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Congratulations! This is quite an accomplishment. I have shared the announcement with our Shakespeare faculty. Elza C. Tiner On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 5:39 PM Sarah MacLean <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > The Records of Early English Drama is pleased to announce a new open > access resource for teaching, research, and further development. The *Rose > Playhouse Prototype, *edited by Sally-Beth MacLean*,* is an integrated > digital edition of historical records relating to Philip Henslowe's Rose > playhouse, the first of its kind on the south bank of the Thames. The text > is linked with images of original manuscript sources from the London > Metropolitan Archives and The National Archives, Kew, as well as with > relevant images on the *Henslowe-Alleyn Digitisation Project *website. > Appendix 1, 'Early Little Rose Property Records,' with an introduction and > full transcriptions, has been contributed by William Ingram. The records, > historical introduction, and notes include links to other open access > datasets such as *The Token Books of St Saviour Southwark *and* the Lost > Plays Database*. The prototype is intended to stimulate interest in the > production of London area playhouse editions for the REED series. > > > > The *Rose Playhouse Prototype* is now available on *REED Online* at > https://ereed.library.utoronto.ca and > https://ereed.library.utoronto.ca/collections/rosep/. > > > > Byron Moldofsky, the cartographer, has developed a historically-informed > GIS map of Southwark and the Bankside in the context of the wider pre-1642 > London area interoperable with locations named in the *Rose Playhouse* > text. A complementary proof of concept Rose Playhouse Timeline Demo has > been uploaded to the REED Project website, also linked to records in the *Rose > Playhouse Prototype* edition. > > > > At a future stage, funding permitting, we plan to add a user interface > that will include a timeline widget to allow users to highlight and/or > track changes to features referred to in the records over the active > lifespan of the Rose playhouse. Features such as contemporary roads and > lanes, polygons delimiting property boundaries, identifiable sewer lines, > and layers to indicate manor, ward, and parish boundaries will then be > accessible as the user requests. > > > > The timeline demo is now available at > https://reed.utoronto.ca/rose-playhouse-timeline-demo/ > > > > > > > > -- Professor of Latin & English School of Humanities College of Arts & Sciences University of Lynchburg Lynchburg, VA 24501