About EMEE
EMEE Mission Statement
Para1Early Modern England (ca.1485–1700 CE) featured many
foundational movements, innovations, texts, and authors still important in the
21st century. The Early Modern England Encyclopedia (EMEE) is a dynamic
encyclopedia that supports students studying the
literature, culture, and history of Tudor and Stuart England, with a focus on
early modern drama and the life and works of William Shakespeare. The peer-reviewed
articles feature rich information and images,
as well as a curated list of recent scholarly and online references to support study
of the
period’s people, places, and ideas. EMEE’s born digital resource provides multiple
points of access to its theatrical, historical, and cultural contexts.
EMEE Overview
Para2EMEE offers an open-access
resource for secondary and university students. EMEE content is written and edited
by Dr. Kate
McPherson (Utah Valley University) with support from pedagogical partners at other
institutions. EMEE is a collaboration between many scholars and students; some of
their collaborative entries are based on work originally featured in Shakespeare’s Life and Times, a
section of the Internet Shakespeare Editions developed in the 1990s by Dr.
Michael Best at the University of Victoria, Canada. EMEE is published by Linked Early Modern Drama
Online (LEMDO), also at the University at Victoria.
EMEE Philosophy
Para3In our approach to publishing peer-reviewed, online
articles about early modern drama and culture, we have adopted the following principles:
EMEE is open-source and free to any user without a subscription
The EMEE site is a static, Endings-compliant website with no server dependencies
EMEE is committed to keeping resources updated as scholarship
evolves
Para4As scholars, we
see theatre as a vital tool for understanding the culture and society
of early modern England
remain committed to authors who were part of a network of artists
working concurrently with William Shakespeare
refer frequently to both historical records and quotations from key
texts
foreground the original theatrical conditions in which the plays were
performed
offer interpretive commentary about the play, character, person,
event, place, or other entry item
Para5Our audience is
primarily secondary and undergraduate students interested in the
theatrical, social, and cultural world of early modern England
secondarily, faculty at secondary schools and universities looking for
resources to enrich their students’ study of early modern drama,
theatre, literature, history, and culture
additionally, theatre professionals concerned with performance and
production of theatrical texts from the early modern period or members
of the public seeking a verifiable resource to enrich their own reading,
writing, or travel.
EMEE Resources
Academic
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EMEE features peer-reviewed articles of 500–1000 words
Each EMEE article includes at least one high-quality image in the
public domain suitable for downloading to augment papers,
presentations, or lectures
Each EMEE article includes curated suggestions for recent online
and print sources
Pedagogical
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EMEE offers thematic clusters of articles that can augment open-source literary and
historical texts
EMEE features opportunities for individual undergraduate students
to become involved as writers for EMEE
EMEE has assignments, rubrics, and guidelines for faculty to
create assignments and get their students involved via a pedagogical
partnership with the EMEE editors
Prosopography
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.
Kate McPherson
Kate McPherson is Professor of English and Honors Program Director at Utah Valley
University (Orem, UT, USA). In 2015, she began working to redevelop Shakespeare’s Life and Times, created by Michael Best, into the Early Modern England Encyclopedia. Her other publications include commentary on Pericles and The Comedy of Errors for the New Oxford Shakespeare (2016); the co-edited volumes Stages of Engagement: Drama and Religion in Post-Reformation England with James Mardock (Duquesne University Press, 2014) and Shakespeare Expressed: Page, Stage, and Classroom in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries, with Kathryn M. Moncrief and Sarah Enloe (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,
2013). With Kathryn M. Moncrief, Kate has also two edited collections, Performing Pedagogy in Early Modern England: Gender, Instruction, and Performance (Ashgate, 2011) and Performing Maternity in Early Modern England (Ashgate 2008). She has also published numerous articles on early modern maternity
in scholarly journals. Kate participated in the 2008 National Endowment for the Humanities
Institute,
Shakespeare’s Blackfriars: The Study, the Stage, the Classroom,at the American Shakespeare Center. She also served as Play Seminar Director, a public humanities position, for the Utah Shakespeare Festival in 2017 and 2018.
Michael Best
Michael Best is Professor Emeritus at the University of Victoria, BC. He founded the
Internet Shakespeare Editions in 1996, and was Coordinating Editor until 2017, contributing two editions to the
ISE: King John and King Lear (the latter also available in print from Broadview Press). In print, he has published editions of works of Elizabethan magic and huswifery,
a collection of letters from the Australian goldfields, and Shakespeare on the Art of Love (2008). He contributed regular columns for the Shakespeare Newsletter on
Electronic Shakespeares,and has written many articles and chapters for both print and online books and journals, principally on questions raised by the new medium in the editing and publication of texts. He has delivered papers and plenary lectures on electronic media and the Internet Shakespeare Editions at conferences in Canada, the USA, the UK, Spain, Australia, and Japan.
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/Metadata
| Authority title | |
| Type of text | About |
| Publisher | University of Victoria on the Linked Early Modern Drama Online Platform |
| Series | Early Modern England Encyclopedia |
| Source |
Born-digital anthology page written by Kate McPherson
for publication in the EMEE 1.0a anthology on the LEMDO platform
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| Editorial declaration | This document uses Canadian English spelling |
| Edition | Released with Early Modern England Encyclopedia 1.0a |
| Sponsor(s) |
Early Modern England EncyclopediaAnthology Leads: Kate McPherson and Kate Moncrief.
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| Encoding description | Encoded in TEI P5 according to the LEMDO Customization and Encoding Guidelines |
| Document status | published |
| Funder(s) |
Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council of Canada
Mitacs Globalink Research Internship Utah Valley University |
| License/availability |
Unless otherwise noted, intellectual copyright in EMEE Anthology pages is held by
Kate McPherson on behalf of the contributors. Copyright on the TEI-XML markup is held by the University of Victoria on behalf of the LEMDO Team. The content and TEI-XML markup in this file are licensed under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. This file is freely downloadable without permission under the following conditions:
(1) credit must be given to the authors, EMEE, and LEMDO in any subsequent use of
the files and /or data; (2) this availability statement must remain in the file; (3)
the content cannot be adapted or repurposed (except for quotations for the purposes
of academic review and citation); and (4) commercial uses are not permitted without
the knowledge and consent of the authors, EMEE, and LEMDO. Neither the content nor
the code in this file is licensed for training large language models (LLMs), ingestion
into an LLM, or any use in any artificial intelligence applications; such uses are
considered to be commercial uses and are strictly prohibited.
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