The Shakespearean Kaleidoscope and the Idea of "Editioning"
Peter Paolucci, Ph.D.
July 2009 (originally written January 2007)
Toronto, ON
The Shakespeare XML Project (SXP) stands at the crossroads of two converging specializations: editorial studies in Shakespeare and Human Computer Interaction (HCI), and it does so at a time when Web 2.0 technologies are substantially altering the core beliefs that have calcified over the first twenty years of the WWW's development. A web-based rendering of a Shakespearean play is just as much an edition as a website. This dual citizenship necessarily means web editions should equally engage editorial best practices as well as the heuristics of interface design. The disposition of all these convergences has been a catalyst for the SXP's constructive response to current editorial controversies in Shakespeare scholarship, and in so doing, it also challenges the TEI's markup Guidelines for literary texts. No current web-editions seem to be responding to these new challenges in the way that the SXP has been.
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Coordinating editor: Dr. Peter Paolucci
Email: editors@shakespearexml.ca or shakes@yorku.ca.
York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, ON
Office: 306 Calumet College
Tel: 416-736-2100 x33281
Special Thanks
Funding for this project was generously provided by the Faculty of Arts, York University, Toronto, Canada and by The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (Small Grants Program).
Thanks Melissa Dalgleish, Regi Khokher, Sonia Strimban, Nicole Renee Pereira, Mark Wadman, Tianshi Li, Xiaoli (Shirley) Hu, and Boze Zekan.
Thanks also to Derek Allard at Dark Horse Consulting and Code Igniter
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