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DESCRIPTION:Facet-Searching the Shakespearian Drama: An Online Reader of Jo
 hn Cotgrave’s The English Treasury of Wit and Language\nStudy of the seven
 teenth-century dramatic literature has been dominated by attention to Shak
 espeare\, often to the point of ignoring other very talented playwrights f
 rom the early modern period\, men who\, while virtually unknown in North A
 merica today\, were\, at one time\, equally or similarly popular to Shakes
 peare: Ben Jonson\, John Fletcher\, Thomas Middleton\, Philip Massinger\, 
 James Shirley\, and Richard Brome. In this talk I shall discuss a recently
  published website\, http://​shakespeareauthorship.com/​cotgrave\, which p
 rovides a means of understanding the original reception of the works of th
 ese dramatists through focusing critical attention on John Cotgrave’s 1655
  book of quotations The English Treasury of Wit and Language (London\, 165
 5). I explore how Cotgrave’s Treasury\, which brings together over 1\,700 
 quotations from the plays of the time\, gives a glimpse of the authors tha
 t seemed relevant and interesting to Cotgrave but which have since been lo
 st in the subsequent Shakespeare-centric study of the drama. I introduce t
 wo new analytical tools created to assist researchers with navigating the 
 volume: (1) a concept Search Tool devised around the subject headings of t
 he Treasury\, which gives critics and glossing editors the first non-anach
 ronistic subject search of the Shakespearian drama\; and (2) a Source Inde
 x\, designed for Textual Editors around 242 previously unidentified source
 s\, drawing attention to the editions in circulation in the 1650s and to e
 xtracts with no clearly identifiable source or with texts widely divergent
  from a known play (i.e.\, The Coxcomb\, The City Wit\, The Mayor of Quinb
 orough). I briefly discuss the potential of Google Spreadsheets and non-tr
 aditional media to insure up-to-date reporting of facts in a fast-paced\, 
 ever-changing scholarly setting.\nJoshua McEvilla (jmcevilla [at] gmail [d
 ot] com) is an Independent Researcher from the Greater Toronto Area. He ho
 lds a Ph.D. in English with a specialty in early modern drama from the Sha
 kespeare Institute\, Stratford-upon-Avon\, UK\, and certification in libra
 rianship and Book History from the University of Toronto and American Libr
 ary Association. He has been published in The Papers of the Bibliographica
 l Society of America\, The Ben Jonson Journal\, and Notes & Queries\, as w
 ell as serving as editor of two journals and a book. He has spoken widely 
 on Shakespeare\, Shakespeare’s contemporaries\, and the Digital Humanities
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SUMMARY:Joshua McEvilla - Facet-Searching the Shakespearian Drama
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