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Eoin Price

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Shakespeare troll, now in Scotland https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/eoin-price

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Eoin Price @eoinprice.bsky.social · 7d

OK, come on, the Cheeky Girls, that's it, back on tour. Yeah, love your work.

Eoin Price @eoinprice.bsky.social · 7d

Put tiny kettle on lad, I'm gasping - one of the many great underrated The Thick of It quotes. Add your own below.

Eoin Price @eoinprice.bsky.social · 13d

For a long time I thought the expression 'why do only fools and horses work?' meant why is it that only fools and horses do/are made to do work? But now I see it means why should one do work, which is after all made only for fools and horses; why should one do the work of horses and fools?

Eoin Price @eoinprice.bsky.social · 14d

Batter my cod three personed God

Eoin Price @eoinprice.bsky.social · 14d

Ezra Horbury, 'Early Modern Transgender Faries', TSQ, 8 (2021), 75-95.

Eoin Price @eoinprice.bsky.social · 17d

Gaveston's opening speech is good, eh?

Eoin Price @eoinprice.bsky.social · 17d

Today I taught Edward II, the sequel to Edward I.

Eoin Price @eoinprice.bsky.social · 18d

Good to know! I think it is dreadful and despair at its acclaim

Eoin Price @eoinprice.bsky.social · 18d

I can't be the only one who found Hamnet almost offensively mawkish and trite?

Eoin Price @eoinprice.bsky.social · 21d

I miss chatting about silly plays

Eoin Price @eoinprice.bsky.social · 22d

I'm interested in the shape and form of a playwrighting career also. He and Middleton maybe the best known of that itinerant kind of playwright who does something for everyone? I guess Jonson does too but he just feels like a very different case. Hmmm.

Eoin Price @eoinprice.bsky.social · 22d

I intend to have quite a Dekker-centred chapter in a future book I want to do about stage popularity, so come back to me in a decade or so? Think Dekker an important figure to understand. How popular were his plays in the period itself is interesting to me.

Eoin Price @eoinprice.bsky.social · 22d

I think he may be better (not sure Dekker wrote anything as good as The Changeling for example) but then I know Middleton better and have thought about him longer. Also, what 'better' means up for debate - how do you measure it? And if one is 'better' does that matter? Etc

Eoin Price @eoinprice.bsky.social · 22d

I think most people would accept there is a Middletonian style/form/approach?

Eoin Price @eoinprice.bsky.social · 22d

In addition to his frequent collaboration he also writes for a bunch of different companies (maybe an unusual number?) Heywood, I think is a bit more stable in that sense. Middleton may be a good comparison as fairly often collaborates and also writes for a bunch of different places.

Eoin Price @eoinprice.bsky.social · 22d

Yeah was going to say @oldnorthroad.bsky.social

Eoin Price @eoinprice.bsky.social · Sep 29

Tell you what is a really brilliant play - The Spanish Tragedy. It's such a terrible name for a play (though admittedly, Hieronimo is Mad Againe, while baffling, is a good alternative).

Eoin Price @eoinprice.bsky.social · Sep 25

Things I have been reading lately: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro. The Book of Margery Kempe by erm Margery Kempe.
Things I have been listening to lately: The Cranberries doing an acoustic version of Linger, about a million times.

Eoin Price @eoinprice.bsky.social · Sep 18

In class today I played a 2 minute video of a cuckoo singing. Would recommend.

Eoin Price @eoinprice.bsky.social · Sep 13

Is Falstaff's 'I am old, I am old' echoed in Eliot's 'I grow old... I grow old... / I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled'?

Eoin Price @eoinprice.bsky.social · Sep 8

Nothing has changed, so we are on strike again, this time for a week.

Eoin Price @eoinprice.bsky.social · Jun 20

Today is the University of Edinburgh Open Day and I am on strike because university management refuse to rule out compulsory redundancies. The University of Edinburgh is one of the richest universities in the UK & the proposed cuts are unncessary & deeply damaging.

Eoin Price @eoinprice.bsky.social · Sep 5

Occured to me yesterday that I haven't lived in England for over a decade

Eoin Price @eoinprice.bsky.social · Sep 4

😂

Eoin Price @eoinprice.bsky.social · Sep 4

From what I can see, possibly not (which is fine by me!)

Eoin Price @eoinprice.bsky.social · Sep 4

From what I can see, possibly not (which is fine by me!)