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 LEMDOʼs 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:
Godly Queen Hester (semi-diplomatic text), for the use of King Edwardʼs School Birmingham in 2024-25
Mucedorus, which was an assigned text at the University of Victoria in Dr. Janelle Jenstadʼs ENSH 352 course in Fall 2023
Gallathea, which was an assigned text at the University of Victoria in Dr. Janelle Jenstadʼs ENSH 352 course in Fall 2023

Prosopography

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 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 UVicʼs 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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