LEMDO Classroom Classroom Project Director Janelle Jenstad Lead Developer Martin Holmes Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada University of Victoria on the Linked Early Modern Drama Online platform

This file is licensed for use in the LEMDO Classroom anthology. The editions in this anthology may not have been peer reviewed and are not ready for publication in any other LEMDO anthology. They are temporarily available in this anthology so that they can be used in the classroom for the duration of a course or in the rehearsal hall for the duration of a production.

Born digital document written by Janelle Jenstad.

Encoded in TEI P5 according to the LEMDO Customization and Encoding Guidelines

This document follows Canadian spelling conventions

 Document Types All documents in LEMDO are either born-digital documents or primary documents. Within those two general categories, LEMDO offers additional ways to categorize a file. Born-digital Born-digital documents are anything other than primary texts Landing Landing pages. Anthology Anthology files (rooted on a teiCorpus element). Responsibilities Responsibilities Project Director A person or organization with primary responsibility for all essential aspects of a project, has overall responsibility for managing projects, or provides overall direction to a project manager. LEMDO uses the term project director for the person who directs the LEMDO project. For anthology leads, use pbd. Programmer A person, family, or organization responsible for creating a computer program. Gloss needed. Added 3LL to the build. Tweaked wording of list. Tweaked wording of list. Added FEm to the anthology. Added Ham to the anthology. Added GldA to the anthology. Added link to GREA1’s students’ production. Added links to editions from the list on the homepage. Added GQH to the anthology and tweaked metadata. Added content for the home page. Created file. Brett Greatley-Hirsch 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.

 Martin Holmes 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.

 Janelle Jenstad 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.

The 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.

These 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.

Editions currently in the LEMDO Classroom are: Fair Em (edited by Brett Greatley-Hirsch), which is being taught in classes by Andrew Bozio (Skidmore College) and Peter Kirwan (Mary Baldwin University). Gallathea, which was an assigned text at the University of Victoria in Dr. Janelle Jenstad’s ENSH 352 course in Fall 2023. Godly Queen Hester (semi-diplomatic text), for the use of King Edward’s School Birmingham in 2024-25. 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. 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). The Three Ladies of London, edited by Chantelle Thauvette and Jessica Dell and forthcoming in the Queen’s Men Editions series. The modern text is being used for a playreading at UVic.