Richard II

(03/25)

Richard II

Following E.K. Chambers chronology1 Richard II is Shakespeare's 11th drama.

Consisting of 576 tiles in the basic colour red, with a side length of 10 cm, the work is a square of 240 * 240 cm in the basic file. It's planned to be printed in 120 * 120 cm.

Rulebook

(09/23)

Tiles

Number

Richard II contains 576 text blocks according to the general set of rules (554 speaker-based and 8 blocks created by division, as the text contains more than 34 lines). The number of tiles of the work is determined (due to the defined quadratic work) by the root of the text blocks rounded up to an integer. This results in 24 x 24 = 576 tiles. The resulting 14 tiles not occupied by text are created with the basic colour of the work 255-0-0 red and inserted every 41 tiles, beginning at the 22nd position.

Text Alignment

The alignment of the tiles according to the Rulebook of William Shakespeare's Plays is as follows:

centre-center 17%
centre-left 6%
centre-right 11%
top-centre 13%
top-centre 11%
top-right 10%
bottom-centre 8%
bottom-left 11%
bottom-right 13%

Background Colour

The applied background colour for Richard II is 255-0-0 red.

Applying the colour matching rule set Rulebook results in 319 different colour values.

Text and bar colour

Applying the font colour rule set Rulebook results in 439 different colour values.
3569 lines of text were covered with bars. On average, each tile contains 6,4 lines of text.