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Shakespeare Bulletin @shaxbull.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Today’s Extra Credit focuses on Alice Dailey and Chelsea Phillips’s “Making (Ambitious, Impractical, Interdisciplinary) Dreams Come True: The Spanish Tragedy at Villanova”. Check out these open-access resources from Alice & @chelseaphillips.bsky.social 📰: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

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Chelsea Phillips (she/her) @chelseaphillips.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Thrilled to have a piece reflecting on our 2024 Spanish Tragedy out in the brand new issue of Shakespeare Bulletin alongside three other great missives from the rehearsal room! The Spanish Tragedy evangelism continues💀💀💀

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Chelsea Phillips (she/her) @chelseaphillips.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Very pleased to announce that I’ve been promoted to Full Professor. I'm deeply grateful to the community at Villanova for supporting my work, and to the many friends and fellow travelers beyond my institution who make my life and work better.

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Chelsea Phillips (she/her) @chelseaphillips.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Prepping for #ASECS26 and spending an inordinate amount of time on paper titles and attempting to riff on the divorced beheaded died rhyme but about Addison's CATO.

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The London Stage Database @londonstagedb.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Take your seats, silence your phones, and, whatever you do, PLEASE refrain from climbing onstage! Check out this week's #theatertthursday on the stage loungers, audience riots, and meddling managers of the London Stage: blogs.uoregon.edu/londonstage/... #digitalhumanities #18thc #theaterhistory

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March 12th, 1763: A Notice from Management – Extending the London Stage Database

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Chelsea Phillips (she/her) @chelseaphillips.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Poetry so bad it drove me back to social media: “Renown shews her Helen in dingy tradition And Hebe retreats, to avoid competition” (xi) “When the insincere praise, Desolation must follow; As Serpents pre-slaver that victim they’d swallow.” (xiii)

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Erin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

In case this is useful information to anyone I know, the American Musical Theater Archives youtube channel has a huge assortment of clips and entire shows from American Musical Theater (back to Gold Diggers of 1929!).

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American Musical Theater Archives

All videos have been digitized and uploaded by the American Musical Theater Archives Project. To make a tax deductible donation to this 501c3, please visit the link below. All videos are for educati...

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Adventures in Theater History: Philadelphia @aithpodcast.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

First Preview tonight is already SOLD OUT! We open May 3rd, and run through May 18th. Act fast to get your tickets now! www.philartistscollective.org/cato.html

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Chelsea Phillips (she/her) @chelseaphillips.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

On Wednesday, I'll be at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philly with a bunch of awesome people to discuss CATO, an eighteenth-century play woven into the fabric of our early republic. Come join us! @r18collective.bsky.social www.amrevmuseum.org/events/amrev...

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Chelsea Phillips (she/her) @chelseaphillips.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Longwood Gardens—particularly taken with the blown tulips straight out of a Dutch still life!

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Chelsea Phillips (she/her) @chelseaphillips.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

My kid is 3 and already his first question every morning is “is it Friday?”

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025. This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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Chelsea Phillips (she/her) @chelseaphillips.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Tra-lil my hearts! It’s pancake day. Ring ‘em (pancake bells) if ya got ‘em.

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Emily Breunig @emilybreunig.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Something we can do. A little goes further than you might think: mutualaidsudan.org

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SUDAN MUTUAL AID COALITION

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Chelsea Phillips (she/her) @chelseaphillips.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

"from half past two to half past four I sit in state—the remainder of the day has so much the reverse of dignity that retirement and concealment is requested for my friends’ convenience as well as for my own." --Elizabeth Inchbald, introverted queen

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Chelsea Phillips (she/her) @chelseaphillips.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Absolute chaos of stories in this memoir-- 1) actor didn't have enough plates to break in a scene and so snatched the wig off his scene partner and threw it into the air. 2) another actor swapped an unpopular song last minute for an alternative, not realizing....

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Chelsea Phillips (she/her) @chelseaphillips.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Reynolds' favorite punctuation mark was the comma. “Drury Lane, and Covent Garden, were almost forgotten in the performances at Richmond House; and...were considered, by crowded, and fashionable audiences, equal, if not superior, to Kemble, Lewis, Mrs. Siddons, and the present Countess of Derby.”

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Chelsea Phillips (she/her) @chelseaphillips.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Why could young William Pitt get it, and why am I just learning this? Because I get all my information from satirical prints.

Black and white engraving of the 18th c English politician William Pitt. Who appears to have been hot.

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Chelsea Phillips (she/her) @chelseaphillips.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

At the Folger today, so watch this space for a scrolling break. First up, politician John Wilkes' self-own, as recounted by playwright Frederick Reynolds: “That he required a fortnight to talk away his face” (qtd 20)--apparently didn't stop his popularity with the ladies, however.

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Chelsea Phillips (she/her) @chelseaphillips.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Historian snark to lighten your timeline: “Mrs. Wells of Covent Garden was always always in the news. She was certainly better known to readers of newspapers than any other performer, for there was hardly a day they were not called upon to weep over her latest misfortune.”

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Chelsea Phillips (she/her) @chelseaphillips.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Just me or is Die Hard more of a Christmas Movie than The Family Stone?

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Chelsea Phillips (she/her) @chelseaphillips.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Staged reading of Sir Anthony Love tonight with the fine folks of Philadelphia Artists’ Collective💙💙💙

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Chelsea Phillips (she/her) @chelseaphillips.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Three years ago I was having the best shower of my entire life post giving birth. It was so good. Also happy birthday to our little delight.

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Chelsea Phillips (she/her) @chelseaphillips.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

This morning my almost-3-year-old gathered up a bunch of hangers and put them on a doorknob. When his dad—a notorious punster—asked what they were doing, kiddo said "just hanging out” 💀💀💀

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Beth Gaskell @bethgaskell.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Thought I’d make my first post both positive and useful-so here’s a list of all of the free-to-view titles now available on the British Newspaper Archive: blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2024/09/19/a...

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List of Free to View Pages | British Newspaper Archive

Working in partnership with the British Library, here we present a list of all newspaper pages included in our free to view newspaper collection.

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Chelsea Phillips (she/her) @chelseaphillips.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Hello new followers! I’m a dramaturg and historian of early modern and 18th-century British drama. Current focus is theatre finance, media, and gossip. I also write on the history of pregnancy. Follow along if you like your existential dread peppered with historical anecdotes and juicy tidbits.

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Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

Hello new followers! We are Beyond, producing full cast audio adaptations, discussions & other useful things on early English drama. The podcast is on any podcatcher, plus exploratory readings on our YouTube channel, & our website is for browsing. audioboom.com/channels/495... beyondshakespeare.org

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Beyond Shakespeare

From the earliest drama in English, to the closing of the theatres in 1642, there was a hell of a lot of drama produced - and a lot of it wasn't by Shakespeare. Apart from a few noble exceptions t...

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Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social · 31/07/2024

I'm trying to identify a late 18th-century woman writer (probably a poet) whose surname was BURNET (listed in a text from 1786 alongside Jane Graham, A-L Barbauld, Hannah Moore, Anna Seward, Hannah Cowley). Anyone know who this might be? #18thCentury #18C

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Chelsea Phillips (she/her) @chelseaphillips.bsky.social · 22/04/2024

Profound feels as we close The Spanish Tragedy. What a show.

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Chelsea Phillips (she/her) @chelseaphillips.bsky.social · 20/01/2024

Finally lit one of the fancy candles that's been sitting on my bookshelf for a year. Please clap.

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Chelsea Phillips (she/her) @chelseaphillips.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

The most recent issue of ABO includes two pieces I'm quite proud of: a review of Sarah Fox's excellent book, and a Conversations series on reproductive rights and the eighteenth century. Check out the full issue here: digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/

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Chelsea Phillips (she/her) @chelseaphillips.bsky.social · 20/12/2023

Congratulations, Miles Grier!! So excited to get into this!

Othello holds a candle over sleeping Desdemona. Total reads “Inkface: Othello & White Authority in the Era of Atlantic Slavery” by Miles P. Grier

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Chelsea Phillips (she/her) @chelseaphillips.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

We officially have a CAST, and they are incredible!!! Come join us in April for the run and/or our symposium on 4/19-20.

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Chelsea Phillips (she/her) @chelseaphillips.bsky.social · 19/11/2023

These took a long time and a bit of improvisation but I’m quite pleased with them!

Round cake with chocolate shards, edible moss, acorns, mushrooms, and Totoro decorations.

Round cake with chocolate frosting, edible moss, fondant mushroom, Totoro decorations saying “happy birthday” and a glittery “2” candle.

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Chelsea Phillips (she/her) @chelseaphillips.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

It took me so long to figure out skydiving baby tonight

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David McInnis @dnmcinnis.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

We’re hiring in contemporary lit — an Associate Professor / Level D position (permanent; teaching & research) jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/9...

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Details : Associate Professor in English and Theatre Studies : The University of Melbourne

Careers at The University of Melbourne

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Chelsea Phillips (she/her) @chelseaphillips.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

Audition sign-ups went out for Spanish Tragedy today and I'm giddy giddy giddy at the thought that we start the casting process next Thursday!

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Chelsea Phillips (she/her) @chelseaphillips.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

So many larger and more important problems in the world, but the sheer amount of admin before I can even get to the basics of my job some days...

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Chelsea Phillips (she/her) @chelseaphillips.bsky.social · 28/10/2023

Great reminder--as of today, our whole family is boosted, thank goodness. We had a challenge finding a place that could give a booster to an under-5. If anyone else is in that spot, get in touch; I'm happy to share resources.

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Chelsea Phillips (she/her) @chelseaphillips.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

The exuberance I feel about this Spanish Tragedy project really hit me today--I am so passionate about the way we're bringing teaching, research, and practical theatre together.

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