Melinda Gough (she/her)
melindajgough.bsky.social
Melinda Gough (she/her)
@melindajgough.bsky.social
Editor, Early Theatre
Professor, English & Cultural Studies/Gender & Social Justice, McMaster University
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Exciting to be among this rich collection just published, edited by Peter Cockett & @melindajgough.bsky.social . It brings together some lively thinking and conversations between actors, scholars, & makers arising from a residency at Stratford Festival: utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....
Engendering the Stage in the Age of Shakespeare and Beyond - University of Toronto Press
Engendering the Stage in the Age of Shakespeare and Beyond steps beyond the myth of the all-male stage, centring feminist, queer, and trans scholars and artists to reveal the deeper complexities of gendered performance on stage today and within the records of theatre history.
utppublishing.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Our newest edition is out now! ✏️ (4/4)

Building on our earlier conversation, this concluding thread reveals what more you can find in our latest issue (28.1)! #StayInformed #ExcitingNews
August 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Our newest issue is out!!! 🎙️ (2/4)
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55088
Following the last thread, here's what more you can find in our latest issue (28.1)!
#StayTuned #ExcitingNews
Project MUSE - Early Theatre: A Journal associated with the Records of Early English Drama-Volume 28, Number 1, 2025
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August 28, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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🎭 Hello, Bluesky! (1/4)

We're excited to share that Early Theatre 28.1 is now live!
buff.ly/tFadeCz

This issue is fully open access and free to read via Project Muse’s Subscribe to Open Access.

Curious what’s inside? Follow this post and the threads that follow for highlights, links, and more!!
August 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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We can’t wait to share ET's upcoming Issues in Review section on Queer and Trans Issues in Medieval Drama edited by @jeffgstoyanoff.bsky.social. Look for this work in issue 27.2 of Early Theatre by the end of the year!
December 20, 2024 at 7:04 PM
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Early Theatre is on Blue Sky! Please follow, and share our posts.
December 19, 2024 at 9:25 PM
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Historicizing the Embodied Imagination in Early Modern English Literature (Palgrave, 2024) will be released in the coming weeks. Many thanks to my wonderful co-editor, Grant Williams, and our terrific contributors who have produced amazing chapters. More info here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
August 1, 2024 at 2:20 AM
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Nearly 300 @Yale faculty condemn the criminalization of @Yale students engaged in acts of peaceful protest. @Yale
must drop all charges, take no disciplinary action against those arrested, and respect peaceable speech and assembly on campus. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
April 26, 2024 Yale Faculty Letter
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April 26, 2024 at 2:39 PM
What a fun afternoon session today with fellow editor @jamieparis.bsky.social discussing the ins and outs of editors’ first read throughs and next steps for new submissions to @earlytheatre.bsky.social !
April 26, 2024 at 2:32 AM
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If you work in #earlymodern drama, particularly in the methodologies Bill did so much to support through his scholarship, teaching, and mentoring, please consider submitting to the collection! Email abstract & bio to [email protected] before August 30, 2024.
March 24, 2024 at 11:40 AM
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Little more on this deposition and other accounts of that day, with prime prop of the broomstick, here: beforeshakespeare.com/2018/12/10/e...
February 7, 2024 at 3:39 PM
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Don’t forget about these upcoming SAA deadlines:

- voting for officers closes Feb 15
- program proposals for #Shax2025 are due Feb 15
- discounted registration for #Shax2024 ends March 10

Find details at linktr.ee/saaupdates
February 8, 2024 at 12:36 AM
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Can’t quite believe ‘What is a Playhouse?’ is generously listed (in some distinguished company) as one of the 2023 Books of the Year in History Today
www.historytoday.com/archive/revi...
Best New History Books of 2023
Revolutions and rubles, godlings and fascist symbols, Shakespeare and silk: ten historians choose their favourite new history books of 2023.
www.historytoday.com
November 24, 2023 at 8:43 AM
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You can hear from Nandini Das - winner of the @britishacademy.bsky.social
Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding at our first event of 2024.

Monday 15 Jan at 6pm online and in person. Free - book your place here
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/in-co...
British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding shortlist event
Nandini Das, winner of the British Academy Book Prize 2023, discusses her experience of writing her prize-winning book Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
January 1, 2024 at 1:45 PM
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As you share your 2023 reading wrap-ups and begin to compile your 2024 reading lists, here’s my plug for ‘The Theatrical Legacy of Thomas Middleton, 1624-2024’, coming in April 2024! #EarlyModern
December 31, 2023 at 7:32 PM
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MSA isn't on #earlymodern Bluesky yet: SAVE THE DATE! The Marlowe Society of America's 9th International Conference will be held in London, 9-12 July 2024. Further details including the Call for Papers are forthcoming -- see www.marlowesocietyofamerica.org for updates.
November 29, 2023 at 8:48 AM