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Claire Hansen

@claireghansen.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer (The Australian National University). Researcher: Shakespeare Reloaded. Author: Shakespeare & Place-Based Learning. Ecocrit, place, blue humanities, health humanities.

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Claire Hansen @claireghansen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Fantastic work on Shakespeare pedagogy and hip hop from Charlie Thomson here - you can stream his concept album, "Who's There?", inspired by Hamlet, via the link: www.unisq.edu.au/news/2026/08...
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Hip-hop to connect students with Shakespeare
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Claire Hansen @claireghansen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Such a joy to collaborate with Aurélie Griffin on Lady Mary Wroth and terraqueous space. Thanks so much to @rossmith.bsky.social and @pjsalzman.bsky.social for guiding this exciting special issue. You can access our article free here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
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Brett Greatley-Hirsch @notwithoutmustard.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Latest issue of Shakespeare now available! www.tandfonline.com/toc/rshk20/c... Shakespeare's marriage, #earlymodern centaurs, 'brown matters', eco-imaginaries, Turkish miniseries, and reviews!
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Volume 22, Issue 3 of Shakespeare
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 02/08/2026
I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.
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Claire Hansen @claireghansen.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Back from leave with a new article to share - thanks to my co-authors for collaborating on this one! If you're interested in authentic assessment in lit studies, open access is available here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The potential of authentic assessment in literary studies pedagogy and the problem with the ‘real world’
This article explores the potential of authentic assessment in literary studies education while offering a critique of the understanding of authentic assessment as a means of fostering student expe...
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David McInnis @dnmcinnis.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
It’s me! From Shakespeare’s sparring lovers to Hollywood meet-cutes, this in-conversation event unpacks what keeps us hooked on rom-coms – and why we need them now more than ever. 📅 Thursday 4 Dec, 6–7pm⁠ 📍 Southbank Theatre⁠ ⁠ Free, but bookings are required: mtc.com.au/much-ado-about-rom-coms
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Much Ado About Rom-Coms
From Shakespeare’s sparring lovers to Hollywood meet-cutes, this free panel unpacks what keeps us hooked on rom-coms – and why we need them now more than ever.
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Claire Hansen @claireghansen.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Latest #HeartoftheMatter podcast ep up now - featuring the three of us delving into three heart films: two rom-coms, one slasher! Listen here - sites.google.com/view/thehear... #healthhum
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The Heart of the Matter - Podcast
The Heart of the Matter podcast explores engaging and diverse perspectives on the heart. Hear from artists, historians, philosophers, Egyptologists, clinicians and more! Subscribe to our podcast on th...
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Claire Hansen @claireghansen.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Lovely to end the week with the arrival of this beautiful collection. Thank you to @drdeelittle.bsky.social and Rebecca for including my work
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English at the Australian National University @englishanu.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
A HUGE congrats to ANU English's very own @rossmith.bsky.social and @claireghansen.bsky.social on their recent ARC Discovery grant success! 'Handwritten' promises to change how we think about the significance, value & power of writing by hand, then and now - congrats to the dream team! 🥳 🥳 🥳
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Claire Hansen @claireghansen.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
A massive thanks to everyone involved in #Globe4Globe 2025! We were thrilled to see 300 attendees join us for 24 hours devoted to Shakespeare & environmental justice. If you missed out, most of the presentations are now available online now: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Globe4Globe 2025: Shakespeare and Environmental Justice - YouTube
In 2025, Globe4Globe returned with the Shakespeare and Environmental Justice Symposium. Taking place live and online across 24 hours on September 12-13 2025,...
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Claire Hansen @claireghansen.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
We are finishing up #Globe4Globe with "Plant, Trees, Soil", feat. Theo Black - BIOphelia @earlymodlancs.bsky.social Liz Oakley-Brown - Shakespearean Soil Imaginaries: Creative Encounters with Climate Emergencies
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Claire Hansen @claireghansen.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
We're rapidly coming to the end of #G4G2025 - if you missed out, keep an eye out for the release of the recordings of these incredible presentations!
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Claire Hansen @claireghansen.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
We're now talking "Land and Language" with Chris Thurman, Kirsten Sandrock and Craig Dionne. #G4G2025
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Claire Hansen @claireghansen.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Feline assistance at #G4G2025
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Claire Hansen @claireghansen.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
After a wonderful session on "Eco-theatrical adaptation" with Asher Noor, Alys Daroy, Paul Prescott & Monika Smialkowska, we're now moving onto "Staging and Reading Sustainability" - with @rwfm.bsky.social, Sophie Chiari and Liz Schafer! #G4G2025 #Globe4Globe
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Claire Hansen @claireghansen.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
It's not too late to join #Globe4Globe 2025 live and hear from the world's leading minds on Shakespeare and environmental justice. All details here: events.humanitix.com/globe4globe
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Globe4Globe 2025: Shakespeare & Environmental Justice
The Globe4Globe event draws together scholars, practitioners, activists and educators to explore how Shakespeare's works relate to environmental justice.
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Claire Hansen @claireghansen.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
3 fabulous speakers on "the Little Ice Age" at #Globe4Globe: Lukas Arnold on Thomas Nashe; Laurie Johnson on cultural history and climate crisis; Una McIlvenna on disaster ballads #G4G2025
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Claire Hansen @claireghansen.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
So lucky to see this epic line of eco-adaptations screened for #Globe4Globe 2025. Join us in an hour for our final plenary: Sandra Young - 'An Ordinary Storm: Attending to climate crisis and Indigenous dispossession through “wild adaptation”' events.humanitix.com/globe4globe
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Globe4Globe 2025: Shakespeare & Environmental Justice
The Globe4Globe event draws together scholars, practitioners, activists and educators to explore how Shakespeare's works relate to environmental justice.
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Claire Hansen @claireghansen.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Next up on #G4G2025 is "Creative Ecological Activism" panel! We're halfway through our 24 hours of live Shakespeare - still time to join us! events.humanitix.com/globe4globe
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Globe4Globe 2025: Shakespeare & Environmental Justice
The Globe4Globe event draws together scholars, practitioners, activists and educators to explore how Shakespeare's works relate to environmental justice.
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Claire Hansen @claireghansen.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
We're onto Session 9 here at #Globe4Globe, on "Histories of Indigeneity and Colonialism": Todd Borlik - Caliban as Ecological Indian Katherine Gillen - Colonized Knowledge and Environmental Justice in Titus Andronicus Florence Boulard - Roméo et Juliette in Kanaky–New Caledonia #G4G2025
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Claire Hansen @claireghansen.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
If you're not at #Globe4Globe 2025 you're missing a fabulous session on animal justice, complete with gorgeous live bird cameo #G4G2025
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Claire Hansen @claireghansen.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Up next at #Globe4Globe 2025: Animal Justice! Karen Raber - Resisting Tyranny: Shakespeare’s Animals Gigi Pinwill - Shakespeare’s Animals: An Actor Prepares Barbara Taylor - They Howled All Together: Imagining Predators with Shakespeare #G4G2025
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Claire Hansen @claireghansen.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Back into panels now with Tiffany Jo Werth, Daniel Vitkus and Carolyn Sale speaking on "Presentism & Futurism" events.humanitix.com/globe4globe
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Globe4Globe 2025: Shakespeare & Environmental Justice
The Globe4Globe event draws together scholars, practitioners, activists and educators to explore how Shakespeare's works relate to environmental justice.
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Claire Hansen @claireghansen.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Onto the 3rd plenary of #G4G2025 with Madeline Sayet's "Rotten Policy: Shakespeare’s Political Ecologies" - full program here: events.humanitix.com/globe4globe
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Globe4Globe 2025: Shakespeare & Environmental Justice
The Globe4Globe event draws together scholars, practitioners, activists and educators to explore how Shakespeare's works relate to environmental justice.
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Claire Hansen @claireghansen.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
"time to imagine what has previously felt unimaginable"; "it is time to 'awake our faith'" - Guy Jones, New Writing Manager, Shakespeare's Globe, #G4G2025
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Claire Hansen @claireghansen.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
"blown away by the early modern relationship to nature" - Michelle Terry, Shakespeare's Globe, speaking at #G4G2025
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Claire Hansen @claireghansen.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
"Everyone is still surprised by the Titania speech" - Michelle Terry speaking at #G4G2025 #globe4globe #shakespeare #ecocrisis
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Claire Hansen @claireghansen.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
And we're off with Globe4Globe 2025! First up is Michelle Terry (Artistic Director, Shakespeare's Globe) and Guy Jones (New Writing Manager, Shakespeare's Globe) #G4G2025
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Claire Hansen @claireghansen.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Less than a day until #Globe4Globe 2025! If you haven't registered yet, join us for 24 hours of scholars, practitioners and educators discussing Shakespeare & environmental justice. It's free, it's online, it's live for 24 hours! #G4G2025 events.humanitix.com/globe4globe
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Globe4Globe 2025: Shakespeare & Environmental Justice
The Globe4Globe event draws together scholars, practitioners, activists and educators to explore how Shakespeare's works relate to environmental justice.
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Claire Hansen @claireghansen.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Globe4Globe 2025 is only a few days away! We've added more exciting names and screenings to the line-up - you can check the program and register (free) here: events.humanitix.com/globe4globe
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Globe4Globe 2025: Shakespeare & Environmental Justice
The Globe4Globe event draws together scholars, practitioners, activists and educators to explore how Shakespeare's works relate to environmental justice.
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barbara taylor @ohwowbee.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
I have just submitted my short video presentation for this awesome symposium! Join me to chat predators, and check out the awesome program of presenters. 🐻🐺
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Claire Hansen @claireghansen.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Huge thanks to brilliant coauthor Florence Boulard - our chapter on reimagining Romeo & Juliet in Kanaky-New Caledonia is out now!
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Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Loudly tooting this CFP, please retweet: sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...
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Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies - CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature
CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature
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Claire Hansen @claireghansen.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Have you registered yet for this year's #Globe4Globe? Join us for 24 hours of Shakespeare and environmental justice, with a brilliant line-up of speakers! Free and online. events.humanitix.com/globe4globe
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Claire Hansen @claireghansen.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Take a sneak peek at the incredible speakers we have lined up for #Globe4Globe this year. If you're interested in #shakespeare, environmental justice, theatre, performance, education, social justice & climate change - register now for our 12-13 Sep online event! events.humanitix.com/globe4globe
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Globe4Globe 2025: Shakespeare & Environmental Justice
The Globe4Globe event draws together scholars, practitioners, activists and educators to explore how Shakespeare's works relate to environmental justice.
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FOUR PAWS Australia @fourpawsau.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
This is legal. This is standard. But it doesn’t have to be. We fought for egg-laying hens to be cage-free. Now it’s time to fight for meat chickens too. ✍️ Sign the petition → fpau.org/stop-cruel-l... #ChickenWelfare #StopFactoryFarming
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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
The Reef just recorded its worst coral loss on record. We're losing a natural wonder due to climate inaction. 🇦🇺 is 2nd biggest fossil fuel exporter & one of ⬆️ per capita emitters in the 🌏 We need bold leadership to protect the people & places we love www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
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Great Barrier Reef coral cover decline shows 'ecosystem under stress'
The Australian Institute of Marine Science says coral cover in the Great Barrier Reef has declined after mass bleaching events, with experts warning it faces a future of "increased volatility".
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Claire Hansen @claireghansen.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Thanks to Cassidy Cash for welcoming us to #ThatShakespeareLife to discuss broken hearts in Shakespeare! Always a joy to chat with my brilliant co-conspirator Brid Phillips. Listen here: www.cassidycash.com/wilt-break-m...
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Claire Hansen @claireghansen.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Interested in #Shakespeare & environmental justice? Register (free!) to join the Globe4Globe 2025 Symposium: online, 12-13 Sep 2025. An incredible line-up of speakers from across the globe, supported by Shakespeare's Globe & ANU's Centre for Early Modern Studies. events.humanitix.com/globe4globe
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Globe4Globe 2025: Shakespeare & Environmental Justice
The Globe4Globe event draws together scholars, practitioners, activists and educators to explore how Shakespeare's works relate to environmental justice.
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Sean Ulm @seanulm.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Australian writers urge Albanese to abolish Job-Ready Graduates The critical thinking, problem-solving, and creative skills of Bachelor of Arts graduates are critical for navigating a future of challenges and careers that haven’t yet been imagined. #RepealJRG theconversation.com/top-australi...
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Top Australian writers urge Albanese to abolish Job-Ready Graduates, calling their humanities degrees life changing
Tim Winton, Helen Garner and Peter Garrett are just a few of the high-profile signatories to an open letter against Job-Ready Graduates – and for the humanities.
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English at the Australian National University @englishanu.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Do our hearts really 'break'? Shakespeare thought so. Our own @claireghansen.bsky.social has published an article with Brid Phillips on Takotsubo Syndrome in Antony and Cleopatra and King Lear in the journal Shakespeare! Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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‘Wilt Break My Heart?’ Takotsubo Syndrome and Shakespeare’s Discourse of Heartbreak in Antony and Cleopatra and King Lear
Shakespeare’s characters knew well the dangers and causes of an overcharged heart. This article places representations of heartbreak in Shakespeare’s canon in dialogue with twenty-first-century med...
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English at the Australian National University @englishanu.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Our amazing leader @rossmith.bsky.social has been awarded the very competitive Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History at the Bodleian Library for her work on early modern women’s marginalia! She’ll be there for Trinity term 2026. Congrats Ros! 🥳 www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...
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Brett Greatley-Hirsch @notwithoutmustard.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Special section includes contributions by Michael Albright, @claireghansen.bsky.social and Brid Phillips, Angus Gowland, Rachel Robinson, and Rebecca Olson.
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Brett Greatley-Hirsch @notwithoutmustard.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Hey #earlymodern folks! Latest issue of *Shakespeare* just out, with a special section on 'Health and Wellbeing' guest-edited by Joan Fitzpatrick. www.tandfonline.com/toc/rshk20/2...
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English at the Australian National University @englishanu.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Join Dr Kate Flaherty (ANU English) & Associate Director of Bell Shakespeare James Evans for a screening & discussion of Baz Luhrmann's Romeo+Juliet at the National Film & Sound Archive 22 Jun 1pm. Tip: it's a great way to prepare for ENGL2067 Adaptation (Sem 2) tickets.nfsa.gov.au/Events/Book-...
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Book Club: Romeo + Juliet
The star-crossed lovers find themselves in a gun-fuelled urban war in Baz Luhrmann’s high-energy version.
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English at the Australian National University @englishanu.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Congrats to @englishanu.bsky.social's Bridget Vincent, who, along with researchers in Denmark, has been awarded a Circle U. award for their project to support inclusive participation in academic dialogue. Read about it here: www.circle-u.eu/news/2025/sp...
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Spotlight on ED&I: Discover the 3 Projects Driving Change in Academic Culture - Circle U.
Earlier this year, Circle U. launched a call for projects focused on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (ED&I). Today, we’re proud to present the three initiatives that have been selected for funding. E...
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English at the Australian National University @englishanu.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
It's Day 2 of @englishanu.bsky.social showcasing our courses for semester 2! #2: 'Adaptation from Text to Screen' asks: Should adaptation preserve, transform, or challenge its source text? We'll test tools of adaptation theory on a range of vivid case-studies from Romeo & Juliet to Modern Love.
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English at the Australian National University @englishanu.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
At @englishanu.bsky.social we're super excited to announce our courses for semester 2, so we're going to spend the next few days showcasing them! #1: Our first-year course 'Imagined Worlds' examines how literary texts create worlds, realistic or fantastic, in a range of textual forms and genres:
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Delighted to say that my article, "The Shakspaires of Trinity Lane: A Possible Shakespeare Life-Record" is now fully published and open-access! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The Shakspaires of Trinity Lane: A Possible Shakespeare Life-Record
Hereford Cathedral Library holds a fragmentary seventeenth-century letter addressed to a ‘Mrs Shakspaire’, concerning her husband’s dealings with a fatherless apprentice named John Butte or Butts. ...
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Claire Hansen @claireghansen.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
We’re delighted to have our #HeartoftheMatter podcast listed here!
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