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Search within this Book
You can use the ‘Search within this Book’ feature to conduct specific searches within the book you are reading.
Character Grid
Play Tools include a Character Grid to help you view where characters appear and with whom they interact in the play. The circles represent the number of words in an Act or Scene spoken by each character.
Words and Speeches
On the same page as the Character Grid you will find a bar chart representing the shape of the play in terms of words and speeches. Selecting a character or specific characters from the Character Grid will change the graph to reflect the words and speeches for those selected. Hover over the bars for the precise word count.
If you select one of the circles in the Character Grid you'll be taken directly into the play text to view the lines for that character and scene only.
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Commentary notes
For the Arden Shakespeare series, these provide explanations of vocabulary, literary or biblical references, theatrical interpretations and, where relevant, extracts from Shakespeare’s source material. For other series, these provide general commentary notes.
Commentary notes are represented by the speech icon.
Textual notes
The textual notes in Arden editions are designed to let readers know when the edited text diverges from the early edition(s) on which it is based. Wherever this happens the note will record the rejected reading of the early edition(s), in original spelling, and the source of the reading adopted in this edition.
Textual notes are represented by the book icon.
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