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Welcome to the Shakespeare Wikiproject main page. This project is devoted to increasing the quality of any and all articles dealing with William Shakespeare. Anyone is invited to join in the effort by adding their name to the members list. A list of current jobs needing to be done can be found in the to do section.
For information on assessments of articles within the scope of the project please go to Wikipedia:WikiProject Shakespeare/Assessment.
Scope
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Open tasks for WikiProject Shakespeare. Shortcuts: Recent changes | Categories | History |
- Urgent:
- Collaboration:
- To Nominate at WP:FAC:
- To Improve to Featured standard: The Tempest
- To Improve to GA standard:
- To Expand: King Hamlet, Laertes
- To Clean up: Much Ado About Nothing, Richard III, Horatio, Puck
- To Review/Rate: Unassessed Shakespeare articles
- To Merge/Split: Shakespeare on screen, Puck, Ur-Hamlet
- To Destub: Stub-Class Shakespeare articles
- To Copyedit:
- To Categorize:
- To Create:
- Shakespeare's characters (discussing his characters in general)
- The Winter's Tale (main and supporting characters)
- Shakespeare's characters (discussing his characters in general)
- To de-redlink:
- Lists to complete:
- Wanted Pics/Graphics: Sycorax, Rude Mechanicals, Stephano, Fleance
- Maintain: add {{WikiProject Shakespeare}} to the talk pages of Shakespeare-related articles.
- Assessments: Process articles who have requested assessment.
This project deals with everything concerning William Shakespeare, poet and playwright, man of theater, who has influenced English, Western and world culture for four centuries and counting. Specifically, it is intended to bring Wikipedia's Shakespearean articles to Featured Article standards, as well as to set specific standards and guidelines to future editors on the writer and his works.
To do
- Maintain Fa status for the articles William Shakespeare, Shakespeare authorship question, Hamlet, and Romeo and Juliet.
- Decide on the next project collaboration
Related Wikiprojects
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Authors
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Critical Theory
- Wikipedia:WikiProject poetry
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Theatre
Wikipedia:WikiProject Elizabethan theatre(ceased)Wikipedia:WikiProject Timon of Athens(ceased)- Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Literature
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Project organization
Departments
The assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Shakespeare articles. The article ratings are used within the project to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.
The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{Wikiproject Shakespeare}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in a set of categories that serves as the basis for an automatically generated worklist.
Collaboration
The project's Collaboration department seeks to identify particular articles that would benefit from a significant collaborative effort. A single article is selected as the focus, and the project attempts to improve it, potentially to featured article standards. The current collaboration article is The Tempest.
Any Shakespeare article is eligible, and everyone is invited to nominate articles.
Members
To join this project, add your user name to the list below:
- Curtangel 02:48, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
- VanTucky 02:51, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
- Wrad 03:15, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
- Smatprt 03:36, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
- AndyJones 12:59, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
- Mandel 18:15, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
- RedRabbit1983 04:49, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
- Tiria 01:12, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
- BeastKing89 1:24, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
- Drboisclair 15:41, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
- Jlittlet 21:59, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
- Ojevindlang 7:02, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
- Ladb2000 21:50, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
- Ham 09:53, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
- Tprosser 13:51, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
- Meldshal42 01:39, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
- Sydneysaurus 1:36, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
- Romeo in love 21:11, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
- Macman202 21:29, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
- Sbp 19:20, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
- Xover 17:10, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
- Brandon Christopher 18:25, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
- GuillaumeTell 21:27, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
- Bardofcornish 22:20, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
- Buey36 2:53, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
- Dionysos Proteus 22:50, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
- User:kaylin814
- Nowah Balloon 00:31, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
- User:Moz1916 15:45, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
- Tanstaafl28 10:20, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
- Trixi72 21:49, October 2, 2007 (UTC)
- Awadewit | talk 08:20, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
- --ROGER DAVIES talk 17:30, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
- Graybeard67 4:05, 26 Nov 2007 (UTC)
- guycox65 7:11, 28 Nov 2007 (UTC)
- Elesi (talk) 21:57, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
- Cowardly Lion (talk) 00:55, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
- Sutherland4l (talk) 02:00, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks, George D. Watson (Dendodge).TalkHelp and assistance
- Luksuh 01:30, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
- Jgurd (talk) 22:41, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
- Olaf Davis | Talk 15:59, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
- Erik the Red 2 (AVE·CAESAR) 17:05, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
- -BenJonson (talk) 01:37, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
- Maedin (talk) 12:28, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
- BlackPearl14[talkies!•contribs!] 20:40, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
- Septemberfourth476
- Dr.h.miller (talk)
- User:TheGeniusPrince (talk) 21:47, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
- Malkinann (talk) 23:39, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
- Themis-Athena (talk
- --Heslopian (talk) 22:48, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
- Springboard08 (talk) 11:58, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
- Yuma (talk) 00:29, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
- JiveTalkinChoirBoy (talk) 09:59, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
- Bertaut (talk) 18:03, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
- Sean (talk || contribs)
- Lo, i am real 19:11, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
- • Ling.Nut 00:31, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
- UltimateCoach (talk) 03:40, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
- Roscelese
- Rogala (talk) 21:18, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
- Jg2904 (talk) 10:12, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
- Songeant 11:53, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
- Macbeth1313
- RussellM
- Cfsibley (talk) 19:34, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
- Jwalkfour (talk) 15:32, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
Templates
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Wikiproject Membership
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Proposed Items
Standardisation of play articles
At present, Shakespearean articles, particularly those on the plays, are not standardised. The following is a proposed guideline to achieve standardisation in the writing and copyediting of articles pertaining to the plays of William Shakespeare. (Note: All play articles should use British spelling. See WP:ENGVAR.)
- Intro paragraph with graphic to the right (as recommended in the MOS). — The title of the play should be given in full, bold, modernized spelling, in its most commonly used form. Follow WP:LEAD.
- Characters — Very brief, NPOV description. Should not attempt to analyze characters in this section but give, briefly, who they are and their relationship with a protagonist. No spoiler details should be added here just the character as described at the start of the play or in the first scene. Characters in need of a more in-depth analysis should have their own article.
- Synopsis — Accuracy and a lucid style.
- Wikipedia asks for plot synopses to stay within 500-700 words, with a ceiling of 900 words in special circumstances only. The summary is not to be subdivided in further Acts and scenes. Acts and scene divisions do not exist in the earliest Shakespeare texts and were probably added by later editors. Furthermore, sub-dividing synopses into acts and scenes could make this section too long.
- Key idea here: synopsis means to summarize the vital plot points of the play, not to re-tell the entire plot in your own words.
- Sources — What works influenced the play or poem?
- Date and Text — The play as it survives to us. Are there Quarto versions? What is its relationship with the Folio text? What other titles (if any) were attached to the play, and under what circumstances?
- Analysis and criticism
- Critical History - How have scholars' views about the play changed over time?
- Structure - What have scholars said about the plot structure?
- Language - ...about language and style?
- Themes and motifs — ...about themes and motifs in the play?
- Other interpretations - Add a bit about Feminist, Psychoanalytic, Queer, and other readings.
- Performance history — What is the first known recorded performance?
- Influences — Literary and cultural
- Adaptations and cultural references — What the world has done with it...
- Musical adaptations — and music, including opera and musicals
- Screen versions:
- Where there are numerous versions, there should be a separate article, eg. Macbeth on screen, which will allow fuller coverage. That should have a {main article} tag and a brief prose summary on the play's article, and a {main article} tag and a brief list summary at Shakespeare on screen.
- Where there are only a handful of versions, these should be covered in a prose section on the page, and in list form at Shakespeare on screen.
- References
- External links
Character article expansion
Because of Shakespeare's prominence, nearly all of his characters have enough scholarly information on them to qualify under wikipedia's notability guidelines (with a few exceptions). Several of his characters have been represented in later works of fiction. The below is not intended as a standard as much as a guideline for character article expansion. Look here for ideas on how to expand a character-stub article to a B-or-higher class article:
- Intro - Of course, summarize the rest of the article as per WP:LEAD, as with any other article. Add a picture of the character to the right (see King Hamlet), or, if you can't find one, consider adding a quotebox with one of the character's more famous quotes or descriptions (See Sycorax (Shakespeare)).
- Origins - Where does the character's name come from and what does it mean? Did Shakespeare borrow this character from another story? What was his source?
- Role in the play - Describe the character's role in the play. Avoid providing analysis or interpretations of the text in this section. Leave that to later sections.
- Analysis - Summarize the scholarly opinion surrounding this character. Use sources from academic books and journals only.
- Performance history - Outline the development of the role by different actors or actresses over time.
Using one Standardized Complete Shakespeare for quotations
The complete Shakespeare used:
- must be modern enough (at least 19th century)
- preferably in public domain
- easily accessible and verifiable
- critical
The template {{Shakecite}} has been proposed as a solution. It is still under construction, but usable, and includes the ability to link to quartos, folios, and in some cases, modern versions of all the plays.
Note that consensus in this area is drifting towards the use of the latest individual Arden edition of the play, rather than any "complete works" collection.
Research help
To be acquainted with the latest scholarship on the Bard, we strongly advise frequent editors to read at least one modern critical edition of Shakespeare's works. Recommended are the "Big 3": Arden (2 or 3), Oxford and New Cambridge. These have copious notes, lengthy introductions, helpful appendices, and full critical apparatus. Also recommended are the Penguin Shakespeare and New Variorum editions. Other editions usually do not give as detailed an analysis or footnotes, or offer the variant readings.
For journals, one could consult Shakespeare Survey, Shakespeare Quarterly, Shakespeare Studies, or Borrowers & Lenders (online, open-access). Or, if you have access to a college library, consult their databases for several excellent references, starting with The World Shakespeare Bibliography Online.
For books, college libraries are also excellent. If you don't have access to one, though, an option is to use [The Internet Archive] and search for your subject. This search engine provides facsimiles of books, although sometimes it cuts out portions of them. In using this site, be sure that you are only using scholarly books as sources for your article.
For biographies, take a look at the references used in the William Shakespeare article.
Portals
Accomplishments/Notoriety
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Featured articles
Former featured articles
Good articles
Banquo
John Boydell
Characters of Shakespear's Plays
Chimes at Midnight
Droeshout portrait
Elsinore (video game)
The Fairy-Queen
Fleance
Garrick's Temple to Shakespeare
Stanisław Egbert Koźmian
The Lion King
Ian McKellen
Philostrate
The Plays of William Shakespeare
The Prince (play)
Judith Quiney
Thomas Quiney
Romeo & Juliet: Sealed with a Kiss
Rosaline
Hamnet Shakespeare
Sonnet 18
Sonnet 86
Sonnet 102
Robin Starveling
Howard Staunton
Sycorax
Tales from the Public Domain
The Tempest
Three Witches
The Understudy (Inside No. 9)
West Side Story (2021 film)
The Winter's Tale (1910 film)
Former good articles
Did you know? articles
Edward Allde
Ariel (The Tempest)
Between you and I
John Boydell
Boydell Shakespeare Gallery
Mary Bulkley
Nathaniel Butter
Oscar James Campbell Jr.
Ion Caramitru
Catch My Soul
Characters of Shakespear's Plays
Cobbe portrait
Thomas Creede
Critical approaches to Hamlet
David Garrick as Richard III
Laurie Davidson (actor)
Double Falsehood
Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth
Elsinore (video game)
Filming Othello
Fleance
Fortune Playhouse
Garrick's Temple to Shakespeare
King Lear (Shostakovich film score)
The History of King Lear
Let the Devil Wear Black
Moscow Art Theatre production of Hamlet
MacHomer
Malcolm (Macbeth)
The Maori Merchant of Venice
Marlovian theory of Shakespeare authorship
Marmayogi
Maro Charitra
Alice Marriott (actress)
William Marshall (illustrator)
The Mock Tempest
New Place
William Nugent
Nicholas Okes
Philostrate
Pity (William Blake)
The Plays of William Shakespeare
Portrait of Anne Hathaway
The quality of mercy
Judith Quiney
Race-reversed casting
Reduced Shakespeare Company
Religious views of William Shakespeare
Revels (Inns of Court)
Richard the Second
Rinse the Blood Off My Toga
Rome & Jewel
Romeo and Juliet (2013 Broadway play)
Romeo and Juliet (Pastor)
Romeo and Juliet: the Tomb Scene
Samuel Johnson's literary criticism
Mary Saunderson
Thomas Savage (Shakespeare's trustee)
The Seven Ages of Man (painting series)
Sexuality of William Shakespeare
Shakespeare Garden and Anne Hathaway Cottage
Shakespeare and Star Trek
Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory
List of Shakespeare authorship candidates
Shakespeare coat of arms
Shakespeare garden
Shakespeare in performance
Shakespeare's Birthplace
A Shakespearean Baseball Game
Josette Simon
Sources of Hamlet
Spelling of Shakespeare's name
Robin Starveling
Sycorax
Third Murderer
Three Witches
Titus Andronicus (character)
The Understudy (Inside No. 9)
Vision of Lear
Volumnia
West Side Story (2021 film)
In the News articles
Picture of the day pictures
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A Scene from Troilus and Cressida - Angelica Kauffmann
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Falstaff 3
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Gavin Hamilton - Coriolanus Act V, Scene III edit2
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George Romney - William Shakespeare - The Tempest Act I, Scene 1
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Hector Berlioz, Béatrice et Bénédict score title page - Restoration
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Ira Aldridge as Aaron in Titus Andronicus
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John Everett Millais - Mariana - Google Art Project
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John Opie - Winter's Tale, Act II. Scene III
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Julia Margaret Cameron (British, born India - Ellen Terry at Age Sixteen - Google Art Project
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Marcel Jambon - Giuseppe Verdi - Otello Act I set design model
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Midsummer Night's Dream Henry Fuseli2
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Shakespeare's King John at Drury Lane Theatre
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Shakespeare
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Taming of the Shrew
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Thomas Keene in Macbeth 1884 Wikipedia crop
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Thomas Keene in Othello 1884 Poster
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Thomas Keene in Richard III 1884 Poster
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Thos. W. Keene in Hamlet
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William Shakespeare by John Taylor, edited
Featured pictures
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A Scene from Troilus and Cressida - Angelica Kauffmann
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Falstaff 3
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Gavin Hamilton - Coriolanus Act V, Scene III edit2
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George Romney - William Shakespeare - The Tempest Act I, Scene 1
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Hector Berlioz, Béatrice et Bénédict score title page - Restoration
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Ira Aldridge as Aaron in Titus Andronicus
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John Everett Millais - Mariana - Google Art Project
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John Opie - Winter's Tale, Act II. Scene III
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Julia Margaret Cameron (British, born India - Ellen Terry at Age Sixteen - Google Art Project
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Marcel Jambon - Giuseppe Verdi - Otello Act I set design model
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Midsummer Night's Dream Henry Fuseli2
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Ralph Cleaver - 1904 amateur performance of W.S. Gilbert's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern at the Garrick Theatre, London - Image 1
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Shakespeare's King John at Drury Lane Theatre
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Taming of the Shrew
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Thomas Keene in Macbeth 1884 Wikipedia crop
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Thomas Keene in Othello 1884 Poster
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Thomas Keene in Richard III 1884 Poster
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Thos. W. Keene in Hamlet
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William Shakespeare by John Taylor, edited
Former featured pictures
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Shakespeare
Articles in Wikipedia's most visited pages
- William Shakespeare - Ranked #207 (current rating)
- Hamlet - Ranked #881 (current rating)
- Romeo and Juliet - Ranked #942 (current rating)
Quality matrix
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | Total | ||
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4 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 11 | ||
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3 | 2 | 8 | 18 | 31 | ||
B | 6 | 27 | 64 | 52 | 149 | ||
C | 4 | 59 | 120 | 170 | 353 | ||
Start | 2 | 31 | 100 | 627 | 760 | ||
Stub | 3 | 4 | 223 | 230 | |||
List | 2 | 4 | 5 | 22 | 33 | ||
Category | 1 | 1 | 9 | 162 | 173 | ||
Disambig | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 14 | ||
File | 2 | 42 | 44 | ||||
Template | 1 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 22 | 45 | |
NA | 3 | 13 | 208 | 224 | |||
Other | 6 | 6 | |||||
Assessed | 23 | 134 | 312 | 1,157 | 447 | 2,073 | |
Total | 23 | 134 | 312 | 1,157 | 447 | 2,073 | |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 7,101 | Ω = 4.63 |
Tools
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A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.
- Main tool page: toolserver.org
- Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
- Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
- Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
- Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.