The following are sample research questions to be aware of as you embark on your own networking project! This image is a great example of the information you can gather from node connectivity. By using the clustering feature within Graph
Caroline Hawkes
February 9th Since last meeting, I have worked on transcribing the title page of The Arte of Warre, and have worked with this page in both oXygen and Leaf. As I have been working on the title page, I have
Alexander Krett – Spring 2024
Spring 2024 Internship – Weekly Summaries of Project Work
Anaconda – Running your first JupyterLab notebook
Now that we have gotten Anaconda installed, we will need to download the Kitmarlowe repository from GitHub so that we can use the code and the accompanying books to run a few analyses. GitHub Repository Link:https://github.com/alex-krtt/kitmarlowe-jupyter/tree/main On macOS, double the
Anaconda – Windows 10/11 Installation Guide
Navigate to https://www.anaconda.com/download and click Download. Double click the downloaded installer. Check the following options:► Create start menu shortcuts (supported packages only).► Register Anaconda3 as my default Python 3.11► Clear the package cache upon completion Installation may take a couple
Anaconda – macOS Installation Guide
Navigate to https://www.anaconda.com/download and click Download. In order to determine which option Download for Mac (Intel) or (M1/M2/M3) a) Click the Apple Logo on the top left corner of the screen. b) Click “About This Mac”. The line that states
Conspiracies & Espionage
Encyclopedia
Bibliography Return Home
Family Tree
Historians could date the Marlowe family tree back to Christopher Marlowe’s grandparents. The first tree has the three names in which are related by marriage. By selecting one of the names, it will take you to their own family tree.
Conspiracies & Espionage 2
Marlowe’s Works 2
Our goal is to curate a collection of open-access editions of Marlowe’s literary works, performances, and resources. The following links lead to pages dedicated to given works that will continue to be populated with posts featuring variant reading editions, links
Family Tree 2
Historians could date the Marlowe family tree back to Christopher Marlowe’s grandparents. The first tree has the three names in which are related by marriage. By selecting one of the names, it will take you to their own family tree.
Table of Contents for Kit Marlowe Project’s JupyterLab GitHub
Table of Contents Generates list of the most common words, adjectives and verbs for all books. Creates a lexical dispersion plot for all books. Creates a sentiment analysis graph for all books. Compares all Shakespeare to Marlowe corpus books. (Original
The Family of Loue
The proclamation “Against the Sectaries of the Family of Loue” was decreed in order to prosecute these sectarians and their followers, accusing them of heresy. The Elizabethan government and royal house was against Familists and their beliefs, condemning them and
WAN – Test
WORD ADJACENCY NETWORKs — A Python Script¶ ADAPTED FOR USE WITH JUPYTER NOTEBOOK by Alexander Krett (This version does not stop the 5-word window at speech-breaks.) In the same folder as this program there should exist the following
Podcasts
Following are student-approved podcasts relating to Kit Marlowe’s life and times in early modern England and beyond. *This project is still in progress, but we wanted to share sooner than later (2 October 2023).
Ray Dufresne (FSU 2024)
Ray Dufresne is a Fall 2023 Project Intern for the Kit Marlowe Project. Their responsibilities include proofreading and correcting both the text and code (using TEI encoding methods) in student-generated submissions of Elizabethan Proclamations. Dufresne is cross-checking facsimiles of sixteenth-century,
“Hero and Leander”
Under construction: Insert short synopsis about the history of “Hero and Leander” here. Return to Works
Podcasts
Coming soon! A library of podcasts related to the study of premodern literature, history, philosophy, and culture!
Teaching with TAPAS
Interested in teaching with TEI? Here’s a short guest-post discussing how TAPAS supports The Kit Marlowe Project’s Mini-Archive.
How to: Images & Accessibility
Please click on the tiles below to learn how to take screenshots of images online and to add alt-text to make your work accessible to visually-impaired users.
Spring 2023 Project Team
The KMP is grateful to the following students in Kristen Abbott Bennett’s DGHM 110 Introduction to Digital Humanities class at Framingham State University who contributed to the Mini-Archive by transcribing and taking a first pass at encoding a series of
The Marlowe Graph Commons Project
Taking inspiration from the Six Degrees of Francis Bacon project, we set out to explore and map Christopher Marlowe’s connections to the people around him. To visualize these networks, we used Graph Commons, an open-source network visualization platform. This platform
Meggan Law, Project Intern, Spring 2023
Getting Started: 2/1 to 2/8 The first weeks of the internship was mostly setting up and getting settled. Downloading the PDFs of the plays in order to convert them to Word Files and .txt files was the first step, along
Doctor Faustus.txt
Click here to download a “clean” .txt document of Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus (regular spelling). Click Here to download a “clean” .txt document of Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus (Original spelling). This regular-spelling edition was originally downloaded from The Folger Shakespeare Library’s
Dido.txt
Click here to download a “clean” .txt document of Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Nashe’s collaboration, Dido, Queen of Carthage (regular spelling). Click Here to download a “clean” .txt document of Christopher Marlowe’s and Thomas Nashe’s collaboration, Dido, Queen of Carthage (Original
Project Update: July 2022
Students and Interns Grow The Kit Marlowe Project across Content Areas! The hiatus between the 2020 Project Update and this one is not due to inactivity – quite the opposite. We have had three Project Interns and students from the
May 2, 2021
No Prompt The final entry required for my internship journal focuses on translating my internship experience onto my resumé, so this post is specifically about my last project instead since my other entry will not discuss it. The last project
What Would You Sell Your Soul For? (An Engaging Exploration Into “Doctor Faustus”)
This quiz, “What Would You Sell Your Soul For? (An Engaging Exploration Into “Doctor Faustus”)“, made by Kit Marlowe Project Intern Eli Paré for the Spring 2021 semester draws on quotes from the A-Text version of Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus
February 21, 2021
No Prompt During our meeting on Thursday Professor Bennett decided that editing the content of the Mini-Archive Posts would take serious research and at this point it is so close to the conference date that a project like that is
March 14, 2021
Prompt: What are you learning—not just doing, but learning—in your internship experience? Working with the Digital Resources , I’ve learned a lot about what resources are available to me as a student. I already knew a lot of these resources,
March 21, 2021
Prompt: What is exactly as you expected? What is surprising? What is positive or negative about these realities? The extensive nature of the research included in the Kit Marlowe Project is exactly as thorough as I expected and simultaneously surprisingly
March 28, 2021
Prompt: How does what you are learning relate to your career plans? What have you discovered about your preferences for type of work and work environment? What aspects of your career plans has this internship confirmed, and which (if any)
Network Test
Document Analysis
Learning how to observe and describe a text’s discrete features prepares one for any kind of editorial project. The document analysis questionnaire linked below is designed to help one gather preliminary information about a text and make hypotheses about its
Marlowe as a spy?
Following Park Honan and others, we have taken Marlowe’s supposed career in espionage seriously. See below for information that supports this argument, plus some fun conspiracy theories. Early Life as a Spy Learn about Christopher Marlowe and his early
Thomas Nashe Bibliography
Nashe, Thomas. “Thomas Nashe’s Strange News: Dedicatorie.” SourceText.com, 23 Dec. 2017, sourcetext.com/thomas-nashes-strange-news-dedicatorie/. Nashe, Thomas. “Pierce’s Supererogation.” Google Books, Google, www.google.com/books/edition/Pierce_s_Supererogation/AD5kAAAAMAAJ?hl=en. Nashe, Thomas. “The Anatomy of Absurdity.” Translated by Nina Green, Oxford Shakespeare, 1999, www.oxford-shakespeare.com/Nashe/Anatomy_Absurdity.pdf. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. “ Thomas
Experimental Digital Pedagogies
Return to About The Kit Marlowe Project is directed by Kristen Abbott Bennett and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Shakespeare Reloaded CPB Assignments
Shakespeare Reloaded offers several activities that generate novel perspectives for class discussions. In university classrooms, one might assign activities for homework and then use them as a jumping off point for class discussion.
#ShaxRedrawn
Six Degrees of Francis Bacon Tutorial
MoEML Tutorials: The Agas Map
Intro to MoEML: Part Two (Intro to the Agas Map)
EEBO-TCP Tutorials
Looking for full-text primary source materials can be a challenge. The EEBO-TCP collection puts a wealth of such materials just a few clicks away. Here are some tutorials to get you started searching the EEBO-TCP database. Return to Research Video
Spring 2020: FSU Contributors
The Spring 2020 Project Team would like to thank Rachel Dankert (Folger Shakespeare Library) for providing research support during the COVID-19 crisis. This year’s goal was to create encyclopedia entries and to update existing pages. The Spring 2020 project team
Queen Elizabeth I
Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) was born Elizabeth Tudor on September 7, 1533. She was the first daughter of King Henry VIII and only child of his second wife, Anne Boleyn. King Henry had her mother executed when Elizabeth was three
KMP Tutorials: Intro to Creating Tiles
Test Post Gallery (copy and paste WP Tiles code from here)
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Tile Tester
This is just a test. If this had been an actual emergency, I almost certainly would have panicked. In the event of an actual emergency, I will be cowering under the nearest means of cover and you should absolutely seek
Testing Lorem Ipsum
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Folger Shakespeare Library Digital Resources
The Folger Shakespeare Library hosts a number of digital resources. In this post you’ll find links and descriptions to all of Folger Library’s digital resources as well as links to the Kit Marlowe Project’s tutorial videos for navigating these websites.
Conspiracies & Espionage
Test Post
Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? quam diu etiam furor iste tuus nos eludet? quem ad finem sese effrenata iactabit audacia? Nihilne te nocturnum praesidium Palati, nihil urbis vigiliae, nihil timor populi, nihil concursus bonorum omnium, nihil hic munitissimus
Rowan Pereira, Project Intern
Henry Petowe, The Second Part of Hero and Leander (1598)
War of the Roses Quiz Part 1
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Game of Thrones
Here’s my text
ShaxTest
Intro
1H6 Assignment: Contribute to the KMP site
Kristen Abbott Bennett ENG 200: Shakespeare, Framingham State University Formal Assignment 4 Due: 11/30/18 Assignment: You may work in pairs, or groups of 3-4, to complete ONE of the following assignment options: Curate an online collection of available full-text editions
Pereira, September 23-29, 2018
Rowan Pereira, Project Intern, Fall 2018, Stonehill ’19 Date Time 9/23 11:00-12:15 (1.25) 9/25 1:45-3:45 (2) 9/28 1:00-4:00 (3) 9/29 10:00-12:00 (2) Sunday (9/23): Professor Bennett and I had a Skype call to go over any questions that
Pereira, September 12-14, 2018
Rowan Pereira, Project Intern, Fall 2018, Stonehill ’19 Date Time 9/13 3:15-4:30 (1.25) Thursday (9/13): I started to edit the 1664 edition of Faustus. I printed the TAPAS version of the document and the pdf version, and made it up
Activities
Please note that all of the foregoing teaching resources have been authored and should be cited accordingly. The Kit Marlowe Project by Kristen Abbott Bennett is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Faustus: Scholarship
Image Library
The following images have been generated to function in web apps like Knightlab’s Timeline JS and others. Most are linked to their corresponding pages and posts on The Kit Marlowe Project Website.
Proofing Faustus Encodings: A Checklist
Profs. Hamlin & Bennett Rogue’s Progress Spring 2018 Proofreading Faustus Encodings: A Checklist First: Check to make sure your file is valid. Correct any errors until you get that happy green square at the bottom of your screen. Although validity
Transcribing Early Modern Texts for Encoding
Part 1: Rules for transcribing early modern texts for publication on the KMP site and TAPAS platform Part One of this transcription guide closely follows the “How-to #0: Rules for transcription” guide authored by Janelle Jenstad and Martin Holmes at
Edward the Second, EMED (1594)
This transcribed, encoded, and edited edition of Edward II has been made available by The Folger’s Digital Anthology of Early Modern English Drama. It follows the 1594 edition first printed by Robert Robinson for William Jones. Return to Edward II Return to Works
Working backwards & Dr. Who
Working backwards & Dr. Who The first activity we did in this class was bibliography editing and when I first learned that was the plan, I had mixed feelings. At first I thought that it was going to be
Dangerous Knowledge Discoveries
Taylor Long Professor Bennett LC 347-A 20 February 2017 Unit 1: Dangerous Knowledge Discoveries The Dangerous Knowledge unit introduced the class to the digital humanities, a growing field with a need for expansion. The Kit Marlowe Project will create an
A Metacognitive Salute to Marlowe & Co.
Metacognitive Essay #1 A Rogue’s Process Justin M. Boure Professor Bennett A Metacognitive Salute to Marlowe & Co. The bibliography editing activities made me reconsider how tedious, yet, important it is to ensure that citations are up to date with
“To do” list: FALL 18
Rowan & Ethan “How to” guides for GraphCommons, Hypothesis Would you like to schedule special showing of Gutenberg flick? Notes: Game:textadventures.co.ukmsilva1@students.stonehill.edunotshakespeare1
Image Credits
Image Credits KMP Home Page Mini-Archive tile: Photograph by Kathryn Joy (Stonehill ’17) Works tile: Christopher Marlowe, The Massacre at Paris (fragment). c. 1590. LUNA: Folger Digital Image Collection, v.b.8, luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/detail/FOLGERCM1~6~6~930091~163116:The-massacre-at-Paris–fragment—m?sort=call_number%2Cmpsortorder1%2Ccd_title%2Cimprint&qvq=q:j.b.8;sort:call_number%2Cmpsortorder1%2Ccd_title%2Cimprint;lc:FOLGERCM1~6~6&mi=0&trs=2. Accessed 6 March 2018. Family Tree, Social Networks, Conspiracy Theories, Espionage, Game, and
Tamburlaine the Great, Part Two, Ed. U.M. Ellis-Fermor (1930)
This is an electronic facsimile of Una Mary Ellis-Fermor’s 1930 edition of Tamburlaine the Great in Two Parts, first published by Gordian Press and reprinted in 1966. The edition is available electronically thanks to the Marlowe Society of America. Return to Tamburlaine the
Tamburlaine The Great – The Second Part, Project Gutenberg (1850)
This edition of Marlowe’s Tamburlaine the Great, The Second Part was edited and modernized by Alexander Dyce in 1850. It was later transcribed and published on Project Gutenberg in 2008. Return to Tamburlaine the Great, Part Two Return to Works
The Second Part of Tamburlaine Great, Renascence Editions (1950)
This 1950 Everyman’s Library edition of The Second Part of Tamburlaine the Great was originally edited by Ernest Rhys. Stephanie Bear later prepared the edition for republication on the Renascence Editions website. This edition is fully downloadable and features modernized spelling. Return to Tamburlaine the Great, Part Two Return to Works
Edward the Second, Project Gutenberg (1598)
This transcribed Project Gutenberg edition of Edward II was first printed in London by Richard Bradocke in 1598. According to the ESTC, several copies remain in Britain and North America. Return to Edward II Return to Works
Jew of Malta, Early Modern English Drama (1633)
The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew of Malta was published in 1633 in London by I.B. for Nicholas Vavasour. The play was first performed in 1589 by Lord Strange’s Men. Click on the image below to link to Early Modern
The Jew of Malta, Project Gutenberg (1850)
This edition of The Jew of Malta is a Project Gutenberg transcription of Alexander Dyce’s 1850 edition of the play. It was first released online on July 26, 2008 and updated on January 15, 2013. Click on the image to link
Edward the Second, Internet Archive (1887)
The 1887 edition was edited by Osbourne William Tancock. The physical edition can be found in the Canadian Libraries or the University of Toronto Robarts Library, but the online version was found on the Internet Archive. This edition includes an
Edward the Second, Internet Archive (1622)
Here one may link to the Internet Archive edition of Edward the Second. This edition was released in 1622. The website contains pictures of the original copy that can be flipped through. Copies are located in the Boston Public Library, and
Dido, Queen of Carthage. Title Page, LUNA (1594)
Here one may link to the 1594 title page of Dido, Queen of Carthage written by Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Nashe (LUNA 9488; STC 17441). This title page, printed by Widow Orwin for Thomas Woodcocke, also features the play’s dramatis personae, not entirely common
Edward the Second, British Library (1612)
The play was reprinted with only minor changes in 1612. In versions like this one imaged by the British Library, the title page was expanded to reflect the dramatic role, not only of Edward the second and proud Mortimer, but
The Tragedie of Doctor Faustus, Perseus Project (B Text) (1616)
This text is a facsimile of The Tragedie of Doctor Faustus and can be found on the Perseus Project website. This version is a B text. This version was created in 1616 and was edited by Hillary Binda. Return to Doctor
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, Project Gutenberg (A-Text) (2009)
This version edited by Reverend Alexander Dyce and published on November 3, 2009. It is an example of the A text, and was produced by Gary Young and David Widger. Dyce was a Scottish dramatic editor and literary historian who
Harry Ransom Center
The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, Austin, offers digital versions of early rare books under a Creative Commons license. Placeholder Click the image to visit the Harry Ransom Center and browse their collection! The Kit Marlowe Project
Oxford Reference
Oxford Reference is an excellent resource for looking up classical and early modern figures. This source provides succinct definitions and comprehensive encyclopedia entries on a varieties of subjects including literature, linguistics, language reference, and even name studies. Placeholder Click the
Oxford Classical Dictionary
The Oxford Classical Dictionary is a good reference for learning about all manners of classical terms and figures. Their dictionary covers a wide variety of ancient subjects including literature, law and philosophy. Placeholder Click the image to check out the
Pelagios’s Recogito
Pelagios’s Recogito is a web-based platform from which one may upload .txt files, tag placeNames, create maps, and more. Placeholder The Map of Persia shown here, similar to the image on the Recogito homepage, is from the British Library’s collection of
Early Modern Print: Text Mining Early Printed English
Early Modern Print offers text analysis tools and computational approaches to exploring works printed before 1700 in the Early English Books Online database. Placeholder Click the image here to go to the Early Modern Print! The Kit Marlowe Project is licensed under
EEBO: Early English Books Online
Text Creation Partnership Keywords in Context The EEBO-TCP: Text Creation Partnership database offers rough transcriptions of selected texts from the EEBO database. This tool allows one to search the Early English Books Online (EEBO) database for key words using both
Read EMED Ed. of Faustus
Write intro to this edition here.
“Hero and Leander,” Perseus Project
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“Hero and Leander”, Renascence Editions (1595)
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Wernham, Richard Bruce
Wernham, Richard Bruce. Christopher Marlowe at Flushing in 1592, The English Historical Review,Volume 91, Issue 359, 1 April 1976, Pages 344–345, doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCI.CCCLIX.344. Accessed 12 Oct. 2017.
Hilsman, Hoyt
Hilsman, Hoyt, “Anonymous and the Marlowe Conspiracy.” Huffington Post. Cultural Weekly, 27, Oct, 2011. www.huffingtonpost.com.
Barber, Ros[alind]
Barber, Ros. “Did Christopher Marlowe Fake His Death?” Huffington Post, 6 Apr. 2014, huffingtonpost.com. Barber, Ros. “Shakespeare Authorship Doubt in 1593.” Critical Survey, vol. 21, no. 2, 2009, pp. 83–110. JSTOR, jstor.org/stable/41556314.
Nicholl, Charles
Nicholl, Charles. The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe. Vintage, 2002.
Poetry
Conspiracy Theory 3 – Christopher Marlowe was a Spy
Frizer, Ingram
Ingram Frizer (1561-1627) is known for the murder of Christopher Marlowe, in an act done by the English Secret Service. Ingram Frizer was supposedly born in Kingsclere, Hampshire. Before Marlowe’s death, he was known as a dishonest businessman in real
Leech, Clifford
“Christopher Marlowe.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, inc., August 2017, www.britannica.com/biography/Christopher-Marlowe. Accessed 9 October 2017.
Bennett, Kristen Abbott
Bennett, Kristen Abbott, ‘Negotiating Authority through Conversation: Thomas Nashe and Richard Jones’ in Kristen Abbott Bennett (ed.), Conversational Exchanges in Early Modern England (1549-1640) (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2015), pp. 102-131. 28 Sept. 2017.
Thomas Nashe
“Thomas Nashe’s Pierce Penniless.” Baylor University Theatre Arts, n.d. www.baylor.edu/theatre/index.php?id=89737. Accessed 08 Feb. 2017.
Thomas Nashe
The Thomas Nashe Project. Directed by Jennifer Richards at Newcastle University, research.ncl.ac.uk/thethomasnasheproject/thomasnashe/.
Richards, Jennifer
Richards, Jennifer. The Thomas Nashe Project. Newcastle University, n.d. research.ncl.ac.uk/thethomasnasheproject/thomasnashe/. Accessed 08 Feb. 2017.
Thomas Nashe
Thomas Nashe. The Oxford Authorship Site. Oxford Authorship Site, n.d. www.oxford- shakespeare.com/nashe.html. Accessed 08 Feb. 2017.
Marlowe, general
“Marlowe: What (Little) We Know.” Public Brodcasting System, www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/muchado/fine/bios.html. Accessed 28 Sept. 2017.
Meyers, Jeffery.
“Marlowe’s Lives.” Michigan Quarterly Review, hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.act2080.0042.306. Accessed 28 September 2017.
Morgan, Cynthia.
“The Bradley Affray.” The Marlowe Studies, themarlowestudies.org/wraight_bradley_duel.html. Accessed 28 September 2017.
Matthew Lyons
“Richard Topcliffe: The Queen’s Torturer.” Mathew Lyons WordPress N.p., 12 Nov. 2012. mathewlyons.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/richard-topcliffe-the-queens-torturer/.
Tilley, M. P
“I Have Heard of Your Paintings Too’. (Hamlet III, i, 148).” The Review of English Studies, vol. 5, no. 19, 1929, pp. 312–317, www.jstor.org/stable/507732. Accessed 28 September 2017.
Genkins, Daniel
“‘To Seek New Worlds, For Gold, For Praise, For Glory’: El Dorado And Empire In Sixteenth-Century Guiana.” Latin Americanist, 58.89-104, Academic Search Complete, www.web.a.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail/detail?sid=3cdeb86a-b601-4ed5-b5ec-47e15545102a%40sessionmgr4006&vid=0&hid=4206&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#AN=95615780&db=a9h. Accessed 7 Feb. 2017.
Watson, Thomas
Thomas Watson Thomas Watson was an English poet and author of Hekatompathia, a collection of sonnets published in 1582. Many scholars, including Ibrahim Alhiyari, believe he was born between 1555 and 1557 and died on September 26th, 1592. Watson and his friend Christopher Marlowe were
Last, First
William Shakespeare Paragraph words sadhasjhljrkldsg ((__________))