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American Shakespeare Center, Love's Labour's Lost. To Jun. 15, 2013.
Folger Shakespeare Library, Twelfth Night. To Jun. 9, 2013.
American Shakespeare Center, Twelfth Night. To Jun. 16, 2013.
American Shakespeare Center, Return to the Forbidden Planet. To Dec. 1, 2013.
American Shakespeare Center, The Duchess of Malfi. To Jun. 15, 2013.
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Policy on Quality Content

Mission

Today's web presents many challenges and questions for scholars, students, and teachers seeking a reliable and multi-layered resource that they can use. The ISE has from the beginning had the highest standards of academic development in mind – and these standards are overseen and maintained by an distinguished editorial board from around the world.

The Internet Shakespeare Editions publishes only high quality materials. Our aim is to provide our world-wide audience with the best in Shakespeare scholarship and performance on a site that is freely available. The ISE is a non-profit corporation affiliated with the University of Victoria, British Columbia.

Items published on the site are subject to differing levels of review, depending on their location: the Library, the Annex, and the Theater. You can tell where you are in the site from the section in the menu that is highlighted.

What will you find in the Library?

All materials published in the Library of the site have been fully peer-reviewed, to the same standard expected of traditional scholarly presses. Under the leadership of our General Textual Editor, Eric Rasmussen, our Editorial Board recommends senior scholars in the field to review all work before it is published.

What will you find in the Annex?

At the same time, we take advantage of the flexibility of the Web as a medium that can publish works in progress, so that our audience can access materials that have not yet been fully reviewed. All materials published in the Annex have been approved by the Coordinating Editor, Michael Best, and are judged to be of sufficient academic quality for them to appear on the site.

Note: the comments contained in the Discussion area of the Annex are not reviewed. This area, under construction, will allow visitors to the site to participate by commenting on the published materials, and on other topics of interest to readers of Shakespeare. The Internet Shakespeare Editions takes no responsibility for items posted in the Discussion area.

What will you find in the Theater?

The database of Shakespeare in Performance records productions of Shakespeare from reputable theaters, festivals, and theater departments from around the world. It also records historical materials that provide information about the performance and reception of Shakespeare in earlier periods.

What will you find in the Foyer?

The Foyer outlines the aims and administrative structures of the ISE. No scholarly work is published in this section of the site.

Citing pages from the Internet Shakespeare Editions

All content on this site is suitable for citing in academic work.

The general format for citing pages on the Web is as follows:

  1. Author or Editor if there is one (this will be indicated on the home page of the section, and is often cited on each page).
  2. Title of the page (all ISE pages have a heading as title).
  3. Publisher (in this case Internet Shakespeare Editions, University of Victoria).
  4. Date of most recent update (found at the bottom of each page)
  5. URL (the Internet address of the page, found at the top of your browser).

The citation for this page would be this:

Best, Michael. "Policy on Quality Content." Internet Shakespeare Editions, University of Victoria, 2010. <http://ise.uvic.ca/Foyer/quality.html>.