Rationale
The
Lost Plays Database is dedicated to providing information about lost plays in England from 1570 to 1642. The
Lost Plays Database is an open-access resource, which means we can link directly to the plays. You must credit the
Lost Plays Database if you cite or mention the plays on their site.
Practice: How to Encode
Wrap the name of the
Lost Plays Database in a
title element with the
level attribute and the value
m. The database should be cited by its full title.
Wrap the lost play in a title element with the level attribute and the value u if you are talking about the play as a play. We know the play existed but it may never have been published.
Make note that the
Lost Plays Database plays do not have identification numbers. We use the play’s URL in place of this because it is just as unique. After wrapping the title of the play, you will wrap it in the
ref element with a
target attribute that points to the URL.
If the name of the play is not mentioned in the sentence we have two options:
- Work the title in. One way this can be done is by using parantheses:
The subject matter is harder to establish than one might expect from so distinctive a name ([Black Bateman of the North, Parts 1 and 2](https://lostplays.folger.edu/Black_Bateman_of_the_North,_Parts_1_and_2)). One possibility is that the plays were a kind of domestic tragedy that followed the storyline of the Young Bateman preserved in chapbook and ballad traditions ([Lost Plays Database](bibl:LOST1))
.
- Have the BIBL citation and let poeple follow the thread themselves.
If you are quoting from, paraphrasing, or acknowledging the wiki in the
Lost Plays Database, the wiki page has the title of the play as its page title. Wrap the wiki page in a
title element with the
level attribute and the value
a.
Examples
From May to July 1598 the company was making preparations for
<ref target="http://lostplays.org/index.php/Black_Bateman_of_the_North,_Parts_1_and_2">Black Bateman of the North, Parts 1 and 2</ref> ([Lost Plays Database](bibl:LOST1))
If we are talking about the lost play:
See also the
Lost Plays Database entry for <ref target="http://lostplays.org/index.php/Short_and_Sweet">Short and Sweet</ref> ([Lost Plays Database](bibl:LOST1)).
If we are talking about the article in
Lost Plays Database:
See also the
Lost Plays Database entry <ref target="http://lostplays.org/index.php/Short_and_Sweet">Short and Sweet</ref> ([Lost Plays Database](bibl:LOST1)).
If we are quoting the name of a play from
Henslowe’s Diary:
Between 30 March and 7 April, just after the entry for Earl Godwin
, Wilson, Drayton, Dekker, and Chettle were paid £2 as partial payment for
<ref target="http://lostplays.org/index.php/Pierce_of_Exton">Pierce of Exton</ref> ([Foakes 88 / f 45](bibl:FOAK2); [Lost Plays Database](bibl:LOST1)).