DRE Play IDs

Every play in the LEMDO repository has an abbreviated ID. These IDs are used across the site in a variety of places:
As the title of a playʼs portfolio (e.g., /Ham).
In the xml:id of a file within a playʼs edition (e.g., emdHam_GenIntro.xml)
To start the shortened mobile title of a text within a playʼs edition (e.g., Ham: Intro)
In citations (e.g., Ham 10.70–72)
For abbreviated titles of early modern drama, please use the following abbreviations:
Play ID Title
Agl Aglaura
Alhm Alaham
Wall Albertus Wallenstein
AlbK Albion Knight
Albo Albovine
Albu Albumazar
Alch The Alchemist
Alex The Alexandrean Tragedy
AFo All Fools
AFL All For Love (The World Well Lost)
AMo All for Money
ALL All’s Lost by Lust
AWW All’s Well That Ends Well
AEG Alphonsus, Emperor of Germany
AKA Alphonsus, King of Aragon
AmL Amends for Ladies
AmW The Amorous War
Amyn Amyntas
Anpd The Antipodes
Anqy The Antiquary
1AaM Antonio and Mellida, Part 1
2AaM Antonio and Mellida, Part 2 (Antonio’s Revenge)
Ant Antony and Cleopatra
AQL Anything for a Quiet Life
Aphr The Aphrodysial
AVir Apius and Virginia
AaV Appius and Virginia
Arc The Arcadia
Ard Arden of Faversham
Arg Argalus and Parthenia
APar The Arraignment of Paris
1Arv Arviragus and Philicia, Part 1
2Arv Arviragus and Philicia, Part 2
AYL As You Like It
Ath The Atheist’s Tragedy
Ball The Ball
Bart Bartholomew Fair
Bash The Bashful Lover
Alcz The Battle of Alcazar
BBsh Beggars’ Bush
BYL Believe As You List
Bell Bell in Campo
BaC Bicorn and Chichevache
Bird The Bird in a Cage
Herc The Birth of Hercules
Merl The Birth of Merlin (The Child Hath Found His Father)
Irus The Blind Beggar of Alexandria (Irus)
1BBBG The Blind Beggar of Bednal Green, Part 1
BBqt The Bloody Banquet
BMC Blurt, Master Constable
Bdmn The Bondman
Bndc Bonduca
BznA The Brazen Age
Bren Brennoralt (The Discontented Soldier)
Brid The Bride
BH The Broken Heart
Bros The Brothers
BugB The Bugbears
Bus Bussy D’Ambois
CaP Caesar and Pompey
CaM Calisto and Melebea
Cmb Cambyses
Cmp Campaspe
Cpt The Captain
CTS Captain Thomas Stukeley
Cptv The Captives
Card The Cardinal
Case The Case is Altered
Pers The Castle of Perseverance
Cat Catiline His Conspiracy
CAF Chabot, Admiral of France
CBea A Challenge for Beauty
Chn The Chances
Chgl The Changeling
Maze Changes (Love in a Maze)
Chrl Charlemagne
CMC A Chaste Maid in Cheapside
Chlo Chloridia
CTT A Christian Turned Turk
CHM Christmas His Masque
CMm The City Madam
CMt The City Match
CNC The City Night-Cap
CWit The City Wit
CivA Civitatis Amor
Cleo Cleopatra
CnC Clyomon and Clamydes
Cob The Cobbler’s Prophecy
Err The Comedy of Errors
CCon Common Conditions
Com Comus
CoC The Conflict of Conscience
ByC The Conspiracy of Charles, Duke of Byron
CnM The Constant Maid
LaP The Contention between Liberality and Prodigality
ConP The Convent of Pleasure
Cor Coriolanus
Cna Cornelia
Crn The Coronation
CoW The Costly Whore
CCpt The Country Captain
CTur The Courageous Turk
CBgr The Court Beggar
CSec The Court Secret
CovG Covent Garden
Cox The Coxcomb
CBro The Cruel Brother
Cuck The Cuckqueans and Cuckolds Errants
CRev Cupid’s Revenge
CWh Cupid’s Whirligig
CuCu A Cure for a Cuckold
CuCo The Custom of the Country
Cym Cymbeline
Cyn Cynthia’s Revels
Dam The Damoiselle
DaP Damon and Pithias
Dar Darius
DaB David and Bethsabe
DevA The Devil is an Ass
DevC The Devil’s Charter
DevL The Devil’s Law Case
DDev Dick of Devonshire
DQC Dido, Queen of Carthage
DisC The Disobedient Child
DrF Doctor Faustus
DFal Double Falsehood
DMar The Double Marriage
DoHe The Doubtful Heir
DMal The Duchess of Malfi
DSuf The Duchess of Suffolk
DMil The Duke of Milan
DMis The Duke’s Mistress
DK The Dumb Knight
DC The Dutch Courtesan
DuxM Dux Moraud
EHo Eastward Ho
WMAF Edmund Ironside, or War Hath Made All Friends
E1 Edward the First
E2 Edward the Second
E3 Edward the Third
1E4 Edward the Fourth, Part 1
2E4 Edward the Fourth, Part 2
Edw Edward the Third
EBro The Elder Brother
EmpE The Emperor of the East
Endy Endymion
Moor The English Moor
ETrv The English Traveller
EMM Englishmen for My Money
EGF Enough is as Good as a Feast
Epic Epicene
EscJ The Escapes of Jupiter
EMI Every Man in His Humour
EMO Every Man Out of His Humour
EWI Every Woman in Her Humour
Evm Everyman
Ex The Example
FEm Fair Em
FMB The Fair Maid of Bristow
FME The Fair Maid of the Exchange
FMI The Fair Maid of the Inn
1FMW The Fair Maid of the West, Part 1
2FMW The Fair Maid of the West, Part 2
FQ A Fair Quarrel
FPas The Fairy Pastoral
FaFr The Faithful Friends
FaSh The Faithful Shepherdess
Mort The Fall of Mortimer
FO The False One
FLo The Family of Love
FV The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth
FCN The Fancies Chaste and Noble
FatC The Fatal Contract
FatD The Fatal Dowry
FatM The Fatal Marriage
FeFo Fedele and Fortunio
FCm A Fine Companion
Flr The Fleer
FLS Fortune by Land and Sea
FCV The Four Cardinal Virtues
FEl The Four Elements
FPO Four Plays in One
FPP The Four PP
FPL The Four Prentices of London
FrW Free Will
FBFB Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay
Fuim Fuimus Troes (The True Trojans)
FaL Fulgens and Lucres
Gal Gallathea
Chss A Game at Chess
Gams The Gamester
GGN Gammer Gurton’s Needle
GV The Gentleman of Venice
GUsh The Gentleman Usher
GeNo Gentleness and Nobility
GeoG George a Greene
GGov The Glass of Government
Gobl The Goblins
GPro God’s Promises
GQH Godly Queen Hester
GldA The Golden Age
GAR The Golden Age Restored
Gorb Gorboduc (Ferrex and Porrex)
GSer The Grateful Servant
GDF The Great Duke of Florence
GTQq Greene’s Tu Quoque
Grim Grim, the Collier of Croydon
Grdn The Guardian
GypM The Gypsies Metamorphosed
Ham Hamlet
Hect The Hector of Germany
Heir The Heir
Heng Hengist, King of Kent (The Mayor of Queensborough)
H8 Henry the Eighth
H5 Henry the Fifth
1H4 Henry the Fourth, Part 1
2H4 Henry the Fourth, Part 2
1H6 Henry the Sixth, Part 1
2H6 Henry the Sixth, Part 2
3H6 Henry the Sixth, Part 3
Hick Hick Scorner
1Hie Hieronimo, Part 1
Leir The History of King Leir
Hmx Histriomastix
Hoff Hoffman
Hog The Hog Hath Lost His Pearl
HLg Holland’s Leaguer
Holl The Hollander
HLaw The Honest Lawyer
HMF The Honest Man’s Fortune
1HW The Honest Whore, Part 1
2HW The Honest Whore, Part 2
HaM Honoria and Mammon
HMMC How a Man May Choose a Good Wife from Bad
HumC The Humorous Courtier
HDM An Humorous Day’s Mirth
HLtn The Humorous Lieutenant
HOB Humour Out of Breath
HP Hyde Park
BNG If It Be Not Good, the Devil is In It
1IYK If You Know Not Me, You Know Nobody, Part 1
2IYK If You Know Not Me, You Know Nobody, Part 2
Igno Ignoramus
IPov Impatient Poverty
Imp The Imposture
InL The Inconstant Lady
InC The Insatiate Countess
1Irn The Iron Age, Part 1
2Irn The Iron Age, Part 2
IP The Island Princess
Gull The Isle of Gulls
Drum Jack Drum’s Entertainment
JJ Jack Juggler
Strw Jack Straw
JaE Jacob and Esau
JMal The Jew of Malta
JTra The Jew’s Tragedy
Joc Jocasta
Jhn Johan Johan
JKJC John a Kent and John a Cumber
Bord John of Bordeaux
JBP John the Baptist’s Preaching
JEv John the Evangelist
JovC A Jovial Crew
JC Julius Caesar
JIt The Just Italian
KNK A King and No King
KJo King Johan
Jn King John
JaM King John and Matilda
Lr King Lear
R2 Richard the Second
R3 Richard the Third
KNDW Kemp’s Nine Days’ Wonder
KnKn A Knack to Know a Knave
KKHM A Knack to Know an Honest Man
KGNV The Knave in Grain, New Vamped
KMal The Knight of Malta
KBP The Knight of the Burning Pestle
Alim Lady Alimony
LaEr The Lady Errant
LaMo The Lady Mother
LaMa The Lady of May
LaPl The Lady of Pleasure
LaTr The Lady’s Trial
LLn A Laram for London
LLW The Late Lancashire Witches
LMa The Launching of the Mary
LawT Law Tricks
LawC The Laws of Candy
LWL Like Will to Like
Ling Lingua (The Combat of the Tongue)
LFL The Little French Lawyer
Loc Locrine
LPro The London Prodigal
Long The Longer Thou Livest the More Fool Thou Art
LAY Look About You
LGLE A Looking-Glass for London and England
LCC Love’s Changeling’s Change
LLPH London’s Love to the Prince Henry
LvCr Love’s Cruelty
LvCu Love’s Cure
LHos Love’s Hospital
LLL Love’s Labour’s Lost
LMet Love’s Metamorphosis
LMis Love’s Mistress
LPil Love’s Pilgrimage
LSac Love’s Sacrifice
LVic Love’s Victory
LM The Lover’s Melancholy
LC A Lover’s Complaint
LSC The Lovesick Court
LSK The Lovesick King
LSub The Loyal Subject
LDom Lust’s Dominion
LJuv Lusty Juventus
Mac Macbeth
MCWM A Mad Couple Well Matched
MLov The Mad Lover
MWM A Mad World, My Masters
MagL The Magnetic Lady
Magn Magnificence
MHH Mahomet and His Heaven
Mill The Maid in the Mill
MHon The Maid of Honour
MMet The Maid’s Metamorphosis
MRev The Maid’s Revenge
MTra The Maid’s Tragedy
MWL A Maidenhead Well Lost
Malc The Malcontent
Man Mankind
MWaS The Marriage of Wit and Science
MWaW The Marriage of Wit and Wisdom
MarS The Martyred Soldier
LRMM Mary Magdalene (The Life and Repentance of)
MAug The Masque of Augers
MBea The Masque of Beauty
MBla The Masque of Blackness
MITG The Masque of the Inner Temple and Gray’s Inn
MMTL The Masque of the Middle Temple and Lincoln’s Inn
MQns The Masque of Queens
MTM The Masque of the Twelve Months
MasP The Massacre at Paris
MaM A Match at Midnight
MML Match Me in London
MDay May Day
MM Measure for Measure
MV The Merchant of Venice
BRC A Merry Dialogue of Band, Ruff, and Cuff
MDEd The Merry Devil of Edmonton
Wiv The Merry Wives of Windsor
Mess Messalina
MmT Michaelmas Term
Mics Microcosmus
Mid Midas
MND A Midsummer Night’s Dream
MEM The Miseries of Enforced Marriage
MonD Monsieur D’Olive
MonT Monsieur Thomas
MDBW More Dissemblers Besides Women
MBom Mother Bombie
Mucd Mucedorus
Ado Much Ado About Nothing
Mund Mundus et Infans
Nero Nero
NewA The New Academy
Inn The New Inn
NTCD A New Trick to Cheat the Devil
NWP A New Way to Pay Old Debt
WNV A New Wonder, A Woman Never Vexed
NVal The Nice Valour
NWal The Night Walker
NWHW No Wit/Help Like a Woman’s
NobG The Noble Gentleman
NSS The Noble Spanish Soldier
NaS Nobody and Somebody
NoL The Northern Lass
NHo Northward Ho
Nov The Novella
OaI Occupation and Idleness
OFG Old Fortunatus—German
1OF Old Fortunatus, Part 1
OLaw The Old Law
OWT The Old Wife’s Tale
Opp The Opportunity
OFur Orlando Furioso
Osm Osmond the Great Turk
Oth Othello
Para Parasitaster, or The Fawn
ParL The Parliament of Love
PP The Passionate Pilgrim
Gris Patient Grissel
Ped The Pedlar’s Prophecy
Per Pericles
Perk Perkin Warbeck
Phr Philaster
Phs Philotas
Phx The Phoenix
PhT The Phoenix and Turtle
Pict The Picture
Pilg The Pilgrim
PPar The Pilgrimage to Parnassus
Poet Poetaster
Pol The Politician
PMC The Poor Man’s Comfort
1PaC Promos and Cassandra, Part 1
2PaC Promos and Cassandra, Part 2
Prop The Prophetess
Pur The Puritan
Qn The Queen
QnCn The Queen and Concubine
QnAr The Queen of Aragon
QnCr The Queen of Corinth
QnEx The Queen’s Exchange
Ram Ram Alley, or Merry Tricks
RLuc The Rape of Lucrece
RTLF The Rare Triumphs of Love and Fortune
Rngd The Renegado
1RPar The Return from Parnassus, Part 1
2RPar The Return from Parnassus, Part 2
RHon Revenge for Honour
RBus The Revenge of Bussy D’Ambois
RevT The Revenger’s Tragedy
Rhod Rhodon and Iris
Roar The Roaring Girl
1RobH Robin Hood, Part 1 (The Downfall of Robert, Earl of Huntingdon)
2RobH Robin Hood, Part 2 (The Death of Robert, Earl of Huntingdon)
RAct The Roman Actor
Rom Romeo and Juliet
RKLS The Royal King and the Loyal Subject
RMa The Royal Master
RSl The Royal Slave
RWHW Rule a Wife and Have a Wife
1SPI Saint Patrick for Ireland, Part 1
SaP Sappho and Phao
Stx Satiromastix
SCom The School of Compliment
SLad The Scornful Lady
J4 The Scottish History of King James the Fourth
SV The Sea Voyage
SMT The Second Maiden’s Tragedy
Sej Sejanus His Fall
Sel Selimus, Part 1
SCC The Seven Champions of Christendom
ShpH The Shepherds’ Holiday
SGen A Shoemaker a Gentleman
ShoH The Shoemakerʼs Holiday
SilA The Silver Age
SGG Sir Giles Goosecap
1Oldc Sir John Oldcastle, Part 1
VOB Sir John Van Olden Barnavelt
STM Sir Thomas More
STW Sir Thomas Wyatt
Sis The Sisters
SodC The Soddered Citizen
SaP Soliman and Perseda
Son Sonnets
Soph The Sophy
SpaC The Spanish Curate
SpaG The Spanish Gypsy
SpaT The Spanish Tragedy (Hieronimo, Part 2)
Spar The Sparagus Garden
Stap The Staple of News
SLWT Summer’s Last Will and Testament
SunD The Sun’s Darling
Susa Susanna
Swet Swetnam the Woman-Hater
Tub A Tale of a Tub
1Tam Tamburlaine the Great, Part 1
2Tam Tamburlaine the Great, Part 2
TamT The Tamer Tamed (The Woman’s Prize)
AShr The Taming of a Shrew
Shr The Taming of the Shrew
Tmp The Tempest
TaT Thierry and Theodoret
TLC Thomas Lord Cromwell
TW Thomas of Woodstock
TLL The Three Ladies of London
TLTL The Three Lords and Three Ladies of London
TTNM The Tide Tarrieth No Man
Tim Timon of Athens
Pity Tis Pity She’s a Whore
Tit Titus Andronicus
TotC Tottenham Court
ByT The Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron
Trai The Traitor
TTEB The Travels of the Three English Brothers
Chiv The Trial of Chivalry
TCOO A Trick to Catch the Old One
TWid The Triumphant Widow
Tro Troilus and Cressida
TRKJ The Troublesome Reign of King John
TTR3 The True Tragedy of King Richard the Third
Turk The Turk
TN Twelfth Night
Twns The Twins
TGV The Two Gentlemen of Verona
TLT Two Lamentable Tragedies
TMMo The Two Maids of Mortlake
TMMi The Two Merry Milkmaids
TNK The Two Noble Kinsmen
TNL The Two Noble Ladies
UL The Unfortunate Lovers
UC The Unnatural Combat
Val Valentinian
ValS The Valiant Scot
ValW The Valiant Welshman
Var The Variety
Ven Venus and Adonis
VW A Very Woman
VirM The Virgin Martyr
Volp Volpone
WLov The Wandering Lovers
WFW A Warning for Fair Women
WCyr The Wars of Cyrus
Wasp The Wasp
WGW The Weakest Goeth to the Wall
Wed The Wedding
WCG The Weeding of Covent Garden
WAm The Welsh Ambassador
WHo Westward Ho
WYW What You Will
WYSM When You See Me You Know Me
WDev The White Devil
WBab The Whore of Babylon
Wid The Widow
WidT The Widow’s Tears
WMo A Wife for a Month
WGC The Wild-Goose Chase
WBeg Wily Beguiled
WT The Winter’s Tale
Wis Wisdom
DrD The Wisdom of Doctor Dodypoll
WWH The Wise Woman of Hoxton
WaS Wit and Science
WSW Wit at Several Weapons
WCn Wit in a Constable
WWM Wit Without Money
Wch The Witch
WEdm The Witch of Edmonton
Wits The Wits
WFO The Witty Fair One
Wiz The Wizard
WomH The Woman Hater
The Woman in the Moon
WomW A Woman is a Weathercock
WKK A Woman Killed with Kindness
WBW Women Beware Women
WomP Women Pleased
WonK The Wonder of a Kingdom
WonW The Wonder of Women (Sophonisba)
WTT The World Tossed at Tennis
WCW The Wounds of Civil War
York A Yorkshire Tragedy
YAdm The Young Admiral
YFG Your Five Gallants
Yth Youth

Prosopography

Brett Greatley-Hirsch

Brett Greatley-Hirsch is University Academic Fellow in Textual Studies and Digital Editing 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 John Day’s works (with Helen Ostovich and James Loxley), Hyde Park for the Oxford Shirley (with Mark Houlahan), and Fair Em for DRE (with Kevin Quarmby), a history of Renaissance drama since the eighteenth century, and computational studies of authorship and genre. For more details, see notwithoutmustard.net.

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.

Joey Takeda

Joey Takeda is LEMDO’s Consulting Programmer and Designer, a role he assumed in 2020 after three years as the Lead Developer on LEMDO.

Kate LeBere

Project Manager, 2020–2021. Assistant Project Manager, 2019–2020. Textual Remediator and Encoder, 2019–2021. Kate LeBere completed her BA (Hons.) in History and English at the University of Victoria in 2020. During her degree she published papers in The Corvette (2018), The Albatross (2019), and PLVS VLTRA (2020) and presented at the English Undergraduate Conference (2019), Qualicum History Conference (2020), and the Digital Humanities Summer Institute’s Project Management in the Humanities Conference (2021). While her primary research focus was sixteenth and seventeenth century England, she completed her honours thesis on Soviet ballet during the Russian Cultural Revolution. She is currently a student at the University of British Columbia’s iSchool, working on her masters in library and information science.

Martin Holmes

Martin Holmes has worked as a developer in the UVicʼs Humanities Computing and Media Centre for over two decades, and has been involved with dozens of Digital Humanities projects. He has served on the TEI Technical Council and as Managing Editor of the Journal of the TEI. He took over from Joey Takeda as lead developer on LEMDO in 2020. He is a collaborator on the SSHRC Partnership Grant led by Janelle Jenstad.

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.

Tracey El Hajj

Junior Programmer 2019–2020. Research Associate 2020–2021. Tracey received her PhD from the Department of English at the University of Victoria in the field of Science and Technology Studies. Her research focuses on the algorhythmics of networked communications. She was a 2019–2020 President’s Fellow in Research-Enriched Teaching at UVic, where she taught an advanced course on Artificial Intelligence and Everyday Life. Tracey was also a member of the Map of Early Modern London team, between 2018 and 2021. Between 2020 and 2021, she was a fellow in residence at the Praxis Studio for Comparative Media Studies, where she investigated the relationships between artificial intelligence, creativity, health, and justice. As of July 2021, Tracey has moved into the alt-ac world for a term position, while also teaching in the English Department at the University of Victoria.

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.

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