ABSTRACT
Many of the lost plays in this book have scholarly debates attached to them going back to the early nineteenth century. This book has used digital humanities, broadly defined, as a new tool to attack the problems they present. It could be argued, perhaps, that the tools it uses - principally lookups on EEBO-TCP and other databases - have become, in the last few years, so much part of everyday scholarly practice that they should no longer really be considered as “digital humanities” in the sense which has emerged over the last few years of a differentiated practice, almost a separate subdiscipline. I would, however, reiterate the argument made in the Introduction: just because these resources have become ubiquitous does not mean they are not digital. As Gadd and Kichuk observe, the EEBO-TCP project produces heavily “remediated” artefacts. This remediation brings both pitfalls and opportunities. We should therefore document not merely the results that such remediated resources bring, but the methods by which we use them to come to those results.
