TEI Simple

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