About the Internet Shakespeare Editions

The aim of the Internet Shakespeare Editions is to inspire a love of Shakespeare's works in a world-wide audience.
To do so, we create and publish works for the student, scholar, actor, and general reader in a form native to the medium of the Internet: scholarly, fully annotated texts of Shakespeare's plays, multimedia explorations of the context of Shakespeare's life and works, and records of his plays in performance.

The Internet Shakespeare Editions (ISE) was founded in 1996 at the University of Victoria by the Coordinating Editor, Michael Best. Its academic development has been overseen by a distinguished Editorial Board, headed by our General Textual Editor, Eric Rasmussen (University of Nevada, Reno). In 1999, the ISE became a non-profit corporation. The database of Shakespeare in Performance has been headed since 2006 by Paul Prescott (University of Warwick).

There is a fuller discussion of the history of the site on this page.

On these pages you can learn more about:

• How to use the site
• Our editorial principles and guidelines
• Our advisory and editorial boards
• Our team of editors
• The technical design of the site

The Internet Shakespeare Editions (ISE) is a non-profit corporation, created by letters patent of the Federal Government of Canada. It is affiliated with the University of Victoria both through its academic structure and through the support of the Innovation Development Corporation (IDC), the developmental arm of the University.

More about the ISE Incorporated

The Internet Shakespeare Editions are made possible by support from:

The University of Victoria	The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada	Innovation Development Corporation

To contact us, you can write to:

Internet Shakespeare Editions
Department of English
University of Victoria
Victoria B.C. V8W 3W1
Canada

Phone:

+1 (250) 472-4333

Email:

iseadmin@uvic.ca

• Selected for inclusion in the Portal developed by the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The Portal is a directory designed as an entry point to academic resources available online for researchers working in higher education.
• Internet Guide Award from Britannica.
• Yahoo Canada's "Pick of the week, May 24, 1999.
• Listed as a research resource by the Open University (UK).
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• The "Bess" award from Richard Bear's Renascence Editions.
• StudySphere award:
• Spotlight Award from BookSpot.com
• Historic and Cultural Heritage Award:

This page last updated on 12 October 2005. © Internet Shakespeare Editions 1996-2005.