Melponum (Melpomene in the Digital Age) is a project which intends to expand the reception and analysis of Renaissance theatrical works. Although, for a hundred years, editions and critical works on these plays have multiplied, they are still less studied than 17th-century dramas, and they remain absent from school curricula (the high school drama curricula can only cover the period from the 17th to the 21st century) and from the theatrical scene. Hence, our project intends to bring together people from the fields of research, education and the performing arts to expand the reception of comedies and tragedies printed between 1530 and 1604 (from the first plays by Marguerite de Navarre to Montchrestien’s last play) and then develop knowledge about these plays. With this in mind, we produce scholarly digital editions, based on the XML-TEI language, and presenting an innovative form. Indeed, to reach out to the three targeted audiences, we have conceived customizable editions, leaving the choice to the user between three different versions of the text (to be viewed on the platform and/or printed in different formats): a research version, a teaching version, and a theatrical rehearsal version. The research version will present a non-modernized text, a complete critical and scientific apparatus, a classic visualization; the teaching version will present a modernized text, a lighter scientific apparatus, educational resources (ready-to-use texts, links to school curricula and other resources), but also a dynamic and more playful visualization to allow study in class on the platform ; finally, the rehearsal version will also present a modernized text and a lightened critical apparatus (focused on dramaturgical notations) and will be characterized by a more spaced out layout, so that the actors can take notes. The editions also mix textual, iconographic, and video content, and intend to reference existing resources on these plays (sitographies, bibliographies). The editions will be enriched with all the content produced during the development of the project: the recordings of readings and performances are meant to provide new material for research, as will be the case for the reports on educational experiments. Finally, users will be able to report resources, links of all kinds, ongoing projects, even intertexts directly on the platform, in a citizen science framework. All such data will be published in accordance with FAIR principles. This publishing work, carried out jointly by researchers, teachers, and directors, will be accompanied by a program of scientific and cultural mediation. We are setting up two major symposiums accompanied with theatrical shows in Metz and Strasbourg, three cycles of scientific workshops associated with readings by actors in Metz and Strasbourg, three cycles of general public conferences in Metz associated with readings or shows, as well as theatrical workshops, interventions in class, or educational experiments: for those events, we always associate researchers with actors and/or teachers. Our hypothesis is in fact that the collaboration of researchers with different social actors will make it possible to set up effective tools to give these texts their rightful place in the French literary heritage. Thus, the project will make it possible to reinstate an unknown side of the French dramas to researchers and the public, which will promote the emergence of new critical works, new educational resources, and new shows on this corpus. This project is rooted in an interdisciplinary perspective and its methodology is based on the idea of open science.