I didn't know I could just get plain text versions, from Gutenberg, and have them read OK. Duh.

In any case, the original question pertained to what I got from the Stanza site itself, in .epub format. Specifically, for example, http://www.lexcycle.com/library/Shakespeare_William/A_Midsummer_Nights_D...

So it's not ALL one large blob of text, but each character's speech IS one big blob (i.e., paragraph) , as opposed to being separated by lines. So, for example, the famous speech by the Fairy in Midsummer Night's Dream, is rendered as "FAIRY Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough brier, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire, I do wander everywhere, Swifter than the moon’s sphere; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs upon the green. The cowslips tall her pensioners be: In their gold coats spots you see; Those be rubies, fairy favours, In those freckles live their savours; I must go seek some dewdrops here, And hang a pearl in every cowslip’s ear. ", instead of as 10-15 lines of verse. It looks fine when I load the Gutenberg version.

Thanks again,
Peter