A New Multimedia Edition of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera

William Mayo

Date of Award

2005

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Humanities

First Advisor

Wallace, Miriam

Keywords

Hypertext, Opera, Gay, John

Area of Concentration

British and American Literature

Abstract

This project is an attempt to render John Gay's The Beggar's Opera as an online, multimedia edition. In this edition, an attempt has been made to take advantage of HTML's ability to collect disparate media and present them together. In this project, the primary media are sound, video, picture, and text, with text as the primary element. The attached CD-ROM contains the primary body of the thesis, including the full text of the play, an introduction, glossary notes, the full score, video clips, audio clips, and period contextual material. This project is meant to be used as a teaching edition, and aims to give the undergraduate reader a basic overview of the play's environs and historical background. The concept underlying this project is that the main strength inherent in hypertext is its ability to provide context materials to a text seamlessly bound into the text, and its ability to direct the reader outward into other repositories of such material.

Rights

This bibliographic record is available under the Creative Commons CC0 public domain dedication. The New College of Florida, as creator of this bibliographic record, has waived all rights to it worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law.

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