This project is complete. Audio links may be found on our Librivox catalog page at https://librivox.org/the-merry-devil-of-edmonton-by-william-shakespeare/Tucker Brooke, author of The Shakespeare Apocrypha (available separately here at Librivox), notes that "The external evidence which has been collected to prove Shakespeare's authorship of The Merry Devil of Edmonton is of the most dubious kind" though it includes "the play's presence in the 'Shakespeare volume' of Charles the Second's library"
Regardless of whether it is really Shakespeare, though, "Certainly the vitality of the scenes, the heartiness of the humour, and the unsurpassed delicacy in the portrayal of true love and true friendship, make The Merry Devil of Edmonton one of the most delightful of all the pseudo-Shakespearian plays to read and to re-read."
(Summary by ToddHW)
Here we go again - another Shakespeare fake. At least good enough that it was, at some point, confused with the real thing.
Note that this is not to be confused with The Witch of Edmonton, already in our catalog at https://librivox.org/the-witch-of-edmonton-by-thomas-dekker/ ; Witches and Devils must be very different things.
Sonia will be watching over us as the friendly spirit Coreb and our DPL. Don't mess up; there's a magician involved in this play and she might call in a favour.
Gender neutral, of course.
The Prologue is going to be in the Act 1 file and so is included as part of Act 1 in the MW.
The Gutenburg script has some confusing things in it - for example using people's last names sometimes and other times their first name; calling people by name or by craft position. I tried to catch some of these in the MW notes column, but I know I missed some. Best way to handle this is "IF IN DOUBT, DON'T ASK - JUST RECORD IT". I'll figure out if it is really your line when I edit everything together.
Source text (please read only from this text!): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4774
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This paragraph is temporary and will be replaced by the MC with the list of sections and reader (Magic Window) once this project is in the admin system.
- Project Code: OwJNmKiM
- Link to author on Wikipedia (if available): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare (William Shakespeare)
- Link to title on Wikipedia (if available): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Merry_Devil_of_Edmonton
- Number of sections (files) this project will have: 68
- Does the project have an introduction or preface: No
- Original publication date (if known): 1608
- If you are a new volunteer, how would you like your name (or pseudonym) credited in the catalog?
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Genres for the project: Plays/Comedy
Keywords that describe the book: love, magician, fake shakespeare
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LibriVox recording settings: mono (1 channel), 44100 Hz sample rate, 128 kbps constant bit rate MP3. See the Tech Specs
For individual roles:
Submit one file per act. At the beginning of the first file, say:
Leave 3-5 seconds of space between your lines (room noise, not generated silence)."Character, read by your name."
For narration/stage directions:
Leave 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning.
Say:
At the end of each file say:"Act # of The Merry Devil of Edmonton, by William Shakespeare. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit librivox.org."
If you are recording the final section of the book, add:"End of Act #."
Leave 5 seconds of silence at the end."End of The Merry Devil of Edmonton, by William Shakespeare."
Filename:
For individual roles: merrydevilofedmonton_role_#.mp3 where # is the act number. (e.g. merrydevilofedmonton_romeo_1.mp3)
For final files: merrydevilofedmonton_#_shakespeare_128kb.mp3 where # is the act number. (e.g. merrydevilofedmonton_1_shakespeare_128kb.mp3)
Upload to the LibriVox Uploader: https://librivox.org/login/uploader
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MC to select: toddhw
Copy and paste the file link generated by the uploader into a new post in this thread along with the file duration (mm:ss). Watch this thread for prooflistening notes.
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask! Just post in this thread.
