The Douai Project: Douai Julius Caesar: Collation

The Douai scribe corrects an incomplete line in F2 (which omitted myself after profess) by adding my favour, although the line is slightly irregular as a consequence.

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Cæesar … shores)

F2:

The troubled Tyber, chasing with her Shores, / Cæsar saies to me, Dar’st thou Cassius now

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went to

F2:

was in

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did

F2:

he did

Omission to achieve a regular line.

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its

F2:

his

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alone … Again

F2:

alone. / Shout. Flourish.

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manent

F2:

No stage direction in F2, and no scene break either.

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scornd … mockd

F2:

mock’d himselfe, and scorn’d

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I … Cæsar

F2:

alwayes I am Cæsar

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Exeunt

F2:

Sennit. / Exeunt

The sound effect is again cancelled in the Douai MS.

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did … as

F2:

did not clap, and hisse him, according as

Erroneous omission of not.

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stabd

F2:

stabl’d

Douai edits F2.

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nothing

F2:

any thing

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writings … citizens)

F2:

As if they came from severall Citizens, / Writtings, all tending to the great opinion

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on you

F2:

for you

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Scena 3a

F2:

No scene break in F2.

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Scene 4a

F2:

No scene break in F2.

Brutus, Cassius and Caska (who have entered with Caesar’s train above) remain on stage.

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Scena 5a

F2:

No scene break in F2.

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split

F2:

riu’d

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F2:

which

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gently

F2:

surely

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Sce: 6a

F2:

Not in F2

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use em

F2:

use

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thee

F2:

thy selfe

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thyghs

F2:

thews

A scribal emendation. The word thews originally means “customs, habits”, and by extension bodily proportions, lineaments, or parts (OED thew, n.1).

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stony … towers

F2:

Stony Tower, nor Walls

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pleasure

F2:

pleasure. Thunder still.

Omission of a sound effect.

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Scen:7a

F2:

Not in F2.

Cassius and Caska remain on stage.

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your

F2:

our

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Scena ja

F2:

Not in F2.

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and scorns

F2:

scorning

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F2:

Not in F2.

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councell

F2:

Not in F2

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cloaks

F2:

Cloathes

A mistake in F2, corrected here.

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deep

F2:

dark

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himselfe

F2:

it selfe

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Scen: 2a

F2:

Not in F2

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Enter

F2:

Enter the Conspirators,

An interesting emendation: the Douai scribe does not call them conspirators.

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Roman

F2:

Noble Roman

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priest

F2:

priests

Scribal error.

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sham

F2:

staine

An original variant, which emphasizes the hypocrisy of cowards.

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lets leave

F2:

Let us not leave

Emendation which could also be a scribal error. To have Caska disagree with the others introduces an interesting dissensus (and anticipates the direction the conversation takes after this line).

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and the

F2:

And in the

Scribal omission.

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we all

F2:

we will all

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Let our

F2:

Let not our

Scribal omission.

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sound

F2:

so sound

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Scen: 3a

F2:

Not in F2

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& when

F2:

Musing, and sighing, with your armes a-crosse: / And when

Omission of a line.

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& dare

F2:

to dare

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your

F2:

this

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secrets

F2:

Counsels

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Scen: 5a

F2:

Not in F2

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scena 6a

F2:

Not in F2.

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you

F2:

they

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ghost

F2:

ghosts

Scribal error.

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Enter … Brutus

F2:

Enter Decius

Placed three lines down in F2.

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tell ’em

F2:

Say

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some men

F2:

some one

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some other

F2:

another

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sce:7a

F2:

Not in F2.

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scen: 8a

F2:

Not in F2

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most

F2:

Most high

Scribal omission.

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Scene ja

F2:

Not in F2.

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no better

F2:

more worthy

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F2:

base

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starrs

F2:

sparkes

Scribal emendation.

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Cæsar falls

F2:

fall Cæesar

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the streets

F2:

the Streets / Cas. Some to the common Pulpits, and cry out / Liberty, Freedome, and Enfrachisement.

Cut, perhaps because this is a repetition.

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Scen: 2a

F2:

Not in F2

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most … noble:

F2:

most boldest, and best

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still I have

F2:

yet have I

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Scen 3a

F2:

Not in F2

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live I 1000 year

F2:

Live a thousand yeeres

Scribal ementation

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hand

F2:

hand. / First Marcus Brutus will I shake with you; / Next Caius Cassius do I take your hand; / Now Decius Brutus yours, now yours Metellus; / Yours Cinna; and my valiant Caska, yours; / Though last, not least in love, yours good Trebonius,

A cut of five lines.

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neerer

F2:

dearer

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rights

F2:

rites

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in … funerall

F2:

About his Funerall

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thy

F2:

these

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Alecto

F2:

With Ate

Emendation, see annotation.

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Scen 4a

F2:

Not in F2.

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will Brutus … Cassius

F2:

will heare Brutus speake. / 2. I will heare Cassius

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does not

F2:

will not

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what’s … sayd

F2:

What does he say of Brutus

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we … him

F2:

We are glad that Rome is rid of him.

Variant.

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all the rest

F2:

they all, all

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royal

F2:

Kingly

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men.

F2:

men. / I will not do them wrong, I rather choose / To wrong the dead, to wrong my selfe and you, / Then I will wrong such Honourable men.

Three lines missing: perhaps the scribe’s eye was caught by the repetition at the end of the line Honourable men, which might have made him skip the lines.

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men?

F2:

men? / All. The Will, the Testament. / 2. Thy were Villaines, Murderers: the Will, reade the Will.

Two lines of text omitted.

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Sce: 5a

F2:

Not in F2.

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now

F2:

Not in F2.

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verses.

F2:

verses, teare him for his bad Verses.

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out … then

F2:

but his name out of his heart, and

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away away

F2:

Away, go

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scen: Ia

F2:

Not in F2.

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men … dye

F2:

many then shall die

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F2:

Who

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sleight

F2:

slight

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F2:

stand

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Sc: 2a

F2:

Not in F2.

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Enter:

F2:

Drum. Enter

Another instance of a missing sound effect in the Douai MS.

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In … officers

F2:

by ill Officers

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Ever not

F2:

Ever note

Scribal error.

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Scen: 3a

F2:

Not in F2.

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march

F2:

move

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urge

F2:

Tempt

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noble

F2:

Noble men

Omission of the word men.

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by as

F2:

by me, as

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torne

F2:

riu’d

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you shall

F2:

it shall

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They … forward.

F2:

Enter a Poet. / Poet. Let me goe in to see the Generals, / There is some grudge betweene em, tis not meete / They be alone. / Luci. You shall not come to them. / Poet. Nothing but death shall stay me. / Cassi. How now? Whats the matter? / Poet. For shame you Generals? what doe you meane? / Love, and be friends, as two such men should be, / For I have seene more yeeres Ime sure then yee. / Cassi. Ha, ha, how vildely doth this Cynicked rime: / Bru. Get you hend sirrah: Sawcy fellow, hence. / Cassi. Beare with him Brutus, tis his fashion, / Brut. Ile know his humour, when he knowes his time: / What should the Warres doe with these ligging fooles? / Companion, hence. / Cassi. Away, away be gone. Exit Poet.

The scene with the poet is entirely excised, perhaps for dramatic efficiency. See annotation.

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Sce. 4ta

F2:

Not in F2.

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will

F2:

tell

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place … us

F2:

ground / Doe stand

The scribe’s eye was perhaps drawn to the word place on the preceding line.

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there is

F2:

Not in F2.

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please

F2:

please you

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pay

F2:

Boy

See annotation.

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lett on

F2:

set on

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Scen: ja

F2:

Not in F2.

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right

F2:

left

Correction to the text of F2 which could be a mistake.

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it … so

F2:

I will doe so

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words

F2:

strokes

Repetition which could be a mistake.

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feedind

F2:

feeding

Transcription error.

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was

F2:

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took

F2:

fell

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the the

F2:

the

Scribal mistake.

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(Dyes … Pindarus

F2:

Kills him

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(Exit

F2:

Not in F2.

Addition of a Stage Direction.

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scena 2a

F2:

Not in F2

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Scen:3a

F2:

Not in F2

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Scen: 4a

F2:

Not in F2.

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Scena: 5a

F2:

Not in F2.

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Sc: 6a

F2:

Not in F2.

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rayes

F2:

blood

Variant that plays with the image of the setting sun in the previous line.

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neves

F2:

never

Transcription error.

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Sce: 7a

F2:

Not in F2.

Cassius and Caska remain on stage.

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valiant

F2:

Noble

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Scen: 8a

F2:

Not in F2.

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till

F2:

while

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Scena Ulma

F2:

Not in F2.

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my master

F2:

Correction of an accidental omission in F2.

Prosopography

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.

Eric Rasmussen

Eric Rasmussen is Regents Teaching Professor and Foundation Professor of English at the University of Nevada. He is co-editor with Sir Jonathan Bate of the RSC William Shakespeare Complete Works and general editor, with Paul Werstine, of the New Variorum Shakespeare. He has received the Falstaff Award from PlayShakespeare.com for Best Shakespearean Book of the Year in 2007, 2012, and 2013.

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, LʼÉclipse 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 Shakespeareʼs 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 Behnʼs translations from the French for the Cambridge edition of Behn’s Complete Works

Navarra Houldin

Project manager 2022–present. Textual remediator 2021–present. Navarra Houldin (they/them) completed their BA in History and Spanish at the University of Victoria in 2022. During their degree, they worked as a teaching assistant with the University of Victoriaʼs Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies. Their primary research was on gender and sexuality in early modern Europe and Latin America.

William Shakespeare

Bibliography

OED: The Oxford English Dictionary. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.

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.

Witnesses

Douai MS 787 as transcribed by Line Cottegnies and the Sorbonne team.

Shakespeare, William. Mr William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. London: Robert Allot, 1632. STC 22274. ESTC S111233.

Metadata

Authority title	Douai Julius Caesar: Collation
Type of text	Apparatus
Short title	Douai JC: Collation
Publisher	Sorbonne Université and University of Victoria on the Linked Early Modern Drama Online Platform
Series	Douai Shakespeare Manuscript Project
Source	Collation prepared by Line Cottegnies
Editorial declaration	Edited according to the Douai Shakespeare Manuscript Project Editorial Procedures
Edition	Released with The Douai Shakespeare Manuscript Project 1.0
Sponsor(s)	The Douai Shakespeare Manuscript Project Anthology Lead: Line Cottegnies. The project is a scientific collaboration between Sorbonne Université and the University of Victoria.
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Document status	published, peer-reviewed
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Douai Julius Caesar: Collation

Witnesses

Prosopography

Côme Saignol

Eric Rasmussen

Janelle Jenstad

Line Cottegnies

Navarra Houldin

William Shakespeare

Bibliography

Orgography

LEMDO Team (LEMD1)

Witnesses

Metadata

The Douai Shakespeare Manuscript Project