The 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 character’s 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.

The Credits tab provides information about all of the key contributors to the work visible on and underlying each of the HTML pages.

When 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 and .

The 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.

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.

All 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.

The 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.

Depending 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.

LEMDO allows for seven types of notes: 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)

Annotations 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.

A 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 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.

The 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.

For 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.