\documentclass[a4paper]{memoir}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[UKenglish]{babel}
\usepackage{verse}
\usepackage{dramatist}
\poemlines{5}
\settrimmedsize{9in}{6in}{*}
\pagestyle{ruled}
\title{Coffee Table Shakespeare}
\author{William Shakespeare}
\date{}
\begin{document}
\frontmatter
\maketitle
\tableofcontents
\mainmatter
\part{Comedies}
\chapter{The Tempest}
\Character[ALONSO, King of Naples]{Alonso}{alo}
\Character[SEBASTIAN, his Brother]{Sebastian}{seb}
\Character[PROSPERO, the right Duke of Milan]{Prospero}{pro}
\Character[ANTONIO, his Brother, the usurping Duke of Milan]{Antonio}{ant}
\Character[FERDINAND, Son to the King of Naples]{Ferdinand}{fer}
\Character[GONZALO, an honest old counsellor]{Gonzalo}{gon}
\begin{CharacterGroup}{Lords}
\GCharacter{ADRIAN,}{Adrian}{adr}
\GCharacter{FRANCISCO,}{Francisco}{fra}
\end{CharacterGroup}
\Character[CALIBAN, a savage and deformed Slave]{Caliban}{cal}
\Character[TRINCULO, a Jester]{Trinculo}{tri}
\Character[STEPHANO, a drunken Butler]{Stephano}{ste}
\Character[MASTER OF A SHIP]{Shipmaster}{shi}
\Character[BOATSWAIN]{Boatswain}{boa}
\Character[MARINERS]{Mariners}{mar}
\Character[MIRANDA, Daughter to \pro]{Miranda}{mir}
\Character[ARIEL, an airy Spirit]{Ariel}{ari}
\begin{CharacterGroup}{represented by Spirits}
\GCharacter{IRIS,}{Iris}{iri}
\GCharacter{CERES,}{Ceres}{cer}
\GCharacter{JUNO,}{Juno}{jun}
\GCharacter{NYMPHS,}{Nymphs}{nym}
\GCharacter{REAPERS,}{Reapers}{rea}
\GCharacter{DOGS,}{Dogs}{dog}
\end{CharacterGroup}
\Character[Other Spirits attending on \pro]{Spirits}{spi}
\DramPer
\act
\scene
\StageDir{On a ship at sea; a tempestuous noise of thunder and lightning heard}
\begin{drama}
\direct{Enter a \shi and a \boa severally}
\shispeaks
Boatswain!\\
\boaspeaks
Here, master: what cheer?\\
\shispeaks
Good! Speak to the mariners: fall to't yarely, or we run ourselves aground: bestir, bestir.\\
%%
%% \direct*{Exit.}
\direct{Enter \mar}
%%
%% [Enter MARINERS]
%%
%% BOATSWAIN.
%%
%% Heigh, my hearts! cheerly, cheerly, my hearts!
%% yare, yare! Take in the topsail. Tend to th' master's
%% whistle.—Blow till thou burst thy wind, if room enough.
%%
%% [Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, FERDINAND, GONZALO, and
%%
%% OTHERS]
%%
%% ALONSO.
%%
%% Good boatswain, have care. Where's the master?
%% Play the men.
%%
%% BOATSWAIN.
%%
%% I pray now, keep below.
%%
%% ANTONIO.
%%
%% Where is the master, boson?
%%
%% BOATSWAIN.
%%
%% Do you not hear him? You mar our labour:
%% keep your cabins: you do assist the storm.
%%
%% GONZALO.
%%
%% Nay, good, be patient.
%%
%% BOATSWAIN.
%%
%% When the sea is. Hence! What cares these
%% roarers for the name of king? To cabin! silence! Trouble
%% us not.
%%
%% GONZALO.
%%
%% Good, yet remember whom thou hast aboard.
%%
%% BOATSWAIN.
%%
%% None that I more love than myself. You are
%% counsellor: if you can command these elements to
%% silence, and work the peace of the present, we will not
%% hand a rope more. Use your authority: if you cannot, give
%% thanks you have lived so long, and make yourself ready
%% in your cabin for the mischance of the hour, if it so
%% hap.—Cheerly, good hearts!—Out of our way, I say.
%%
%% [Exit]
%%
%% GONZALO.
%%
%% I have great comfort from this fellow. Methinks
%% he hath no drowning mark upon him: his complexion is
%% perfect gallows. Stand fast, good Fate, to his hanging!
%% make the rope of his destiny our cable, for our own doth
%% little advantage! If he be not born to be hang'd, our
%% case is miserable.
%%
%% [Exeunt]
%%
%% [Re-enter BOATSWAIN]
%%
%% BOATSWAIN.
%%
%% Down with the topmast! yare! lower, lower!
%% Bring her to try wi' th' maincourse. [A cry within] A
%% plague upon this howling! They are louder than the
%% weather or our office.—
%%
%% [Re-enter SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, and GONZALO]
%%
%% Yet again! What do you here? Shall we give o'er, and
%%
%% drown? Have you a mind to sink?
%%
%% SEBASTIAN.
%%
%% A pox o' your throat, you bawling, blasphemous,
%% incharitable dog!
%%
%% BOATSWAIN.
%%
%% Work you, then.
%%
%% ANTONIO.
%%
%% Hang, cur, hang! you whoreson, insolent noisemaker,
%% we are less afraid to be drowned than thou art.
%%
%% GONZALO.
%%
%% I'll warrant him for drowning, though the ship were
%% no stronger than a nutshell, and as leaky as an unstanched
%% wench.
%%
%% BOATSWAIN.
%%
%% Lay her a-hold, a-hold! set her two courses: off
%% to sea again: lay her off.
%%
%% [Enter MARINERS, Wet]
%%
%% MARINERS.
%%
%% All lost! to prayers, to prayers! all lost!
%%
%% [Exeunt]
%%
%% BOATSWAIN.
%%
%% What, must our mouths be cold?
%%
%% GONZALO.
%%
%% The King and Prince at prayers! let us assist them,
%% For our case is as theirs.
%%
%% SEBASTIAN.
%%
%% I am out of patience.
%%
%% ANTONIO.
%%
%% We are merely cheated of our lives by drunkards.—
%% This wide-chapp'd rascal—would thou might'st lie drowning
%% The washing of ten tides!
%%
\end{drama}
\part{Histories}
\part{Tragedies}
\part{Poems}
\part{Apocrypha}
\backmatter
\end{document}