QME Release Notes Author Janelle Jenstad Encoder LEMDO Team Queen’s Men EditionsQME

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–)

 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada McMaster University Poculi Ludique Societas University of Waterloo University of Toronto Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies University of Victoria Friends of the ISE

Released with Queen’s Men Editions 2.1

 University of Victoria on the Linked Early Modern Drama Online Platform

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. Neither the content nor the code in this file is licensed for training large language models (LLMs), ingestion into an LLM, or any use in any artificial intelligence applications; such uses are considered to be commercial uses and are strictly prohibited.

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.

Queen’s Men Editions

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.

Encoded in TEI P5 according to the LEMDO Customization and Encoding Guidelines

This document follows Canadian spelling conventions.

 Updated metadata. Add 2.1 release notes. Changed back end to back-end. Published file. Added space. Fixed broken link. Created file

QME 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, 2023

This 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.

With QME 2.0, we are publishing for the first time Kirk Melnikoff’s edition of Selimus, completed and peer-reviewed in 2022.

This 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); Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, edited by Chris Matusiak and Peter Cockett (performance); King Leir, edited by Andrew Griffin and Peter Cockett (performance)

Known omissions in this release are as follows: 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 We expect to release converted and remediated transcriptions of these plays in a future release.

Credit 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, 2026

With 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.

This release is also the first with Janelle Jenstad in the role of General Editor (Text), continuing the work of Andrew Griffin.

Known omissions in this release are as follows: 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 We expect to release converted and remediated transcriptions of these plays with the QME 2.2 release.

Credit 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.