This is a demo version of my quoteFinder application, built using Hypercard.
I hope the various buttons are self-explanatory, as I haven't got round to a help file.
I wrote this principally for secondary-school students whom I was trying to encourage into stylistic and thematic analysis of Shakespeare plays, but have found it to have been enthusiastically received by everyone from 13 year-olds to post-grad students & teachers.
It is a thousand times better than usual find utilities, because it tells you up-front who says which line, and even presents you with a full-sentence quotation to print out.
It needs a 12" screen really, but I've put in a little routine to move the visible window around as you move the mouse if you've got a smaller screen.
This demo version is fully functional except for printing, and can be unlocked with an access code available from me.
I have done the same trick with other plays- Macbeth, King Lear, Romeo & Juliet, and could add any others, if anyone asks.
I am not a computer programmer or a West-Coast super-nerd, but a struggling English teacher in a State comprehensive in London, so I don't offer any guarantees about the programme. If you like it and want to keep it, send me £5 for the access code, to
Angus Walker
50, Linzee Road
London
N8 7RE
UK
add any comments and suggestions please.
Hamlet is the only play for which I've developed this version of the programme (with the facility to trace a theme rather than just individual words), but I could do it for the other plays mentioned above quite easily, and in principal for any play if I could get a royalty-free text of the play on disc. If anyone is interested in any of these developments, do please let me know. Thank you.
8/Nov/96
P.S.
I'd love to develop this idea for PC's. Does anyone know of a simple(ish), relatively cheap programmable database capable of creating standalone applications- i.e. Hypercard for PC's- that I could use?
