- [Narrator] Welcome.
This video will provide a brief overview
of the digital New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare,
or the digital NVS.
In 2019, the Modern Language Association's Executive Council
awarded the Center of Digital Humanities Research
at Texas A&M university a grant to publish
NVS editions online,
making them freely available to scholars, educators,
students, and performers via an open access
interactive web application.
The digital NVS editions that I'm about to show you
contain the complete text of each play,
along with a full collation of textual notes
from the earliest editions to the present,
including extensive previous commentary.
Our homepage features two NVS additions that are now
available online,
The Winter's Tale and A Midsummer Night's Dream.
As well as title pages for additions that are currently
in production.
Clicking on a play's title page provides access
to that addition's content,
including the variorum reader where you can view
the play text, textual notes and commentary notes
in three different panels.
The front matter, that includes the editor's preface
and plan of work.
The bibliography, which provides an alphabetical list
by author's last name of all scholarly and critical works
that are quoted from or referred to
anywhere in the addition.
And the appendix, where you can find information
on a irregular, doubtful, and emended accidentals,
unadopted conjectures, authenticity, printers reliability,
early additions, dates of composition, sources, criticism,
historical performances, and in The Winter's Tale,
music.
Each edition's content can also be accessed by clicking
on the play's title, under NVS digital editions
in the top menu bar.
Our information pages can also be accessed in the menu bar
including our about page,
which offers an introduction and brief history of the NVS.
For frequently asked questions, visit our FAQs
and Lexicon page.
To learn more about all of the people who have made
this project possible, visit our contributors page.
To see a full list of all NVS titles,
starting with Horace Howard Furness' 1871 Romeo and Juliet,
visit our print editions page.
Clicking on a play's title will either take you to
a scanned, OCR and fully downloadable version of the text
available on HathiTrust website for all of the older plays.
And for our newer titles, clicking on a play's title
will take you to the Modern Language Association's website,
where you can purchase a physical copy of that edition.
And finally, if you wanna learn more
about additional features and tools that we're
currently developing for the NVS,
please see our NVS tools page.
Our next videos will provide detailed instructions
on how to navigate the variorum reader,
which includes the play text, textual notes,
and commentary notes.
Thank you.