Searching within regions

No matter what sort of search you are doing, you may limit the areas of text that are searched. To do so, select a region from the drop-down menu that appears near your search term.

The following are definitions for the regions listed in the drop-down.

Basic/Proximity Search:

No matter what region you select to search within, queries done from the Basic search page will result in a Keyword in Context (KWIC) display.

• Full text – This default setting searches within all work content and all titles. This term encompasses all types of more particular searches available through the interface.

• Section and work titles – words that appear as headings that mark divisions within a larger work.

• Subject – words that appear within subject term.s

• Notes – Marginal notes, footnotes, etc.

• Poems – Verse lines, either standing alone or included in larger works.

• Acts – Divisions of plays.

• Plays – Dramatic literature, searched without regard to Act and Scene division

Letters – Correspondence, standing alone or included within larger works.

• STC number – The standard cataloging number for the work.

Because this search looks at structures, the results list contains no Keyword in Context (KWIC) display.

• Works – Looks for queries within works, then displays the work titles that contain those terms. Because there is no indication of how many times a search term appears in the work, this may be most convenient for finding works to search further in your Bookbag.

• Pages – Top to bottom scan of the page and its structures.

• Notes – Marginal notes, footnotes, etc.

• Poems -- Verse lines, either standing alone or included in larger works.

• Acts – Divisions of plays.

• Plays – Beginning to end scan of dramatic works, searching over act and scene divisions.

• Letters – Correspondence, standing alone or included within larger works.

• Stanzas – Divisions of poems, comparable to paragraphs.

• Paragraphs – Sections of works.

• Lines – Poetic lines.

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