Shakespeare Quarto Archives
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The Shakespeare Quarto Archives provide open access to scholarly resources, including high-resolution images and searchable texts of Shakespeare's quartos, which are the earliest surviving copies of his works. This archive serves educators, literary scholars, and theatre professionals by offering tools for text analysis, comparison, and annotations. It facilitates the examination of variations across different editions of quartos, which are crucial given that no original manuscripts exist.
Shakespeare Quarto Archives
- 2. Scholarly Digital Libraries Provides online access across geographical boundaries Open access of freely available Furnishes materials held in various locations Supplies primary sources for a scholar, educator, student Images – captured in high resolution Text – transcribed and fully searchable Video – may be primary sources or tutorial
- 3. Shakespeare Quartos Archive Intended audience Literary scholars Theatre professionals – actors, directors, playwrights University students Educators
- 4. Value of Quartos No manuscripts survive Quartos are earliest extant copies from Shakespeare’s lifetime (1567-1616) They show what Shakespeare probably wrote About half of Shakespeare’s plays printed as quartos Quarto refers to the format or paper folding and leaves Formats include: folio, quarto, octavo, duodecimo
- 5. Uses of Shakespeare Archive Quartos are dispersed throughout the world Archive provides central point of accessing 32 quartos Scholars and researchers need to examine different editions for variations in text Archive provides electronic tools to analyze text Scholars need annotations and marginalia
- 6. Tools Enable Comparison between two or more texts Images of pages can be cropped and resized for study Search feature allows users to search across all editions Cue lines rendered in blue for staging prompts Site provides tools for notes, labels, and exhibitions
- 7. Examples of Functionality Select a library
- 8. Multiple Editions, Locations 1603 Edition, British Library
- 9. Multiple Editions, Locations 1637 Edition, National Library of Scotland
- 10. Compare Editions, Copies British Library, 1603 and Huntington Library, 1603
- 11. Compare Editions, Copies British Library, 1603; Huntington, 1603; Folger, 1604
- 12. Textual Comparison British Library, 1603 and British Library, 1605 Highlight indicates difference in text
- 13. Zoom and Details British Library, 1603 -- Zoom and Bleeding Ink
- 14. Zoom and Notes British Library, 1603 and Annotations
- 15. Search Across Texts Huntington, 1604; Search Across All Texts
- 16. Cue Lines -- Actors, Directors British Library, 1603; Cue Lines
- 17. Notation Features Bodleian Library 1622, Note with Label
- 18. Annotation, Print View Example of notes about possible printer’s errors as reason for variation
- 19. Digitization, Administrative Data Location of encoding – British Library and Folger Library
- 20. Thank you! Florence Paisey, Spring 2012