Introduction to the Site
Queen’s Men Editions
Para1
Queen’s Men Editions is a collaborative site, created by an international body of scholars, theatre practitioners,
and digital developers, all working to achieve the same goals: to inspire a love of
early theatre beyond Shakespeare; to recover the plays associated with the Queen’s
Men in particular as enjoyable, teachable, and performable theatrical texts; and to
present those texts in a richly linked, open-access, online environment.
The Queen’s Men
Para2The Queen’s Men were the foremost theatrical company of the 1580s, an all-star troupe
formed in the Queen’s name by her chief advisor Sir Francis Walsingham, and her close
ally the Earl of Leicester. From 1583 through to Elizabeth’s death in 1603, they toured
the provinces of England performing plays that celebrated national and Protestant
virtues. The Queen’s Men Editions (QME) publishes the plays associated with the company in performance editions that
incorporate textual scholarship with production records of modern performances of
the plays.
Performance Editions
Para3QME gives the user two primary ways to access the work of the Queen’s Men:
The two avenues of access are interrelated through linked annotations embedded in
the play texts that discuss the texts themselves, their historical contexts, and the
creative choices behind the modern productions. Our
through visual records of modern performances of their plays, and
through performance editions of their play texts in both original and modern spelling.
User Guide,demonstrates the navigational possibilities of the site for the purposes of study and research. See also our History and Vision page.
Performance as Research
Para4QME is a product of a larger research enterprise that began with the Shakespeare and the Queen’s Men project (SQM) in 2006, led by Alexandra Johnston and Helen Ostovich and inspired by Scott
McMillan and Sally-Beth MacLean’s book, The Queen’s Men and their Plays. The project emerged from University of Toronto’s Poculi Ludique Societas and Centre for Performance Studies in Early Theatre. The ongoing research project
places the production and performance of plays at the centre of the research endeavour
as an important and dynamic complement to library research on surviving texts and
theatre documents from the period. The methodology behind these editions was developed
further at our 2015 conference
Performance as Research in Early English Theatre Studies: The Three Ladies of London in Context.The QME performance editions integrate the Performance as Research (PaR) productions with traditional textual scholarship.
Contexts
Para5In addition to the contextual information embedded in the performance editions, QME
provides an overview of the history of the company with a timeline of the documentary evidence and biographies of the actors. It also
has expanding sections on pedagogy, associated with the PaR productions of the plays.
Contributors to the Site
Para6QME is a collaborative site, created by an international body of scholars, theatre
practitioners, and digital developers. For information on our contributors and collaborators,
see:
Editorial Guidelines
Para7The editions of Famous Victories, Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, King Leir, and Selimus follow the ISE Editorial Guidelines. All other editions follow the DRE/NISE Editorial
Guidelines.
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 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.
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.
Peter Cockett
Peter Cockett is an associate professor in the Theatre and Film Studies at McMaster
University. He is the general editor (performance), and technical co-ordinating editor
of Queen’s Men Editions. He was the stage director for the Shakespeare and the Queen’s Men project (SQM),
directing King Leir, The Famous Victories of Henry V, and Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay (2006) and he is the performance editor for our editions of those plays. The process
behind those productions is documented in depth on his website Performing the Queen’s Men. Also featured on this site are his PAR productions of Clyomon and Clamydes (2009) and Three Ladies of London (2014). For the PLS, the University of Toronto’s Medieval and Renaissance Players,
he has directed the Digby Mary Magdalene (2003) and the double bill of George Peele’s The Old Wives Tale and the Chester Antichrist (2004). He also directed An Experiment in Elizabethan Comedy (2005) for the SQM project and Inside Out: The Persistence of Allegory (2008) in collaboration with Alan Dessen. Peter is a professional actor and director
with numerous stage and screen credits. He can be contacted at cockett@mcmaster.ca.
Bibliography
McMillin, Scott, and
Sally-Beth MacLean. The Queen’s Men and Their Plays.
Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1998. WSB
aw359.
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.
QME Editorial Board (QMEB1)
The QME Editorial Board consists of Helen Ostovich, General Editor; Peter Cockett, General Editor (Performance); and Andrew Griffin, General Editor (Text), with the support of an Advisory Board.
Queenʼs Men Editions (QME1)
The Queen’s Men Editions anthology is led by Helen Ostovich, General Editor; Peter
Cockett, General Editor (Performance); and Andrew Griffin, General Editor (Text).
Metadata
Authority title | Introduction to the Site |
Type of text | About |
Short title | Intro |
Publisher | University of Victoria on the Linked Early Modern Drama Online Platform |
Series | Queenʼs Men Editions |
Source |
Page written by the QME Anthology Leads. First published in the QME 1.0 anthology on the ISE platform. Converted to TEI-XML
and remediated by the LEMDO Team for republication in the QME 2.0 anthology on the LEMDO platform.
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Edition | Released with Queenʼs Men Editions 2.0 |
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Queenʼs Men EditionsThe Queen’s Men Editions anthology is led by Helen Ostovich, General Editor; Peter
Cockett, General Editor (Performance); and Andrew Griffin, General Editor (Text).
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Licence/availability | This file is licensed under a CC BY-NC_ND 4.0 license, which means that it is freely downloadable without permission under the following conditions: (1) credit must be given to the author, Queen’s Men Editions, and LEMDO in any subsequent use of the files and/or data; (2) the content cannot be adapted or repurposed (except in quotations for the purposes of academic review and citation); and (3) commercial uses are not permitted without the knowledge and consent of Queen’s Men Editions, the editor, and LEMDO. This license allows for pedagogical use of the critical paratexts in the classroom. Production photographs and videos on this site may not be downloaded. They appear freely on this site with the permission of the actors and the ACTRA union. They may be used within the context of university courses, within the classroom, and for reference within research contexts, including conferences, when credit is given to the producing company and to the actors. Commercial use of videos and photographs is forbidden. |