The Douai As You Like It: Introduction
Para1The text of the Douai MS for this play is very clean, and follows F2 quite closely.
The play covers four full quires and one gathering of two half-sheets. As in other
plays, the lexis and syntax are often modernized, and the punctuation is very light
(and occasionally erratic). Most of the changes made to the text of F2 are word substitutions
or changes to the word order, but there are many cuts, sometimes whole scenes, while
comic scenes are abridged with a view to excising the bawdy jokes but also perhaps
for dramatic efficiency. Most of the songs (except Hymen’s final one) are excised,
and the scenes in which the Clown, Touchstone, wooes Audrey are cut. The Douai editor
has also left out most of the fool’s bawdy jokes. They have also edited the F2 text
in some places where it was faulty. The Douai text includes a list of characters for
the first time; it follows F2 in including a complete act and scene division. There
are also a series of substantial variants and emendations which often predate Rowe, Theobald, Pope, or Malone. They are recorded in the Collation and Annotation lists.
Para2Only the major departures from F2 have been indicated in the collation, however, and
only the salient points of the transcription-cum-edition have been flagged in the
annotations. Variants in punctuation or lineation are not recorded, for instance.
Note that the Douai manuscript significantly substitutes
yesfor the archaic
Ayor
I,or
myfor
mine,
iffor
and,and
of whichfor
whereof.These frequent substitutions are not listed in the collation. Some substitutions of a plural form for a singular, or vice versa, have not been marked either, unless they were seen as significant emendations.
Para3Stage directions are fairly precise in the Douai manuscript of As You Like It, and contrary to what is the case with the other plays of the manuscript there are
no interventions from the later eighteenth- or nineteeth-century hand in this play
(marked as Hand 2 elsewhere). The folio numbers are stamped on the recto of each page, but the hand
identified by former librarian Pierre-Jacques Lamblin as that of P.J. Guilmot (librarian
of the Douai library from 1806 to 1834), who added the title of Twelfth Night in French on f. 1 (recto) has also supplemented a missing number as f. 37Bis in As You Like It (Hand 4).
Prosopography
Abby Flight
Remediator and encoder, 2024–present. Abby Flight completed her BA in English at the
University of Victoria in 2024, and is now an MA student focusing on Medieval and
Early Modern Studies.
Côme Saignol
Côme Saignol is a PhD candidate at Sorbonne University where he is preparing a thesis
about the reception of Cyrano de Bergerac. After working several years on Digital
Humanities, he created a company named CS Edition & Corpus to assist researchers in classical humanities. His interests include: eighteenth-century
theatre, philology, textual alignment, and XML databases.
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.
Line Cottegnies
Line Cottegnies teaches early-modern literature at Sorbonne Université. She is the
author of a monograph on the politics of wonder in Caroline poetry, L’Éclipse du regard: la poésie anglais du baroque au classicisme (Droz, 1997), and has co-edited several collections of essays, including Authorial Conquests: Essays on Genre in the Writings of Margaret Cavendish (AUP, 2003, with Nancy Weitz), Women and Curiosity in the Early Modern Period (Brill, 2016), with Sandring Parageau, or Henry V: A Critical Guide (Bloomsbury, 2018), with Karen Britland. She has published on seventeenth-century
literature, from Shakespeare and Raleigh to Ahpra Behn and Mary Astell. Her research
interests are: early-modern drama and poetry, the politics of translation (between
France and England), and women authors of the period. She has also developed a particular
interest in editing: she had edited half of Shakespeare’s plays for the Gallimard
bilingual complete works (alone and in collaboration), and, also, Henry IV, Part 2, for The Norton Shakespeare 3 (2016). With Marie-Alice Belle, she has co-edited two Elizabethan translations of
Robert Garnier (by Mary Sidney Herbert and Thomas Kyd), published in 2017 in the MHRA
Tudor and Stuart Translation Series as Robert Garnier in Elizabethan England. She is currently working on an edition of three Behn’s translations from the French
for the Cambridge edition of Behn’s Complete Works
Louise Fang
Louise Fang is a Lecturer in English Literature at the Université Sorbonne Paris Nord.
She has published a monograph on Shakespeare and games (Shakespeare et les jeux, Classiques Garnier, 2021) and is working on early modern drama. She is a transcriber
and an editor in the Douai Shakespeare Manuscript Project.
Mahayla Galliford
Assistant project manager, 2024-present; research assistant, encoder, and remediator,
2021-present. Mahayla Galliford (she/her) graduated with a BA (Hons) English from
the University of Victoria in 2024. Mahayla’s undergraduate research explored early
modern stage directions and civic water pageantry. She continues her studies through
the UVic English master’s program and focuses on editing and encoding girls’ manuscript
writing in collaboration with LEMDO.
Navarra Houldin
LEMDO project manager 2022–present. 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.
William Shakespeare
Bibliography
Malone, Edmond, ed. The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare. 10 vols. London: J. Rivingston and Sons, 1790. ESTC T138858.
Rowe, Nicholas, ed. The Works of Mr William Shakespear. 6 vols. London, 1709; rpt. 8 vols. 1714. ESTC T138296.
Theobald, Lewis, ed. The works of Shakespeare: in seven volumes. Collated with the oldest copies, and corrected;
with notes, explanatory, and critical. 7 vols. London: A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, J. Tonson, F. Clay, W. Feales, and R. Wellington, 1733. ESTC T138606.
Orgography
LEMDO Team (LEMD1)
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.
University of Victoria (UVIC1)
https://www.uvic.ca/Notes on scribal hands
Douai MS Hand 2
A second, later hand is used in the Douai MS, which is MS 787 in the
Bibliothèque Marceline Desbordes-Valmore repository. It is responsible
for the insertion of stage directions. This later hand is smaller,
thinner, and more slanting than the main scribal hand. It does not appear in
Macbeth.
Douai MS Hand 4
A fourth hand appears in the Douai MS, that of the Librarian, in Twelfth Night.
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Born-digital, peer-reviewed introduction written by Line Cottegnies for publication in the Douai 1.1 anthology on the LEMDO platform
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