Shakespeare Wiki — Schema & Conventions

Purpose

This wiki is a knowledge base for the complete works of William Shakespeare, sourced from the Project Gutenberg eBook #100: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare.

Page Types

Type Location Purpose
concept concepts/ Categories, themes, genres, and analytical frameworks
entity entities/ Individual plays, the Sonnets, and poems
source sources/ Summary of each ingested raw source
query queries/ Answered research questions worth preserving
overview overview.md High-level synthesis across all works

Frontmatter Fields

Every page includes:

---
title: Page Title
type: concept | entity | source | query | overview
tags: [tag1, tag2]
created: YYYY-MM-DD
updated: YYYY-MM-DD
sources: [raw/pg100.txt]
---

Entity Page Structure (Plays)

Each play entity page follows this structure:
1. Summary — 1-2 sentence overview
2. At a Glance — genre, approximate date, setting
3. Dramatis Personæ — complete cast from the source text
4. Plot Summary — act-by-act synopsis
5. Key Themes — major thematic concerns
6. Notable Quotations — famous lines
7. Cross-references — wikilinks to concepts and related plays

Entity Page Structure (Characters)

Each character entity page follows this structure:
1. Play - The play in which the character appears
2. Summary - 1-2 sentence overview of the character
3. Notable Quotations - famous lines (if any)
4. Cross References -- wikilinks to concepts and play entities.

Cross-references use [[Page Title]] syntax, e.g., [[Hamlet]] or [[Tragedies]].

Chronological Organization

Plays are organized by approximate date of first performance. Dates are scholarly consensus estimates; exact dates are often uncertain.

Genre Taxonomy