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Matthew Steggle
@matthewsteggle.bsky.social
Prof of Early Modern Eng Lit at Bristol University. Posts about Shakespeare; other C16-17 stuff; Marston, and lost plays. The rest is silence, mostly. Views own.
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was bonking the local baker. Anyway, we thought the material was fascinating, and we hope you do too. (4/4)

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- allegedly -

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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)

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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…

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This sounds really interesting!

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You could reasonably ask him if he felt up for sharing his draft commentary. What are you doing with it?

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Interesting! I was really surprised looking at it again for this project - not quite what you’d expect given what he writes later. Colin Burrow is doing it for the edition which is still a couple of years off publication (1/2)

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And you too! I saw your feed at once and thought, “oh, great, this is where all the thoughtful people are”.

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Thank you for the code! And - gosh - this place seems more civilized...

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Matthew Steggle
@matthewsteggle.bsky.social
Prof of Early Modern Eng Lit at Bristol University. Posts about Shakespeare; other C16-17 stuff; Marston, and lost plays. The rest is silence, mostly. Views own.
168 followers160 following16 posts