# Orestes: a dramatic opera. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. Written by Mr. Theobald

**Slug:** `orestes_1731`  
**Priority:** 1  
**Author:** Lewis Theobald  
**Edition / date:** London: printed for J. Watts, 1731 (imprint per ESTC; not legible in this OCR). FIRST (only) edition.

## Sources
- **archive.org** `bim_eighteenth-century_orestes-a-dramatic-oper_theobald-mr-lewis_1731` - https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_orestes-a-dramatic-oper_theobald-mr-lewis_1731
  - catalogue title: Orestes: a dramatic opera. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. Written by Mr. Theobald.  1731
  - date field: 1731; images/frames: 90; OCR engine: tesseract 5.3.0-3-g9920
  - digitised from / contributor: ['IA40313305-54', 'microfilm']
  - raw file(s) saved here (exactly as downloaded): `bim_eighteenth-century_orestes-a-dramatic-oper_theobald-mr-lewis_1731_djvu.txt`
  - note: BL microfilm reel IA40313305-54; tesseract OCR.

## Cleaned text(s)
- `orestes_1731.clean.txt` - full volume: dedication, prologue, five acts with the sung parts, epilogue; 19,110 words; 92% of text lines pass a dictionary check

## Completeness
90 frames; complete.

## 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).