# The Jew of Venice. A comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre in Little-Lincolns-Inn-Fields, by His Majesty's servants

**Slug:** `granville_jew_of_venice_1701`  
**Priority:** 3  
**Author:** George Granville, Baron Lansdowne (from The Merchant of Venice)  
**Edition / date:** London, 1701. FIRST edition.

## Sources
- **archive.org** `bim_eighteenth-century_the-jew-of-venice-a-com_lansdowne-george-granvi_1701` - https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-jew-of-venice-a-com_lansdowne-george-granvi_1701
  - catalogue title: The Jew of Venice. A comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre in Little-Lincolns-Inn-Fields, by His Majesty's servants.  1701
  - date field: 1701; images/frames: 54; OCR engine: tesseract 5.3.0-3-g9920
  - digitised from / contributor: ['IA40316215-70', 'microfilm']
  - raw file(s) saved here (exactly as downloaded): `bim_eighteenth-century_the-jew-of-venice-a-com_lansdowne-george-granvi_1701_djvu.txt`


## Cleaned text(s)
- `granville_jew_of_venice_1701.clean.txt` - 12,808 words; 93% of text lines pass a dictionary check

## Completeness
Complete (includes the masque Peleus and Thetis if printed with it; a separate 1701 masque printing also exists on archive.org).

## OCR quality / notes
Cleaning: IA djvu.txt was normalised (ſ->s), microfilm target frames and junk lines trimmed, page numbers/signatures/running heads dropped, end-of-line hyphenation joined, and a CONSERVATIVE long-s correction applied (words with 'f' that are not in a modern frequency list are replaced by their 's' variant when that variant is common; a short override list covers so/she/sir/see/such/some...). Ambiguous real words (fame/same, fell/sell, fold/sold, found/sound, foul/soul, fit/sit ...) were left unchanged. Statistics of every change are in the `*.cleanstats.json` beside each cleaned file. Expect residual OCR noise; the '% of lines pass a dictionary check' figure above is a rough legibility score (modern-English word list; 18th-c. spellings count against it).
1711 edition and 1713/1732 collected editions also on archive.org.