If you have this archive, which should be named PCSHX10D.EXE for the sake of
 its associated installation program, with its companion archive, PCSHX10A.EXE,
 there is no need for you to read this file: Start there instead.

 If you have otherwise come across it, however, please continue.

 All you will find here are the files: RII, HIV-1, and HV. These are
 complete texts for the Shakespeare plays Richard the Second,
 Henry the Fourth part one, and Henry the Fifth.

 I sent these plays out into the world of bits and bytes as part of a
 sample of a program I have made called PC-Shakespeare.
 It is more than a computerized concordance, rather it is a tool to think
 about and organize ones thoughts concerning the whats, whys and hows
 of all of Shakespeare's works, as well as draw out specfic contents
 and subjects therein. It should be broadly useful to writers, teachers,
 students, scholars and those in the dramatic arts, as well as anyone who
 wishes to use what is new in our world to investigate what is best in it.

 PC-Shakespeare embodies many characteristics of what has come to be
 called 'hypertext', and some new ideas as well. It has an attractive,
 convenient and internally consistent mouse-driven interface with a
 built-in help system. If you keep it resident on your hard disk, the full 
 version occupies about 6.5 megabytes, but it cooperates with dearchiving
 itself, so it can remain available in much less space. The sample uses 1.5.

 It will run on any PC, but a hard disk is obviously required, and the
 faster and more cached the better.

 On a 386 with a cached 18 ms hard drive, very little patience is needed.
 On a 286 with a cached 30 ms hard drive, doing a multiple OR search over
 the complete works takes around 2 minutes. Add another minute for a
 compound AND / OR search.

 Finds are made available as complete lines, with or without surrounding
 context. These lines are collected in editable lists of quotations, and
 each line can serve as an immediate point of entry to its place in the
 larger text. Each text, in turn can bring back to quotation lists lines,
 contexts, or entire speeches with extreme ease. All speeches of any
 individual character may also be collected by a single selection into
 a quotation list. Lines and groups of lines in the lists may be moved
 within or between lists or sent to an external file. They may also be
 sorted by a number of criteria including definable sequences of plays.
 Records may be kept and commented (as may the quotations themselves), of
 previous searches both as to the search strings and the texts searched
 (and/or sorted), and these may be reinstantiated or edited. All of these
 facilities, and it is fair to say that there are quite a few more,
 are available in close and convenient proximity to each other.

 The fully functional sample of PC-Shakespeare with the plays King John,
 Richard II, the two Henry IVs, Henry V, and Henry VIII may be obtained
 from me for $5.00. ($10.00 Overseas). This price includes postage and tax.

 The complete PC-Shakespeare may also be ordered from me for $54.00.
 ($65.00 overseas). This also includes postage and tax. Purchasers of
 this version 1.0 will also be guaranteed that the cost of subsequent
 upgrades will never be more than twenty percent of the then current
 price (plus postage and tax). 

	       Send Orders to:  Clifford Skoog
				6789 Glen Mawr
				El Cerrito
				CA 94530    USA

 If you put this archive inside of another archive or onto a disk for
 distribution, it would be nice if you enclosed a copy of PCSHX10D.INF, if
 available, for online readers etc.