Edition: Famous Victories of Henry VFamous Victories of Henry V: Bibliography

Editions Collated

Early Publications

Early publications are listed in chronological order.
The Famous Victories of Henry the fifth: Containing the Honourable Battell of Agin-court: As it was plaide by the Queenes Maiesties Players. London: Thomas Creed, 1598. STC 13072. ESTC S106379.
The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth: Containing the Honourable Battell of Agin-Court. As it was Acted by the Kinges Maiesties Servants. London: Barnard Alsop, 1617. STC 13073. ESTC S4698. DEEP 253.

Scholarly Editions

Scholarly Editions are listed in chronological order.
The Famous Victories of Henry V. Six Old Plays On Which Shakspeare Founded His Measure for Measure. Comedy of Errors. Taming the Shrew. K Henry IV and K. Henry V. King Lear. 2 vols. London: J. Nichols, T. Evans and H. Payne, 1779. ESTC T4012.
Hazlitt, William Carew, ed. The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth, Conteining the Honorable Battell of Agincourt. Vol. 5. Shakespeare’s Library: A Collection of the Plays Romances Novels Poems and Histories Employed by Shakespeare in the Composition of His Works. London: Reeves and Turner, 1875.
Adams, Joseph Quincy. Chief Pre-Shakespearean Dramas: A Selection of Plays Illustrating the History of the English Drama from its Origin Down to Shakespeare. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1924.
Pitcher, Seymour M. The Case for Shakespeare’s Authorship of The Famous Victories, with the Complete Text of the Anonymous Play.. New York: SUNY Press, 1961. WSB aav291.
Bullough, Geoffrey, ed. The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth. Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare. Vol. 4. Routledge and Kegan Paul; rpt. Columbia University Press, 1962. 299–343.
Corbin, Peter and Douglas Sedge, eds. The Oldcastle Controversy: Sir John Oldcastle, Part I and The Famous Victories of Henry V. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1991. WSB ad162.

Secondary Sources

Secondary sources are listed alphabetically by surname(s) of the author(s).
Adams, Joseph Quincy. Chief Pre-Shakespearean Dramas: A Selection of Plays Illustrating the History of the English Drama from its Origin Down to Shakespeare. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1924.
Allmand, Christopher. The Hundred Years War: England and France at war c. 1300 – c. 1450. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Archer, I.W. The Pursuit of Stability: Social Relations in Elizabethan London. Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Bailey, Amanda. Flaunting: Style and the Subversive Male Body in Renaissance England. University of Toronto Press, 2007. WSB aau227.
Bassett, Margaret. Newgate Prison in the Middle Ages. Speculum 18.2 (April 1943): 233–246.
Bevington, David, ed. King Henry IV, Part I. By William Shakespeare. 1987. Rpt. Oxford University Press, 1998.
The Bible. The Geneva Bible. London, 1599. STC 2173.
Blayney, Peter W.M. The Publication of Playbooks. A New History of English Drama. Ed. John D. Cox and David Scott Kastan. Columbia University Press, 1997.
Bullough, Geoffrey, ed. The Battle of Agincourt. Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare. Vol. 4. Routledge and Kegan Paul; rpt. Columbia University Press, 1962. 412–416.
Bullough, Geoffrey, ed. Tarlton’s Jests. Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare. Vol. 4. Routledge and Kegan Paul; rpt. Columbia University Press, 1962. 289–290.
Cawley A.C., ed. Everyman. Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays. Dent, 1956.
Champion, Larry S. What prerogatiues meanes: Perspective and Political Ideology in The Famous Victories of Henry V. South Atlantic Review 53 (1988): 1–19. WSB bg957.
Clare, Janet. Medley History: The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth to Henry V. Shakespeare Survey 63 (2010): 102–113. WSB bbz1002.
Cockett, Peter. Performing the Queen’s Men: A Project in Theatre Historiography. Locating the Queen’s Men, 1583–1603: Material Practices and Conditions of Playing. Ed. Helen Ostovich, Holger Schott Syme, and Andrew Griffin. Ashgate: Farnham, 2009, 229–242. WSB aay90.
Corbin, Peter, and Douglas Sedge, eds. The Oldcastle Controversy. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1991. WSB ad162.
Craik, T.W., ed. King Henry V. By William Shakespeare. Arden Shakespeare. Routledge, 1995. WSB ai7.
Daniel, P.A. Introduction. The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth: The Earliest Known Quarto, 1598. London: C. Praetorius, 1887.
De Somogyi, Nick, ed. Henry IV, Part 1: The First Part of Henry the Fourth: The First Folio of 1623 and a Parallel Modern Edition. The Shakespeare Folios. London: Nick Hern, 2004. WSB aam463.
De Somogyi, Nick, ed. Henry V: The Life of Henry the Fifth. The Shakespeare Folios. London: Nick Hern, 2001. WSB aaf988.
Digges, Leonard. An Arithmetical Warlike Treatise Named Stratioticos. London: Richard Field, 1590. STC 6849. ESTC S109690.
Dockray, Keith. Warrior King: The Life of Henry V. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Tempus, 2007.
Dutton, Richard. The Famous Victories and the 1600 Quarto of Henry V. Locating the Queen’s Men, 1583–1603: Material Practices and Conditions of Playing. Ed. Helen Ostovich, Holger Schott Syme, and Andrew Griffin. Ashgate: Farnham, 2009. 135–144. WSB bby196.
Egan, Gabriel. As it was, is, or will be played: Title-pages and the Theater Industry to 1610. From Performance to Print in Shakespeare’s England. Ed. Peter Holland and Stephen Orgel. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 92–110. WSB aat505.
Elyot, Thomas. The Book Named the Governor. London: Thomas Berthelet, 1531. STC 7635. ESTC S105376.
Elyot, Thomas. The Governour. Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare. Ed. Geoffrey Bullough. Vol. 4. London: Routledge; rpt. New York: Columbia University Press, 1962. 288.
Farmer, John S., ed. The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth 1598. The Tudor Facsimile Texts, 1912.
Ferguson, W. Craig. Thomas Creede’s Pica Roman. Studies in Bibliography: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia 23 (1970): 148–153.
Fitzpatrick, Joan. Food in Shakespeare: Early Modern Dietaries and the Plays. Ashgate, 2007. WSB aau153.
Foakes, R.A., ed. Henslowe’s Diary, 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press, 2002. WSB aah397.
Forey, A.J. The Order of Mountjoy. Speculum 46.2 (April 1971): 250–266.
Greenblatt, Stephen, Walter Cohen, Jean Howard and Katherine Eisaman Maus, eds. The Norton Shakespeare. New York and London: W.W. Norton, 1997. WSB av26.
Greer, C.A. Shakespeare’s Use of The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth. Notes and Queries 1 (1954): 238–241.
Greg, W.W., ed. Two Elizabethan Stage Abridgements: The Battle of Alcazar and Orlando Furioso. Clarendon Press, 1923.
Greg, W.W., ed. A Bibliography of the English Printed Drama to the Restoration. 5 vols. Bibliographical Society, 1939–1959; rpt. 1962.
Gurr, Andrew, ed. King Henry V. New Cambridge Shakespeare. Cambridge University Press, 1992; rpt. 2005. WSB aaq278.
Gurr, Andrew, ed. The First Quarto of Henry V. New Cambridge Shakespeare. Cambridge University Press, 2000. WSB aab370.
Gurr, Andrew. Playgoing in Shakespeare’s London. 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Gurr, Andrew. The Shakespearean Playing Companies. Clarendon Press, 1996. WSB ao469.
Gurr, Andrew. The Shakespearean Stage, 1574–1642. 4th ed. Cambridge University Press, 2009. WSB aay77.
Guy, John. Tudor England. Oxford University Press, 1988.
Halasz, Alexandra. So beloved that men use his picture for their signs: Richard Tarlton and the Uses of Sixteenth-Century Celebrity. Shakespeare Studies 23 (1995): 19–38.
Hall, Edward. The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancastre and Yorke. London: Richard Grafton, 1550. STC 12723. ESTC S120059.
Halstead, W.L. New Source Influence on The Shoemaker’s Holiday. Modern Language Notes 56 (1941): 127–129.
Hammer, Paul E.J. Elizabeth’s War: War, Government and Society in Tudor England, 1544–1604. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
Hanabusa, Chiaki, ed. The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth, 1598. Malone Society Reprints. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007.
Happé, Peter, ed. The Interlude of Youth. Tudor Interludes. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1972.
Hodgdon, Barbara, ed. The First Part of King Henry the Fourth: Texts and Contexts. Boston and New York: Bedford/St. Martins, 1997. WSB av14.
Howard, Jean E. Theater of a City: The Places of London Comedy 1598–1642. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007.
Humphreys, A.R., ed. The First Part of King Henry IV. By William Shakespeare. Arden Shakespeare. London and New York: Routledge, 1989. WSB aax202.
Humphreys, A.R., ed. The Second Part of King Henry IV. By William Shakespeare. Arden Shakespeare. London and Cambridge MA: Methuen, 1966. WSB aan169.
Hunter, G.K. Truth and Art in History Plays. Shakespeare Survey 42 (1990): 15–24. WSB be1090.
Kastan, David Scott, ed. King Henry IV Part 1. By William Shakespeare. Arden Shakespeare. London: Thomson Learning, 2002. WSB aah300.
Keen, M.H. England in the Later Middle Ages. London: Routledge, 1988.
Kinney, Arthur F., ed. Rogues, Vagabonds, and Sturdy Beggars: A New Gallery of Tudor and Early Stuart Rogue Literature. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1990.
Lancashire, Anne, and Jill Levenson. The Famous Victories of Henry V. The Predecessors of Shakespeare. Ed. Terence P. Logan and Denzell S. Smith. University of Nebraska Press, 1973. 165–176.
Landt, D.B. The Ancestry of Sir John Falstaff. Shakespeare Quarterly 17 (1966): 69–76. WSB bbn317.
Lesser, Zachary. Typographic Nostalgia: Playreading, Popularity, and the Meanings of Black Letter. The Book of the Play: Playwrights, Stationers and Readers in Early Modern England. Ed. Martha Straznicky. Amherst and Boston: University of Massachussets Press, 2006. 99–126.
Lexicons of Early Modern English. Ed. Ian Lancashire. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013. http://leme.library.utoronto.ca/index.cfm.
Louw, Hentie. The Development of the Window. Windows: History, Repair and Conservation. Ed. Michael Tutton and Elizabeth Hirst. Shaftesbury, Dorset: Donhead, 2007. 7–96.
Mackie, Erin. Rakes, Highwaymen, and Pirates: The Making of the Modern Gentleman in the Eighteenth Century. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
Maguire, Laurie E. Shakespearean Suspect Texts: The Bad Quartos and their Contexts. Cambridge University Press, 1996. WSB ao178.
McKerrow, R.B. Printers’ and Publishers’ Devices in England and Scotland, 1485–1640. 1949.
McMillin, Scott, and Sally-Beth MacLean. The Queen’s Men and Their Plays. Cambridge University Press, 1998. WSB aw359.
Melchiori, Giorgio, ed. The Second Part of King Henry IV. By William Shakespeare. Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Nashe, Thomas. Pierce Penniless, His Supplication to the Devil. London: Abel Jeffes, 1592.
Nashe, Thomas. Pierce Penniless. The Unfortunate Traveller and Other Works. Ed. J.B. Steane. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1972. 49–145.
Neale, J.E. Queen Elizabeth I. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Pelican, 1960.
Nichols, Louise. My Name Was Known Before I Came: The Heroic Identity of the Prince in The Famous Victories of Henry V. Other Voices, Other Views: Expanding the Canon in English Renaissance Studies. Ed. Helen Ostovich, Mary V. Silcox, and Graham Roebuck. Newark, DE and London: University of Delaware Press, 1999. 154–175. WSB aaa1431.
Oberer, Karen. Appropriations of the Popular Tradition in The Famous Victories of Henry V and The Troublesome Reign of King John. Locating the Queen’s Men, 1583–1603: Material Practices and Conditions of Playing. Ed. Helen Ostovich, Holger Schott Syme, and Andrew Griffin. Ashgate: Farnham, 2009, 171–182. WSB aay90.
Ostovich, Helen, Holger Schott Syme, and Andrew Griffin, eds. Locating the Queen’s Men, 1583–1603: Material Practices and Conditions of Playing. Surrey: Ashgate, 2009. WSB aay90.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004–2013. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Oxford English Dictionary Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. http://www.oed.com.
Pinciss, Gerald. Thomas Creede and the Repertory of the Queen’s Men 1583–1592. Modern Philology 67.4 (1970): 321–330.
Praetorius, Charles and P.A. Daniel, eds. The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth. The Earliest Known Quarto, 1598. London, 1887.
Rackin, Phyllis. Stages of History: Shakespeare’s English Chronicles. London: Routledge, 1990. WSB ae288.
Roberts-Smith, Jennifer. The Red Lion and the White Horse: Inns Used by Patronized Performers in Norwich, 1583–1624. Early Theatre. 10.1 (2007): 109–144.
Romotsky, Sally Robertson. Henry of Monmouth and the Gown-of-Needles. Intertexts 8.2 (Fall 2004): 155–173. WSB bbm1733.
Scoufos, Alice-Lyle. Shakespeare’s Typological Satire: A Study of the Falstaff-Oldcastle Problem. Ohio University Press, 1979. WSB as214.
Seward, Desmond. Henry V: The Scourge of God. Viking Penguin, 1988.
Shapiro, James. 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare. Faber, 2005. WSB aaq235.
Sharpe, J.A. Crime in Early Modern England 1550–1750. Longman, 1984.
Sharpe, Robert. We Band of Brothers. Studies in Philology 26 (1929): 166–176.
Slack, Paul. Poverty and Policy in Tudor and Stuart England. Longman, 1988.
Smith, Robert A.H. Thomas Creede, Henry V Q1, and The Famous Victories of Henrie the Fifth. Review of English Studies 49 (1998): 60–64. WSB bw63.
Stewart, Alan. Shakespeare and the Carriers. Shakespeare Quarterly 58 (2007): 431–464. WSB bbu767.
Stow, John. The Chronicles of England, from Brute vnto this present yeare of Christ, 1580. London: Ralphe Newberie, 1580. STC 23333. ESTC S117590.
Stow, John. The Survey of London. Ed. H.B. Wheatley. Dent, 1987.
Sugden, Edward Holdsworth. A Topographical Dictionary to the Works of Shakespeare and His Fellow Dramatists. Manchester University Press, 1925.
Tarlton, Richard. Tarlton’s Jests. London, Thomas Snodam for John Budge, 1613. STC 23683.3. ESTC S106896.
Taylor, Gary, ed. Henry V. The Oxford Shakespeare. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. WSB ap267.
Thomson, Peter. The True Physiognomy of a Man: Richard Tarlton and His Legend. Shakespeare and His Contemporaries in Performance. Ed. Edward J. Esche. Ashgate, 2000. 191–210. WSB bba910.
Tilley, Morris P. A Dictionary of the Proverbs in England in the Sixeenth and Seventeenth Centuries. University of Michigan Press, 1950; rpt. 1966.
Walsh, Brian. New Directions: By Shrewsbury clock: The Time of Day and the Death of Hotspur in I Henry IV. 1 Henry IV: A Critical Guide. Ed. Stephen Longstaffe. Continuum, 2011. 142–159. WSB bbba783d.
Walsh, Brian. Shakespeare, the Queen’s Men, and the Elizabethan Performance of History. Cambridge University Press, 2009. WSB aay460.
Walsh, Brian. Theatrical Temporality and Historical Consciousness in The Famous Victories of Henry V. Theatre Journal 59 (2007): 57–73.
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Prosopography

Andrew Griffin

Andrew Griffin is an associate professor in the department of English and an affiliate professor in the department of Theater and Dance at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is general editor (text) of Queen’s Men Editions. He studies early modern drama and early modern historiography while serving as the lead editor at the EMC Imprint. He has co-edited with Helen Ostovich and Holger Schott Syme Locating the Queen’s Men (2009) and has co-edited The Making of a Broadside Ballad (2016) with Patricia Fumerton and Carl Stahmer. His monograph, Untimely Deaths in Renaissance Drama: Biography, History, Catastrophe, was published with the University of Toronto Press in 2019. He is editor of the anonymous The Chronicle History of King Leir (Queen’s Men Editions, 2011). He can be contacted at griffin@english.ucsb.edu.

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Helen Ostovich

Helen Ostovich, professor emerita of English at McMaster University, is the founder and general editor of Queen’s Men Editions. She is a general editor of The Revels Plays (Manchester University Press); Series Editor of Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama (Ashgate, now Routledge), and series co-editor of Late Tudor and Stuart Drama (MIP); play-editor of several works by Ben Jonson, in Four Comedies: Ben Jonson (1997); Every Man Out of his Humour (Revels 2001); and The Magnetic Lady (Cambridge 2012). She has also edited the Norton Shakespeare 3 The Merry Wives of Windsor Q1602 and F1623 (2015); The Late Lancashire Witches and A Jovial Crew for Richard Brome Online, revised for a 4-volume set from OUP 2021; The Ball, for the Oxford Complete Works of James Shirley (2021); The Merry Wives of Windsor for Internet Shakespeare Editions, and The Dutch Courtesan (with Erin Julian) for the Complete Works of John Marston, OUP 2022. She has published many articles and book chapters on Jonson, Shakespeare, and others, and several book collections, most recently Magical Transformations of the Early Modern English Stage with Lisa Hopkins (2014), and the equivalent to book website, Performance as Research in Early English Theatre Studies: The Three Ladies of London in Context containing scripts, glossary, almost fifty conference papers edited and updated to essays; video; link to Queen’s Mens Ediitons and YouTube: http://threeladiesoflondon.mcmaster.ca/contexts/index.htm, 2015. Recently, she was guest editor of Strangers and Aliens in London ca 1605, Special Issue on Marston, Early Theatre 23.1 (June 2020). She can be contacted at ostovich@mcmaster.ca.

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.

Karen Sawyer Marsalek

Karen Sawyer Marsalek (Famous Victories of Henry V, early modern text) is an associate professor of English at St. Olaf College. She has edited, directed and performed in several early English plays. Her publications include essays on true resurrections in medieval drama and The Winter’s Tale, false resurrections in the Chester Antichrist and 1 Henry IV, and theatrical properties of skulls and severed heads. Her current research is on remains and revenants in the King’s Men’s repertory. She can be contacted at marsalek@stolaf.edu.

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.

Mahayla Galliford

Project Manager, 2025-present; Assistant Project Manager, 2024-2025; Research Assistant, 2021-present. Mahayla Galliford (she/her) graduated from the University of Victoria with a BA (honours with distinction) in 2024, and an MA English in 2026. Mahayla’s undergraduate research explored early modern stage directions and civic water pageantry. Her SSHRC-funded MA thesis project focuses on transcribing, editing, and encoding early modern girls’ manuscripts, specifically Lady Rachel Fane’s May Masque in collaboration with 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.

Mathew Martin

Dr. Mathew R. Martin is Full Professor at Brock University, Canada. He is the author of Between Theatre and Philosophy (2001), Tragedy and Trauma in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe (2015) and Psychoanalysis and Literary Theory (2023), and co-editor, with his colleague James Allard, of Staging Pain, 1500–1800: Violence and Trauma in British Theatre (2009). For Broadview Press he has edited Christopher Marlowe’s Edward the Second (2010), Jew of Malta (2012), Doctor Faustus: The B-Text (2013) and Tamburlaine the Great Part One and Part Two (2014), and Robert Greene’s Selimus (2022). For Revels Editions he has edited George Peele’s David and Bathsheba (2018) and Marlowe’s The Massacre at Paris (2021). For Queen’s Men Editions he has edited The Famous Victories of Henry V (2016). He has published two articles of textual criticism on the printed texts of Marlowe’s plays: Inferior Readings: The Transmigration of Material in Tamburlaine the Great (Early Theatre 17.2 [December 2014]), and (on the political inflections of the shifts in punctuation in the early editions of the play) Accidents Happen: Roger Barnes’s 1612 Edition of Marlowe’s Edward the Second (Early Theatre 16.1 [June 2013]). His latest editing projects are a double-play Revels edition of Robert Greene’s Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay and John of Bordeaux and a Digital Renaissance Editions edition of Dido, Queen of Carthage.

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.

Peter Cockett

Peter Cockett is an associate professor in the iArts (Integrated Arts) program at McMaster University. He is the co-editor, with Melinda Gough, of Engendering the Stage in the Age of Shakespeare and Beyond (University of Toronto Press, 2025) which publishes the findings of their 2018 Performance as Research (PaR) workshop at the Stratford Festival Lab. He is the general editor (performance), and technical co-ordinating editor of Queen’s Men Editions. His PaR directing credits include King Leir, The Famous Victories of Henry V, and Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay (2006), Clyomon and Clamydes (2010), and Three Ladies of London (2015) for the Shakespeare and the Queen’s Men project (SQM). The process behind the 2006 productions is documented in depth on the project website Performing the Queen’s Men. 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.

Scott Matthews

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.

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