We thankfully acknowledge the financial support of the following:

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Office of the Associate Dean, University of Toronto at Mississauga

Office of the Dean, School of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto

Office of the Vice-President and Provost, University of Toronto

This project has been funded as follows:

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Standard Research Grant

Initiative SSHRC Institutional Grant

Instructional Technology Courseware Development Fund

As well, this project has benefited enormously from the advice and assistance of:

The Records of Early English Drama, University of Toronto, whose pioneering work with Sian Meikle on their Patrons and Performances Website serves as the model for our project.

The Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, University of Toronto.

Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies Program, Department of English and Drama, University of Toronto at Mississauga.

We also gratefully thank individuals who have granted permissions to use images, whose names will be found on the appropriate pages. Further permissions are pending; if you own the copyright of any image used here and wish it removed, or we have been unable to contact you, please email us.

Jenny Hu (Database Design)

Sian Meikle (Original Database Design, Web Application)

Robert H. Michels (Database Consultant)

Gordon Belray (Database Web Design)

Gordon Belray, Jenny Hu (Past Database Web Design)

Kelli Babcock, Chul Hee-Yoon, Bilal Khalid, Ken Yang, Sean Zhao (Web Application Programming and Configuration)

Bilal Khalid, Sharon Wang (Past Programmers)

Byron Moldofsky (Interactive Maps Research and Design)

Marieange Beaudry (Interactive Maps Research and Design)