Glossary of search regions
Most searches in our texts allow you to select from among one
or more "regions," or distinct areas of a work, to
search within. All those regions that are available for searching
are described in the table below, ordered by search type. Please
note that, as you select more than one collection for searching,
the list of available regions is
adjusted to reflect the intersection of regions available for
those collections
| Search Type |
Regions |
Region Description |
| basic |
acts |
All act content, including stage directions and speect
text. |
| basic |
first line |
The first line of any poem. |
| basic |
full text |
All work content and all titles. This region is the
cumulation of all other regions. |
| basic |
page |
All content within a single page. |
| basic |
poems |
All content within a single poem. |
| basic |
scenes |
All scene stage directions and speech text. |
| basic |
section and work titles |
Any work title and all section and subsection titles |
| basic |
speeches |
All speech content. |
| basic |
work |
All page content in the entire work. |
| bibliographic |
author |
The author of a work. |
| bibliographic |
bibliographic |
All bibliographic information about the work, including
work title, author, and original source publication
information. |
| bibliographic |
bibliographic |
All bibliographic informationabout the work, including
work title, author, and original source publication
information. |
| bibliographic |
bibliographic |
All bibliographic informationabout the work. |
| bibliographic |
title |
The main title of a work. |
| boolean/proximity |
acts |
All act content, including stage directions and speect
text. |
| boolean/proximity |
chapters |
All content contained within any single chapter |
| boolean/proximity |
lines |
All content within any single line |
| boolean/proximity |
pages |
All content within a single page. |
| boolean/proximity |
paragraphs |
All content within any single paragraph. |
| boolean/proximity |
plays |
All content within any single play. |
| boolean/proximity |
poems |
All content within a single poem. |
| boolean/proximity |
scenes |
All scene stage directions and speech text. |
| boolean/proximity |
speeches |
All speech content. |
| boolean/proximity |
volumes |
This region is the cumulation of all other regions. |
| boolean/proximity |
works |
All work content and all titles. This region is the
cumulation of all other regions. |
| word index |
author |
The author of a work |
| word index |
full text |
All work content. |
| word index |
title |
The main title of a work |
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