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Commonplace Cambridge

@commonplacecam.bsky.social

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The reading group and collaborative thinking space for early modern graduate students at the University of Cambridge

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Commonplace Cambridge @commonplacecam.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Thanks to everyone for coming along to Commonplace last week!

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Commonplace Cambridge @commonplacecam.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Thanks to everyone at the last Commonplace sessions! Branching out into the eighteenth century, our commonplace between translations of Tasso and Barker's A Patchwork Screen for the Ladies got us thinking about catchwords, printing errors, and stitching together texts/pdfs🧶

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Commonplace Cambridge @commonplacecam.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Finding a commonplace between 'Summer's Last Will and Testament' and translations of Tasso got us thinking about how far Carew/Fairfax implicate the reader and the theatricality of their translations

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Commonplace Cambridge @commonplacecam.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Commonplace reconvenes tonight reading Carew's and Fairfax's translations of Torquato Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata. 5pm in SR14!

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Commonplace Cambridge @commonplacecam.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Common-places between Shirley's Interregnum masques and 'Summer's Last Will and Testament included thinking about site-specific drama and wondering what to do with medieval allegorical traditions

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Commonplace Cambridge @commonplacecam.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Next to be added to our Commonplace reading list: Nashe's 'Summer's Last Will and Testament' (fitting, given the sleet forecast next week). 5pm, Thurs 27th Nov in GR03 - all welcome!

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Commonplace Cambridge @commonplacecam.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Lovely to see everyone again this evening for a discussion of the masques 'Cupid his Coronation' and 'Cupid and Death'♥️💀 (ft some very fitting background music from the medieval seminar next door)

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Commonplace Cambridge @commonplacecam.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Common-place for Anne Southwell and Urquhart’s translation of Rabelais: lists, indexes, and episodic means of cinching together fragments of knowledge (real or imagined)

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Commonplace Cambridge @commonplacecam.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

We're dipping into Urquhart's translation of Rabelais' Pantagruel this week, including his catalogue of fictional books. Still wondering if The Prickle of Wine and The Spur of Cheese would make good reading for a Commonplace wine and cheese night (see you on Thurs 5pm in GR03)

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Commonplace Cambridge @commonplacecam.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Our first session will be on Thurs 16th October in room GR03 (Faculty of English). We’re kicking off with Anne Southwell’s commonplace book: please do spread the word and come along!

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Commonplace Cambridge @commonplacecam.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

We are excited to announce the launch of Commonplace Cambridge, a reading group and research space for early modern graduate students at the University of Cambridge, based primarily in the English Faculty!

Painting of several sheets of paper held together by a band. Caption reads: Commonplace Cambridge. A reading group and research workshop for early modern graduate students at the University of Cambridge

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