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Tom Rutter
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Shakespeare/Marlowe/playing companies/science/early modern drama, University of Sheffield

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Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · 7h
The school's crest (like Oldham's ecclesiastic coat of arms) includes an owl with the abbreviation D.O.M., (Deo Optimo Maximo), a fairly bad pun.

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Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · 13h
My workflow planning model is getting increasingly sophisticated.
Word doc reads 'Do this shit today, idiot'.

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Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · 6d
May have to take this as 2026 motto

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Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · 6d
Probably not based on Munday and Chettle's script, let's assume

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Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · 6d
The bowels being the seat of love and pity. And other things.

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Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · 7d
Some competition
Book title page: Bowels Opened, by Richard Sibbes

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Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · 13d
Brief moment of gut-wrenching panic there

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Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · 18d
monarch sounding more left wing than our current Labour government rn

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Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · 27d
Best thing I've seen all day.

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 27d
For your collective delectation this holiday season:
Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!)

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Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): an incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy
Gather round the fire, everyone, and let me tell you a story. It has everything you could want in a Christmas blockbuster: superheroes and villains, a car crash, children singing, a mystery to solv…
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Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · 27d
Funded PhD opportunities at the University of Sheffield:
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Champernowne and Ost PhD project advert
PhD opportunities in Creative Arts and Psychotherapies in the School of English The School of English at the University of Sheffield is pleased to advertise three PhD projects funded by the Champerno...
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Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · Dec 13
Oh no. I hadn't heard.

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Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · Nov 27
See also 'deconstruct'. The terminology of critical and cultural theory undergoes an inevitable trajectory towards vitiation as soon as it starts being widely used.

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Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · Nov 27
Now having flashbacks to a readthrough of this at MSA in Wittenberg, flanked by modern paintings that (if memory serves) combined Martin Luther with graphic nudity (not Luther's nudity, fortunately)

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Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · Nov 26
From Doctor Faustus so a bit too early. Bev and Rasmussen's note > abdominal connotations i.e. Belly-all and Belcher; also note there's a Belcher in The Devil's Charter.

Great name for the author of Hans Beer Pot though.

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Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · Nov 26
Let your Baliol and your Belcher come here, and I’ll knock them, they were never so knocked since they were devils

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Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · Nov 25
Calling it: the 'Nesquik tax'

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Lisa Hopkins @lisahopkins.bsky.social · Nov 24
I have a new book out:
Cover of book called Stolen Goods in British Detective Fiction, published by Palgrave.

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Brett Greatley-Hirsch @notwithoutmustard.bsky.social · Nov 22
Special issue, "Adapting Shakespearean Romance in Indian Cinema" (guest-edited by @thea987.bsky.social and Rosa Garcia-Periago) out now! www.tandfonline.com/toc/rshk20/2... #Shakespeare #earlymodern
Shakespeare
Special issue on ‘Adapting Shakespearean Romance in Indian Cinema’, guest-edited by Thea Buckley and Rosa García-Periago. Volume 21, Issue 4 of Shakespeare
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Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · Nov 21
I must return to SJC and befriend their cats immediately. Bringing Dreamies.

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Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · Nov 17
Finally got round to leaving the Labour party, so don't say I didn't get anything done on a strike day 😢

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · Nov 17
it's on

presale in two days, sign up for the link: laylo.com/mountaingoat...
THE MOUNTAIN GOATS with special guest Craig Finn. Image of a fishing boat on the water with a small hilly island behind it. Tour dates listed. Those dates are at https://laylo.com/mountaingoats/m/2026EUUK

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Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · Nov 14
Sarah Dustagheer's book on the King's Men performing at the Globe and at Blackfriars might be a starting point as it discusses the practicalities of indoor performance and I seem to remember that it discusses the aesthetic effect of candlelight

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Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · Nov 13
'legegs'
Dialogue from All’s Well That Ends Well in which the word ‘legs’ is amusingly (to me, anyway) spelled.

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Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · Nov 8
🥳

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Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · Nov 7
It's one of those days when the only way forward is to buy the new Mountain Goats album

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Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · Nov 6
There is a counterfactual article in this surely

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Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · Nov 6
No Troublesome Reign?

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Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · Nov 6
No 2-part Henry IV?