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I think all these suggestions about hypertext links in dramatic texts for teaching are very interesting (and in fact tie in with Leslie Harris' paper earlier today to a certain extent) but there's one word no-one has mentioned which I feel obliged to bring up. Copyright. Right now, issues of copyright and fair use are the real stumbling blocks to creating the most useful hypertextual teaching aids, as far as I can see. If Alan were to take Larry's suggestion, for example, and use the latest edition in EETS for his Web page, he might be in violation of the copyright on that edition. I don't _know_, because I don't know if anyone has yet worked out exactly what defines allowable 'fair use' in these kinds of situations. But if you look at what Project Gutenberg has done, they've had to create their e-texts from older, out of copyright, editions to get around this problem. The on-line Thesaurus Linguae Graecae has had lots of problems with copyright holders of the editions of classical authors they used. It makes it really hard to produce something based on up-to-date modern scholarship in a publicly accessible electronic or hyper-textual form unless, of course, you're the copyright holder! Does anyone know how the group which has been working on the hypertext Shepheardes Calendar has been approaching this problem? Abigail