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        Date: 2025-04-14 16:17:53+00:00
        From: James Cummings <James.Cummings@newcastle.ac.uk>
        Subject: ATNU Virtual Speaker Series - Janelle Jenstad - 2025-04-23 - "From Macbeth to Mucedorus: Changing how we Edit and Publish Early Modern Plays"

Animating Text
Newcastle University

ATNU Virtual Speaker Series - Janelle Jenstad - 2025-04-23
https://research.ncl.ac.uk/atnu/news/atnuvirtualspeakerseries-
janellejenstad-2025-04-23.html

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.)

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"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!]
https://research.ncl.ac.uk/atnu/news/atnuvirtualspeakerseries-
janellejenstad-2025-04-23.html


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 https://janellejenstad.com for
more information.

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​Many Thanks,
James
--
Dr James Cummings, Reader in Digital Textual Studies and Late-Medieval
Literature,
School of English, Newcastle University


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