     Merchant of Venice
     A Midsummer Night's Dream
With this latest batch of plays,well over half of the plays are available. Only 15 of the 37 plays remain to be parsed..

January 5, 2004: A landmark in OSS history — all of the tragedies are now available. Thus five additional plays were posted: "Antony and Cleopatra," "Coriolanus," "Julius Caesar," "Titus Andronicus," and "Timon of Athens." The parser now reads character information from the database, so the characters are only entered once.

December 28, 2003: "Macbeth," "Much Ado," "Othello," "Romeo and Juliet" added. The management wrote a script that automates the formatting of the texts. Now a text can be prepared with three small manual steps, plus running the script; characters still have to be manually entered into the database and the parser. The characters will still have to be entered manually, but there has to be a way to avoid entering them twice.

December 21, 2003: "Hamlet" added to the database.

December 14, 2003: Open Source Shakespeare released to the public, with many features unfinished. This is deliberate, because the management wanted to solicit public comments. There are four plays available: "As You Like It," "Henry IV, Part II," "King Lear," and "Taming of the Shrew." E-mail oss@bernini-communications.com if you have anything to say about the site.

Works to be added

• Remaining plays

• All sonnets

• All poems

Planned features

• View page source function

• View SQL statement used to generate results

• Sample queries that populate the advanced search function

• Proximity searching

• "Search within this work" link in a play's main menu

• Summary at top of search results

• Personal bookmarking

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