This website:

• proposes an innovative teaching and learning tool for contextualising the period (see the timeline), and for engaging with the playtexts (see key fragments)
• makes available an informed space for academic research on the Jacobethans - focusing both on critical history and performance reconstruction and archiving
• invites and provides templates for new forms of assignment for student work on the plays, the playwrights and the period
• allows for creative exploration of the performance element in the study of the Jacobethans

 

This open-access resource on the page and stage history of five Jacobethan playwrights and nine of their plays combines:

• interactive databases

• hypertext and performative readings of play fragments

• performance reconstruction and archiving

• up-to-date bibliographies

• discussion fora