About the Internet Shakespeare Editions
The aim of the Internet Shakespeare Editions is to make scholarly, fully annotated texts of Shakespeare's plays available in a form native to the medium of the Internet.
The Foyer 
This section of the site collects all materials that deal with the overall structure of the Editions
The structure and design of the Editions
- The Editorial Board
- The general aims and structure of the Editions
- Guidelines for submitting proposals
- Guidelines for the acquisition of performance materials
- Extracts from the Editorial Guidelines for the Internet Shakespeare
- Principles of tagging the electronic texts
- A statement approved by the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Victoria concerning the recognition of research that involves the electronic medium
The Library 
The Library contains fully refereed materials only.
Currently available:
- Texts
- Resources
- The texts of the plays, with commentary, and electronic versions of the originals
- Supporting critical materials
- Editions of Renaissance works of relevance in Shakespeare studies
- Theatrical and performance archives
The Theater 
The Theater will contain a growing database of performance records, both from collections and archives of historical collections, and from current productions of participating companies, festivals, and Theater departments.
As an introduction to the kinds of materials that will be made available, the site currently provides a series of illustrative pages developed from a recent production of Romeo and Juliet by the Theatre Department at the University of Victoria.
Guidelines have also been established for the acquisition and display of all performance materials.
The Annex 
The Annex makes available various materials in a more informal format: drafts, discussions, and non-refereed texts that will nonetheless be useful to Shakespeare scholars.
At present, the Annex offers the following resources:
- Transcriptions of Folio and Quarto texts
- Some articles on electronic editions
- The Table of Contents of a special issue of Early Modern Literary Studies devoted to "The Internet Shakespeare: Opportunities in a New Medium," linked to the articles.
- A list of Internet resources useful in Shakespeare studies, and
- A record of discussion on some issues related to the ISE.
Awards
- Internet Guide Award from Britannica:
- Yahoo Canada's "Pick of the week, May 24, 1999.
- This site is listed in the BBC Education Web Guide.
- Listed as a research resource by the Open University (UK).
- The "Bess" award from Richard Bear's Renascence Editions.
- Spotlight Award from BookSpot.com
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