ABSTRACT
The Internet Shakespeare Editions (ISE) project started in 1991 as a multimedia resource of Shakespeare's life and times, and in 2004 began to include facsimiles of the plays and poems, prepared by Shakespeare scholars from around the world. The ISE's habit of fragmenting a text's collation into hundreds of individual notes unfortunately makes it extremely difficult to offer a comprehensive evaluation of textual changes that digital edition could otherwise make easily searchable. While the textual introduction to Bevington's edition of As You Like It offers breadth of bibliographic information that is readily accessible to curious undergraduates and well serves the play, textual scholars and their students may want to interrogate some of his under-explicated editorial decisions. The annotations appended to digital text can be as long and detailed as editor desires, since affordances of editions' various technologies, can allow notes to remain hidden until they are specifically called into being by a reader-user ready to make use of them.
