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Programmer, 2018-present. Junior Programmer, 2015-2017. Research Assistant, 2014-2017. Joey Takeda was a graduate student at the University of British Columbia in the Department of English (Science and Technology research stream). He completed his BA honours in English (with a minor in Women’s Studies) at the University of Victoria in 2016. His primary research interests included diasporic and indigenous Canadian and American literature, critical theory, cultural studies, and the digital humanities.
Data Manager, 2015-2016. Research Assistant, 2013-2015. Tye completed his undergraduate honours degree in English at the University of Victoria in 2015.
Research Assistant, 2010. At the time of his work with MoEML, Liam Sarsfield was a fourth-year honours English student at the University of Victoria. He now works at MetaLab.
Director of Pedagogy and Outreach, 2015–2020. Associate Project Director, 2015. Assistant Project Director, 2013-2014. MoEML Research Fellow, 2013. Kim McLean-Fiander comes to
Janelle Jenstad is Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director of
Edgar Yuanbo Mao received his B.A in English Language and Literature from Peking University, China, and his M.Phil in English (Literary Studies) from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is currently a D.Phil candidate in English literature (1500-1800) in the Faculty of English, University of Oxford. His doctoral research focuses on the literary and historical contexts of the Rose playhouse on the Bankside, London (1587- c.1606). His wider research interests include cultural and literary theory, early modern English drama, theatre history, and the multiple facets of the intellectual history as well as the rich material culture of the early modern period.
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Programmer at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC). Martin ported the MOL project from its original PHP incarnation to a pure eXist database implementation in the fall of 2011. Since then, he has been lead programmer on the project and has also been responsible for maintaining the project schemas. He was a co-applicant on MoEML’s 2012 SSHRC Insight Grant.
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Playwright, poet, and author.
Theatre financier. Husband of
Playwright and poet.
Playwright and poet.
Playwright.
Described by Weinreb as redolent of squalor and vice
(Weinreb 39), London’s Bankside district in Southwark was known for its taverns, brothels and playhouses in the early modern period. However, in approximately
The city of London, not to be confused with the allegorical character (
According to Weinreb, Hibbert, Keay, and Keay, the Fortune was built for
The Globe was the open-air, public theatre in which
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Built in 1587 by theatre financier
Despite its small size, the Rose was a hub of
theatrical activity. Its popularity was partly due to its location; falling
outside of the jurisdiction of the City of London, Bankside was a locus for brothels, inns, animal-baiting arenas,
public gardens, and fishing pools (White
305). Relatively free of civic interference and surrounded by
pleasure-seeking crowds, the Rose did very well,
staging works by such playwrights as
The 1590s were comparatively early days for London playhouses. So-called
Activity at the Rose began to decline in 1600, when
Henslowe turned his attention to his newly constructed Fortune Playhouse, located in London’s northern suburbs (Egan). Meanwhile, competition had
sprung up in the form of the Globe theatre, which
was built a mere fifty yards away from the Rose
(Gurr,
For information about the Rose, a modern map marking the site where the it once stood, and a walking tour that will take you to the site, visit the