1st Edition

Shakespeare's Language in Digital Media Old Words, New Tools

216 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

216 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

216 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The authors of this book ask how digital research tools are changing the ways in which practicing editors historicize Shakespeare's language. Scholars now encounter, interpret, and disseminate Shakespeare's language through an increasing variety of digital resources, including online editions such as the Internet Shakespeare Editions (ISE) , searchable lexical corpora such as the Early English... Read more

Introduction

Part I Old Words through New Tools: Re-reading Shakespeare with EEBO-TCP and LEME

1. Beyond the OED Loop: Digital Resources and the Arden 3 Cymbeline

Valerie Wayne

2. Shakespeare’s Hard Words, and Our Hard Senses

Ian Lancashire and Elisa Tersigni

3. Terms of Art in Law and Herbals

Daniel Aureliano Newman

4. "Strangers Enfranchised": Shakespeare’s Hamlet and the Mother Tongue

Elizabeth Bernath

Part II Old Words, New Worlds: Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Editions

5. Text, Performance, and Multidisciplinarity: On a Digital Edition of King Leir

Andrew Griffin

6. A Digital Parallel-Text Approach to Performance Historiography

Toby Malone

Part III Olds Words, New Codes: Shakespeare and the Language of Markup

7. Storing and Accessing Knowledge: Digital Tools for the Study of Early Modern Drama

Laura Estill and Andie Silva

8. Past Texts, Present Tools, and Future Critics: Toward Rhetorical Schematics

Michael Ullyot and Adam Bradley

9. Internet Shakespeare Editions and the Infinite (Editorial) Others: Supporting Critical Tagsets for Linked Editions

Diane Jakacki

Afterword: Editing Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media

Bibliography

Biography

Janelle Jenstad is Associate Professor in the Department of English, University of Victoria, Canada.

Mark Kaethler is an English Instructor at Medicine Hat College, Canada.

Jennifer Roberts-Smith is Assistant Professor and Associate Chair, Theatre and Performance in the Department of Drama and Speech Communication, University of Waterloo, Canada.