Richard III
(12/24)
Following E.K. Chambers chronology1
The Merchant of Venice is Shakespeare's 4th drama.
Consisting of 1156 tiles in the basic colour red, with a side length of 10 cm, the work is a square of 340 * 340 cm in the basic file. However, it can also be realised in the dimensions3 170 * 170 cm without loss.
Rulebook
(09/23)
Tiles
Number
The Merchant of Venice contains 1099 text blocks according to the general set of rules (1089 speaker-based and 10 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 is 34 x 34 = 1156 tiles. The resulting 57 tiles not occupied by text are created with the basic colour of the work 255-0-0 red and inserted every 20 tiles, beginning at the 18th position.
Text Alignment
The alignment of the tiles according to the rulebook Rulebook of William Shakespeare's Plays is as followes
- centre-centre 15%
- centre-left 10%
- centre-right 9%
- top-centre 11%
- top-centre 10%
- top-right 12%
- bottom-centre 9%
- bottom-left 12%
- bottom-right 12%
Background Colour
The applied background colour for Richard III is 255-0-0 blue.
Applying the colour matching rule set William Shakespare's Plays Rulebook Background Colour results in 491 different colour values.
Text and bar colour
Applying the font colour rule set William Shakespare's Plays Rulebook results in 609 different colour values.
5233 lines of text were covered with bars. On average, each tile contains 4,8 lines of text.
Concept
see William Shakespeare's Plays
Idea
see William Shakespeare's Plays