CRC contributes to a major new Shakespeare resource

The Shakespeare Quartos Archive (http://www.blogger.com/www.quartos.org) is a digital collection of
pre-1642 editions of William Shakespeare's plays. In the absence of surviving manuscripts, the quartos offer the earliest known evidence of what Shakespeare might actually have written, and what appeared on the early modern English stage. A cross-Atlantic collaboration has produced an advanced interactive interface for the detailed study of these geographically distant and rare quartos. The first phase of the project provides full functionality for all thirty-two quarto copies of Hamlet held by participating institutions, including two very rare editions from Special Collections, Edinburgh University Library (the 3rd, 1611, and the 5th, 1637). As a result, many of the earliest Shakespeare quartos are now freely available for in-depth study to students of Shakespeare across the globe.
The project has been established as the result of joint support from the US National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and the UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC).