1. Edmund Spenser
Go to Edmund Spenser’s Shepheardes Calender in Early English Books Online. Go through the images and make an edition of the title page, epigraph, and the January eclogue and gloss. You can download a Word version of a modern edition to help you with the text. You may divide up the duties.
2. Ben Jonson
The poem “The Hour Glass” was first published in manuscript (not written in Jonson’s hand) in 1619, and then later printed as shown below the manuscript in the image. However, a 1640 edition gave the poem as follows (although the spelling has been modernized here).
The Hour-Glass
Do but consider this small dust
Here running in the glass,
By atoms moved:
Could you believe that this
The body was
Of one that loved?
And in his mistress’ flame, playing like a fly,
Turned to cinders by her eye?
Yes; and in death, as life, unblest,
To have’t expressed,
Even ashes of lovers find no rest.
Create an edition of the text in TEI-XML which captures these textual variants and any other phenomena about the poem which you consider significant.
3. Mary Shelley
Examine the images of the 1818 “Thomas Copy” of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Make an edition of the text which incorporates her annotations, as well as the text of the 1831 edition, which she did not base on her annotations to the “Thomas Copy”. You can grab the text from Project Gutenberg and add your markup to it.