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ATNU Virtual Speaker Series - Janelle Jenstad - 2025-04-23
Our next speaker in the ATNU Virtual Speaker Series is Janelle Jenstad from the University of Victoria who will talk to us about "From Macbeth to Mucedorus: Changing how we Edit and Publish Early Modern Plays".
Join us on Wednesday 23 April 2025 at 6pm UK time. (We will send the zoom link to all registered attendees shortly before the event.)
"From Macbeth to Mucedorus: Changing how we Edit and Publish Early Modern Plays"
Janelle Jenstad (University of Victoria)
Wednesday 23 April 2025
6pm (BST) (10am PT, 1pm ET) [Check your timezone here!]
IF YOU MISSED THIS TALK A RECORDING OF IT IS AVAILABLE HERE!
Abstract:
Shakespeare’s corpus represents just 1% of the known Early Modern plays but his works dominate publishers’ catalogues, scholarly criticism, public performance, and our classrooms. The economics of publishing have perpetuated a situation where it’s difficult to teach, perform, or analyze anything outside a small canon of plays that will generate a profit for the publisher. 'Linked Early Modern Drama Online' (LEMDO) aims to change this situation via a new publishing model that makes open editions available in digital, PDF, and print formats. When we make it as easy to read and teach Mucedorus as Macbeth, we see immediate uptake in classrooms and rehearsal halls. This talk will justify LEMDO’s objective to provide open-access editions of every surviving early modern text (1512-166), argue for a collaborative editorial practice, and describe our mechanism for publishing editions in sustainable digital anthologies, downloadable PDFs, and print-on-demand books. In addition to changing performance, critical, and pedagogical possibilities for early modern plays, LEMDO aims to model a new, non-commercial, stable publishing model that liberates us from the conventional modes of disseminating editions.
Bio:
Janelle Jenstad is Professor of English and Academic Director of the Humanities Computing and Media Centre, University of Victoria in Canada. She is the founder and director of both 'The Map of Early Modern London' and 'Linked Early Modern Drama Online', For the latter, she is Co-Coordinating Editor of the 'Digital Renaissance Editions', 'New Internet Shakespeare Editions', and 'MoEML Mayoral Shows Project'. She co-edited 'Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media' (Routledge) and has published widely on book history, digital humanities, editorial praxis, and early modern drama. See janellejenstad.com for more information.
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