Internet Shakespeare Editions

07/31/2023

The Internet Shakespeare Editions King Lear has now been published by Broadview Press, co-edited by ISE founder Michael Best and former general performance editor Alexa Alice Joubin. This is Michael Best's life's work. If you teach, please consider requesting an exam copy at https://broadviewpress.com/product/king-lear-ed-best-joubin/ This edition offers an extensive global performance history along with a distinctive “extended” text, taking the Folio as a starting point and adding the lines that appear only in the Quarto, distinguished by a light gray background. Variations in individual words that are of critical interest are recorded in the margin.

04/10/2023

Former Internet Shakespeare Editions general performance editor Alexa Alice Joubin was named the inaugural recipient of the bell hooks Legacy Award which recognizes her achievements in research, teaching, and service, particularly her efforts to “dismantle intersectional systems of oppression with the distinct goals of uplifting members of historically marginalized populations and striving for social justice, all while teaching compassion and love.”

Alexa Alice Joubin, a scholar of critical race theory, feminism, and transgender, performance, and film studies, was named the inaugural recipient of the bell hooks Legacy Award on April 7, 2023. The Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association (PCA / ACA) established the award to co...

08/14/2018

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07/17/2018

The ISE site will likely be unavailable on Sunday, July 22 from 6-10 a.m [UTC-8]. All online services hosted at UVic—including websites—will be inaccessible from off campus. This planned outage is to facilitate required maintenance by BCNET.

07/10/2018

Congratulations to our sibling project, the Queen's Men Editions. Their beautiful new site went live today. QME has added video of their productions of the rarely performed plays that form the QME's remit. You'll also find additional contextual materials and new textual content (annotations, collations, and modern texts). http://qme.internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/ (JJ)

Queen's Men Editions is a collaborative site, created by an international body of scholars, theater practitioners, and digital developers, all working to achieve the same goals: to inspire a love of early theatre beyond Shakespeare; to recover the plays associated with the Queen's Men in particular....

12/20/2017

Happy holidays from ISE North and ISE South to our ISE friends and contributors around the globe!

12/18/2017

New on the ISE site: David Bevington's encyclopedic list of "Myths and Allusions in Hamlet." Covering "Ancient history and mythology," "Tales, customs and learning," "The world of the Elizabethan theater," and "Religion and Philosophy," this substantial addition includes 148 entries with links to relevant passages in Professor Bevington's fine edition of Hamlet. In his usual deft prose, he captures a lifetime of learning and teaching. Entries range from Achilles to Zeno, adultery to woodcocks, Betterton to Webster, and angels to Wittenberg. Congratulations to Professor Bevington on his contribution, and thanks to Michael Best and Jasmeen Boparai for their work on the digital markup.

Hamlet's recital of a speech to the Players, which is then continued by the First Player, is a blank-verse tragic composition written by Shakespeare as a partial redaction of Virgil's Aeneid, a Latin epic poem written ca. 29-19 BCE.

09/18/2017

"Robin & Mark & Richard III" is the story of an unusual collaboration between master theatre director, Robin Phillips and gifted comedian, Mark…

08/20/2017

Jessica Slights, scion of fine scholarly stock, has produced a fantastic edition of Othello. Keep your eyes peeled for the Broadview Press print version!

03/23/2017

The DRE editors, Brett Greatley-Hirsch and Kevin Quarmby, invite everyone coming to Atlanta for the SAA to the OESA student production of Fair Em. Performed at Oxford College of Emory University under the direction of Elizabeth Johnson, THREE performances of Fair Em will be presented. Based on the DRE modernized text http://digitalrenaissance.uvic.ca/Annex/Texts/FairEm/
this site-specific production will be staged Thursday April 6th and Friday April 7th at 7:00 pm, and Sunday April 9 at 1:00 pm, in Oxford College's historic Candler Hall.
Free admission.
For queries concerning transport to/from the Oxford campus, email [email protected]

12/09/2016

Here's hoping this production becomes as RSC livecast so we can enjoy it around the world! (JJ)

http://iq.intel.com/cinematic-special-effects-come-to-live-theater/?sf45355391=1

A digital reinvention of Ariel is set to wow live audiences with cinematic special effects in Shakespeare's birthplace and home of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre.

11/02/2016

ISE Editor Sarah Neville has a wonderful essay on the Shakespeare-Marlowe collaboration in the current issue of The Walrus. Here's a tantalizing excerpt: "Even before the advent of modern attribution methods, the play’s general messiness resulted in 1 Henry VI long having been suspected as featuring the work of as many as four authors, each responsible for separate portions of the play. On the title page of 1 Henry VI that I edited for the New Oxford Shakespeare, Marlowe joins not only Shakespeare but also Thomas Nashe, the figure researchers generally agree is responsible for the play’s first act. Critics may think that such title page attribution is nothing more than window-dressing designed to promote controversy, but new developments in authorial attribution fundamentally change the approach editors take to a text."

http://thewalrus.ca/did-shakespeare-write-his-plays/ (JJ)

Why Christopher Marlowe deserves co-credit on multiple works by the bard