User Guide User Author Navarra Houldin Author Janelle Jenstad Author Peter Cockett LEMDO Team The LEMDO Team is based at the University of Victoria and normally comprises the project director, the lead developer, project manager, junior developers(s), remediators, encoders, and remediating editors. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

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 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 About Documents about LEMDO or another anthology. Responsibilities Responsibilities Author A person, family, or organization responsible for creating a work that is primarily textual in content, regardless of media type (e.g., printed text, spoken word, electronic text, tactile text) or genre (e.g., poems, novels, screenplays, blogs). Use also for persons, etc., creating a new work by paraphrasing, rewriting, or adapting works by another creator such that the modification has substantially changed the nature and content of the original or changed the medium of expression. LEMDO uses the term author in two contexts: (1) to indicate the author of a primary work or document (such as Hamlet), and (2) to indicate the author of a secondary text (such as the Critical Introduction to <title level="m">Hamlet, by David Bevington). Finalized content. Created page from QME User Guide and adapted the content. Peter Cockett 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.

 Navarra Houldin Navarra Houldin

Training and Documentation Lead 2025–present. LEMDO project manager 2022–2025. Textual remediator 2021–present. Navarra Houldin (they/them) completed their BA with a major in history and minor in Spanish at the University of Victoria in 2022. Their primary research was on gender and sexuality in early modern Europe and Latin America. They are continuing their education through an MA program in Gender and Social Justice Studies at the University of Alberta where they will specialize in Digital Humanities.

 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 anthology uses the LEMDO interface with custom menus.

General Site Navigation

These 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.
LEMDO logo
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

The 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.

There are four tabs within the navigation bar: Content, Credits, Tools, and About.

Content

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.

Credits

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

Tools

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 Annotations and Collation.

About

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.

Find Classroom Content
Draft Editions

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.

Acts, Scenes, and Speeches

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.

Annotations

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.

Collation

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

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.

Site Accessibility

If you are using a screen reader and are interested in early modern punctuation practices, we recommend adjusting your screen reader’s settings to read most or all punctuation aloud when reading semi-diplomatic transcriptions.

Citation

The 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.

You 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 browser’s 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 browser’s 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 browser’s search bar.