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Shakespeare Projects | Some differences between MIT art
materials and Hamlet Art Database | Additional reading material
| Brief biography of database compiler To facilitate research
for a planned book on “Hamlet and the Visual Arts, 1709-1900,” I
have created a database in which to record information about
images related to Hamlet that dated from between 1709, the date
of the earliest known image of a Hamlet subject, and 1900. This
latter was a rather arbitrary date but had the advantage of
allowing the early history of photography to be included. My
plan was to include digitized images of all the works I found,
but initially I was unable to identify a satisfactory "off-the-
shelf" database program that would run on a laptop PC. As an
interim solution, I used PCFile, an easy-to-use DOS-based
program. An advantage of this was that its files (*.dbf, and
*.dbt) were easily transportable to othe