Para1The LEMDO Classroom anthology uses the LEMDO interface with custom menus.
General Site Navigation
Para2These are some actions that you can take at any time:
Click the LEMDO logo at the top of any page in the anthology to go to the site homepage.
Click the Go button beside the search bar to go to our Endings-compliant Static Search page. This page allows you to search based on document history, document
types, early modern book formats, editorial treatments, and types of literary work.
You can also type search terms directly into the search bar and then filter your results.
Click the buttons in the top navigation bar to see drop-down menus that link to anthology
pages and editions. Note that the arrow beside each button points downwards when the
drop-down menu is closed and points upwards when the drop-down menu is open.
Click on the menu with three horizontal stripes (the hamburger menu) at the top left of each page to access the side navigation bar.
Classroom Site Tools: Side Navigation Bar
Para3The side navigation bar gives you access to information and functionality that can
enhance your engagement with any page on the LEMDO Classroom site. To access the side
navigation bar, click on the menu with three horizontal stripes (the hamburger menu) at the top left of each page. To close the menu and give yourself more space on
your screen, click on the exit “X” icon.
Para4There are four tabs within the navigation bar: Content,Credits,Tools, and About.
Content
Para5The side navigation bar opens by default to the Content pane, which contains the table of contents for the HMTL page that you are on. If
you are looking at a modern edition, it will list all of the scenes and allow you
to navigate directly to any scene of interest. In addition, you can access the character
list for the play by clicking on Characters. The character list will appear on the right side of the page. Editorial notes about
characters (if any) are indicated by a plus sign to the left of the characterʼs name.
Click the plus sign to see the note. The plus sign will turn into a minus sign when
you do this; click the minus sign to hide the note.
Credits
Para6The Credits tab provides information about all of the key contributors to the work visible on
and underlying each of the HTML pages.
Tools
Para7When you are viewing modern editions, you can choose to turn annotation and collation
indicators on or off by selecting the Tools menu in the side navigation bar. Click the checkbox beside Display annotations,Display collations, or both to turn annotation and collation indicators on and off. They will both, by
default, be on when you first open any modern text. For more information about how
to use our annotations and collations, see Annotations and Collation.
About
Para8The About menu gives you access to metadata for each page (title, publisher, author, etc.)
and allows you to see the open-access XML markup that underlies each HTML page.
Find Classroom Content
Draft Editions
Para9
The Editions menu item on the top navigation bar of this website is the primary way to access
the editions included in the LEMDO Classroom. The editions currently included in the
Classroom are listed in the drop-down menu. Clicking on the link will take you to
the edition landing page with a curated table of contents.
Para10All editions in the LEMDO Classroom are in draft. Depending on the state of completion
of the edition, you will find one or more of the following components on the edition
page:
Semi-diplomatic transcription(s): The spelling, punctuation, and lineation follow
those of the first publication.
Modernized text: The spelling and punctuation will have been modernized.
A textual introduction telling you about the bibliographical history of the text and
how the editor has modernized it.
A general introduction providing an overview of the play.
Acts, Scenes, and Speeches
Para11The literary divisions used in modern texts for this anthology are acts, scenes, and
speeches (and sometimes just scenes and speeches for plays that do not have act divisions).
Each act, scene, and speech in a modern text has a stable URL, which you can find
by clicking the scene or speech number in the left margin of the modern text Site
page. You can also navigate to scenes by opening the menu at the top-left of the page,
selecting Content, and clicking on the scene to which you want to navigate.
Annotations
Para12Depending on the state of completion of the classroom edition, the editor may have
added annotations to the modern-spelling editions of each play. Annotated passages
are marked with clickable underlining.
Glosses (notes that give a short description of a term).
Commentary (discussion of the meaning of the text).
Textual notes (notes about editorial decisions).
Pedagogical notes (notes offering teaching tips and strategies).
Lexical notes (discussion of the etymology, meaning, and/or prevalence of a word).
Lineation notes (discussion of lineation and related editorial decisions).
Performance notes (discussion of choice made in a performance-as-research production
or notes about performance history)
Para14Annotations on a string of text that is one full verse line long or longer are indicated
by vertical lines to the left of the text. Click on the vertical line to view the
annotation. Annotations on a string of text that are shorter than one verse line are
indicated by horizontal underlines. Click on the annotated text or the underline to
view the annotation. Spans of text with more than one annotation on them are indicated
with a double underline. Click on the annotated text or the double underline to view
all annotations on that string of text. Annotations will appear in a window on the
right side of the page.
Collation
Para15A collation is indicated by a small blue symbol with diverging arrows inside of a
circle. A collation is a record of how the text differs across copies and has changed
over time. Click on this symbol and the collation details will appear on the right
side of the page.
Semi-Diplomatic Texts
Para16Semi-Diplomatic texts are transcribed versions of early modern playbooks. We recommend
juxtaposing modern and semi-diplomatic texts in the classroom for lessons on editorial
practice, book history, and bibliography.
Para17The divisions used for semi-diplomatic texts in LEMDO are pages and speeches, which
correspond with page divisions and speeches in the witnesses (i.e., sources) used
for each edition. Each page and speech has a stable URL. You can navigate to pages
by opening the menu at the top-left of the page, selecting Content, and clicking on the editorial signature number for the page to which you want to
navigate.
Para18For some semi-diplomatic texts, you can also find facsimile images of the print or
manuscript playbook. To view full-sized facsimile images, click on the thumbnail image
beside each page beginning in the text.
Site Accessibility
Para19If you are using a screen reader and are interested in early modern punctuation practices,
we recommend adjusting your screen readerʼs settings to read most or all punctuation
aloud when reading semi-diplomatic transcriptions.
Citation
Para20The LEMDO Classroom anthology is meant to house editions for short periods of time
(usually one university semester, high school unit, or rehearsal period). The links
will remain stable during that time. In term papers and essays, you can cite specific
scenes, speeches, sections, and paragraphs by using the URL for that scene, speech,
section, or paragraph. If your term paper is revised for publication, you will want
to adjust the citations to match the URL of the anthology in which the edition will
subsequently appear.
Para21You can access the URL for scenes and sections by opening the table of contents in
the side navigation bar, clicking on the scene or section of interest, and copying
the URL from your browserʼs search bar. You can also access section URLs by clicking
on the pilcrow (¶) on the left of the section header and copying the URL from your
browserʼs search bar. You can access the URL for speeches and paragraphs by clicking
on the speech or paragraph number on the left side of the HTML page and copying the
URL from your browserʼs search bar.
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.
Navarra Houldin
Project manager 2022-present. Textual remediator 2021-present. Navarra Houldin (they/them)
completed their BA in History and Spanish at the University of Victoria in 2022. During
their degree, they worked as a teaching assistant with the University of Victoriaʼs
Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies. Their primary research was on gender and
sexuality in early modern Europe and Latin America.
Peter Cockett
Peter Cockett is an associate professor in the Theatre and Film Studies at McMaster
University. He is the general editor (performance), and technical co-ordinating editor
of Queen’s Men Editions. He was the stage director for the Shakespeare and the Queen’s Men project (SQM),
directing King Leir, The Famous Victories of Henry V, and Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay (2006) and he is the performance editor for our editions of those plays. The process
behind those productions is documented in depth on his website Performing the Queen’s Men. Also featured on this site are his PAR productions of Clyomon and Clamydes (2009) and Three Ladies of London (2014). For the PLS, the University of Toronto’s Medieval and Renaissance Players,
he has directed the Digby Mary Magdalene (2003) and the double bill of George Peele’s The Old Wives Tale and the Chester Antichrist (2004). He also directed An Experiment in Elizabethan Comedy (2005) for the SQM project and Inside Out: The Persistence of Allegory (2008) in collaboration with Alan Dessen. Peter is a professional actor and director
with numerous stage and screen credits. He can be contacted at cockett@mcmaster.ca.
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Licence/availability
This file is licensed under a CC BY-NC_ND 4.0 license, which means that it is freely
downloadable without permission under the following conditions: (1) credit must be
given to the author, Queen’s Men Editions, and LEMDO in any subsequent use of the
files and/or data; (2) the content cannot be adapted or repurposed (except in quotations
for the purposes of academic review and citation); and (3) commercial uses are not
permitted without the knowledge and consent of Queen’s Men Editions, the editor, and
LEMDO. This license allows for pedagogical use of the critical paratexts in the classroom.
