The Merchant of Venice
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Following E.K. Chambers chronology1
The Merchant of Venice is Shakespeare's 14th drama.
Consisting of 676 tiles in the basic colour blue, with a side length of 10 cm, the work is a square of 260 * 260 cm in the basic file. However, it can also be realised in the dimensions 130 * 130 cm without loss.
Rulebook
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Tiles
Number
The Merchant of Venice contains 642 text blocks according to the general set of rules (637 speaker-based and 5 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 26 x 26 = 676 tiles. The resulting 34 tiles not occupied by text are created with the basic colour of the work 0-0-255 blue and inserted every 19 tiles, beginning at the 25th position.
Text Alignment
The alignment of the tiles according to the rulebook Rulebook of William Shakespeare's Plays is as followes
- centre-centre 16%
- centre-left 7%
- centre-right 8%
- top-centre 13%
- top-centre 10%
- top-right 11%
- bottom-centre 9%
- bottom-left 14%
- bottom-right 13%
Background Colour
The applied background colour for The Merchant of Venice is 0-0-255 blue.
Applying the colour matching rule set William Shakespare's Plays Rulebook Background Colour results in 326 different colour values.
Text and bar colour
Applying the font colour rule set William Shakespare's Plays Rulebook results in 459 different colour values.
3520 lines of text were covered with bars. On average, each tile contains 5,5 lines of text.
Concept
siehe William Shakespeare's Plays
Idea
siehe William Shakespeare's Plays