shakesnippet

Provides a randomly chosen Shakespeare excerpt.

Shakespeare text is from the Folger Shakespeare Library. See License for more details.

Installation

npm install shakesnippet

Usage

shakesnippet(
  {
    numberOfLines: 20
  },
  logSnippet
);

function logSnippet(error, snippet) {
  if (error) {
    console.log(error);
  }
  else {
    console.log(snippet);
  }
}

Output:

CORIOLANUS. I have deserv'd no better entertainment
In being Coriolanus.

Re-enter second SERVINGMAN

SECOND SERVANT. Whence are you, sir? Has the porter his eyes in his
head that he gives entrance to such companions? Pray get you out.
CORIOLANUS. Away!
SECOND SERVANT. Away? Get you away.
CORIOLANUS. Now th' art troublesome.
SECOND SERVANT. Are you so brave? I'll have you talk'd with anon.

Enter a third SERVINGMAN. The first meets him

THIRD SERVANT. What fellow's this?
FIRST SERVANT. A strange one as ever I look'd on. I cannot get him
out o' th' house. Prithee call my master to him.
THIRD SERVANT. What have you to do here, fellow? Pray you avoid the
house.
CORIOLANUS. Let me but stand- I will not hurt your hearth.

If you pass no numberOfLines or null or undefined for the opts parameter, it will randomly pick between 1 and 4 lines.

You can also try running the module from within the project by running make try.

Tests

Run tests with make test.

License

The text of the complete works of Shakespeare is from Folger Digital Texts under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported license.

Text is as downloaded from Folger Digital Texts, except that the files for individual plays and poems were concatenated into one file, and transcription credits consolidated at the top of that file.

The code is licensed under the MIT License.

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015 Jim Kang

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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