Suggested Readings

This bibliography of suggested readings is divided into two lists: Suggested Critical and Historical Readings and Pedagogical Readings. For a full list of works cited in the QME project, see QME Bibliography.

Suggested Critical and Historical Readings

Chambers, E.K. The Elizabethan Stage. 4 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1923; rpt. 1967.
Eccles, Mark. Elizabethan Actors I: A–D. N&Q 236 (1991): 38–49.
Eccles, Mark. Elizabethan Actors II: E–J. N&Q 236 (1991): 454–461.
Eccles, Mark. Elizabethan Actors III: K–R. N&Q 237 (1992): 293–303.
Eccles, Mark. Elizabethan Actors IV: S to End. N&Q 238 (1993): 165-176.
Eccles, Mark. Shakespeare in Warwickshire. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1961. WSB aav113.
Ellis, E. The History and Antiquities of the Parish of St Leonard, Shoreditch, and Liberty of Norton Folgate. London, 1798.
Gurr, Andrew. Playgoing in Shakespeare’s London. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Heywood, Thomas. Apology for Actors. London: Nicholas Okes, 1612. STC 13309. ESTC S106113.
Honigmann, E.A.J. and Susan Brock. Playhouse Wills, 1558–1642. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1993.
McMillin, Scott. Simon Jewell and the Queen’s Men. Review of English Studies 27 (1976): 174–177.
McMillin, Scott, and Sally-Beth MacLean. The Queen’s Men and Their Plays. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. WSB aw359.
Nungezar, Edwin. A Dictionary of Actors. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1929.
Records of Early English Drama: Norwich, 1540–1642. Ed. David Galloway. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984.
Stow, John and Edmund Howes. Annales, or, A Generall Chronicle of England … unto the End of this Present Yeere, 1631. London: 1631.
Thomson, Peter. Richard Tarlton. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Pedagogical Readings

Ostovich, Helen. Early Modern Theatre History. Teaching the New English Literature: Shakespeare and Early Modern Dramatists. Ed. Andrew Hiscock and Lisa Hopkins. Houndmills, Basingstoke, and Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Ostovich, Helen. Our sport shall be to take what they mistake: Classroom performance and learning. Ed. Karen Bamford and Alexander Leggatt. Approaches to Teaching English Renaissance Drama. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2002. 87–94.
Ostovich, Helen. Staging the Jew: Playing with the text of The Merchant of Venice. Shakespeare’s Comedies of Love: Essays in Honour of Alexander Leggatt. Ed. Karen Bamford and Richard Knowles. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008. 262–272. WSB bbw1940.

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

Chambers, E.K. The Elizabethan Stage. 4 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1923; rpt. 1967.
Eccles, Mark. Elizabethan Actors I: A–D. N&Q 236 (1991): 38–49.
Eccles, Mark. Elizabethan Actors II: E–J. N&Q 236 (1991): 454–461.
Eccles, Mark. Elizabethan Actors III: K–R. N&Q 237 (1992): 293–303.
Eccles, Mark. Elizabethan Actors IV: S to End. N&Q 238 (1993): 165-176.
Eccles, Mark. Shakespeare in Warwickshire. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1961. WSB aav113.
Ellis, E. The History and Antiquities of the Parish of St Leonard, Shoreditch, and Liberty of Norton Folgate. London, 1798.
Gurr, Andrew. Playgoing in Shakespeare’s London. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Heywood, Thomas. Apology for Actors. London: Nicholas Okes, 1612. STC 13309. ESTC S106113.
Honigmann, E.A.J. and Susan Brock. Playhouse Wills, 1558–1642. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1993.
McMillin, Scott, and Sally-Beth MacLean. The Queen’s Men and Their Plays. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. WSB aw359.
McMillin, Scott. Simon Jewell and the Queen’s Men. Review of English Studies 27 (1976): 174–177.
Nungezar, Edwin. A Dictionary of Actors. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1929.
Ostovich, Helen. Early Modern Theatre History. Teaching the New English Literature: Shakespeare and Early Modern Dramatists. Ed. Andrew Hiscock and Lisa Hopkins. Houndmills, Basingstoke, and Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Ostovich, Helen. Our sport shall be to take what they mistake: Classroom performance and learning. Ed. Karen Bamford and Alexander Leggatt. Approaches to Teaching English Renaissance Drama. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2002. 87–94.
Ostovich, Helen. Staging the Jew: Playing with the text of The Merchant of Venice. Shakespeare’s Comedies of Love: Essays in Honour of Alexander Leggatt. Ed. Karen Bamford and Richard Knowles. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008. 262–272. WSB bbw1940.
Records of Early English Drama: Norwich, 1540–1642. Ed. David Galloway. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984.
Stow, John and Edmund Howes. Annales, or, A Generall Chronicle of England … unto the End of this Present Yeere, 1631. London: 1631.
Thomson, Peter. Richard Tarlton. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

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