QME Release Notes
Para1QME follows the Endings Principles for Release Management. We periodically release new static versions of this website as new material is created
and peer-reviewed. The release is comprised of a complete and self-contained set of
HTML files; they have no dependencies on external code libraries or on a back-end
server. The Endings staticSearch engine (created by Martin Holmes and Joey Takeda) is built into the release so that QME is fully concordanced, indexed, and searchable.
The QME release schedule allows us to publish editions as they are completed, add
new documentary discoveries, and update our bibliography in a systematic way. Each
static release has a version number. Major releases are indicated by a change to the
whole number integer (1.0 to 2.0). Minor releases of content are indicated by a change
to the point number (2.0 to 2.1). The first QME release on the LEMDO platform is numbered
2.0, which recognizes that the QME anthology was first published on the ISE platform. Releases are described on this page in chronological order.
QME 2.0
Janelle Jenstad — October 31, 2023Para2This first release of the QME anthology on the LEMDO platform on 2023-10-31 includes
all of the contextual pages from the old QME site, converted from XWiki markup language
and carefully remediated by the LEMDO team in consultation with Peter Cockett.
Para3With QME 2.0, we are publishing for the first time Kirk Melnikoff’s edition of Selimus, completed and peer-reviewed in 2022.
Para4This release also includes three peer-reviewed editions that were previously published
in the QME anthology on the ISE platform. Each one has been converted from the ISE
Markup Language (IML) to LEMDO’s customization of the Text Encoding Initiative tagset
(TEI-XML) and carefully remediated by the LEMDO team. In the course of remediation,
the LEMDO team has checked each transcription afresh, added styling to capture the
mise-en-page of the early printed book, updated links, created a site-wide bibliography,
added missing sources, numbered speeches, copy-edited all critical paratexts, brought
them into line with LEMDO house style where necessary (e.g., expanding dates and page
ranges), and made minor corrections:
Famous Victories of Henry V, edited by Karen Marsalek (old-spelling text), Mathew Martin (modern text), and Peter Cockett (performance);
Para5Known omissions in this release are as follows:
We expect to release converted and remediated transcriptions of these plays in a future
release.
The old-spelling texts of five plays, all of which are still available on the old QME site:
Three Ladies of London
Three Lords and Three Ladies of London
Troublesome Reign of King John
True Tragedy of Richard III
Clyomon and Clamydes
Para6Credit for releasing QME 2.0 goes to the following people:
Current LEMDO Project Manager Navarra Houldin for supporting the QME anthology lead (Peter Cockett), the editor of Selimus (Kirk Melnikoff), and the LEMDO Director (Janelle Jenstad); managing the remediation
workflow; writing CSS renditions and in-line styling for old-spelling texts; designing
the QME footer; tweaking the QME site-wide SCSS; overseeing the release workflow;
resolving diagnostics; standardizing metadata; writing the user guide with Peter Cockett;
and running dozens of XPath searches and XSLT transformations to standardize things
across the anthology.
Former Project Manager Kate LeBere and current/former LEMDO RAs Mahayla Galliford, Chloe Mee, Rylyn Christensen, Scott Matthews, Josiah Snell, Jodi Litvin, and Ada Souchu for remediation work.
Former LEMDO Project Manager Nicole Vatcher for her work training other team members.
Navarra Houldin and Janelle Jenstad for final proofing and pre-release checks.
Editor Kirk Melnikoff for entrusting his work to LEMDO and QME and bearing with a certain amount of encoding
and editorial experimentation.
LEMDO’s first Lead Programmer Joey Takeda for creating the initial TEI customization, conceiving the anthology-publication
model, and converting all the XWiki files and many of the IML files to TEI.
LEMDO’s former Junior Programmer Tracey El Hajj for completing the IML-to-TEI conversions.
HCMC Developer-Designer Patrick Szpak for the LEMDO design and the initial QME design.
QME Designer Peter Sirisko for the current QME design.
HCMC Developer and LEMDO Lead Programmer Martin Holmes for consulting on the TEI customization, writing the initial XSLT to convert IML
to TEI; writing processing to create Endings-compliant HTML from our XML, developing
the hosting and archiving plan, and releasing the site.
QME 2.1
Janelle Jenstad — July 13, 2026Para7With this second release of the QME anthology on the LEMDO platform on 2026-07-13,
we are publishing for the first time Toby Malone’s edition of True Tragedy of Richard III.
Para8This release is also the first with Janelle Jenstad in the role of General Editor (Text), continuing the work of Andrew Griffin.
Para9Known omissions in this release are as follows:
We expect to release converted and remediated transcriptions of these plays with the
QME 2.2 release.
The old-spelling texts of four plays:
Three Ladies of London
Three Lords and Three Ladies of London
Troublesome Reign of King John
Clyomon and Clamydes
Para10Credit for releasing QME 2.1 goes to the following people:
Former LEMDO Project Manager Navarra Houldin for supporting the QME anthology leads (Peter Cockett and Janelle Jenstad) and the
LEMDO Director (Janelle Jenstad).
LEMDO RA and Assistant Project Manager Samuel Seaberg for working with editor Toby Malone on revisions to Tragedy of Richard III.
Former LEMDO Project Manager Nicole Vatcher for remediation work.
Current LEMDO Project Manager Mahayla Galliford for remediation and workflow management.
Janelle Jenstad for metadata creation, final proofing, and pre-release checks.
Editor Toby Malone for entrusting his work to LEMDO and QME and bearing with a certain amount of encoding
and editorial experimentation.
HCMC Developer Illya Nokhrin for releasing the site.
Prosopography
Ada Souchu
Ada Souchu is an MA student at Sorbonne Université in Early Modern English literature.
After a BA in Classics in 2021, they are currently doing an MA on Latin and Greek
sources in Early Modern theatre. They are a junior transcriber on the Douai Shakespeare
Manuscript Project.
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.
Chloe Mee
Chloe Mee (she/her) worked as a research assistant with the LEMDO team over several
periods from 2022 to 2025. She graduated from the University of Victoria in 2025 with
a BA (Hons with distinction) in English. She will be studying at the University of
British Columbia to complete her MA in English. Chloe collaborated with the LEMDO
team on a VKURA internship in summer 2022, mainly focusing on Hamlet quartos. Following
her internship, she also worked as a research assistant in 2022–23 and 2025.
Christopher Matusiak
Christopher Matusiak (Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay) is an Associate Professor of English at Ithaca College in New York where he teaches
courses on Shakespeare and early modern drama. His research on seventeenth-century
theatre management at the Drury Lane Cockpit has appeared in Early Theatre and Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, and in Shakespeare Quarterly on the use of John Aubrey’s manuscripts in studies of Shakespeare’s life. He is currently
writing a book (with Eva Griffith) about Christopher Beeston and the Cockpit playhouse,
and researching another on the persistence of illegal stage-playing during the English
Civil Wars, Shakespearean Actors and their Playhouses in Civil War London. He also prepared REED London: The Cockpit-Phoenix: an edited collection of seventeenth-century manuscripts and printed documents illustrating
the history of the Cockpit-Phoenix playhouse in Drury Lane (for The Records of Early English Drama). He can be contacted at cmatusiak@ithaca.edu.
Illya
Illya has a BA in English and Sociocultural Anthropology and an MA in English. Prior
to joining the HCMC, he was a PhD candidate in English and Book History at the University
of Toronto and worked on Records of Early English Drama and on the Modernist Archives Publishing Project. His work at the HCMC focuses on creating web-based applications for research projects
led by members of the faculty of Humanities at the University of Victoria. This involves
creating schemas for new and existing datasets, writing XSLT and build files to transform
datasets into structured TEI and HTML formats, implementing staticSearch, and ensuring
that new projects are Endings Principles compliant.
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.
Jodi Litvin
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.
Josiah Snell
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
trueresurrections in medieval drama and The Winter’s Tale,
falseresurrections 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.
Kirk Melnikoff
Kirk Melnikoff is Professor of English at UNC Charlotte and a past president of the
Marlowe Society of America. His research interests range from sixteenth-century British
Literature and Culture, to Shakespeare in Performance, to Book History. His essays
have appeared in a number of journals and books, and he is the author of Elizabethan Book Trade Publishing and the Makings of Literary Culture (U Toronto P, 2018). He has also edited four essay collections, most recently Christopher Marlowe, Theatrical Commerce, and the Book Trade (Cambridge UP, 2018), and published an edition of Robert Greene’s James IV in 2020. He is currently co-editing a collection of early modern book-trade wills
which will be published by Manchester UP, editing Marlowe’s Edward II for the Oxford Marlowe: Collected Works project, and working on a monograph on bookselling in early modern England.
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.
Nicole Vatcher
Technical Documentation Writer, 2020–2022. Nicole Vatcher completed her BA (Hons.)
in English at the University of Victoria in 2021. Her primary research focus was women’s
writing in the modernist period.
Patrick Szpak
Patrick Szpak is a Programmer Consultant and Web Designer in the Humanities Computing
and Media Centre at the University of Victoria.
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.
Peter Sirisko
Peter Sirisko, consultant for the QME, is Media Producer at New Motto in Hamilton,
Ontario. He has a Bachelor of Arts, Honours, in Theatre and Film from McMaster University
(2013), where he was an editor for McMaster Television, a Theatre Technician, and
a Media Production Intern. He has been a freelance video producer since 2010.
Rylyn Christensen
Rylyn Christensen is an English major at the University of Victoria.
Samuel Seaberg
Samuel Seaberg, a University of Victoria English undergrad, enjoys riding his bike.
During the summer of 2025, he began working with LEMDO as a recipient of the Valerie
Kuehne Undergraduate Research Award (VKURA). Unfortunately, due to his summer being
spent primarily in working to establish an edition of Thomas Heywood’s If You Know Not Me, You Know Nobody, Part 2 and consequently working out how to represent multi-text works in a digital space,
his bike has suffered severely of sheltered seclusion from the sun. Note: Samuel now
works for LEMDO as the Assistant Project Manager, much to his bike’s chagrin.
Scott Matthews
Toby Malone
Toby Malone is an Australian/Canadian academic, dramaturg, and librarian. He is a
graduate of the University of Toronto (PhD, 2009) and the University of Western Australia
(BA Hons, 2001), and the University of Western Ontario (MLIS, 2023). He has worked
as a theatre artist across the world, with companies including the Stratford Festival,
Canadian Stage, Soulpepper, Driftwood Theatre Group, the Shaw Festival, Poorboy Theatre
Scotland, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, CBC, BT/A, and Kill
Shakespeare Entertainment. He has published in Shakespeare Survey, Literature/Film Quarterly, Canadian Theatre Review, Borrowers and Lenders, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature, appears in published collections with Routledge, Cambridge, and Oxford. Publications
include two monographs: dapting War Horse (Palgrave McMillan) and Cutting Plays for Performance: A Practical and Accessible Guide (Routledge), and is currently co-writing an updated version of Shakespeare in Performance: Romeo and Juliet with Jill L. Levenson for Manchester UP. Toby has previously taught at the University
of Waterloo and the State University of New York at Oswego, is currently Research
Impact Librarian at Toronto Metropolitan University.
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.
Metadata
| Authority title | QME Release Notes |
| Type of text | About |
| Publisher | University of Victoria on the Linked Early Modern Drama Online Platform |
| Series | Queen’s Men Editions |
| Source |
Page written and maintained by Janelle Jenstad. First published in the QME 2.0 anthology on the LEMDO platform. Updated and republished
in QME 2.1.
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| Editorial declaration | This document follows Canadian spelling conventions. |
| Edition | Released with Queen’s Men Editions 2.1 |
| Sponsor(s) |
Queen’s Men EditionsThe 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–)
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McMaster University Poculi Ludique Societas University of Waterloo University of Toronto Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies University of Victoria Friends of the ISE |
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