Level 4 Drama Examples

Examples are from Documenting the American South at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Compiled by Natasha Smith

Cast lists should be encoded as <list>s, with<item>s.

FROM: Charles Thompson, conducted by
Oral History Interview with Mattie Bell, Earl, Artis and Thomas Cavenaugh and Betsy Easter,
December 7, 1999. Interview K-282. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007).
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<list>
<head>Interview Participants</head>
  <item>
	<name id="spk1" key="ce" reg="Cavenaugh, Earl" type="interviewee">EARL CAVENAUGH</name>, interviewee
  </item>
  <item>
	<name id="spk2" key="cmb" reg="Cavenaugh, Mattie Bell" type="interviewee">MATTIE BELL CAVENAUGH</name>, interviewee
  </item>
  <item>
	<name id="spk3" key="eb" reg="Easter, Betsy" type="interviewee">BETSY EASTER</name>, interviewee
  </item>
  <item>
	<name id="spk4" key="ca" reg="Cavenaugh, Artis" type="interviewee">ARTIS CAVENAUGH</name>, interviewee
  </item>
  <item>
	<name id="spk7" key="ct" reg="Cavenaugh, Thomas" type="interviewee">THOMAS CAVENAUGH</name>, interviewee
  </item>
  <item>
	<name id="spk5" key="tc" reg="Thompson, Charles" type="interviewer">CHARLIE THOMPSON</name>, interviewer
  </item>
  <item>
	<name id="spk6" key="ar" reg="Amberg, Rob" type="interviewer">ROB AMBERG</name>
  </item>
 </list>

Speeches are encoded as <sp>, with speakers identified within <speaker> elements and stage directions identified within<stage> elements.

FROM: Robert Munford, d. 1784
A Collection of Plays and Poems, by the Late Col. Robert Munford, of Mecklenburg County, in the State of Virginia.
Now First Published Together.
Petersburg: William Prentis, 1798.
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<stage><hi rend="italics"> Enter Wou'dbe with a news-paper in his hand.</hi></stage>
<sp>
	<speaker><hi rend="italics">Wou'dbe.</hi></speaker>
	<p> I AM very sorry our good old governor Botetourt has left us. He well deserved our friendship, 
	when alive, and that we should for years to come, with gratitude, remember his mild and affable 
	deportment. Well, our little world will soon be up, and very busy towards our next election. Must 
	I again be subject to the humours of a fickle croud? Must I again resign my reason, and be nought 
	but what each voter pleases? Must I cajole, sawn, and wheedle, for a place that brings so little profit?</p>
</sp>

<stage><hi rend="italics">Enter Ralpho.</hi></stage>

<sp>
	<speaker><hi rend="italics">Ralpho.</hi></speaker>
	<p> Sir John Toddy is below, and if your honour is at leisure, would beg to speak to you.</p>
</sp>

Also, from oral histories interviews
FROM: Rob Amberg, conducted by
Oral History Interview with Darhyl Boone, December 5, 2000. Interview K-246.
Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007).
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<sp who="spk1">
	<speaker n="1">DARHYL BOONE:</speaker>
	<p> Every time I run into some old timers as I call around here, they say, 'Yeah, Doc Boone delivered 
	all my young 'uns.' Grandma'd go with him. His health was poor. Grandma would go with him to carry 
	his medical bag. They'd go back into these hollows, and he'd deliver babies, and that's what she had 
	to do. So when they first moved here, they weren't actually running a restaurant. He had his office 
	upstairs.</p>
</sp>

<sp who="spk2">
	<speaker n="2">ROB AMBERG:</speaker>
	<p> But that building was there.</p>
</sp>

<sp who="spk1">
	<speaker n="1">DARHYL BOONE:</speaker>
	<p> Umm. They built the building. He actually built it.</p>
</sp>

<sp who="spk2">
	<speaker n="2">ROB AMBERG:</speaker>
	<p> They built it as a house and a doctor's office.</p>
</sp>