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 will 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 Incorporated

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.

President and Coordinating Editor

Michael Best

Vice-President and Communications Director

Roberta Livingstone

Secretary and representative of the IDC and the University of Victoria

Tim Walzak

More about the ISE Incorporated

Awards

• 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: http://www.britac.ac.uk/portal/
• Winner of a Golden Globe award for web design:
  
• Internet Guide Award from Britannica.
  
• Yahoo Canada's "Pick of the week, May 24, 1999.
  
• This site is listed in the BBC Education Web Guide.
• Listed as a research resource by the Open University (UK).
  
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• The "Bess" award from Richard Bear's Renascence Editions.
• Spotlight Award from BookSpot.com
• Historic and Cultural Heritage Award:
  

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	Athabasca University	Oracle Corporation Canada
This site is a supporter of the Blue Ribbon Online Free Speech Campaign.

The Foyer

The structure and design of the Editions

• Advisory Boards
  • The Editorial Board
  • Advisory Board on the acquisition of performance materials
  • Advisory Board on theater history and database design
• The general aims and structure of the Editions
• Guidelines for submitting proposals
• Guidelines for the acquisition of performance materials
• Extracts from the Editorial Guidelines for the Internet Shakespeare
• Principles of tagging the electronic texts
• A statement approved by the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Victoria concerning the recognition of research that involves the electronic medium

See also the page on the Internet Shakespeare Editions as a non-profit organization.

The Library

The Library contains fully refereed materials only.

• Texts
  • The old-spelling transcription of Cymbeline
  • The old-spelling transcriptions of Troilus and Cressida, Quarto and Folio
  • The old-spelling transcription of Romeo and Juliet (Quarto 2)
  • The old-spelling transcription of Venus and Adonis
• Resources
  • An extensive exploration of Shakespeare's Life and Times

• The texts of the plays, with commentary, and electronic versions of the originals
• Supporting critical materials
• Editions of Renaissance works of relevance in Shakespeare studies
• Theatrical and performance archives

The Theater

The Theater will contain a growing database of performance records, both from collections and archives of historical collections, and from current productions of participating companies, festivals, and Theater departments.

As an introduction to the kinds of materials that will be made available, the site currently provides a series of illustrative pages developed from a recent production of Romeo and Juliet by the Theatre Department at the University of Victoria.

• English version
• French version

The Annex

The Annex makes available various materials in a more informal format: drafts, discussions, and non-refereed texts that will nonetheless be useful to Shakespeare scholars.

• Transcriptions of Folio and Quarto texts
• Some articles on electronic editions
  • The Table of Contents of a special issue of Early Modern Literary Studies devoted to "The Internet Shakespeare: Opportunities in a New Medium," linked to the articles.
• A list of Internet resources useful in Shakespeare studies, and
• A record of discussion on some issues related to the ISE.