TEI Simple aims to define a new highly-constrained and prescriptive subset of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines suited to the representation of early modern and modern books, a formally-defined set of processing rules which permit modern web applications to easily present and analyze the encoded texts, mapping to other ontologies, and processes to describe the encoding status and richness of a TEI digital text.
The major goal of recasting the texts in this manner is to make them interoperable with a large corpus of early modern texts derived from the EEBO-TCP transcriptions and encoded in TEI Simple with linguistic annotation.
Dr. Martin Mueller, Professor Emeritus of English and Classics at Northwestern University, in collaboration with Michael Poston, Encoding Architect and Digital Editor of Folger Digital Texts, has adapted Folger Digital Texts's original XML files into TEI Simple, and is sharing them online for those interested in using this format for their own research and projects.
To access TEI Simple files, make your selection from the list. Your browser will download the file directly.
| Title | Last Updated | Download Format |
| Folger Digital Texts - Complete Set | July 31, 2015 | TEI Simple |
| All's Well That Ends Well | July 31, 2015 | TEI Simple |
| Antony and Cleopatra | July 31, 2015 | TEI Simple |
| As You Like It | July 31, 2015 | TEI Simple |
| The Comedy of Errors | July 31, 2015 | TEI Simple |
| Coriolanus | July 31, 2015 | TEI Simple |
| Cymbeline | July 31, 2015 | TEI Simple |
| Hamlet | July 31, 2015 | TEI Simple |
| Henry IV, Part 1 | July 31, 2015 | TEI Simple |
| Henry IV, Part 2 | July 31, 2015 | TEI Simple |
| Henry V | July 31, 2015 | TEI Simple |
| Henry VI, Part 1 | July 31, 2015 | TEI Simple |
| Henry VI, Part 2 | July 31, 2015 | TEI Simple |
| Henry VI, Part 3 | July 31, 2015 | TEI Simple |
| Henry VIII | July 31, 2015 | TEI Simple |
| Julius Caesar | July 31, 2015 | TEI Simple |
| King John | July 31, 2015 | TEI Simple |
| King Lear | July 31, 2015 | TEI Simple |
| Love's Labor's Lost | July 31, 2015 | TEI Simple |
| Macbeth | July 31, 2015 | TEI Simple |
| Measure for Measure | July 31, 2015 | TEI Simple |
| The Merchant of Venice | July 31, 2015 | TEI Simple |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | July 31, 2015 | TEI Simple |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | July 31, 2015 | TEI Simple |
| Much Ado About Nothing | July 31, 2015 | TEI Simple |
| Othello | July 31, 2015 | TEI Simple |
| Pericles | July 31, 2015 | TEI Simple |
| Richard II | July 31, 2015 | TEI Simple |
| Richard III | July 31, 2015 | TEI Simple |
| Romeo and Juliet | July 31, 2015 | TEI Simple |
| Taming of the Shrew | July 31, 2015 | TEI Simple |
| The Tempest | July 31, 2015 | TEI Simple |
| Timon of Athens | July 31, 2015 | TEI Simple |
| Titus Andronicus | July 31, 2015 | TEI Simple |
| Troilus and Cressida | July 31, 2015 | TEI Simple |
| Twelfth Night | July 31, 2015 | TEI Simple |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | July 31, 2015 | TEI Simple |
| The Winter's Tale | July 31, 2015 | TEI Simple |