Misha Teramura, @matthewsteggle.bsky.socialtheconversation.com/in-1614-a-mo...
Only a handful of plays written by women in the early modern period have survived. But the accounts of Alice Mustian’s raunchy stage show shed light on a surprising playwright and impresario.
was bonking the local baker. Anyway, we thought the material was fascinating, and we hope you do too. (4/4)
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It’s about Alice Mustian, who in 1612 built an entire temporary theatre, recruited actors, and wrote a play for them, all about her neighbour who (2/4)
Our article is out! Open-access at RES. Co-written by Misha Teramura, @dnmcinnis, and me in shifts around the clock. It was a lot of fun to do. academic.oup.com/res/advance-... (1/4)
I have an article out! In unexpected company! I have loved Housman for thirty years and never intended to write on him, but there you go.
Sorry to read of the death of N. W. Bawcutt - quietly brilliant Shakespeare editor, and through his detective work on the records of Sir Henry Herbert, godfather to masses of new facts (& new lost plays) from the Caroline theatre. www.liverpool.ac.uk/english/news...
Had an email from a nice lady offering to help me detect spammy writing. See if you can spot the tiny clue which suggests that the email might be a bit spammy itself.
In his TV series on Shakespeare Michael Wood says to camera sthg like, “Hamlet was an immediate sensational hit - all the men in the audience left wanting to be Hamlet, and all the women wanting to sleep with Hamlet”. Made me think of that…
www.bbc.com/future/artic... - Interesting article! A few corrections - they weren’t parchment; they didn’t fall out; they weren’t Elizabethan; and they weren’t from London. Things improve after that.