Scholarly Articles on Shakespeare and the Internet

The following articles can be accessed from this page:

• "Monitoring Electronic Shakespeares," a special issue of Early Modern Literary Studies (March 2004), edited by Michael Best and Eric Rasmussen. Five of the articles deal with the Internet Shakespeare Editions.
• "Silver Currents: Bringing Shakespeare to (Computer) Screen." A paper prepared for the seminar "Bringing Shakespeare to Book," Shakespeare Association of America, 2004
• A special issue of Early Modern Literary Studies  devoted to a discussion of the Internet Shakespeare Editions.
• Abstracts for "Monitoring Electronic Shakespeare," a paper session to be held at the Shakespeare Association of America, in Victoria, BC, April 2003
• Abstracts for a special session for the conference of the Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society, to be held in Nanaimo, May 2003
• "Teaching Shakespeare to Judith: Gender Politics In Distance / Online Teaching." Paper presented to a seminar at the Shakespeare Association of America, 2000.
• "A Mazèd World: Connecting, Selecting and Internetting Shakespeare Performances." A hypertext paper prepared for a seminar at the Shakespeare Association of America, 1999.
• "Dancing Chips: Computers and Shakespeare's Text." Paper presented to the Shakespeare Association of America, 1998, as part of a session on "The Electronic Text as Tool in Research and Teaching."
• "What's Mine Is Mine and What Is Yours Is Yours: The Politics of Copyright on the Internet." Paper presented to a seminar at the Shakespeare Association of America, 1997.
• "Scholarly Editions of Shakespeare for the Internet." Paper presented to a seminar at the Shakespeare Association of America, 1996.
• A proposal for a modular, self-directed, introductory course in Humanities Computing. Paper presented at conference on Humanities Computing in Nanaimo, BC, November 2001.

Also available:

• A summary of discussion about the recent rediscovery of a possible portratit of Shakespeare (the "Sanders" portrait)
• The images used in the presentation of recent papers are available here:
  • " 'A Kind of Yeasty Collection': Organizing Collaboration in the Internet Shakespeare Editions." Discussion paper as part of a panel presented at the meeting of the Association for Computers and the Humanities, University of Victoria, June 2005.
  • "Working with Early Modern Electronic Texts." Renaissance Society of America, Cambridge 2005.
  • "Sharing Performance on the Web." A presentation for the Shakespeare Theatre Association of America, Vancouver, January 2005.
  • "Show Me Your Image in Some Antique Book." Paper to be presented at the CASTA conference, McMaster University, November 2004
  • "Visibly Charactered: Binary Objects as Text in the Internet Shakespeare Editions." Renaissance Society of America, New York 2004.
  • " 'Is this a vision? is this a dream?': Finding new dimensions in Shakespeare's texts." Paper presented at the CASTA conference, University of Victoria, November 2003
  • "A Most Rare Vision: The Internet Shakespeare Editions." Paper to be presented at COCH/COSH in Halifax, May 2003, and the ACH conference in Athens Georgia, June 2003.
  • "Seeking Simplicity in Multiplicity: Exploring Spaces in the Electronic Text." Paper for the Shakespeare Association of America, Miami, 2001.
  • "Dot Shakespeare: 'This [electronic] O'." Paper for the International Shakespeare Congress, Valencia, 2001.
  • "Standing in Rich Place: Electrifying the Multiple-Text Edition, Or, Every Text is Multiple." Paper for the Shakespeare Association of America, Minnesota, 2002.
  • Notes for a paper at the Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association, February 2002.
• Notes for a presentation at the conference of the Shakespeare Theatre Association of America, 2000, in Washington DC.
• Notes for a plenary talk at a joint session between the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Consortium for Computers in the Humanities (COCH/COSH), in Toronto, May 2002.