Lost Federico García Lorca verse discovered 93 years after it was written Eight-line poem found on the back of a manuscript sheds light on Spanish poet’s preoccupation with time A previously unknown verse attributed to Federico García Lorca has been discovered 93 years after the celebrated Spanish poet and playwright is believed to have jotted it on the back of one of his manuscripts. Lorca is thought to have written the eight-line poem in 1933 while working on the collection Diván del Tamarit, a homage to the Arab poets of his native Granada. Continue reading...

Lost Federico García Lorca verse discovered 93 years after it was written

Heady days.

That's where it all began! Best learning experience ever too, by the way!

Veita hinn,
er vettki veit...

So sorry Leonie.

A man of property Just outside the City of London, in the secluded streets once occupied by the monastic precinct of the Black Friars, is an unassuming warehouse building

Found a Shakespeare thing; wrote about it in @thetls.bsky.social: www.the-tls.com/regular-feat....

Starting to pull material together for a new essay on Dryden. It's about chance, contingency, and actorly risk in the plays. Working title 'Dryden's Performance Anxiety'. Early days...

Just out in 17th Century - my new article on Leonard Wheatcroft, the bard of Ashover, ”Poetry and the Politics of the Parish”. Featuring weathercocks, a non-elite manuscript miscellany, and lots of bellringing!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thanks for the invitation! I loved being part of the team 😊

Performing Restoration Shakespeare. Amanda Eubanks Winkler, Claude Fretz, and Richard Schoch, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. xxiv + 220 pp. £88. | Renaissance Quarterly: Vol 78, No ...

A 'gift to scholars, students, and practitioners who wish to champion performance as a worthwhile research praxis in its own right'. Lovely review of Performing Restoration Shakespeare by Katie Adkison
@richardschoch.bsky.social & @awinkler90.bsky.social
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1017/...

This is well worth a listen (as always).

Fun fact: there are only two perfectly written texts in the English language. One is 'The Rape of the Lock'. The other is 'Pride and Prejudice'.

I will not be taking any further questions at this time.

Just seeing a frame of this film makes me well up. One of my absolute favourites.

Today, I'm gardening in the sunshine, which involves cutting a (small) dead tree up with my new saw. I am, how to say?, overly excited - if careful 👨‍🌾🪚🪾

Here she is a couple of pages earlier,
disembarking 'a ce port de Harwich'.

This is great. It's actually Charles I's mum-in-law, Marie, arriving in 1639. The original is from Histoire de l'entree de la reyne mere... dans la Grande-Bretaigne (1639). Apparently she was received with 'mille acclamations de joye & de contentement', which sounds nice.
archive.org/details/lent...

No, no, thank *you*!

How many of us have benefited from Pete's generous, insightful, and fulsome reviews over the years, both in our teaching and research? Incredible stuff. 👏

All for (b)one, (b)one for all. (Don't @ me.)

Pepys ‘curated’ letters to conceal being offered enslaved boy as bribe – research Cambridge University historian uncovers letter to diarist who was a naval official in 1670s

Really interesting read on Pepys & slavery & naval history www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... & more in Michael Edwards @historicaljnl.bsky.social article 'Samuel Pepys, the African Companies, and the Archives of Slavery, 1660–1689'
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Happy @alcs.co.uk Day to all who celebrate! £130 for me this year. Unfortunately, this will have to go on fixing the oven, which has just broken, rather than something more fun... 😅

I've been looking forward to this for a long time. See you in 6(ish) hours... 🐉

Great, wasn't it!?

Link here: hdl.handle.net/11222.digili...

'Shakespeare and the Restoration Repertory shows how Shakespeare contributed to one of the most vibrant and innovative chapters of English theatre culture not as an isolated entity, but as a productive part of a much more diverse repertory.'

Nice review of my book 😊
hdl.handle.net/11222.digili...

Radio 4 - Listen Live - BBC Sounds Listen live to Radio 4 on BBC Sounds

My wife, Dr Sarah Smyth, is talking taste with @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social and others on Radio 4 tonight. Listen here!
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

‘I am still trying, in the face of difficulties, to elaborate some routine of life which will allow me to persist in some intellectual aims.’

Aren't we all, Tom. Aren't we all.

It finally happened: Davenant was an answer on Uni Challenge!! 🥳😱

O miserable mankind, to what fall
Degraded, to what wretched state reserved!

Say it ain't so!! 🤦

This is about so much more than football. But it is also very much about football.

Book cover: Joe Moran'd 'If you should fail'

Just picked this up from the library. Always enjoy @joemoransblog.bsky.social's stuff, and this is no exception. '[T]o have failed, to have plumbed the depths and know that one cannot fall further, is not so bad.' Fail better, indeed.