Purpose
To represent and explore a range of relationships and interactions between characters in the Shakespeare play “Romeo and Juliet,” which takes place in a 6-day timeline. This project represents these relationships and interactions using Prospect’s Qualified Relationship feature set. View this exhibit on our server HERE.
Download zip file: Archive-Romeo7Juliet.
Data Design Details
The information in this data set is based on the timeline of events, across 6 days, described on this webpage. The events are arbitrarily set in the year 1450.
Project data is stored in Records described by two Templates:
- person, which describes each of the characters in the play
- relationship, which describes many (but certainly not all) of the relationships and interactions between characters in the play
Person
The person Template is comprised of the following Attributes:
- name: A Text Attribute for the character’s name.
- gender: A Vocabulary Attribute for the character’s sex.
- role: A Vocabulary Attribute specifying the character’s social role (Apothecary, Aristocrat, Priest or Servant)
- house: A Vocabulary Attribute specifying the noble house to which the character belongs, if any (Capulet, Montague, Verona, none, unknown)
- when: A Dates Attribute giving the date range of the character’s lifetime only during the plays’s six days. A Dates Attribute is necessary for a Record to be viewable on the TIme Rings visualization.
Relationship
The relationship Template is comprised of the following Attributes:
- name: A Text Attribute describing the relationship.
- relation_type: A Vocabulary Attribute listing the different kinds of relationships and interactions modeled in this data (Amity, Familial, Romance, Messages, Service, Violence).
- r1: A Text Attribute providing the role for the first character in the relationship.
- r2: A Text Attribute providing the role for the second character in the relationship.
- e1: A Pointer Attribute pointing to the Record for the first character in the relationship.
- e2: A Pointer Attribute pointing to the Record for the second character in the relationship.
- act: A Vocabulary Attribute providing all of the acts of the play (in which relationships appear).
- when: A Dates Attribute giving the date (or date range) for the relationship.
- where1: A Lat-Lon coordinate Attribute giving a location for the first character in the relationship. This is an entirely arbitrary location (near Rome) for the purpose of demonstrating the QR-Map visualization.
- where2: A Lat-Lon coordinate Attribute giving a location for the second character in the relationship. This is an entirely arbitrary location (near Rome) for the purpose of demonstrating the QR-Map visualization.