Mayoral Shows: Outcomes, Objectives, Deliverables

Outcomes

  • Teachers and students will be able to teach and read the shows in classrooms.
  • Scholars will produce a new wave of scholarship on these occasional texts, drawing on the historical records, eyewitness accounts, and visual materials in our editions.
  • Geohumanists will generate new insights about place and cultural performance.

Objectives

  • Publish the full anthology of mayoral shows.
  • Prototype the edition of the event.
  • Break the book to create the polychronic peripatetic edition.

Deliverables

Content

  • Transcription guidelines (Y1)
  • Finding aid for extant mayoral shows in libraries (YI)
  • Revised editorial declaration for shows (YI)
  • Revised encoding declaration (YI)
  • Finding aid and list of eyewitness accounts (YI)
  • High-resolution digital scans of all 32 printed books (by Y2)
  • Images of Fishmongers’ production of Chrysanaleia (Y2, pending permission)
  • Transcriptions (and translations) of eyewitness accountsw for selected shows (Y4)
  • 32 old-spelling diplomatic transcriptions (by Y5)
  • 7 (at least) or 9 (ideally) critical introductions to the shows (by Y5)
  • Transcriptions of livery company records for selected shows (Y5)
  • Transcriptions or scans of Malone Collections III and Collections V (Y5)

Digital Tools

  • Facsimile viewer (Y2)
  • Encoding mechanisms for tagging place of performance, using Triumphs of Truth as proof of concept (by Y2)
  • An anthology builder tool (Y3)
  • A TEI model for the event edition (by Y4)
  • A mechanism for rendering an event edition (Y5)

References

  • Citation

    Robertson, Jean, and D. J. Gordon, eds. Collections, Vol. III: A Calendar of Dramatic Records in the Books of the Livery Companies of London, 1485–1640. Oxford: Malone Society, 1954. Print.

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  • Citation

    Robertson, Jean, and D. J. Gordon, eds. Collections, Vol. V: A Calendar of Dramatic Records in the Books of the London Clothworkers’ Company (Addenda to Collections III). Oxford: Malone Society, 1959–1960. Print.

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