Brought to you by Fiona Ritchie and Johanna Schmitz
Shakespe
are 2016
ABOUT
HERE'S WHERE YOU COME IN
How this happened
We are academic collaborators who have been sharing our work with each other at conferences (including SAA and ASTR) for the last few years. We share a passion for archival records of Shakespearean performance. After chatting at the 2016 SAA meeting about the wealth of events being organised for the
“deathiversary” year we decided to start collecting and archiving data.
The task has grown in scale far beyond what we imagined and now we need your help!
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Please click "view collection" to be redirected to the archive and contribute to the project.
User Agreement
This is an open source collection. We hope that it sparks new research ideas for you.
Please confirm copyright use with the primary sources listed here and
attribute this collection in your scholarship.Thanks!
WHO WE ARE
No, we're not heroes - we are just doing our jobs.
Fiona Ritchie, PhD is an Associate Professor of Drama and Theatre in the Department of English at
McGill University. She is the author of Women and Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and the co-editor (with Peter Sabor) of Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2012). http://www.mcgill.ca/english/staff/fiona-ritchie
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Johanna Schmitz, PhD is an Associate Professor in Theater and Dance at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and archivist for the Rose Theatre Trust in London. Her article, "Per/forming Memorial:
Site-specific performances of Shakespeare's King Henry VIII" will appear in Shakespeare Bulletin
later this year (Winter 2016).
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We would like to acknowledge Catherine Nygren (McGill) and Jessica DeSpain (SIUE) for much needed
advice for building digital collections, and for the contributions from our research assistants
Jodi Litvin (McGill) and Ashley B. (SIUE).
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Find us at the World Shakespeare Congress in Stratford-upon-Avon or London!
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