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©The Research Tools provide additional ways to navigate through the Voyager Macbeth and to view supplementary information. There are six research tools.Hold the mouse down on the Research Tools button of the Tools palette to see a pop-up menu listing the research tools.• Find a Line by its Number. Select “Find a line by its number” from the pop-up menu. In the dialog window that appears, type an act number, scene number, and line number to go directly to that line in the play, then click OK. (Note that line numbers must be made up of three numbers separated by periods; for example, you would enter “5.2.12” to refer to line 12 of Act Five, Scene Two.) To return to your original page, click the Retrace button.• Search the Concordance for a word. To find all occurrences of a word in the play’s dialogue, select “Search the Concordance for a Word.” Type the word you wish to find and click “OK.” If the word occurs in the play’s dialogue, a window will appear listing all the lines that contain the word. To go to one of those pages, click the entry.• The List of Abbreviations provides a reference guide to the abbreviations used in the annotations, essays, and commentaries. Many of these abbreviations are short titles used in citations; as such, the List of Abbreviations can be considered a handy bibliographical summary of cited works. To locate the complete reference for an abbreviation used in the text, hold the mouse down on the Research Tools button and drag the cursor to “List of Abbreviations.” A second pop-up menu containing groups of letters will be displayed. Select the letter group containing the first letter of the abbreviation in which you are interested. All abbreviations beginning with a letter in that group will appear in an Abbreviation window, which also contains a button that provides additional information about abbreviations and citation conventions used in the Voyager Macbeth.Note that the abbreviations for the titles of Shakespeare’s plays are given in a separate list, which is available following the alphabetical entries on the secondary pop-up menu.• The Glossary provides a reference guide to literary, technical, and dramatic terminology used in the annotations, essays, and commentaries. Hold the mouse down on the Research Tools button and drag the cursor to “Glossary” to view the full list of terms in a second pop-up menu. Select the word you wish to look up; the Glossary window will open and display the page on which the word is defined.• The Collation records the significant editorial choices made while preparing the Voyager Macbeth and compares them to the “First Folio” of 1623 (which contains the first printed edition) and to other major editions. To see the collation for a particular act of the play, hold the mouse down on the Research Tools button of the Tools palette and drag the cursor to “Collation” on the pop-up menu. A second pop-up menu will appear; from this menu, select the act for which you want the collation and a Collation window will appear.To learn how to read the collation, consult the Textual Note, which is the first item on the Collation pop-up menu.Also available from the Collation pop-up menu is the Relineation, which documents the line-break differences between editions; such information is vital to any discussion of the play as a verse drama. The Relineation window is available as the last item on the Collation pop-up menu.• Casting provides information about the issues involved in casting and performing Macbeth. Three resources are available from this research tool:– The Casting Note gives historical background on the King’s Men players (the theatrical company of which Shakespeare was a member), and discusses some of the issues involved in casting the play, including the “doubling” strategies chosen by various directors. (This essay, written by A. R. Braunmuller,also appears in the Essays section of the Voyager Macbeth.) To view this essay, hold the mouse down on the Research Tools button of the Tools palette and drag the cursor to “Casting” on the pop-up menu. A second pop-up menu will appear; choose “Casting Note” from this menu.– The Character Index provides a brief description of each part in the play, arranged in alphabetical order. (The index contains information that is also available in the “Characters in the Play” section of the Voyager Macbeth.) To view the Character Index window, hold the mouse down on the Research Tools button of the Tools palette and drag the cursor to “Casting” on the pop-up menu. A second pop-up menu will appear; choose “Character Index” from this menu.– The Character Appearances Chart allows you to see at a glance where each character appears in the play. The chart is arranged in rows and columns: each column in the chart represents a character (the characters are presented in order of appearance), and each row represents a scene. Whenever a character appears in a scene, the box at the intersection of the character’s column and the scene’s row will contain a number indicating how many lines the character has in the scene. (If a character appears in a scene but does not speak, a “0” indicates the non-speaking appearance). 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