The Herald: December 2014

This issue of The Herald features several articles on the expansion of our team. Specialized areas of our site will have dedicated scholars ensuring that they are kept fully up to date. There is also a discussion of the challenges of archiving in digital media, and of recent developments on the site. We treat you to some examples of the way Shakespeare keeps turning up in the news—including some surprising information about his presence on Twitter.

• Ruminating on time and the need for archives: a word from the Coordinating Editor
• Top scholars to revise the Life and Times section of the site
• Kevin Quarmby takes the helm at the ISE Chronicle
• Welcome to our regional editors
• Introducing Paul Faber, ISE Music Editor
• Shakespeare in the news:
  • The discovery of a copy of the 1623 First Folio
  • Shakespeare sparks flash mob
  • An online Magna Carta?
  • New plays to which Shakespeare may have contributed
  • To weep or not to weep
  • Shakespeare on film
• Shakespeare tweeteth