Hester L-J
@starcrossed2018.bsky.social
Shakespeare, slowly #SlowShakespeare; editing (2GV for Arden), introducing (R&J for Cambridge), writing (Textile Shakespeare, Oxford UP Nov 2025!) & Very Short Intro to the Histories (currently). Teaching in Cambridge (Catz) 🇳🇿
I would trust my - admittedly highly intelligent - cat Elma over ChatGPT any day. She requires little water, is energy-efficient, and has no capacity to lie, and she answers to her own furry self rather than some of the worst people in the world.
December 3, 2025 at 11:16 AM
I would trust my - admittedly highly intelligent - cat Elma over ChatGPT any day. She requires little water, is energy-efficient, and has no capacity to lie, and she answers to her own furry self rather than some of the worst people in the world.
well yes... oh the drive up that coast❤️
December 2, 2025 at 7:35 PM
well yes... oh the drive up that coast❤️
DAMN, that's unfair and dispiriting. Good on you for sharing. I hope that the conditions will be more enabling for your plans soon...🤗
December 2, 2025 at 6:13 PM
DAMN, that's unfair and dispiriting. Good on you for sharing. I hope that the conditions will be more enabling for your plans soon...🤗
💐congratulation! ADORE 2 Henry VI!!
December 2, 2025 at 3:32 PM
💐congratulation! ADORE 2 Henry VI!!
will message you tonight with the classic Edmonds recipe... He may object that they are not authentically Australian, be warned.
December 2, 2025 at 2:31 PM
will message you tonight with the classic Edmonds recipe... He may object that they are not authentically Australian, be warned.
I could probably only supply NZ ones... but the knowledge of the place where the mother seals used to leave their pups - in the manner of an actual seal creche - near Kaikoura while they went out to sea to feed might cheer you anyway. There was a SLIDE.
December 2, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I could probably only supply NZ ones... but the knowledge of the place where the mother seals used to leave their pups - in the manner of an actual seal creche - near Kaikoura while they went out to sea to feed might cheer you anyway. There was a SLIDE.
Pikelet is v NZ too, and originally Northern UK, although what it means may slightly vary (some crumpet intersection). Scotch Pancake a reasonable equivalent. Absolutely classic bring-a-plate food, with jam and cream, or just buttered - light and delicious. Can send you a recipe if you like!!
December 2, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Pikelet is v NZ too, and originally Northern UK, although what it means may slightly vary (some crumpet intersection). Scotch Pancake a reasonable equivalent. Absolutely classic bring-a-plate food, with jam and cream, or just buttered - light and delicious. Can send you a recipe if you like!!
one of my favourites for teaching - SO much to talk about. I particularly like the NotADove.
December 2, 2025 at 10:56 AM
one of my favourites for teaching - SO much to talk about. I particularly like the NotADove.
one for @awickenden.bsky.social methinks...
December 2, 2025 at 9:49 AM
one for @awickenden.bsky.social methinks...
endless screaming yes.
no, it's not a 'debate'.
really, it's not.
nobody serious, no.
really, no.
no, it's not a 'debate'.
really, it's not.
nobody serious, no.
really, no.
December 1, 2025 at 10:12 PM
endless screaming yes.
no, it's not a 'debate'.
really, it's not.
nobody serious, no.
really, no.
no, it's not a 'debate'.
really, it's not.
nobody serious, no.
really, no.
yessssssss this.
December 1, 2025 at 10:11 PM
yessssssss this.
priorities all good then.... (assuming mittens are an absolute lost cause??)
December 1, 2025 at 10:10 PM
priorities all good then.... (assuming mittens are an absolute lost cause??)
😭thank you for coming, so many lovely people there being so kind. Looking forward to being able to reciprocate when your book is in the world! ❤️
December 1, 2025 at 10:09 PM
😭thank you for coming, so many lovely people there being so kind. Looking forward to being able to reciprocate when your book is in the world! ❤️
Yes... I must book. (I'm reflecting on the fact that my father, a few years younger than TS, escaped with his mother from Singapore in the very same weeks in 1942, ending up in Australia but, like TS, losing all the family documents on the way.)
November 29, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Yes... I must book. (I'm reflecting on the fact that my father, a few years younger than TS, escaped with his mother from Singapore in the very same weeks in 1942, ending up in Australia but, like TS, losing all the family documents on the way.)
one of the greats...
November 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
one of the greats...
Et, in Arcadia:
We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it...
We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it...
November 29, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Et, in Arcadia:
We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it...
We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it...
Continual meditations, tears and sorrows,
He gave his honours to the world again,
His blessed part to heaven, and slept in peace...3/3
Fun fact: Wolsey was the part most often performed in the readings given by Charlotte Cushman in mid C19 America, having famously played Romeo when younger.
He gave his honours to the world again,
His blessed part to heaven, and slept in peace...3/3
Fun fact: Wolsey was the part most often performed in the readings given by Charlotte Cushman in mid C19 America, having famously played Romeo when younger.
November 29, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Continual meditations, tears and sorrows,
He gave his honours to the world again,
His blessed part to heaven, and slept in peace...3/3
Fun fact: Wolsey was the part most often performed in the readings given by Charlotte Cushman in mid C19 America, having famously played Romeo when younger.
He gave his honours to the world again,
His blessed part to heaven, and slept in peace...3/3
Fun fact: Wolsey was the part most often performed in the readings given by Charlotte Cushman in mid C19 America, having famously played Romeo when younger.
Give him a little earth, for charity.’
So went to bed, where eagerly his sickness
Pursued him still, and three nights after this,
About the hour of eight, which he himself
Foretold should be his last, full of repentance, 2/3
So went to bed, where eagerly his sickness
Pursued him still, and three nights after this,
About the hour of eight, which he himself
Foretold should be his last, full of repentance, 2/3
November 29, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Give him a little earth, for charity.’
So went to bed, where eagerly his sickness
Pursued him still, and three nights after this,
About the hour of eight, which he himself
Foretold should be his last, full of repentance, 2/3
So went to bed, where eagerly his sickness
Pursued him still, and three nights after this,
About the hour of eight, which he himself
Foretold should be his last, full of repentance, 2/3
At last, with easy roads, he came to Leicester;
Lodged in the abbey, where the reverend abbot,
With all his convent , honourably received him;
To whom he gave these words: ‘O father abbot,
An old man, broken with the storms of state,
Is come to lay his weary bones among ye. 1/3
Lodged in the abbey, where the reverend abbot,
With all his convent , honourably received him;
To whom he gave these words: ‘O father abbot,
An old man, broken with the storms of state,
Is come to lay his weary bones among ye. 1/3
November 29, 2025 at 5:10 PM
At last, with easy roads, he came to Leicester;
Lodged in the abbey, where the reverend abbot,
With all his convent , honourably received him;
To whom he gave these words: ‘O father abbot,
An old man, broken with the storms of state,
Is come to lay his weary bones among ye. 1/3
Lodged in the abbey, where the reverend abbot,
With all his convent , honourably received him;
To whom he gave these words: ‘O father abbot,
An old man, broken with the storms of state,
Is come to lay his weary bones among ye. 1/3
I've done that one! it's wildly inaccurate but quite an involving jigsaw I thought, with some really fiendish bits!
November 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I've done that one! it's wildly inaccurate but quite an involving jigsaw I thought, with some really fiendish bits!
🥲thank you. It's being very weird; people are being LOVELY but I can't remember feeling this exposed and vulnerable about a book ever before...
November 29, 2025 at 12:22 PM
🥲thank you. It's being very weird; people are being LOVELY but I can't remember feeling this exposed and vulnerable about a book ever before...