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Chris Crosbie

@crosbie1564.bsky.social
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Associate professor at NC State. Writing about Shakespeare & ethics (bit.ly/3E9UnZj). Some chess & hiking here. Revenge Tragedy & Classical Philosophy (EUP): bit.ly/2rjkbAc

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Chris Crosbie @crosbie1564.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What an exciting angle! Will it be recorded by any chance?
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Lisa Hopkins @lisahopkins.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Now available for pre-order: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-reading... #edinburghup.bsky.social
Cover of Reading the Coastline in Shakespeare's Britain, edited by Bill Angus and Lisa Hopkins
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Chris Crosbie @crosbie1564.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A PhD in early modern studies would be useless they said. Well, who’s laughing now, my friend? Who’s laughing now?
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Chris Crosbie @crosbie1564.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The fume (of viscera) as something that satisfies ghosts shows up in Antonio’s Revenge too. Such a wild image!
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Chris Crosbie @crosbie1564.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Making your syllabi and want to show clips from Shakespeare’s plays? Feel free to use my teaching site:
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Chris Crosbie @crosbie1564.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Making your syllabi and want to show clips from Shakespeare’s plays? Feel free to use my teaching site:
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Chris Crosbie @crosbie1564.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
A fun, fictitious nod to Ira Aldridge in season two of Death in Paradise. I live for Shakespearean Easter eggs like this (errors and all).
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Chris Crosbie @crosbie1564.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Very pleased to see that my review of Simon Godwin’s Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare Theatre Company, Washington, DC) is available for open-access (at least for the moment): journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
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Chris Crosbie @crosbie1564.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The extent of Shakespeare’s influence is genuinely off-the-charts insane.
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Chris Crosbie @crosbie1564.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Yes to all, and subtending both is Aristotle’s eudaimonia (happiness, flourishing), which deserves a shout out. I love how Aristotle’s formulation is at once individual and collective, an ethos that animates these texts.
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Chris Crosbie @crosbie1564.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Phyllis Rackin on the deposition scene in Shakespeare’s Richard II.
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Chris Crosbie @crosbie1564.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
My recent used bookstore find: Orson Welles’ 1939 adaptation of Merchant of Venice for the Mercury Theater, which includes his illustrations.
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Chris Crosbie @crosbie1564.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Being an early modernist in Raleigh can really feel surreal sometimes.
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Chris Crosbie @crosbie1564.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Congratulations! It looks great. (Just previewed a PDF exam copy here)
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Chris Crosbie @crosbie1564.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Looking back through pics from the Denver Art Museum. Love how Arcimboldo includes his name in the details of his “Summer.”
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Chris Crosbie @crosbie1564.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
If anyone wants to hear about a learning technology that can’t get hacked, just let me know.
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Chris Crosbie @crosbie1564.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
If anyone wants to hear about a learning technology that can’t get hacked, just let me know.
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Chris Crosbie @crosbie1564.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Delighted to see an uptick in traffic this last semester. Please continue to use & share widely!
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Chris Crosbie @crosbie1564.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Cool. Just be careful what you look at after that first sip.
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Chris Crosbie @crosbie1564.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
*Students from our teacher-ed program. Thrilled to think of the multiplier effect this experience will have as they enter classrooms of their own soon!
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Chris Crosbie @crosbie1564.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
This weekend, I had the pleasure of bringing 11 students from NC State to the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, VA. A fun & festive Twelfth Night and superb workshops/talks. Such a great place!
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Chris Crosbie @crosbie1564.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
For Earth Day, my favorite picture of Bear Lake, taken while hiking in Rocky Mountain National Park earlier this month.
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Chris Crosbie @crosbie1564.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Stellar’s Jay. My favorite photo from Rocky Mountain National Park.
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Chris Crosbie @crosbie1564.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
On a related note: the Othello page for my teaching site (The Shakespeare Media Archive) has new material: sites.google.com/ncsu.edu/the...
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The Shakespeare Media Archive - Othello
James Earl Jones Performs Othello's Defense Before the Venetian Senate (2009)
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Chris Crosbie @crosbie1564.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I love when worlds collide! Turns out Claude from Slow Horses (James Callis) is Shakespeare in Key & Peele’s Othello sketch.
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Chris Crosbie @crosbie1564.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Love this clip — showing it in today’s class, in fact! (Available, with others, here for any interested: tinyurl.com/bp59evm9)
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The Shakespeare Media Archive - Midsummer Night's Dream
Act 3, Scene 1: Rude Mechanicals Preparing Play (National Theatre, 2019)
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Chris Crosbie @crosbie1564.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Looking forward to teaching this grad seminar next semester!
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Chris Crosbie @crosbie1564.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Patrick Stewart has a new audiobook version of all of Shakespeare’s sonnets: www.simonandschuster.biz/books/Patric...
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Patrick Stewart Performs the Complete Sonnets of William Shakespeare
An instant audio classic! Sir Patrick Stewart draws upon his decades on the Shakespearean stage to bring listeners an all-new, definitive recording...
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Chris Crosbie @crosbie1564.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Patrick Stewart has a new audiobook version of all of Shakespeare’s sonnets: www.simonandschuster.biz/books/Patric...
simonandschuster.biz
Patrick Stewart Performs the Complete Sonnets of William Shakespeare
An instant audio classic! Sir Patrick Stewart draws upon his decades on the Shakespearean stage to bring listeners an all-new, definitive recording...
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Chris Crosbie @crosbie1564.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
On the sign-up form, one student mentioned they’ve never seen a Shakespeare play on stage before & this will be their first. Day made!
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Chris Crosbie @crosbie1564.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
A request: If you or your students use this site this semester, click the first feedback link at the bottom to let me know how it went. Thanks!
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Chris Crosbie @crosbie1564.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Here’s a super-cool, 360-degree panorama of the interior of the American Shakespeare Center’s Blackfriars Playhouse. Handy for lectures for those interested! kuula.co/post/Nv8c1
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The American Shakespeare Center’s Blackfriars Theatre in Sta...
The American Shakespeare Center’s Blackfriars Theatre in Staunton, Virginia - The Only specific re-creation of Shakespeare’s indoor theatre. Phto Credit: Richard Finkelstein
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Chris Crosbie @crosbie1564.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Here’s a super-cool, 360-degree panorama of the interior of the American Shakespeare Center’s Blackfriars Playhouse. Handy for lectures for those interested! kuula.co/post/Nv8c1
kuula.co
The American Shakespeare Center’s Blackfriars Theatre in Sta...
The American Shakespeare Center’s Blackfriars Theatre in Staunton, Virginia - The Only specific re-creation of Shakespeare’s indoor theatre. Phto Credit: Richard Finkelstein
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Chris Crosbie @crosbie1564.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
A reminder as you start the Spring semester: I’ve made public my teaching site that collects performances of Shakespeare’s plays and related materials. Feel free to use & share it widely! sites.google.com/ncsu.edu/the...
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The Shakespeare Media Archive
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Chris Crosbie @crosbie1564.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
A reminder as you start the Spring semester: I’ve made public my teaching site that collects performances of Shakespeare’s plays and related materials. Feel free to use & share it widely! sites.google.com/ncsu.edu/the...
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The Shakespeare Media Archive
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M. Lizbeth C. S. @lizbethcalvario.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
What a way to end the year: My article 'Shakespeare’s Two Gentlemen of Verona and the Misidentification of Montemayor’s Diana (1559)' was published yesterday! academic.oup.com/nq/article-a...
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Shakespeare’s Two Gentlemen of Verona and the Misidentification of Montemayor’s Diana (1559)
GIVEN the apparent consensus on Shakespeare’s sources after 400 years of literary history, it is no surprise that editors and scholars should resort to rep
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Chris Crosbie @crosbie1564.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
He could really turn a phrase.
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Chris Crosbie @crosbie1564.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Longtime fan of the English Literary Renaissance holiday card. A nice tradition!
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Chris Crosbie @crosbie1564.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Happy to say I’ve received funding to bring our English-Ed majors to the American Shakespeare Center this spring. Grateful to NCSU’s Packways Program & our College’s Teaching Innovation Fund for the support!
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Chris Crosbie @crosbie1564.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Shakespeare Quarterly appreciation post. Cleaning my office and noticed they had a small grey mouse inside the Q. Turns out it’s an homage to Mark Dahlquist’s article “Hamlet and the Snare of Scandal” in that issue.
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Chris Crosbie @crosbie1564.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Whole new page added! Shakespeare and Accessibility. It covers signing and multimodal approaches to Shakespeare. More to be added later too, so feel free to reach out with suggestions. Check it out here: sites.google.com/ncsu.edu/the...
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The Shakespeare Media Archive - Shakespeare and Accessibility: Signing & Multimodal Approaches
Rose Ayling-Ellis' journey to signing Shakespeare
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Chris Crosbie @crosbie1564.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Whole new page added! Shakespeare and Accessibility. It covers signing and multimodal approaches to Shakespeare. More to be added later too, so feel free to reach out with suggestions. Check it out here: sites.google.com/ncsu.edu/the...
sites.google.com
The Shakespeare Media Archive - Shakespeare and Accessibility: Signing & Multimodal Approaches
Rose Ayling-Ellis' journey to signing Shakespeare
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Chris Crosbie @crosbie1564.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Like early modern revenge tragedy? Interested in ancient philosophy? Keen on the meanderings of academic prose? You’re in luck! My book is now available for under $20! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-revenge...
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Chris Crosbie @crosbie1564.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
🧐 Quite the plot summary of Hamlet
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Chris Crosbie @crosbie1564.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Beautiful hiking in Shenandoah National Park this past weekend. One of my favorite shots of the trip, mostly because I hardly needed the zoom.
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Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Today is the OFFICIAL publication day for TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE! Please indulge me: I want to say a little (perhaps rather a lot) about it and share my acknowledgements - and a discount code! Appropriately,🧵1/10
The cover of a book. Title reads TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE. The illustration shows black embroidery of flowers, fruit, animals and insects on a stained cream ground.
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Chris Crosbie @crosbie1564.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Today’s updates: 1. The RSC’s “I, Cinna (The Poet)” under Julius Caesar. This inaugurates the new “Retellings” feature I hope to expand. 2. A link to a feedback form at the bottom of every page.
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Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Somewhat astonishingly, here it is, a book, a thing in the world... More, including acknowledgements, soon❤️
The cover of a book. Text reads TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE. The illustration is of black and white embroidery of flowers, fruit, and animals; it's sitting on a blue and white William Morris print cushion.The table of contents of a book. The chapter titles read Stuff, Linen, Leather/Wool, Silk, Inky Cloak, Sew, Cut, Fold, Ruff.
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Chris Crosbie @crosbie1564.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Really looking forward to this one. Thanks for writing it! A whole area of study that I know way too little about.
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Chris Crosbie @crosbie1564.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
The full video of Julie Taymor’s adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is available via PBS: www.pbs.org/video/a-mids...
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ALL ARTS Performance Selects | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Season 2022
From award-winning director Julie Taymor comes a Shakespeare adaptation like none other.
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