Para1The Queenʼs Men Editions anthology uses the LEMDO interface with custom colours, logos, and menus.
General Site Navigation
Para2These are some actions that you can take at any time:
Click the Queenʼs Men Editions logo at the top of any page in the anthology to go to the site homepage.
Click the Go button beside the search bar to go to our Endings-compliant Static Search page. This page allows you to search based on document history, document
types, early modern book formats, editorial treatments, and types of literary work.
You can also type search terms directly into the search bar and then filter your results.
Click the buttons in the top navigation bar to see drop-down menus that link to anthology
pages and editions. Note that the arrow beside each button points downwards when the
drop-down menu is closed and points upwards when the drop-down menu is open.
Click on the menu with three horizontal stripes (the hamburger menu) at the top left of each page to access the side navigation bar (see QME Site Tools: Side Navigation Bar).
QME Site Tools: Side Navigation Bar
Para3The side navigation bar gives you access to information and functionality that can
enhance your engagement with any page on the QME site. To access the side navigation
bar, click on the menu with three horizontal stripes (the hamburger menu) at the top left of each page:
. To close the menu and give yourself more space on your screen, click on the exit
“X” icon:
.
Para4There are four tabs within the navigation bar: Content,Credits,Tools, and About.
Content
Para5The side navigation bar opens by default to the Content pane, which contains the table of contents for the HMTL page that you are on. If
you are looking at a modern edition, it will list all of the scenes and allow you
to navigate directly to any scene of interest. In addition, you can access the character
list for the play by clicking on Characters. The character list will appear on the right side of the page. Editorial notes about
characters are indicated by a plus sign to the left of the characterʼs name. Click
the plus sign to see the note. The plus sign will turn into a minus sign when you
do this; click the minus sign to hide the note.
Credits
Para6The Credits tab provides information about all of the key contributors to the work visible on
and underlying each of the HTML pages.
Tools
Para7When you are viewing modern editions, you can choose to turn annotation and collation
indicators on or off by selecting the Tools menu in the side navigation bar. Click the checkbox beside Display annotations,Display collations, or both to turn annotation and collation indicators on and off. They will both, by
default, be on when you first open any modern text. For more information about how
to use our annotations and collations, see Annotations and Collation.
About
Para8The About menu gives you access to metadata for each page (title, publisher, author, etc.)
and allows you to see the open-access XML markup that underlies each HTML page.
Find QME Content
Performance Editions and Production Records
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The Performance Editions and Production Records menu items on the top navigation bar of this website provide two primary ways to
access the Queenʼs Men plays on this site. The Performance Editions menu opens a wide range of resources. Here you will find old-spelling texts and modernized
texts of the plays integrated with the production records. The performance editions
include introductions, supplementary materials, and the commentary written by the
textual and performance editors.
Para10Production Records takes you directly to video of the research productions of the plays. Taking this
route, you can choose to watch the play in performance first and read the playtext
later.
Para11If you wish to read the text without commentary and without viewing the production
videos, open the modernized text in the Performance Edition, and access the Tools menu in the side navigation bar to turn off annotations and collations (see Tools). Alternatively, read the old-spelling text, a transcription of the playtext as it
was first published in book format.
Introductions
Para12Each of our published editions has a general introduction providing an overview of
the play. In a separate textual introduction, the editor of each play sets out the
bibliographical history of the text. These introductions are particular to the play
in question, but they often gesture to other plays to draw connections and encourage
further reading.
Para13You can find these text-specific introductions on each playʼs edition page, which
are linked from our list of published editions.
Modernized Texts
Para14To read a modern text of a play, navigate to that playʼs edition landing page, which
you can find by clicking on the dropdown menu for Performance Editions and selecting the play that you are interested in. Doing so will bring you to the
editionʼs landing page. You can also navigate to the edition landing pages from our
list of published editions. You will find the modern text in the Playtexts section.
Para15The literary divisions used in modern texts for this anthology are scenes and speeches.
Each scene and speech in our published modern texts has a stable URL, which you can
find by clicking the scene or speech number in the left margin of the modern text
Site page. You can also navigate to scenes by opening the menu at the top-left of
the page, selecting Content, and clicking on the scene to which you want to navigate.
Para16The modernized texts on this site include our editorsʼ annotations and collations,
which are accessed through clickable links.
Annotations
Para17Editors have added annotations to the modern-spelling editions of each play.
Para18In QME there are two types of notes—textual notes and performance notes. Textual notes
may include:
Glosses (notes that give a short description of a term).
Commentary (discussion of the meaning of the text).
Textual notes (notes about editorial decisions).
Pedagogical notes (notes offering teaching tips and strategies).
Lexical notes (discussion of the etymology, meaning, and/or prevalence of a word).
Lineation notes (discussion of lineation and related editorial decisions).
Performance notes may include discussion of the choices made in the research production
of the plays, such as:
Character choices by the actors.
Blocking (the arrangement of characters on the stage).
The productionʼs research on the staging practices of the Queenʼs Men.
Commentary on the process and staging in relation to the politics of Elizabethan England
and our modern politics.
Interpretive choices made in relation to stage directions present or absent in the
texts.
Para19Annotations on a string of text that is one full verse line long or longer are indicated
by vertical lines to the left of the text. Click on the vertical line to view the
annotation. Annotations on a string of text that are shorter than one verse line are
indicated by horizontal underlines. Click on the annotated text or the underline to
view the annotation. Spans of text with more than one annotation on them are indicated
with a double underline. Click on the annotated text or the double underline to view
all annotations on that string of text. Annotations will appear in a window on the
right side of the page.
Collation
Para20A collation is indicated by a small red symbol with diverging arrows inside of a circle.
(A collation is a record of how the text differs across copies and has changed over
time.) Click on this symbol and the collation details will appear on the right side
of the page.
Old-Spelling Texts
Para21Old-spelling texts are transcribed versions of early modern playbooks. We recommend
juxtaposing modern and old-spelling texts in the classroom for lessons on editorial
practice, book history, and bibliography.
Para22The divisions used for old-spelling texts in this anthology are pages and speeches,
which correspond with page divisions and speeches in the witnesses (i.e., sources)
used for each edition. Each page and speech has a stable URL. You can navigate to
pages by opening the menu at the top-left of the page, selecting Content, and clicking on the editorial signature number for the page to which you want to
navigate.
Para23You can also find facsimile images of the transcribed text some old-spelling texts.
To view full-sized facsimile images, click on the thumbnail image beside each page
beginning in the text.
Site Accessibility
Para24If you are using a screen reader and are interested in early modern punctuation practices,
we recommend adjusting your screen readerʼs settings to read most or all punctuation
aloud when reading semi-diplomatic transcriptions.
Citation
Para25This anthology uses stable URLs for pages and entities. This practice means that the
URLs for our online pages do not change and that you can expect links to pages on
the QME website to be long-lasting. Furthermore, you can digitally cite specific scenes,
speeches, sections, and paragraphs by using the URL for that scene, speech, section,
or paragraph.
Para26You can access the URL for scenes and sections by opening the table of contents in
the side navigation bar, clicking on the scene or section of interest, and copying
the URL from your browserʼs search bar. You can also access section URLs by clicking
on the pilcrow (¶) on the left of the section header and copying the URL from your
browserʼs search bar. You can access the URL for speeches and paragraphs by clicking
on the speech or paragraph number on the left side of the HTML page and copying the
URL from your browserʼs search bar.
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The About menu and Introduction to the Site page take you to pages about the QME project, including an overview of the Queen’s
Men and their plays as a rationale for the website. It gives acknowledgements to professors and students who helped in the project that is being completed by this
website, and it lists (with links to short biographies) the editorial board, the advisory board, contributors, and editors on the site.
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The Performance Editions menu and landing page take you to the peer-reviewed editions of QME plays, fully annotated with performance
links and notes.
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The Production Records menu and landing page take you to the material archives of modern productions, research about historical
performance, and production histories. It will include footage or links to film footage,
photographs of performances, props, sets, costumes, and any special effects. It will
include both historical and modern practices.
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The Contexts menu takes you to other sources connected to QM plays: a history of the
Queenʼs Men, a bibliography of sources used in the creation of the editions, biographies
of the QM actors, teaching resources, and links to other resources such as the English Broadside Ballads Archive at UCSB.
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.
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.
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.
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The Queen’s Men Editions anthology is led by Helen Ostovich, General Editor; Peter
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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.
