Lucia Nigri has provided news on her ongoing work with SENS: a digital open-access archive designed to make Shakespeare’s narrative sources available to scholars, students and general readers. Visit the SENS homepage here: https://sens.skene.univr.it
Lucia has edited Bandello’s novella and Painter’s (1580) edition, and is currently working on Painter’s 1567 edition.
Although source studies and European sources of Shakespeare work have been investigated, there is a lack of open-access databases which offer philological editions and digitised versions of texts which ‘anticipate’ Shakespeare’s plays. The SENS project provides multilingual and multicultural parallel versions of Shakespeare’s intertextual and interdiscursive sources. Here’s an example of Lucia’s work on Painter: