04.Feb.2010 The tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke: an electronic edition

i saw the Shakespeare Quartos Archive looking over the shoulder of a woman in the computer lab. She was surreptitiously submitting transcriptions of hard to read fonts in one of the folios. Usually when I’m looking at something I’m not supposed to, it’s not as highbrow.

The Shakespeare Quartos Archive is a digital collection of pre-1642 editions of William Shakespeare’s plays. A cross-Atlantic collaboration has also produced an interactive interface for the detailed study of these geographically distant quartos, with full functionality for all thirty-two quarto copies of Hamlet held by participating institutions.