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Queen’s Men Editions

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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 Bibliography Bibliographies and reference lists. 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. Published file. Resolved comments Corrected order of entries. Changed title to Suggested Readings. Added div for pedagogical readings. Added a note at the top. Removed listBibl for project citations and put it in qme_bibliography. Changed name to Bibliography, split into bibliography and suggested readings listBibls. Updated metadata Removed front element from born-digital documents that should not have one. Changed xml id from emdFoyer_bibliography to qme_reading. Moved file from qme/about to qme/resources. Organized lb-separated items into bibl entries and encoded them lightly. Converted document. Peer review arranged by QME Editorial Board 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.

 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.

 Chambers, E.K. The Elizabethan Stage. 4 vols. Clarendon Press, 1923; rpt. 1967. Eccles, Mark. Shakespeare in Warwickshire. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1961. WSB aav113. 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. 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 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 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. Staging the Jew: Playing with the text of <title level="m">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. 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. <quote>Our sport shall be to take what they mistake</quote>: 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. 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. 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).

 Queen’s Men Editions QME

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–)

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. 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 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 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. <quote>Our sport shall be to take what they mistake</quote>: 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 <title level="m">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.