LEMDO Classroom

Para1The LEMDO Classroom is a mini-anthology of plays that are currently being used in classrooms or rehearsal halls. Testing texts and critical paratexts via classroom and rehearsal-hall use is a key part of LEMDO’s process. Feedback from students and theatre practitioners—a form of peer review—helps editors and anthology leads improve the edition and its component parts before it is made permanently available.
Para2These editions are not yet in their final form and are not ready for publication in any other LEMDO anthology. Students are welcome to cite from these editions for their coursework. Scholars will likely want to wait for the edition to be published in its destination anthology before citing from it.
Para3Editions currently in the LEMDO Classroom are:
Fair Em (edited by Brett Greatley-Hirsch), which is being taught by Andrew Bozio.
Gallathea, which was an assigned text at the University of Victoria in Dr. Janelle Jenstad’s ENSH 352 course in Fall 2023.
The Golden Age, which was performed at the joint conference of the Classical Association of the Canadian West (CACW)/Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest (CAPN) in Vancouver in March 2025.
Hamlet (edited by David Bevington and in the process of being revised by Janelle Jenstad), which was taught by Thomas Dabbs.
Mucedorus, which was an assigned text at the University of Victoria in Dr. Janelle Jenstad’s ENSH 352 course in Fall 2023 and for Dr. Brett Greatley-Hirsch’s English and Theatre Studies Level 2 students (see performance here).

Prosopography

Brett Greatley-Hirsch

Brett Greatley-Hirsch is Professor of Renaissance Literature and Textual Studies at the University of Leeds. He is a coordinating editor of Digital Renaissance Editions, co-editor of the Routledge journal Shakespeare, and a Trustee of the British Shakespeare Association. He is the author (with Hugh Craig) of Style, Computers, and Early Modern Drama: Beyond Authorship (Cambridge, 2017), which brings together his interests in early modern drama, computational stylistics, and literary history. His current projects include editions of Hyde Park for the Oxford Shirley (with Mark Houlahan) and Fair Em for DRE, a history of the editing and publishing of Renaissance drama from the eighteenth century to the present day, and several computational studies of early modern dramatic authorship and genre. For more details, see notwithoutmustard.net.

Janelle Jenstad

Janelle Jenstad is a Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director of The Map of Early Modern London, and Director of Linked Early Modern Drama Online. With Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Mark Beatrice Kaethler, she co-edited Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media: Old Words, New Tools (Routledge). She has edited John Stow’s A Survey of London (1598 text) for MoEML and is currently editing The Merchant of Venice (with Stephen Wittek) and Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody for DRE. Her articles have appeared in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Elizabethan Theatre, Early Modern Literary Studies, Shakespeare Bulletin, Renaissance and Reformation, and The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. She contributed chapters to Approaches to Teaching Othello (MLA); Teaching Early Modern Literature from the Archives (MLA); Institutional Culture in Early Modern England (Brill); Shakespeare, Language, and the Stage (Arden); Performing Maternity in Early Modern England (Ashgate); New Directions in the Geohumanities (Routledge); Early Modern Studies and the Digital Turn (Iter); Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Indiana); Making Things and Drawing Boundaries (Minnesota); Rethinking Shakespeare Source Study: Audiences, Authors, and Digital Technologies (Routledge); and Civic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London (Routledge). For more details, see janellejenstad.com.

Martin Holmes

Martin Holmes has worked as a developer in the UVic’s Humanities Computing and Media Centre for over two decades, and has been involved with dozens of Digital Humanities projects. He has served on the TEI Technical Council and as Managing Editor of the Journal of the TEI. He took over from Joey Takeda as lead developer on LEMDO in 2020. He is a collaborator on the SSHRC Partnership Grant led by Janelle Jenstad.

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