Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

Need clarification on GR standards for page counts for plays. For the linked edition, GR has a page count of 298. Book in hand is 173 for just the text of the play itself. However, of course there is a whole bunch of other stuff both before and after.

Before the text of the play, there's an Editor's Preface, a bunch of sections about Shakespeare's life and such, about the language, etc, which is all marked with Roman numerals but adds up to 49 pages. After the text of the play, there's a list of Textual Notes, an essay about the play, and a Further Reading section. All of that stuff has standard numbered pages, and goes up to 240.

Sooooo....just the text of the play is 173. The count for all pages with standard numbering is 240. If we then also include all the Roman-numeraled stuff, it would be 289. I leave it up to a wise Librarian to determine the proper number to use :)

ISBN-13: 9780743477543

Alison wrote: "Before the text of the play"

We would not count any "Roman-numeraled stuff".


Alison wrote: "After the text of the play, there's a list of Textual Notes, an essay about the play, and a Further Reading section."

We would definitely count those first two. Probably not the further reading, unless it's by way of endnotes. If it's just a list of related other things to read, we would not count that.

Oh, and for reference: https://help.goodreads.com/s/article/...

rivka wrote: "Oh, and for reference: https://help.goodreads.com/s/article/..."

Thanks for that link! So, including the Textual Notes and the essay, it's 193 pages. The Further Reading section is a list of other things to read, but each entry has like, a page or two about why it's included and what it's about and such. An expanded bibliography, I suppose.

Oh, interesting! I guess we could include those then. Do they really run 47 pages?

rivka wrote: "Oh, interesting! I guess we could include those then. Do they really run 47 pages?"

That part is from page 195 to 237, and then the very end is a "Key to famous lines and phrases" which brings it to 240.

240 it is!

Thanks!!