A Ukrainian Easter egg with orange, red, and black geometric designs surrounding the figure of a small, orange cat
An Easter gift from a very talented and kind co-worker. (Yes, that’s a portrait of my cat)
REVOLUTIONARY LETTER #2 The value of an individual life a credo they taught us to instill fear, and inaction, 'you only live once' a fog in our eyes, we are endless as the sea, not separate, we die a million times a day, we are born a million times, each breath life and death: get up, put on your shoes, get started, someone will finish Tribe an organism, one flesh, breathing joy as the stars breathe destiny down on us, get going, join hands, see to business, thousands of sons will see to it when you fall, you will grow a thousand times in the bellies of your sisters
get up, put on your shoes, get
started, someone will finish
TV show pitch: ‘Tome Team’, where a group of rare books librarians and book historians are sent to investigate an uncatalogued library for interesting incunabula, marginalia and provenances - and they have just three days to do it.
🎉📖 Greetings, Bluesky!
Our latest edition (28.2) is now live!
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#EarlyTheatre
Now in Early Theatre 28.2: Molly Ziegler shows how the single mention of Aaron’s “melancholy” in Titus Andronicus shapes the play’s imagining of race—positioning Aaron to secure a white Roman identity while commodifying Black bodies within early modern racial logics.
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#Shakespeare
Mayra Cortes shows how sound is the medium for working class resistance in A Midsummer Nights Dream: out now in Early Theatre 28.2
Access here: buff.ly/iiVrh3b
#Shakespeare #Drama
What do dramatic portrayals of the Carthaginian noblewoman Sophonisba reveal about the links between fairness, chastity, and the social construction of gender?
See Laura DeLuca’s (@lauradeluca.bsky.social) “The Dangers of Idealized Femininity,” out now in Early Theatre 28.2:
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#ET
Egg-cellent news! The first California condor eggs of the season have been laid at our wildlife conservation center, and more could be on the way.
Did you see Ian McKellen on The Late Show?? "But chartered unto them, what would you think
To be thus used? this is the strangers case;
And this your mountanish inhumanity."
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Throw back this piece from Ruben Espinosa from 2019.
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
We can accomplish anything together
why some people be mad at me sometimes they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and i keep on remembering mine. Lucille Clifton
Reminder in the face of all the angry gaslighting propaganda.
Rise like lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number --
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you--
Ye are many -- they are few.
Yes to the Lydgate mummings! (If not that, Mankind instead of Everyman, please.)
Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions.
Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.
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i am running into a new year By Lucille Clifton i am running into a new year and the old years blow back like a wind that i catch in my hair like strong fingers like all my old promises and it will be hard to let go of what i said to myself about myself when i was sixteen and twenty-six and thirty-six even thirty-six but i am running into a new year and i beg what i love and i leave to forgive me
Always worth a post
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We’re excited for #Shax2026 in Denver, but have you considered submitting a proposal for #Shax2027 in Atlanta? The deadline to submit proposals to the #Shax2027 program committee is February 15!
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A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video
A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video
A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video
A photograph of the seminary gym in knives out. It has the same window.
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
He ys ridinge a horse
He ys emerald and svelte
He will get reallye weirde
If you lie about beltes
The Greene Knighte
Ys Cominge
To Toun
Orange cat sitting near small red and white wool ball
Merry Christmas from the cat who has stolen the cat toys out of the gift bag intended for friends who are having me over for supper. I hope you also get to enjoy all the gifts
“Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business.”
-Jacob Marley, A Christmas Carol
Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself. For @reuters.com
What's in a name -- Romeo's name? And what's conversion (not just love) got to do with it? Read more in @hollypickett.bsky.social's essay on Romeo's transformation 'from renegade to martyr': forthcoming in our upcoming Issues in Review, ET 28.2 (Dec 2025). @swittek.bsky.social
What happens to faithful wives in early modern English plays where prodigal sons give way to prodigal husbands? Hannah Korrell explores how "Griselda Fights Back," along the way changing trajectories of gender in conversion narratives. Forthcoming in 28.2's Issues in Review. @swittek.bsky.social
