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Early Modern Digital Scholarship & Deep: Database Of Early English Playbooks, Zachary Lesser, Alan B. Farmer
Early Modern Digital Scholarship & Deep: Database Of Early English Playbooks, Zachary Lesser, Alan B. Farmer
Zachary Lesser
This paper discusses recent trends in digital resources for early modern literary studies, as well as the implications of these resources for research and scholarship. In addition to comparing the use by scholars of print reference works and online databases, the essay analyzes the recent shift from 'first-generation' digital resources, such as the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) and Early English Books Online (EEBO), to newer 'second-generation' resources like DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks. Rather than strive for comprehensive coverage of early modern print culture, as ESTC and EEBO do, these 'second-generation' sites typically aim for in-depth coverage of …
The First Literary Hamlet And The Commonplacing Of Professional Plays, Zachary Lesser, Peter Stallybrass
The First Literary Hamlet And The Commonplacing Of Professional Plays, Zachary Lesser, Peter Stallybrass
Zachary Lesser
Considers the first ("bad") quarto of Hamlet as Shakespeare's first literary drama, in the context of the use of marginal commas and italics to indicate sententiae in printed professional drama.