Tom Rutter
@obscuredrama.bsky.social
Shakespeare/Marlowe/playing companies/science/early modern drama, University of Sheffield
The thread on @lucycmunro.bsky.social's chapter is up! 🙌 bsky.app/profile/aida...
Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄@aidannorrie.bsky.social · 4d agoWelcome to day 6 of #LisaFest, where we will be looking at @lucycmunro.bsky.social's excellent chapter. Whenever I think of The Knight of the Burning Pestle, I always think of Lucy, so it was wonderful to have her contribution be on the play! The chapters in the volume thus far have been...
A rare opportunity to experience Marlowe as dance: DeNada Dance Theatre are staging an adaptation of Edward II by Carlos Pons Guerra across various venues in the north of England over the next few months. Details here: www.denada-dance.com/whats-on-1
What's On — DeNada Dance Theatre
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For day 5 of #LisaFest, I am delighted to be sharing the chapter by my partner-in-crime for this endeavour. @matthewsteggle.bsky.social's fabulous chapter is on the various stories about an overlooked Arthurian figure, Chinon. In addition to the excellent nod to Bridget Jones, Matt applies his...
My author copy is here 🔥 so grateful for @lisahopkins.bsky.social and Bill Angus for their hard work as editors and so chuffed to be in such excellent company!
The Council just gave us new, bigger bins for paper, which suggests that even if we are Recycling we are not Reducing. If there's one thing more important than the continuing habitability of our planet it's keeping capitalism going
The next production by Edward’s Boys will be Your Five Gallants by Thomas Middleton, a playwright with whom we have had some dealings. Mid-March 2027. Tour is a work in process - although Stratford-upon-Avon, London and Paris (France) are confirmed. Please spread the word. More details to follow.
Mine & @matthewsteggle.bsky.social's festschrift for the incomparable @lisahopkins.bsky.social is due for publication on 19 October. Each day until then, I'm going to give an overview of the chapters to get you excited for the volume's early moderny goodness. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...
The Edges of Early Modern English Drama
Thanks to the pioneering work of Professor Lisa Hopkins, the field of early modern English drama is now much more attuned to the various edges, spaces, and intersections that characterise the dramatic...
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It's been a long time coming. www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
The Routledge Companion to Shakespeare, Biography and Bioadaptation
The Routledge Companion to Shakespeare, Biography, and Bioadaptation offers an authoritative survey on Shakespeare and biographical writing. Featuring chapters by an international team of contributors...
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Coming soon from the Late Tudor and Stuart Drama Series: "The Edges of Early Modern English Drama: History, Performance, and the Scholarship of Lisa Hopkins" edited by Aidan Norrie and Matthew Steggle. Look for it this fall, or preorder your copy now! wmich.edu/medievalpubl...
My article on Winter’s Tale and The Lady’s Tragedy is online! It’s the idea that made it out of the group chat: this article builds on conversations I had @memsunikent.bsky.social about bodies in performance, & in the #WTWatchParty during COVID lockdowns, & now it’s out in the world! #EarlyModern
New publication - a v short note picking out a detail in a little-read Jacobean play. Features cakes and cream. academic.oup.com/nq/advance-a...
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📚 Book review: Female Servants in Early Modern England, by Charmian Mansell, reviewed by Susan D. Amussen 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #BookReview #skyhistorians #GenderHistory
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Early modernists will understand that this was not what I was looking for.
📢 Excited to announce this Call for Papers for 'Imagining Difference in Early Modern London', a conference exploring how EM Londoners experienced and negotiated forms of difference.
Find someone who looks at you the way this phlegmatic looks at a fish. www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collectio...
Flegmatisch temperament
Een naakte man zit op een kapotte vissersboot. Bij zijn voeten bloeien waterlelies. Naast hem staat een naakte vrouw met vissen in haar handen en schelpen in haar lange haar. Ook heeft ze een maansikk...
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Seems unfair that advanced degrees in England give you a storehouse of useless critical knowledge if in Italy they give you extremely cool psychic powers. I knew I should have gone to La Sapienza.
Katie Murphy@manymanyplies.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis has to be high on the list of oddest footnotes I have read.
Latest issue of Shakespeare now available! www.tandfonline.com/toc/rshk20/c... Shakespeare's marriage, #earlymodern centaurs, 'brown matters', eco-imaginaries, Turkish miniseries, and reviews!
Shakespeare
Volume 22, Issue 3 of Shakespeare
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“We need to work at scale to make sure that we don’t have some really big unintended consequences [of subject closures]”, Sanders said, adding that employers tell universities they want critical thinking and communication skills—“things that humanities training and disciplines enable”.
Research Professional News@resprofnews.bsky.social · 2mo agoPublic bodies ‘must consider research impacts of course closures’ Royal Holloway vice-chancellor says higher education sector must avoid unintended consequences of financially-driven decisions www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
My hot Shakespearean take on the new Mountain Goats album is that we're in Tempest territory, i.e. a selfconsciously late artwork about lateness
Early instance of the verb 'to google' (Lemnius, Touchstone of Complexions, 1576)
Squat, green bulbs, bitter as smoke, I offer you figs from Sheffield’s east end. They have exile’s toughened flesh and skin; its deep-cut bloodline. Special one-day offer: 35% off 'Skin', the second collection of poems by Chris Jones skinchrisjones.wordpress.com
A 🧵with an update on the wills project: #EarlyModern 🗃️
The Material Culture of Wills Project@materialwills.bsky.social · 2mo ago📢PROJECT UPDATE📢 You may have seen the news that the University of Exeter, home of the wills project, has placed 500 academics at risk of redundancy. The project leader Prof. Jane Whittle & project co-investigator Dr Laura Sangha are both at risk, alongside almost all of the History department. 1/
I've just spent the last half-hour trying to write a gloss on the word 'coming' in _All's Well_, 2.4 that's broad-minded without being salacious; what have you been up to?
