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@ellierycroft.bsky.social

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Associate Professor in Early Modern Performance at University of Bristol: early modern bodies, PaR, gender. Formerly thinking about hair, now thinking about walking: also defining 'the Predramatic'. Teacher, cat-lover, writer, and mum, in varying measures.

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EarlyModernista @ellierycroft.bsky.social · 5h

Wonderful, thanks!

EarlyModernista @ellierycroft.bsky.social · 15h

Agree! Also, I loved your Not Just the Tudors episode which I listened to while cooking tonight. Absolutely brilliant! Desperate to look at the BL manuscript with the collected 'monsters' - just to clarify, did you say that one of Pepys' servants assembled it or did I misunderstand?

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EarlyModernista @ellierycroft.bsky.social · 19h

Everie wight does it 🤷🏼

EarlyModernista @ellierycroft.bsky.social · 20h

And say 'he was a freshe as is the munth of May-hee' in a ridiculous voice

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Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 20h

ONLY migrants though, no one else is to study English because it's a rip off and a waste of time, am I getting this right.

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 21h

Well this will certainly do it www.gov.uk/government/n...

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English

Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

www.gov.uk

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EarlyModernista @ellierycroft.bsky.social · 1d

@gregmw4.bsky.social and I received the wonderfully welcome news that 'Predramatic Theatre' has been accepted for publication by Palgrave following peer review. Who knows? It might even be out by Christmas! It has certainly been a gift working with my mentor on a topic we're both passionate about.

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EarlyModernista @ellierycroft.bsky.social · 3d

Just remembering the time I mixed up my hypothyroid tablets with some post-operative codeine tablets. That was an interesting couple of days at work.

EarlyModernista @ellierycroft.bsky.social · 5d

From the moon to the sun. We were delighted to encounter Luke Jerram's beautiful model of our brightest star at Bristol Cathedral yesterday. Helios is a beautiful, restless, swirling counterpart to the still, cold elegance of his Museum of the Moon. Catch it on tour while you can!

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EarlyModernista @ellierycroft.bsky.social · 6d

That's a really fascinating thought, James, thanks for your input.

EarlyModernista @ellierycroft.bsky.social · 6d

Yes, both really seem like jobbing playwrights. And of course the Dekker/Jonson row is fascinating given the high/low, popular/elite type issues at the heart of it.

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EarlyModernista @ellierycroft.bsky.social · 6d

invested in early modern lived experience, Dekker - as both pamphleteer and dramatist - is a goldmine. So I think the question of what sort of value is absolutely key.

EarlyModernista @ellierycroft.bsky.social · 6d

I think it will be excellent to pull him out of the 'contemporaries' bracket and see what he produces! Fwiw, I think Middleton is 'better' (what do I mean by that - durable? Interpretatively open? Am I just trying to avoid saying 'transcending immediate cultural moment'?!). However as someone deeply

EarlyModernista @ellierycroft.bsky.social · 6d

Great questions!

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EarlyModernista @ellierycroft.bsky.social · 6d

Yet Middleton seems as much more 'canonical' somehow - I mean, is he just better, or is genre snobbery partly in play?

EarlyModernista @ellierycroft.bsky.social · 6d

@starcrossed2018 Apologies - I see I just repeated the same thing as you about collaborations. But yes, I concur! And so often he's seen as the 'weak point' in collaborative plays I think - like, 'oh here's the rubbishy Dekker scene' - which is unfair!

EarlyModernista @ellierycroft.bsky.social · 6d

but don't know if we've fully theorised how or why (comic/satirical; concerned with lower/middle echelons of society; civic concerns; contemporary commentary? Is there more though?!).

EarlyModernista @ellierycroft.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks to you both! I totally agree about the sheer variety making him difficult to pin down. I also think the extent of his collaborations following an initial flurry of solo-authored works might have had a similar effect? It's strange because I think we can recognise something as 'Dekkerian'

EarlyModernista @ellierycroft.bsky.social · 7d

I feel a co-organised SAA/SRS seminar coming on 😉

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EarlyModernista @ellierycroft.bsky.social · 7d

Does anyone know of any good scholarship on John Fletcher's The Elder Brother?

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EarlyModernista @ellierycroft.bsky.social · 7d

Definitely agree that it's needed! He's emerging as one of my primary dramatists/cultural commentators for the walking book btw.

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EarlyModernista @ellierycroft.bsky.social · 7d

Both he and Heywood so underrated I think! Dekker, especially, needs new collected editions of all his works.

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EarlyModernista @ellierycroft.bsky.social · 7d

Reading @siobhankeenan.bsky.social's beautifully lucid prose in 'Travelling Players in Shakespeare's England' - such a pleasure #writergoals

EarlyModernista @ellierycroft.bsky.social · 7d

Getting really interested in Thoms Dekker - is there an early modernist with particular expertise on him?

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