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dramaturg. director. scholar. teacher. photographer.
shakespeare & early modern drama: Gesture | Bodies | Staging
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"Shakespeare's Histories in Audio" is now available on Spotify, Amazon Music Podcasts, and iHeart Radio Podcasts!

BST’s final project (originally intended as a full repertory staging before its closure due to the pandemic) adapts Shakespeare's two tetralogies into audio dramas
Shakespeare's Histories in Audio
Podcast · Brave Spirits Theatre · Shakespeare’s epic eight-play saga captures the cyclical nature of violence and history, while showcasing poignant domestic stories of families and their divided loya...
open.spotify.com
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my student has decided completely unprompted that she wants to write about Lust’s Dominion (or, the lascivious queen, etc). Suspect I know the answer here but—is there a decent edition?
November 26, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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any scholars of early modern hair care on here? i just realized they managed these curls without shampoo or conditioner.
Portraits of the Princes Palatine, Charles-Louis I, elector (1617-1680) & of his brother Robert (1619-1682)

Antony van Dyck, 1637 (Musée du Louvre)
November 25, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
contingentmagazine.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Recordings of our two previous NVS Seminars this semester (by Whitney Sperrazza and Eric Rasmussen) are now available on our website here:

newvariorumshakespeare.org/news

And we have one more NVS Seminar to come, about ‘King Lear’: details on this poster ⬇️ and on our website…
November 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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I was talking to my students yesterday about how much we lose when we simply think of college as something to be got through.
Thinking a lot lately about the simple fact that college allows people to spend about 15 weeks immersed in a disciplinary conversation with an expert in that field. And what a special thing that is.
November 21, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.

remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
What Tom Holland’s historic lip-sync showcase taught us about stormwater management
Grab your umbrella and your tights.
neorsd.medium.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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📢 NEW Will of the Month Post 📢

October's will is an unusual & poignant example of a married woman who made a will

Margery Gadyng died in childbirth in 1540 - she declared her will to the midwife & women attending her, leaving them bequests of ribbons & rosaries

sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...
October 28, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Today is the OFFICIAL publication day for TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE! Please indulge me: I want to say a little (perhaps rather a lot) about it and share my acknowledgements - and a discount code! Appropriately,🧵1/10
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Great look into the comprehensiveness of EEBO and EEBO-TCP and what that means for using those tools. Highly recommend for all computational bibliographers and early modernists doing large-scale work with EEBO
November 9, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Somewhat astonishingly, here it is, a book, a thing in the world... More, including acknowledgements, soon❤️
October 31, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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*New Publication!*
Lovely end to the week - 'John Gielgud on Air: 65 Years of Performing Shakespeare on Radio' out now in Shakespeare Survey. It shows that not only was he a leading stage actor, but he was an audio drama pioneer too.
If you have access, here's the link: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
October 17, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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a tiny bit of good news is that we have secured funding to digitize john milton's copy of holinshed's CHRONICLES (1587).

the images will form part of MILTON'S LIBRARY, an open-access site featuring the 10 books positively identified as milton's w/ transcriptions/translations of his marginal notes.
October 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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The first 9 months of the year are one year and then the last 3 months of the year are a different year
October 4, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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What’s the best performance you’ve ever seen live?
September 24, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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AN #EARLYMODERN POST!! They still exist! And a lovely one at that, for five years and with the brilliant people at KCL who have turned that place in quite the hub of exciting early modern research.

Run, don’t walk.
Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World at King's College London
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
www.jobs.ac.uk
September 23, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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Last day to pre-register for the Shakespeare and Dance seminar at #wsc2026 organised by @winerock.bsky.social and myself. No need to supply an abstract at this stage so it’s easy-peasy. And we’re a lovely bunch. Look for Seminar No.34! www.wsc2026.org/seminars-wor...
September 15, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Seems really unfair that when one week ends another one starts and we have to decide what to have for dinner all over again.
September 14, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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The brilliant James Findlay has a new book "Caught on Screen" from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social about representations of convicts & #Australian history on film. I've read it & you should too & Ask your library to order a copy!
@thenacbs.bsky.social @austhistassoc.bsky.social
September 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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I need an author for a chapter on the role of production design in the film adaptations of Roald Dahl's 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'. Edinburgh UP has shown an interest in the proposal. Find how to contact me here:
webs.uab.cat/saramartinal...
@adaptstudies.bsky.social
#AcademicSky
September 9, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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🌟Publication Day!🌟

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Authorship, ed. Rory Loughnane and Will Sharpe

For more details about the book's contents and contributors, see here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
September 9, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Finally got around to watching "Grand Theft Hamlet" and it was an amazing, lovely throwback to that discombobulating time of pandemic performance -- when we grabbed everything we had to build communities and virtual gathering places so we could keep creating something together
GRAND THEFT HAMLET | UK theatrical trailer | IN CINEMAS FRIDAY 6TH DECEMBER from TULL STORIES
YouTube video by Tull Stories
www.youtube.com
September 8, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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There needs to be a word for the thing you feel when you hear a ringtone you used to use
September 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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This is a momentous Friday - it's up and running! 😄

The fruits of my 2024-5 Nottingham postdoc, transforming an underused space at Shakespeare's Schoolroom & Guildhall.

(The only permanent exhibition on early modern drama beyond Shakespeare, within an authentic early modern performance space.)
September 5, 2025 at 1:04 PM