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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.

 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.

 James D. Mardock James Mardock

James Mardock is Associate Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Associate General Editor for the Internet Shakespeare Editions, and a dramaturge for the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival and Reno Little Theater. In addition to editing quarto and folio Henry V for the ISE, he has published essays on Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and other Renaissance literature in The Seventeenth Century, Ben Jonson Journal, Borrowers and Lenders, and contributed to the collections Representing the Plague in Early Modern England (Routledge 2010) and Shakespeare Beyond Doubt (Cambridge 2013). His book Our Scene is London (Routledge 2008) examines Jonson’s representation of urban space as an element in his strategy of self-definition. With Kathryn McPherson, he edited Stages of Engagement (Duquesne 2013), a collection of essays on drama in post-Reformation England, and he is currently at work on a monograph on Calvinism and metatheatrical awareness in early modern English drama.

 Sarah Neville Sarah Neville

Sarah Neville is an associate professor of English and Theatre, Film and Media Arts at the Ohio State University. She specializes in early modern English literature, bibliography, theories of textuality and Shakespeare in performance, chiefly examining the ways that authority is negotiated in print, digital and live media. She is an assistant editor of the New Oxford Shakespeare (2016-17), for which she edited five plays in both old and modern-spelling editions, as well as an associate coordinating editor of the Digital Renaissance Editions. She regularly publishes on textual theory, digital humanities, pedagogy, and scholarly editing. Neville’s book, Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade: English Stationers and the Commodification of Botany (Cambridge, 2022), demonstrates the ways that printers and booksellers of herbals enabled the construction of scientific and medical authority in early modern England. A theatre director and film artist who is a great believer in experiential learning, Neville is the founder and creative director of Ohio State’s Lord Denney’s Players, an academic theatre company that enables students to see how technologies of textual transmission have shaped the reception of Shakespeare’s plays.

 Cameron Stirling Cameron Stirling

Cameron Stirling is an English Honours student at the University of Victoria and the holder of a 2024–2025 Jamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Award.

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Anthology Leads and Co-Coordinating Editors: Brett Greatley-Hirsch, Janelle Jenstad, James Mardock, and Sarah Neville.
1611 Quarto: Copies

The information in this table has been gathered from Greg’s Bibliography of the English Printed Drama to the Restoration and the temporary version of the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) data generated by the Print & Probability (P&P) project in the wake of the cyberattack on the British Library. The P&P temporary version (estc.printprobability.org) is based on a 2014 capture of the ESTC data. All records have been checked in December 2024 against the library catalogues of the holding libraries. The shelfmark is linked directly to the library catalogue page permalink; if the catalogue entry does not have a direct link, I have added a note with a link to the catalogue homepage and a suggested search string.

There are digital and microfilm surrogates of a number of copies. The Huntington copy was microfilmed for the Early English Books microfilm series (Reel 839 Position 11), which in turn was digitized for Early English Books Online (ProQuest document ID 2240878366). Given that copies selected for EEB/EEBO have become inadvertently canonical, recent digitizations of other copies are welcome, particularly because they are all open-access, full-colour scans. The Beinecke copy is fully digitized. The Harry Ransom Center has digitized both its Pforzheimer and Wrenn copies. The Folger has digitized the title page of one of its two copies (the Bridgewater copy). The National Library of Scotland and the Houghton Library have made microfilms of their copies for use on site.

The title page survives in two variant states. Some title pages have the variant defining while others have deifying. The fourth column of the table indicates which variant appears on the title page of the copy. A parenthetical note indicates if the information has been derived from library catalogue metadata and thus not confirmed by personal viewing.

Library Shelfmark Digital/Microfilm Surrogates Variant National Library of Scotland Bute.270 Microfilm of Bute.270 available in General Reading Room: Mf.Pres.255 defining (catalogue metadata) Abbotsford Library (Advocates Library Edinburgh) Abbotsford Collection V.7.6 (see Staff)There is no Permalink for the catalogue entry. Go to Advocates Library Catalogue and search for golden age. n/a British Library C.12.f.12.(1.) or C.34.c.45. n/a Guildhall Library BAY H 4.2 NO 18 n/a University College London Library REF COLLECTION B; STRONG ROOM OGDEN A 210 defining (catalogue metadata) Victoria and Albert Museum National Art Library 38041800982316 (Henry Barrett-Lennard copy)In The Dramatick Works of Thomas Heywood. Now First Collected in Six Volumes. V&A note: A mixed collection of 17th century quartos, 19th century reprints and manuscript transcriptions. Donated by Henry Barrett-Lennard; with the donor’s bookplates. defining (catalogue metadata) Victoria and Albert Museum National Art Library Dyce 26 Box 19/3 (Accession Number: Dyce 4722) n/a Bodleian Library (Oxford) Mal.248 (4) Bodleian Library (Oxford) Mal.176 (5) (also 4° T 37(1) Art.) Worcester College Library (Oxford) Special Collections – Plays.3.19 (1) defining (catalogue metadata) Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery 61426 (Huth Library copy) Copy filmed for EEB and digitized for EEBO defining Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Yale) Eliz 95 (Elizabethan Club copy) Yale Digital Collections defining Folger Shakespeare Library STC 13325 Copy 1Bound with The Silver Age, The Brazen Age, The Iron Age, and Love’s Mistress defining (catalogue metadata) Folger Shakespeare Library STC 13325 Copy 2 (Bridgewater copy) Folger Digital Collections (title page only) defining Library of Congress PR2574.G6 1611 English Print University of Illinois (Urbana) Rare Book and Manuscript Library Stacks Non-circulating IUA06703 defining (catalogue metadata) Houghton Library (Harvard University) STC 13325 Microfilm: GEN Film E 839 defining (catalogue metadata) Princeton University 17th-313 RHT (Heber copy) Harry Ransom Center Pforzheimer Library Pforz 476 PFZ (John Philip Kemble copy) HRC Digital Collections defining Harry Ransom Center Wrenn Library Wh H519 611ga WRE HRC Digital Collections deifying