If you can't come to the lectures then don't worry, you can always buy a copy of the book and act bits out yourself! Do let me know how you get on. amzn.eu/d/7GBbI8I

Praise for Burrows on slapstick and sympathy:
'A load of insincere, simpering nonsense' (Guardian comment)
'For a lecturer at Cambridge your entire article was stupid' (A man who found me on Facebook)
'you did this because you thought it would make you look kind and caring.' (Guardian comment)

(3/3) So Meg and I are going to wonder whether the division between dramatic space and 'the real world' is quite so simple as the grumps would have it, and we'll wonder too how it's helpful for the lecture theatre to be thought of as a dramatic space. All welcome!

(2/3) These lectures originally made a lot of people grumpy about the idea of warnings, leading to this article: www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/oct/31/shakespeare-trigger-warning-students-snowflakes-cambridge-university-sexual-abuse-victims

All are welcome at our launch event on the 24th October, when the soprano Isabella Theodosius will be variously inviting us into and ejecting us out of her world: from 5.30pm in the Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio, 9 West Road. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/47962/

We'll be working with practitioners experienced in all kinds of dramatic spaces - theatres & lecture theatres, classrooms & clinics & counselling rooms - using the dramaturgies of disturbance to better apprehend, understand and empathise the out-of-kilter experiences of one another.

You watched Sun, Sea and Selling Houses instead. Fine. I'm not angry, but I guess you probably haven't been sleeping. 'It sounds like it was great'. It was. 'What did I miss, & c'. Loads. Well you're lucky, because the lovely chaps at @engfac.bsky.social put it on catch-up: youtu.be/l5OTG2OL2Hc?...

(Also thankyou very much @drsheeha.bsky.social and Amber for tuning in!)

Featuring - among just the most recent additions - @bkadams.bsky.social's Julius Caesar intro, @laurajaynewright.bsky.social's Henry VIII, @bachrach.bsky.social's Richard II, @kimgilchrist.bsky.social's Cymbeline, and @harrymccarthy.bsky.social's Titus!

see (and buy?) the whole spiffy series here! www.global.oup.com/academic/search?q=New+Oxford+shakespeare&cc=gb&lang=en
All overseen with brilliance, nous, sensitivity, gallantry, intrepidness and derring-do by General Editor @oldfortunatus.bsky.social