An engraved half-length portrait of a woman in rich C17th dress, including a layered collar under her chin, holding a feathered fan in her left hand.
Catherine Manners, Duchess of Buckingham, 1620-23, by #MagdalenaVanDePasse (German-born Dutch, c. 1600-1638). Held by the National Gallery of Art, www.nga.gov/artworks/405... #artherstory #womenartists
If you can, join us in DC on 18 April at the Folger for Shakespeare’s birthday lecture: www.folger.edu/whats-on/sha...
Latest issue of @shaxbull.bsky.social is out: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56610
Delighted to join the editorial board of a journal I've long admired. We publish in all areas of Shakespearea performance including early modern & not-Shakespearean stuff so please consider sending us your work & spread the word!
Just a beautiful Q for your appreciation
(Vascosan, 1556)
#typography
Scenes and samples from today’s paper making and marbling workshop at Penn State’s wonderful Conservation Centre, led by senior conservator Bill Minter, for my graduate seminar on the materiality of 18th-century life writing. Today’s assigned texts: Adventures of a Quire of Paper &Tristram Shandy
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My new Arden edition of Christopher Marlowe's 𝘌𝘥𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘐𝘐 is out soon, pre-order available now. Ebook April, paper in May. A play radical in Marlowe's time and ours...1/4
#marlowe #drama #theatre #tragedy #queer #LGBTQ #history #royalfamily
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This place lives in my head rent free, so a pleasure & privilege to visit Almagro’s 1628 corral de comedias. One of world’s oldest surviving theatres, an uncanny analogue to the Curtain playhouse #CurtainBook. Grateful to the city & Councillor Genaro Galàn Garcia for their generous hospitality.
We've been doing Tempest adaptations over the last couple of weeks (Césaire today). The weather has been really bad so I have been able to say 'looks like there's a bit of a tempest outside' in each of my classes.
Although #earlymodern ads are never boring, I must admit I am glad my 1,162 ad transcribing marathon it over! 🤓🍾 💃
The last was this beautifully illustrated Mineral Water ad from Daily Post, June 6, 1730.
A few weeks ago, I received news that Shakespeare Unlearned made the shortlist for the RSA book award - a needed ray of light - and also received news that I had not won. I tried to feel bad about that but couldn't. Click through to see the winners and, as I like to think of us, the short winners.
Title page of The Devil Is An Ass: A COMEDIE ACTED IN THE YEARE, 1616. BY HIS MAIESTIES SERVANTS. The Author BEN: IONSON.
A reminder for REP members: tonight’s reading of The Devil Is An Ass begins at the earlier time of 7pm (because Ben Jonson).
A photograph of a character in a play. A man wearing sparkly black trousers and a long black jacket with sparkly bits, over a bare chest. He has quite long hair and a short beard; he's got green eyeshadow all around his eyes. He's looking up out of frame and gesturing with his right hand.
Helena: I can't help it! *runs after Demetrius* Oberon: I will HELP her! #MoonMad #SlowShakespeare
www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo...
Oberon (Jo Stone-Fewings) in the 2011 @the-rsc.bsky.social Dream, dir. Nancy Meckler. He's on Helena's side.
Green-blue-grey blocky soundwaves on background. Centred in black serif lettering “Sonance”, with “journal of early modern sound studies” underneath.
👀 Over the last few months, I’ve been working with the terrific triumvirate @spparkle.bsky.social, @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social & Hannah Yip to set up “Sonance: A Journal of Early Modern Sound Studies”, a diamond open access journal dedicated to historic sounds in all their wondrous & eclectic forms.
For those who have missed it and are interested, my talk is now available online.
On Monday, at 1 PM, we welcome Casey Schmitt to our Ships & Seafaring Talk, where she will present her book "The Predatory Sea", a full-length study of the entangled history of captivity and colonialism using Spanish, French and English archives. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ships-seaf...
Years ago I found a note in the parish register of Glenfield in Leicestershire which instantly became one of my favourite Civil War commentaries:
'Churchwardens, not any; because
distractions many; & distructions mightie'.
I've returned to that document, explored other pages nearby, and found...
🎉📖 Greetings, Bluesky!
Our latest edition (28.2) is now live!
This issue is fully open access and free to read via Project MUSE’s Subscribe to Open Access initiative.
Start exploring here: muse.jhu.edu/journal/687
Follow us in the next few days to learn more about what's inside!
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Black headline text on a purple background with information about an article in a recent issue of The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, with an image of the cover of the book reviewed situated on a black field.
Black text on a purple background. Quote from the book review with information about the reviewer at the bottom.
📝Reviewed in PBSA: Michelle O’Callaghan's book, Crafting Poetry Anthologies in Renaissance England: Early Modern Cultures of Recreation 📖
Read Daniel Traister's full review in the December 2025 issue of PBSA. Link in Bio 🔗
🔎 DOI: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/738703
@londonreviewbookshop.co.uk I am in you and it is the coolest thing🥰
www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/textil...
I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Are you – Nobody – too?
Then there’s a pair of us!
Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know!
How dreary – to be – Somebody!
How public – like a Frog –
To tell one’s name – the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog!
Have I just stumbled upon my new FAVOURITE PRINTER'S MARK? #chicken #singingchicken?
Another from the vault: @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social chat with Sara Petrosillo about Hawking #Women: #Falconry, #Gender, and Control in #Medieval Literary Culture @ohiostatepress.bsky.social #skystorians #medievalist
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Wooden board (with iron handle for hanging) inscribed in ink with lines 468-473 from Book I of Homer's Iliad. Cultures/periods Late Roman Production date 400-500 Findspot Excavated/Findspot: Egypt Africa: Egypt Materials wood iron Dimensions Length: 40.64 centimetres Inscriptions Inscription type: inscription Inscription language: Greek Inscription subject educational literary Curator's comments TM 61042; Mertens-Pack 00611.000 Journal of Hellenic Studies (JHS) 29 (1909), p. 39 (Kenyon, Frederic G.); Chronique d‘Égypte (CdE) 68 (1993), p. 145-154 (Cribiore, Raffaella); Allen, Sutton, and West 2001: 131; Debut 1986: 260, no. 161; Cauderlier 1992: 90, no. 272. Bibliographic references Cribiore 1993 / A Homeric exercise from the Byzantine schoolroom (pp. 145-154) Location On display (G69/dc7) Exhibition history Exhibited: 2019-2020 21 Nov-8 Mar, London, BM, SEG, Troy Associated names Associated with: Homer Acquisition name Donated by: British School of Archaeology, Egypt Acquisition date 1906 Department Greek and Roman Registration number 1906,1020.2 Additional IDs Miscellaneous number: TM 61042 (Trismegistos) Conservation treatment: 24.4.19 British Museum
Me: I don’t allow AI in my classroom, but I do let them bring their tablets.
The Tablet:
(Late antique wooden board inscribed in ink with lines 468-473 from Book I of Homer's Iliad now at the BM)
Heads up #bookhistory people! This looks incredible!
Is it a book or is it a box? Should we, could we, would we know?
"Splendid & Lovely" If ELR had pet cats these would be their names. New issue out now...
'Beyond the book: recycling print in early modern England' is out in splendid & lovely English Literary Renaissance.
50 free downloads, warm & ready to go, at www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/Q2MMD...
(pcis: Bodleian coffret lined w. Horace & Virgil; damasked pages in Worcester College deed box)