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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–)

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Queen’s Men Editions

Page compiled by Peter Cockett. First published in the QME 1.0 anthology on the ISE platform. Converted to TEI-XML and remediated by the LEMDO Team for republication in the QME 2.0 anthology on the LEMDO platform.

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 Document Types All documents in LEMDO are either born-digital documents or primary documents. Within those two general categories, LEMDO offers additional ways to categorize a file. Born-digital Born-digital documents are anything other than primary texts About Documents about LEMDO or another anthology. Document History Various sources from which born-digital texts have made their way into the LEMDO collection. Original Source: XWiki This TEI file was created based on one or more supplementary files from the Internet Shakespeare Editions anthology, originally encoded in HTML and stored in the ISE’s XWiki system. Responsibilities Responsibilities Markup Editor MARC Code List for Relators definition: A person or organization performing the coding of SGML, HTML, or XML markup of metadata, text, etc. LEMDO uses this term for someone who encodes a file, remediates a converted text, or reviews the XML markup of a file. Compiler MARC Code List for Relators definition: A person, family, or organization responsible for creating a new work (e.g., a bibliography, a directory) through the act of compilation, e.g., selecting, arranging, aggregating, and editing data, information, etc. LEMDO uses the term compiler for the person who chooses and aggregates the resources included in an edition, if those resources are not all by the editor of the edition. The compiler and the editor may be the same person; in that case, the person needs two responsibility statements. font-style: italic; Published file. Final check. Added a space. Tagged names. Add a link to 3LL conference. Proofed metadata in HTML. Numbered paragraphs. Changed hi elements to title. Proofed page. Added editorialDecl element. Ran spellcheck and caught one typo. Changed status. Updated metadata Removed front element from born-digital documents that should not have one. Added metadata, licensed document for QME Converted document. Peer review arranged by QME Editorial Board Page added to the ISE XWiki. File pre-history unknown. Peter Cockett 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.

 Martin Holmes 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.

 Navarra Houldin 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.

 Janelle Jenstad 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.

 Oliver Jones Oliver Jones

Oliver Jones (Troublesome Reign of King John. performance) is Lecturer in Theatre at the Department of Theatre, Film and Television, University of York. His doctoral thesis combined theatre history, archaeological survey, and performance-as-research methodologies to investigate the Queen’s Men and the guildhall of Stratford-upon-Avon, and created a site-specific performance and video of The Troublesome Reign of King John.As Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Shakespeare’s Globe, now a member of the Globe’s Architectural Research Group, he undertook preparations for the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.With Michael Cordner he has produced stagings of John Marston’s The Dutch Courtesan(www.dutchcourtesan.co.uk) and associate-directed James Shirley’s Hyde Park.Recent publications appear in Shakespeare Bulletinand Andrew Gurr and Farah Karim-Cooper(eds), Moving Shakespeare Indoors (CUP, 2014). He can be contacted at oliver.jones@york.ac.uk.

 Jennifer Roberts-Smith Jennifer Roberts-Smith

Jennifer Roberts-Smith is an associate professor of theatre and performance at the University of Waterloo. Her interdisciplinary work in early modern performance editing combines textual scholarship, performance as research, archival theatre history, and design in the development of live and virtual renderings of early modern performance texts, venues, and practices. With Janelle Jenstad and Mark Beatrice Kaethler, she is co-editor of Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media: Old Words New Tools (2018). Her most recent work has focused on methods for design research that deepen interdisciplinary understanding and take a relational approach. She is currently managing director of the qCollaborative (the critical feminist design research lab housed in the University of Waterloo’s Games Institute, and leads the SSHRC-funded Theatre for Relationality and Design for Peace projects. She is also creative director and virtual reality development cluster lead for the Digital Oral Histories for Reconciliation (DOHR) project. She can be contacted at jennifer.roberts-smith@uwaterloo.ca.

 Joey Takeda 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.

 Paul Whitfield White Paul Whitfield White

Paul Whitfield White specializes in Shakespeare, medieval drama, and early modern drama and literature. His publications include recent articles on the Chester Cycle, Elizabethan Arthurian drama, and Robert Wilson’s plays, as well as the books Drama and Religion in English Provincial Society, 1485–1660; Theatre and Reformation: Protestantism, Patronage, and Playing in Tudor England; Marlowe, History, and Sexuality: New Critical Essays on Christopher Marlowe(edited collection); and Shakespeare and Theatrical Patronage in Early Modern England, collected and co-edited with Suzanne R. Westfall. He can be contacted at pwhite@purdue.edu.

 LEMDO Team 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. QME Editorial Board

The QME Editorial Board consists of Helen Ostovich, General Editor; Peter Cockett, General Editor (Performance); Andrew Griffin, General Editor (Text); and Janelle Jenstad General Editor (Text).
Performances

Through this menu you can access the video records of the modern productions directly, which presents an opportunity to experience the performances without prior knowledge of the printed text. The performances featured on the site are all research productions with their own objectives and agenda. They form part of a movement we now refer to as Performance as Research (PaR). Many of the directors are interested in how the plays might have been originally staged, but the productions should not be viewed as reconstructions of original performances. The performances are inescapably modern but provide a lively medium through which to re-imagine the plays of the Queen’s Men: what they might have meant in their time and how they make meanings in our time.

The video records of the PaR productions are integrated into the performance editions of the plays but can also be accessed directly through this menu. Information on the research objectives of each production are provided in introductory essays.

Overview of the PaR Productions

The list follows the chronological order of the modern productions, not the order of publication on this site. (Only the first three titles below have been published to date; they are linked to the production records for that play.)

Plays Performed for SQM Project The History of King Leir (2006): edition landing page; production records Famous Victories of Henry V (2006): edition landing page; production records Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay (2006): edition landing page; production records

The first three plays were performed in repertoire as the climax of the Shakespeare and the Queen’s Men (SQM) project. The plays were directed by Peter Cockett (McMaster University) who is also the performance editor for the editions. The productions were created through an experimental process designed to research the work and practices of the original Queen’s Men company. The modern company of actors assembled for the SQM project adopted the theatrical techniques and technologies of the early modern theatre, and the production notes in the editions examine what was learnt about the differences between a modern professional understanding of drama and the dramaturgy implied by the Queen’s Men plays. These performance editions build on the work presented in the teaching and interactive research site: Performing the Queen’s Men .

Further Productions

As QME grows towards completion, records of the following PaR productions will be added to the site along with our editions of the plays.

True Tragedy of Richard III (2008), directed by Jennifer Roberts-Smith (University of Waterloo). Troublesome Reign of King John (2009), directed by Oliver Jones (York University). Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes (2010), directed by Peter Cockett. The production furthered the SQM exploration of the impact on theatrical rehearsal and performance practices on the style of performance of the plays. Three Lords and Three Ladies of London (2015), directed by Richard Sullivan Lee in a research project designed by Paul W. White (Purdue). Three Ladies of London (2015), directed by Peter Cockett and presented at the as part of the conference Performance as Research in Early English Theatre Studies: <title level="m">Three Ladies of London in Context The QME team members hope the final two plays, Selimus and Old Wives’ Tale, will be staged in a future PaR conference.