7 Performance Texts
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This module is intended for use when encoding printed dramatictexts, screen plays or radio scripts, and written transcriptions of anyform of performance.
Section 7.1 Front and 後付 discusses elements, such as cast lists,which can appear only in the front or back matter of printed dramatictexts. Section 7.2 The Body of a Performance Text discusses the structuralcomponents of performance texts: these include major structuraldivisions such as acts and scenes (section 7.2.1 Major Structural Divisions);individual speeches (section 7.2.2 Speeches and Speakers); stage directions(section 7.2.3 Stage Directions); and the elements making up individualspeeches (section 7.2.4 Speech Contents). Section 7.2.5 Embedded Structuresdiscusses ways of encoding units which cross the simple hierarchicstructure so far defined, such as embedded songs or masques.Finally, section 7.3 Other Types of Performance Text discusses a small number ofadditional elements characteristic of screen plays and radio ortelevision scripts, as well as some elements for representingtechnical stage directions such as lighting or blocking.
The default structure for dramatic texts is similar to thatdefined by chapter 4 テキスト構造モジュール, as further discussed insection 7.2.1 Major Structural Divisions.
Two element classes are used by this module.The model.frontPart.drama class suppliesspecialized elements which can appear only in the front or back matterof performance texts. The model.stageLikeclass supplies a set of elements for stage directions and similaritems such as camera movements, which can occur between or withinspeeches.
7.1 Front and 後付 TEI: Front and 後付 ¶
In dramatic texts, as in all TEI-conformant documents, the headerelement is followed by a text element, which contains optionalfront and back matter, and either a body or else agroup of nested text elements. For more informationon these, see chapter 4 テキスト構造モジュール.
- performance contains a section of front or back matter describing how adramatic piece is to be performed in general or how it was performedon some specific occasion.
- prologue contains the prologue to a drama, typically spoken by an actor out ofcharacter, possibly in association with a particular performance or venue.
- epilogue contains the epilogue to a drama, typically spoken by an actorout of character, possibly in association with a particular performanceor venue.
- set (setting) contains a description of the setting, time, locale, appearance,etc., of the action of a play, typically found in the front matter ofa printed performance text (not a stage direction).
- castList (cast list) contains a single cast list or dramatis personae.
Elements for encoding each of these specific kinds of front matterare discussed in the remainder of this section, in the order givenabove. In addition, the front matter of dramatic texts may includethe same elements as that of any other kind of text, notably titlepages and various kinds of text division, as discussed in section 4.5 前付け. The encoder may choose to ignore the specializedelements discussed in this section and instead use constructions ofthe type div type="performance" or div1type="set".
Most other material in the front matter of a performance text will bemarked with the default text structure elements described in chapter4 テキスト構造モジュール. For example, the titlepage, dedication, other commendatory material, preface, etc., in aprinted text should be encoded using div or div1elements, containing headings, paragraphs, and other core tags.
7.1.1 The Set ElementTEI: The Set Element¶
- set (setting) contains a description of the setting, time, locale, appearance,etc., of the action of a play, typically found in the front matter ofa printed performance text (not a stage direction).
<castList>
<castItem> ... </castItem>
</castList>
<set>
<p>The action of the play is set in Chicago's
Southside, sometime between World War II and the
present.</p>
</set>
</front>
<titlePage/>
<div type="copyright_page"/>
<div type="Contents"/>
<div type="Introduction"/>
<div type="note">
<head>Note on the Translation</head>
<p> ... </p>
</div>
<titlePage type="half-title">
<docTitle>
<titlePart>Peer Gynt</titlePart>
</docTitle>
</titlePage>
<div type="Dramatis_Personae">
<head>Characters</head>
<castList/>
</div>
<set>
<p>The action, which opens in the beginning of the nineteenth
century, and ends around the 1860s, takes place partly in
Gudbrandsdalen, and on the mountains around it, partly on the coast
of Morocco, in the desert of Sahara, in a madhouse at Cairo, at sea,
etc.</p>
</set>
<performance/>
</front>
7.1.2 Prologues and EpiloguesTEI: Prologues and Epilogues¶
- prologue contains the prologue to a drama, typically spoken by an actor out ofcharacter, possibly in association with a particular performance or venue.
- epilogue contains the epilogue to a drama, typically spoken by an actorout of character, possibly in association with a particular performanceor venue.
<prologue>
<head>Prologue, spoken by <name>Mr. Hart</name>
</head>
<l>Poets like Cudgel'd Bullys, never do</l>
<l>At first, or second blow, submit to you;</l>
<l>But will provoke you still, and ne're have done,</l>
<l>Till you are weary first, with laying on:</l>
<l>We patiently you see, give up to you,</l>
<l>Our Poets, Virgins, nay our Matrons too.</l>
</prologue>
<castList>
<head>The Persons</head>
<castItem> ... </castItem>
</castList>
<set>
<head>The SCENE</head>
<p>London</p>
</set>
</front>
<head>Written by <name>Colley Cibber, Esq</name>
and spoken by <name>Mrs. Cibber</name>
</head>
<sp>
<lg type="stanza">
<l>Since Fate has robb'd me of the hapless Youth,</l>
<l>For whom my heart had hoarded up its truth;</l>
<l>By all the Laws of Love and Honour, now,</l>
<l>I'm free again to chuse, — and one of you</l>
</lg>
<lg type="stanza">
<l>Suppose I search the sober Gallery; — No,</l>
<l>There's none but Prentices — & Cuckolds all a row:</l>
<l>And these, I doubt, are those that make 'em so.</l>
</lg>
<stage>Pointing to the Boxes.</stage>
<lg type="stanza">
<l>'Tis very well, enjoy the jest:</l>
</lg>
</sp>
</epilogue>
<body>
<div1 type="scene">
<sp>
<l part="Y">I'le deliver all,</l>
<l>And promise you calme Seas, auspicious gales,</l>
<l>Be free and fare thou well: please you, draw neere.</l>
<stage>Exeunt omnes.</stage>
</sp>
</div1>
</body>
<back>
<epilogue>
<head>Epilogue, spoken by Prospero.</head>
<sp>
<l>Now my Charmes are all ore-throwne,</l>
<l>And what strength I have's mine owne</l>
<l>As you from crimes would pardon'd be,</l>
<l>Let your Indulgence set me free.</l>
</sp>
<stage>Exit</stage>
</epilogue>
<set>
<p>The Scene, an un-inhabited Island.</p>
</set>
<castList>
<head>Names of the Actors.</head>
<castItem>Alonso, K. of Naples</castItem>
<castItem>Sebastian, his Brother.</castItem>
<castItem>Prospero, the right Duke of Millaine.</castItem>
</castList>
<trailer>FINIS</trailer>
</back>
</text>
<speaker>Prospero</speaker>
<l part="Y">I'll deliver all,</l>
<l>And promise you calm seas, auspicious gales,</l>
<l>Be free and fare thou well. <stage type="exit">Exit Ariel</stage>
Please you, draw near. <stage type="exit">Exeunt all but Prospero</stage>
<note place="margin">Epilogue</note>
</l>
<l>Now my charms are all o'erthrown,</l>
<l>And what strength I have's mine own</l>
<l>As you from crimes would pardoned be,</l>
<l>Let your indulgence set me free.</l>
</sp>
<stage type="mix">He awaits applause, then exit.</stage>
7.1.3 Records of PerformancesTEI: Records of Performances¶
- performance contains a section of front or back matter describing how adramatic piece is to be performed in general or how it was performedon some specific occasion.
Performance information may include complex structures such as castlists, or paragraphs describing the date and location of a performance,details about the setting portrayed in the performance and so forth.(See the discussion of these specialized structures in section 7.1 Front and 後付 above.) Ifinformation for more than one performance is being recorded, then morethan one performance element should be used, wherever possible.
Names of persons, places, and dates of particular significance withinthe performance record may be explicitly marked using the generalpurpose name, rs type="place" and dateelements described in section 3.5.4 日付や時間.No particular elements for such features as stagehouses,directors, etc., are proposed at this time.
<head>Death of a Salesman</head>
<p>A New Play by Arthur Miller</p>
<p>Staged by Elia Kazan</p>
<castList>
<head>Cast</head>
<note rend="small type flush left" place="inline">(in order of appearance)</note>
<castItem>
<role>Willy Loman</role>
<actor>Lee J. Cobb</actor>
</castItem>
<castItem>
<role>Linda</role>
<actor>Mildred Dunnock</actor>
</castItem>
<castItem>
<role>Biff</role>
<actor>Arthur Kennedy</actor>
</castItem>
<castItem>
<role>Happy</role>
<actor>Cameron Mitchell</actor>
</castItem>
<!-- ... -->
</castList>
<p>The setting and lighting were designed by
<name>Jo Mielziner</name>.</p>
<p>The incidental music was composed by <name>Alex North</name>.</p>
<p>The costumes were designed by <name>Julia Sze</name>.</p>
<p>Presented by <name rend="unmarked">Kermit Bloomgarden</name>
and <name rend="unmarked">Walter Fried</name> at the
<rs type="place">Morosco Theatre in New York</rs> on
<date when="1949-02-10">February 10, 1949</date>.</p>
</performance>
<p>La Machine Infernale a été
représentée pour la première fois au
<rs type="place-theatre">théâtre Louis-Jouvet</rs>
<rs type="place-theatre">(Comédie des
Champs-élysées)</rs>
<date>le 10 avril 1934</date>,
avec les décors et les costumes de
<name>Christian Bérard.</name> ... </p>
</performance>
7.1.4 Cast リストTEI: Cast リスト¶
- castList (cast list) contains a single cast list or dramatis personae.
- castGroup (cast list grouping) groups one or more individual castItemelements within a cast list.
- castItem (cast list item) contains a single entry within a cast list, describingeither a single role or a list of non-speaking roles.
type characterizes the cast item.
- role the name of a dramatic role, as given in a cast list.
- roleDesc (role description) describes a character's role in a drama.
- actor Name of an actor appearing within a cast list.
- Sons of Cato:
- Portius
- Marcus
<p>The first performance in Great Britain of <title>Waiting for
Godot</title> was given at the Arts Theatre, London, on
<date when="1955-08-03">3rd August 1955</date>. It was directed by
<name>Peter Hall</name>, and the décor was by <name>Peter
Snow</name>. The cast was as follows:</p>
<castList>
<castItem>Estragon: Peter Woodthorpe</castItem>
<castItem>Vladimir: Paul Daneman</castItem>
<castItem> ... </castItem>
</castList>
</performance>
<role xml:id="vlad">Vladimir</role>:
<actor>Paul Daneman</actor>
</castItem>
The global xml:id attribute may be used to specify a uniqueidentifier for the role element, where it is desired to linkspeeches within the text explicitly to the role, using thewho attribute, as further discussed in section 7.2.2 Speeches and Speakers below.
<role>Tom Thumb the Great</role>
<roleDesc>a little hero with a great soul, something violent in his
temper, which is a little abated by his love for Huncamunca</roleDesc>
<actor>Young Verhuyk</actor>
</castItem>
<roleDesc>Costermonger</roleDesc>
</castItem>
<castItem type="list">
<roleDesc>Constables,</roleDesc>
<roleDesc>Drawer,</roleDesc>
<roleDesc>Turnkey,</roleDesc>
etc.
</castItem>
<head>friends of Mathias</head>
<castItem>
<role>Walter</role>
<actor>Mr Frank Hall</actor>
</castItem>
<castItem>
<role>Hans</role>
<actor>Mr F.W. Irish</actor>
</castItem>
</castGroup>
<roleDesc>friends of Mathias</roleDesc>
<castItem>
<role>Walter</role>
<actor>Mr Frank Hall</actor>
</castItem>
<castItem>
<role>Hans</role>
<actor>Mr F.W. Irish</actor>
</castItem>
</castGroup>
<castGroup>
<head rend="braced">Mendicants</head>
<castItem>
<role>Aafaa</role>
<actor>Femi Johnson</actor>
</castItem>
<castItem>
<role>Blindman</role>
<actor>Femi Osofisan</actor>
</castItem>
<castItem>
<role>Goyi</role>
<actor>Wale Ogunyemi</actor>
</castItem>
<castItem>
<role>Cripple</role>
<actor>Tunji Oyelana</actor>
</castItem>
</castGroup>
<castItem>
<role>Si Bero</role>
<roleDesc>Sister to Dr Bero</roleDesc>
<actor>Deolo Adedoyin</actor>
</castItem>
<castGroup>
<head rend="braced">Two old women</head>
<castItem>
<role>Iya Agba</role>
<actor>Nguba Agolia</actor>
</castItem>
<castItem>
<role>Iya Mate</role>
<actor>Bopo George</actor>
</castItem>
</castGroup>
<castItem>
<role>Dr Bero</role>
<roleDesc>Specialist</roleDesc>
<actor>Nat Okoro</actor>
</castItem>
<castItem>
<role>Priest</role>
<actor>Gbenga Sonuga</actor>
</castItem>
<castItem>
<role>The old man</role>
<roleDesc>Bero's father</roleDesc>
<actor>Dapo Adelugba</actor>
</castItem>
</castList>
7.2 The Body of a Performance TextTEI: The Body of a Performance Text¶
The body of a performance text may be divided into structural units,variously called acts, scenes, stasima, entr'actes, etc. All suchformal divisions should be encoded using an appropriate text-divisionelement (div, div1, div2, etc.), as furtherdiscussed in section 7.2.1 Major Structural Divisions. Whether divided up into suchunits or not, all performance texts consist of sequences of speeches(see 7.2.2 Speeches and Speakers) and stage directions (see 7.2.3 Stage Directions).Speeches will generally consist of a sequence ofchunk-level items: paragraphs, verse lines, stanzas, or(in case of uncertainty as to whether something is verse or prose)seg elements (see 7.2.4 Speech Contents).
The boundaries of formal units such as verse lines or paragraphs donot always coincide with speech boundaries. Units such as songs may bediscontinuous or shared among several speakers. As described below insection 7.2.5 Embedded Structures, such fragmentation may be encoded in arelatively simple fashion using the linkage and aggregation mechanismsdefined in chapter 16 Linking, Segmentation, and Alignment.
7.2.1 Major Structural DivisionsTEI: Major Structural Divisions¶
<div1 type="scene" n="1">
<head>Night—Faust's Study (i)</head>
</div1>
<div1 type="scene" n="2">
<head>Outside the City Gate</head>
</div1>
</body>
<div1 type="act" n="1">
<head>Act One</head>
<div2 type="scene" n="1">
<stage>Pa Ubu, Ma Ubu</stage>
<sp>
<speaker>Pa Ubu</speaker>
<p>Pschitt!</p>
</sp>
</div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="2">
<stage>A room in Pa Ubu's house, where a magnificent
collation is set out</stage>
</div2>
</div1>
<div1 type="act" n="2">
<head>Act Two</head>
<div2 type="scene" n="1">
<head>Scene One</head>
</div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="2">
<head>Scene Two</head>
</div2>
</div1>
</body>
In the example above, the div2 element has been used torepresent the ‘French scene’ convention, (where theentrance of each new set of characters is marked as a distinct unit inthe text) and the div1 element to represent the acts into whichthe play is divided. The elements chosen are determined only by thehierarchic position of these units in the text as a whole. If the texthad no acts, but only scenes, then the scenes might be represented bydiv1 elements. Equally, if a play is divided only into‘acts’, with no smaller subdivisions, then the div1element might be used to represent acts. The type should beused, as above, to make explicit the name associatedwith a particular category of subdivision.
<head>Act Two</head>
<div type="scene" n="1">
<head>Scene One</head>
</div>
<div type="scene" n="2">
<head>Scene Two</head>
</div>
</div>
For further discussion of the use of numbered and unnumbereddivisions, see section 4.1 本文の下位区分.
7.2.2 Speeches and SpeakersTEI: Speeches and Speakers¶
As noted above, the structure of many performance texts may beanalysed as multiply hierarchic: a scene of a verse play, for example,may be divided into speeches and, at the same time, into verse lines.The end of a line may or may not coincide with the end of a speech, andvice versa. Other structures, such as songs, may be discontinuous orsplit up over several speeches. For some purposes it will beappropriate to regard the verse-structure as the fundamental organizingprinciple of the text, and for others the speech structure; in somecases, the choice between the two may be arbitrary. The discussion inthe remainder of this chapter assumes that it is the speech-basedhierarchy which most prominently determines the structure of performancetexts, but the same mechanisms could be employed to encode a view of aperformance text in which individual speeches were entirely subordinateto the formal units of prose and verse. For more detailed discussion andexamples of various treatments of this fundamental issue, refer tochapter 20 Non-hierarchical Structures.
<castItem>
<role xml:id="menae">Menaechmus</role>
</castItem>
<castItem>
<role xml:id="penic">Peniculus</role>
</castItem>
</castList>
<sp who="#menae">
<speaker>Menaechmus</speaker>
<l>Responde, adulescens, quaeso, quid nomen tibist?</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#penic">
<speaker>Peniculus</speaker>
<l>Etiam derides, quasi nomen non noveris?</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#menae">
<speaker>Menaechmus</speaker>
<l>Non edepol ego te, quot sciam, umquam ante hunc diem</l>
<l>Vidi neque novi; ...</l>
</sp>
<castItem>
<role xml:id="hh">Henry Higgins</role>
</castItem>
</castList>
<sp who="#hh">
<speaker>The Notetaker</speaker>
<p> ... </p>
</sp>
<castItem>
<role xml:id="menaechmus">Menaechmus</role>
</castItem>
<castItem>
<role xml:id="peniculus">Peniculus</role>
</castItem>
</castList>
<sp who="#menaechmus">
<l>Responde, adulescens, quaeso, quid nomen tibist?</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#peniculus">
<l>Etiam derides, quasi nomen non noveris?</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#menaechmus">
<l>Non edepol ego te, quot sciam, umquam ante hunc diem</l>
<l>Vidi neque novi; ...</l>
</sp>
<castItem>
<role xml:id="nan">Nano</role>
</castItem>
<castItem>
<role xml:id="cas">Castrone</role>
</castItem>
</castList>
<stage>Nano and Castrone sing</stage>
<sp who="#nan #cas">
<l>Fools, they are the only nation</l>
<l>Worth men's envy or admiration</l>
</sp>
The sp and speaker elements are both declaredwithin the core module (see section 3.12 韻文・舞台芸術中の一節).
7.2.3 Stage DirectionsTEI: Stage Directions¶
- stage (stage direction) contains any kind of stage direction within a dramatic text orfragment.
type indicates the kind of stage direction. - move/ (movement) marks the actual entrance or exit of one or more characters on stage.
type characterizes the movement, for example as an entrance or exit. where specifies the direction of a stage movement. perf (performance) identifies the performance or performances in which this movement occurred as specified.
<stage type="setting">Music</stage>
<stage type="entrance">Enter Husband as being thrown off his horse.</stage>
<stage type="exit">Exit pursued by a bear.</stage>
<stage type="business">He quickly takes the stone out.</stage>
<stage type="delivery">To Lussurioso.</stage>
<stage type="delivery">Aside.</stage>
<stage type="delivery">Not knowing what to say.</stage>
<stage type="costume">Disguised as Ansaldo.</stage>
<stage type="location">At a window.</stage>
<stage type="novelistic">Having had enough, and embarrassed
for the family.</stage>
editorial or authorial. The type= attribute on this element takes
one or more of the following values:
<list type="gloss">
<label>setting</label>
<item>describes the set</item>
<label>blocking</label>
<item>describes movement across stage, position, etc.</item>
<label>business</label>
<item>describes movement other than blocking</item>
<label>delivery</label>
<item>describes how the line is said</item>
<label>motivation</label>
<item>describes character's emotional state or through line</item>
</list>
</tagUsage>
<stage type="setting">
<p>Scene. — A room furnished comfortably and
tastefully but not extravagantly ...
The floor is carpeted and a fire burns in the stove.
It is winter.</p>
<p>A bell rings in the hall; shortly afterwards the
door is heard to open. Enter NORA humming a tune ...</p>
</stage>
<sp>
<speaker>Nora</speaker>
<p>Hide the Christmas Tree carefully, Helen. Be sure the
children do not see it till this evening, when it is
dressed. <stage type="delivery">To the PORTER taking
out her purse</stage> How much?</p>
</sp>
</div1>
The stage element may also be used in non-theatricaltexts, to mark sound effects or musical effects, etc., as furtherdiscussed in section 7.3 Other Types of Performance Text.
The move element is intended to help overcome the fact thatthe stage directions of a printed text may often not provide fullinformation about either the intended or the actual movement of actorsetc. on stage. It may be used to keep track of entrances and exits indetail, so as to know which characters are on stage at which time. Itsattributes permit a relatively formal specification for movements ofcharacters, using user-defined codes to identify the characters involved(the who attribute), the direction of the movement(type attribute), and optionally which part of the stage isinvolved (where attribute). For stage-historical purposes, aperf attribute is also provided; this allows the recording ofdifferent move elements as taken in different performances of the same text.
<castItem>
<role xml:id="bella">Bellafront</role>
</castItem>
</castList>
<stage type="entrance">
<move who="#bella" type="enter"/>
Enter Bellafront mad.
</stage>
<castItem>
<role xml:id="lm">Lady Macbeth</role>
</castItem>
<castItem>
<role xml:id="g1">First Gentleman</role>
</castItem>
<!-- ... -->
</castList>
<sp who="#g1">
<speaker>Gent.</speaker>
<p>Neither to you, nor any one; having no witness
to confirm my speech. <move who="#lm" type="enter" where="C"/>
Lo you! here she comes. This is her very guise; and,
upon my life, fast asleep.</p>
</sp>
7.2.4 Speech ContentsTEI: Speech Contents¶
- p (paragraph) marks paragraphs in prose.
- lb/ (line break) marks the start of a new (typographic) line in someedition or version of a text.
ed (edition) indicates the edition or version in which the line break is locatedat this point - l (verse line) contains a single, possibly incomplete, line of verse.
part specifies whether or not the line is metrically complete. - lg (line group) contains a group of verse lines functioning as a formal unit,e.g. a stanza, refrain, verse paragraph, etc.
- att.typed provides attributes which can be used to classify or subclassify elements in any way.
type characterizes the element in some sense, using any convenient classification scheme or typology. subtype provides a sub-categorization of the element, if needed - att.divLike provides attributes common to all elements which behave in the same way as divisions.
org (organization) specifies how the content of the division is organized. sample indicates whether this division is a sample of the original source and if so, from which part. part specifies whether or not the division is fragmented by some other structural element, for example a speech which is divided between two or more verse stanzas.
- att.metrical defines a set of attributes which certain elements may use torepresent metrical information.
met (metrical structure, conventional) contains a user-specified encoding for the conventionalmetrical structure of the element. rhyme (rhyme scheme) specifies the rhyme scheme applicable to a group of verse lines.
In many texts, prose and verse may be inextricably mingled;particularly in earlier printed texts, prose may be printed as verse orverse as prose, or it may be impossible to distinguish the two. Incases of doubt, an encoder may prefer to tag the dubious materialconsistently as verse, to tag it all as prose, to follow the typographyof the source text, or to use the neutral abelement to contain the speech itself. When this question arises, thetagUsage element in the encodingDesc element of theheader may be used to record explicitly what policy has been adopted.
Even where they can reliably be distinguished, a single speech may frequentlycontain a mixture of prose (marked as p) and verse (marked asl or — if stanzaic — lg).
<speaker>Face</speaker>
<l part="Y">Believ't, I will.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Subtle</speaker>
<l part="Y">Thy worst. I fart at thee.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Doll</speaker>
<l>Ha' you your wits? Why gentlemen! For love —</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Face</speaker>
<l part="Y">Sirrah, I'll strip you—.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Subtle</speaker>
<l part="Y">What to do? Lick figs</l>
<l part="Y">Out at my—</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Face</speaker>
<l part="Y">Rogue, rogue, out of all your sleights.</l>
</sp>
<speaker>Face</speaker>
<l part="I">Believ't, I will.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Subtle</speaker>
<l part="F">Thy worst. I fart at thee.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Doll</speaker>
<l>Ha' you your wits? Why gentlemen! For love —</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Face</speaker>
<l part="I">Sirrah, I'll strip you—.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Subtle</speaker>
<l part="M">What to do? Lick figs</l>
<l part="I">Out at my—</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Face</speaker>
<l part="F">Rogue, rogue, out of all your sleights.</l>
</sp>
<sp>
<lg type="song" part="I">
<l>I am the monarch of the sea,</l>
<l>The ruler of the Queen's Navee.</l>
<l>Whose praise Great Britain loudly chants.</l>
</lg>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Cousin Hebe</speaker>
<lg type="song" part="M">
<l>And we are his sisters and his cousins and his aunts!</l>
</lg>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Rel.</speaker>
<lg type="song" part="F">
<l>And we are his sisters and his cousins and his aunts!</l>
</lg>
</sp>
7.2.5 Embedded StructuresTEI: Embedded Structures¶
Although primarily composed of speeches, performance texts oftencontain other structural units such as songs or strophes which areshared among different speakers. More generally, complex nestedstructures of plays within plays, interpolated masques, or interludesare far from uncommon. In more modern material, comparably complexstructural devices such as flashback or nested playback are equallyfrequent. In all kinds of performance material, it may be necessary toindicate several actions which are happening simultaneously.
- the use of the floatingText element
- the use of the part attribute on fragmentarylg elements
- the use of the next and prev attributes onfragments of embedded structures to join them into a larger whole
- the use of the join element to define a‘virtual element’ composed of the fragmentsindicated
<speaker>Kelly</speaker>
<stage>(calmly).</stage>
<p>Aha, so you've bad minds along with th' love of gain.
You thry to pin on others th' dirty decorations that
may be hangin' on your own coats.</p>
<stage>(He points, one after the other at Conroy, Bull,
and Flagonson. Lilting)</stage>
<lg type="song">
<l>Who were you with last night?</l>
<l>Who were you with last night?</l>
<l>Will you tell your missus when you go home</l>
<l>Who you were with last night?</l>
</lg>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Flagonson</speaker>
<stage>(in anguished indignation).</stage>
<p>This is more than a hurt to us: this hits at the
decency of the whole nation!</p>
</sp>
<speaker>Kelly</speaker>
<stage>(calmly).</stage>
<p>Aha, so you've bad minds along with ...</p>
</sp>
<stage>(He points, one after the other at Conroy, Bull,
and Flagonson. Lilting):</stage>
<floatingText>
<front>
<titlePart>Kelly's Song</titlePart>
</front>
<body>
<l>Who were you with last night?</l>
<l>Who were you with last night?</l>
<l>Will you tell your missus when you go home</l>
<l>Who you were with last night?</l>
</body>
</floatingText>
When an embedded structure extends across more than one spelement, each of its constituent parts must be regarded as a distinctfragment; the problem then facing the encoder is to reconstitute theinterrupted whole in some way.
<speaker>Kelly</speaker>
<stage>(wheeling quietly in his semi-dance,
as he goes out):</stage>
<lg type="stanza" part="I">
<l>Goodbye to holy souls left here,</l>
<l>Goodbye to man an' fairy;</l>
</lg>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Widda Machree</speaker>
<stage>(wheeling quietly in her semi-dance,
as she goes out):</stage>
<lg type="stanza" part="F">
<l>Goodbye to all of Leicester Square,</l>
<l>An' the long way to Tipperary.</l>
</lg>
</sp>
<div2 n="5" type="scene">
<stage>Elsinore. A room in the Castle.</stage>
<stage type="setting">Enter Ophelia, distracted.</stage>
<sp>
<speaker>Ophelia</speaker>
<p>Where is the beauteous Majesty of Denmark?</p>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Queen</speaker>
<p>How now, Ophelia?</p>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Ophelia</speaker>
<stage>Singing</stage>
<lg
next="#Tl2"
xml:id="Tl1"
type="song"
part="Y">
<l>How should I your true-love know</l>
<l>From another one?</l>
<l>By his cockle hat and staff</l>
<l>And his sandal shoon.</l>
</lg>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Queen</speaker>
<p>Alas, sweet lady, what imports this song?</p>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Ophelia</speaker>
<p>Say you? Nay, pray you mark.</p>
<stage>Sings</stage>
<lg
prev="#Tl1"
xml:id="Tl2"
type="song"
part="Y">
<l>He is dead and gone, lady,</l>
<l>He is dead and gone;</l>
<l>At his head a grass-green turf,</l>
<l>At his heels a stone.</l>
</lg>
<p>O, ho!</p>
</sp>
<!-- need better example of nested text -->
</div2>
</div1>
The next and prev attributes are discussed insection 16.7 Aggregation: they form part of the modulefor alignment and linking; this module must therefore be inclued in aschema if they are to be used, as further discussed in section 1.2 TEIスキーマの定義.
<body>
<div1 n="4" type="act">
<div2 n="5" type="scene">
<stage type="setting">Elsinore. A room in the Castle.</stage>
<sp>
<speaker>Queen</speaker>
<p>How now, Ophelia?</p>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Ophelia</speaker>
<stage type="delivery">Singing</stage>
<lg xml:id="TL1" type="song" part="Y">
<l>How should I your true-love know</l>
<l>From another one?</l>
<l>By his cockle hat and staff</l>
<l>And his sandal shoon.</l>
</lg>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Queen</speaker>
<p>Alas, sweet lady, what imports this song?</p>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Ophelia</speaker>
<p>Say you? Nay, pray you mark.</p>
<stage type="delivery">Sings</stage>
<lg xml:id="TL2" type="song" part="Y">
<l>He is dead and gone, lady,</l>
<l>He is dead and gone;</l>
<l>At his head a grass-green turf,</l>
<l>At his heels a stone.</l>
</lg>
<p>O, ho!</p>
<join type="lg" targets="#TL1 #TL2"/>
</sp>
</div2>
</div1>
</body>
</text>
Like the next and prev attributes, thejoin element requires the additional module for linking, whichis selected as shown above.
7.2.6 Simultaneous ActionTEI: Simultaneous Action¶
In printed or written versions of performance texts, a variety oftechniques may be used to indicate the temporal alignment of speeches oractions. Speeches may be printed vertically aligned on the page, orbraced together; stage directions (e.g. ‘Speaking at the sametime’) are also often used. In operatic or musical works inparticular, the need to indicate timing and alignment of individualparts of a song may lead to very complex layout.
<speaker>Mangan</speaker>
<stage type="delivery">wildly</stage>
<p>Look here: I'm going to take off all my clothes.</p>
<stage type="action">he begins tearing off his coat.</stage>
</sp>
<sp xml:id="dr-s1">
<speaker>Lady Utterword</speaker>
<p>Mr Mangan!</p>
</sp>
<sp xml:id="dr-s2">
<speaker>Captain Shotover</speaker>
<p>Whats that?</p>
</sp>
<sp xml:id="dr-s3">
<speaker>Hector</speaker>
<p>Ha! ha! Do. Do.</p>
</sp>
<sp xml:id="dr-s4">
<speaker>Ellie</speaker>
<p>Please dont.</p>
</sp>
<stage corresp="#dr-s1 #dr-s2 #dr-s3 #dr-s4" xml:id="dr-d1" type="delivery">in consternation</stage>
<sp>
<speaker>Mrs. Hushabye</speaker>
<stage type="action">catching his arm and stopping him</stage>
<p>Alfred: for shame! Are you mad?</p>
</sp>
In the original, the stage direction ‘in consternation’ isprinted opposite a brace grouping all four speeches, indicating that allfour characters speak at once, and that the stage direction applies toall of them. In the example, the stage element has been movedto an arbitrary place, and the four speeches with which it is to beassociated are specified by identifier as the value of thecorresp attribute. This attribute, which is enabled by thelinking module, provides the simplest way of indicating the temporalalignment of speeches or actions in a play.
More powerful and more precise mechanisms for temporal alignment aredefined in chapter 8 Transcriptions of Speech. These would be appropriate forencodings the focus of which is on the actual performance of a textrather than its structure or formal properties. The module describedin that chapter includes a large number of other detailed proposals forthe encoding of such features as voice quality, prosody, etc., whichmight be relevant to such a treatment of performance texts.
7.3 Other Types of Performance TextTEI: Other Types of Performance Text¶
Most of the elements and structures identified thus far are derivedfrom traditional theatrical texts. Although other performance texts,such as screenplays or radio scripts, have not been discussedspecifically, they can be encoded using the elements and structureslisted above. Encoders may however find it convenient to use, as well,the additional specialized elements discussed in this section. Forscripts containing very detailed technical information, thetech element discussed in section 7.3.1 Technical Information may alsobe useful.
Like other texts, screenplays and television or radio scripts maybe divided into text divisions marked with div ordiv1, etc. Within units corresponding with the traditional‘act’ and ‘scene’, further subdivisions or sequences may beidentified, composed of individual ‘shots’, each associated witha single camera angle and setting. Shots and sequences should beencoded using an appropriate text-division element (i.e., adiv3 element if numbered division elements are in use and thenext largest unit is a div2, or a div element ifun-numbered divisions are in use) specifying sequence orshot as the value of the type attribute, asappropriate.
- view describes the visual context of some part of a screen play interms of what the spectator sees, generally independent of anydialogue.
- camera describes a particular camera angle or viewpoint in a screen play.
- caption contains the text of a caption or other text displayed as part ofa film script or screenplay.
- sound describes a sound effect or musical sequence specified within ascreen play or radio script.
type categorizes the sound in some respect, e.g. as music, special effect, etc. discrete indicates whether the sound overlaps the surrounding speeches or interrupts them.
<view>Ryan's wife, standing nervously alone on the sidelines,
biting her lip. She's scared and she shows it.</view>
<camera>New angle--shock cut</camera> Out the window
the body of a dead man suddenly slams into
<hi>frame</hi>. He dangles grotesquely,
held up by his coat caught on a protruding bolt.
George gasps. The train <hi>whistle</hi> screams.</view>
The <name>T.V. announcer</name> from the Ryan interview
stands near the Control Van, the lake in b.g.</view>
<sp>
<speaker>T.V. Announcer</speaker>
<p>Several years ago, Jack Ryan was a highly
successful hydroplane racer ...</p>
</sp>
<speaker>TV Announcer VO</speaker>
<p>Working with Ryan are his two coworkers—
Strut Bowman, the mechanical engineer—
<view>
<camera>Angle on Strut</camera>
standing in the tow boat, walkie-talkie in hand,
watching Ryan carefully.</view>
—and Roger Dalton, a rocket
systems analyst, and one of the scientists
from the Jet Propulsion Lab ...</p>
</sp>
<speaker>Benjy</speaker>
<p>Now to business.</p>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Ford and Zaphod</speaker>
<p>To business.</p>
</sp>
<sound>Glasses clink.</sound>
<sp>
<speaker>Benjy</speaker>
<p>I beg your pardon?</p>
</sp>
<sp>
<speaker>Ford</speaker>
<p>I'm sorry, I thought you were proposing a toast.</p>
</sp>
of hansom cabs galloping past.</camera>
<caption>London, 1895.</caption>
<caption>The residence of Mr Oscar Wilde.</caption>
<sound>Suitably classy music starts.</sound>
<view>Mix through to Wilde's drawing room. A crowd of suitably
dressed folk are engaged in typically brilliant conversation,
laughing affectedly and drinking champagne.</view>
<sp>
<speaker>Prince of Wales</speaker>
<p>My congratulations, Wilde. Your latest play is a great success.</p>
</sp>
7.3.1 Technical InformationTEI: Technical Information¶
- tech (technical stage direction) describes a special-purpose stage direction that is notmeant for the actors.
type categorizes the technical stage direction. perf (performance) identifies the performance or performances to which thistechnical direction applies.
Like stage directions, tech elements can appear anywherewithin a speech or between speeches.