Performance Editions

The Playtexts

Para1The aim of QME is to have full performance editions of all Queen’s Men plays and Three Ladies of London. Our performance editions integrate textual scholarship with video records of productions of the plays. But this is a long-term project, and the texts will appear in a variety of forms as the project develops. The current state of development is indicated below.
Para2QME was originally published on the now-defunct ISE platform at qme.uvic.ca. As of November 2023, most pre-2018 QME content had been carefully remediated by the LEMDO Team and republished in the new QME anthology on the LEMDO platform at https://lemdo.uvic.ca/qme. All material prepared after 2018 has been or will be first published on the LEMDO platform.

Full Performance Editions

Famous Victories of Henry V (peer reviewed; fully remediated for LEMDO)
King Leir (peer reviewed; fully remediated for LEMDO)
Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay (peer reviewed; fully remediated for LEMDO)

Partial Editions

Selimus: Full Critical Edition (peer reviewed; performance pending)
True Tragedy of Richard III: Full Critical Edition (peer reviewed; performance notes and performance introduction forthcoming)

Under Review

The Old Wives Tale
Three Ladies of London

Old-Spelling Transcriptions

These old-spelling transcriptions will be published in the next release of QME. For advance access, please email QME’s publisher, Linked Early Modern Drama Online (LEMDO) at the University of Victoria, at the following email address: lemdo@uvic.ca.
The Old Wives Tale
Three Ladies of London
Three Lords and Three Ladies of London
Troublesome Reign of King John
Clyomon and Clamydes

Critical Editions In Progress

Three Lords and Three Ladies of London
Troublesome Reign of King John
Clyomon and Clamydes

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.

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 UVic’s 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

Training and Documentation Lead 2025–present. LEMDO project manager 2022–2025. 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.

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); Andrew Griffin, General Editor (Text); and Janelle Jenstad General Editor (Text).

Queen’s Men Editions (QME1)

The Queen’s Men Editions anthology is led by Helen Ostovich, General Editor; Peter Cockett, General Editor (Performance); Andrew Griffin, General Editor (Text; until 2026); and Janelle Jenstad, General Editor (Text; 2026–)

University of Victoria (UVIC1)

https://www.uvic.ca/

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