Centre for Digital Humanities

The Fortune Theatre Records Prototype Digital Edition project

Dec 05, 2011

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Elizabethan Stage, a speculative reconstruction of the Fortune Theatre based on the construction contract for the original Fortune.

The Fortune Theatre Records Prototype Digital Edition project, of which our Centre for Digital Humanities’ Associate Director Dr Jason Boyd is a key member, has been awarded an Andrew R. Mellon Foundation grant. The one-year grant is for $102,700. Besides Dr Boyd, the project’s team consists of personnel from Records of Early English Drama (REED), the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College, London, the University of Toronto Libraries, and the UK-based publisher Boydell & Brewer. The grant will fund an essential prototyping stage that will use the records relating to London's Fortune Theatre (one of the most important early performance venues from the forthcoming REED collection Middlesex including Westminster) to develop and explore new protocols, workflows, data formats and software. This material will support work to make REED’s future and past collections accessible online in digital form and integrated with REED-related resources such as the Patrons and Performances Web Site and Early Modern London Theatres (EMLoT).