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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Early modern scholars interested in both comparative religion and theatrical practice: check out Dennis Britton’s review of John Kuhn's Making Pagans: Theatrical Practice and Comparative Religion in Early Modern England (@pennpress). buff.ly/YhCOxP6 #Pagans #Religion #EarlyModern

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

@davidorvis reviews Gillian Knoll and Joey Gamble's collection, The Kinky Renaissance -- the first study of kink in early theatre and literature. buff.ly/D3gJgHE #Renaissance #EarlyModen #Drama

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Nora Williams's book Canonical Misogyny gives @pascaleexter "a refreshed sense of hope and purpose" regarding the ways in which "Performance matters. Our practice matters" when it comes to challenging misogyny. buff.ly/QgGOoJw #Performance #EarlyModern #EarlyTheatre

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Elisabeth Dutton reviews Daniel Blank's new book, which illuminates the influences of university drama on the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. buff.ly/5Ev7sf7 #Shakespeare #EarlyModern

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Dustin Meyer applauds Darren Freebury Jones's “impressive” work in attribution studies in his review of Shakespeare’s Borrowed Feathers (@manchesterup). buff.ly/RxfalLw #Shakespeare #EarlyTheatre

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Middleton scholars: check out Eric Dunnum’s review of The Theatrical Legacy of Thomas Middleton, 1624-2024, edited by Will David Green, Anna L. Hegland, and Sam Jermy (@routledgebooks). buff.ly/02cDi0K #Middleton #Theatre #EarlyModern

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

@janellejenstad celebrates Leslie Thomson's “rich summary of particular performance challenge[s]” in her review of From Playtext to Performance on the Early Modern Stage: How Did They Do It? (@routledgebooks): buff.ly/3GMjgwr #EarlyModern #Stage #Drama

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Find out about ritual, spectacle, and theatre in late medieval Seville: read Bruce Burningham's review of Christopher Swift's award-winning Ritual, Spectacle, and Theatre in Late Medieval Seville: Performing Empire. buff.ly/GlgDgt4 #Medieval #EalryTheatre #Seville

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

A fascinating multidisciplinary, sociohistorical study of the theatre couple of early modern Italy, The Theatre Couple of Early Modern Italy: Self-Fashioning and Mutual Marketing by Serena Laiena is reviewed by Rosalind Kerr. buff.ly/gvngYUK #Italy #EarlyTheatre

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

This new collection edited by Scott Oldenburg and Matteo Pangallo "provide[s] novel means to engage with early modern texts then and now." Check out Philip Goldfarb Styrt's review of None a Stranger There: buff.ly/Sr7Zhib #EarlyModern #EarlyTheatre

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Michael Kidd’s translation makes a “robust and accessible starting point for students and scholars” of premodern race studies. Learn more via @kathrynsantsos's review of Black Protagonists of Early Modern Spain: Three Key Plays in Translation. buff.ly/rrvtgAh #EarlyModern #Spain

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

@notwithoutmustard reviews Kate Ellis's new Revels edition of Thomas Heywood's Dick of Devonshire. buff.ly/17WrmQU #Heywood #EarlyDrama

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

"The bears are back. The bears are in the house." @callanjd reviews REED's new Bear Gardens/Hope Playhouse collection. buff.ly/h8o2EKI #EarlyTheatre #Drama

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

@drwillgreen reviews Daniel Swift's The Dream Factory and shows us how Burbage's The Theatre influenced the work of William Shakespeare and contributed to early theatre history. buff.ly/8l2ixZG #WilliamShakespeare #Drama #Burbage

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Discover what we have learned so far from The Shakespeare North Playhouse in Tim Keenan's edited collection, reviewed by @drpetekirwan. buff.ly/vllcuJX #Shakespeare #EarlyModern #Drama

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Now out in Early Theatre 29.1: Raphael Lyne draws on the first-person plural “we” in Antipodes (c.1636), comparing it with other works to show how Brome captures both the possibilities and the risks of mutuality. buff.ly/6RZIgP0 #Antipodes #EarlyTheatre

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

What memetic meanings inform the ballads and song fragments found in Beaumont's Knight of the Burning Pestle? And how might these meanings have been available to early modern audiences? Noah Gene Peterson explores these questions, and more: muse.jhu.edu/article/994441. #Ballad #Beaumont

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Would early modern Londoners go to see a play or hear a play? Chloe Preedy ponders what it would have been like to SMELL a play in “John Marston’s ‘Poules-worke.’” Now available in Early Theatre 29.1. buff.ly/OUNyu3u #EarlyTheatre #London

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Out now: Thomas Betteridge examines John Heyood's The Play of the Weather through its central figure, the vice Merry Report. buff.ly/Ch3Ab67 #EarlyModern #Theatre

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

An erroneous manuscript note describes the Croxton Play of the Sacrament as a translation from a Spanish text. Alexandra Atiya explores how this play actually was shaped by Spain. muse.jhu.edu/article/994424 #EarlyTheatre #Drama

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Hello, world! 🎙️ We're thrilled to share that our newest issue is live on Project Muse: buff.ly/4qCfd3e — free for public access! 🎊 🎭️ Follow our posts over the next few days for highlights and sneak peeks. #EarlyTheatre #NewIssue

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

In our next issue: Dennis Britton reviews @johnmkuhn’s Making Pagans: Theatrical Practice and Comparative Religion in Early Modern England (@pennpress). Check out the newest contribution to early modern religious studies through an innovative study of theatrical properties!

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

2025 saw the first book devoted to kink in the Renaissance, and you will not have to wait much longer for @davidortis's review.

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Coming soon: ET 29.1 includes Bruce Burningham's review of Christopher Swift's award winning book on theatre in late medieval Seville.

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

How do Brexit, COVID-19, and immigration connect with the concerns of early theatre? Find out soon in Philip Goldfarb Styrt's review of None a Stranger There -- forthcoming.

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Learn more about Shakespeare’s “rich engagement with the language of his contemporaries” in Dustin Meyer’s forthcoming review of Shakespeare’s Borrowed Feathers (@manchesterup).

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Middleton strikes back! In our next issue, Eric Dunnum reviews The Theatrical Legacy of Thomas Middleton, 1624-2024, edited by Will David Green, Anna L. Hegland, and Sam Jermy (@routledgebooks).

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

@pascaleexeter points to work that Nora Williams's Canonical Misogyny identifes as remaining to be done "by us all."

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

A critical contribution to premodern race studies on the early modern stage: check out @kathrynvsantos’s review of Black Protagonists of Early Modern Spain: Three Key Plays in Translation by Michael Kidd. Forthcoming in ET 29.1.

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

How were playtexts made ready for performance? Find out next week in @janellejenstad’s review of From Playtext to Performance on the Early Modern Stage: How Did They Do It? (@routledgebooks) by Leslie Thomson.

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Early modern power couples in Serena Laiena’s The Theatre Couple of Early Modern Italy: Self-Fashioning and Mutual Marketing -- reviewed by Rosalind Kerr in ET 29.1, to be published this week!

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

After having waited centuries to see a modern spelling edition of Heywood's Dick of Devonshire, we won't have to wait much longer for @notwithoutmustard's review of Kate Ellis's Revels edition: up next in Early Theatre 29.1.

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

'Coming soon in ET 29.1: Elisabeth Dutton reviews Daniel Blank's Shakespeare and University Drama in Early Modern England.

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Dreams will become reality soon with @drwillgreen's review of Daniel Swift's The Dream Factory (Yale UP, 2025), up next in Early Theatre 29.1.

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Early Theatre's first review of a digital book is imminent! Watch for @callanjd's review of the REED collection Bear Gardens/Hope Playhouse, in our upcoming issue.

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Coming soon in ET 29.1: @drpetekirwan reviews Tim Keenan's edited volume The Shakespeare North Playhouse (Routledge, 2024).

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Soon in Early Theatre 29.1, Raphael Lyne’s “Thinking ‘We’ in Brome’s Antipodes” investigates Richard Brome’s treatment of the first-person plural perspective.

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Coming soon in Early Theatre 29.1: Chloe Preedy investigates how incense, perfume, tobacco, and other smells shaped audience experiences of John Marston's plays as performed by the Children of Paul’s.

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Ballads and song fragments in Knight of the Burning Pestle: learn more about the "memeplex" that Noah Gene Peterson argues was a key source of audience engagement with this play. Out soon in ET 29.1.

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Coming soon in Early Theatre 29.1: Alexandra Atiya considers the implications of textual and cultural contexts that link the Croxton Play of the Sacrament to Spain.

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Coming soon in Early Theatre 29.1: Thomas Betteridge puts in context the leaky moons and varied characters of John Heywood's Henrician drama The Play of the Weather.

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Hello BSky! Big news! 🎉 🎉 🎉 Our latest issue releases imminently. Keep an eye on our pre-release posts in the coming days for an early look inside. 📖 #EarlyTheatre #Summer2026

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Christopher Marlowe portrays religion and religious conversion as tools of state power, as opposed to genuine religious processes -- according to Emily Parise's essay "Conversion as Nonperformative Speech in The Jew of Malta." Now out in ET 28.2 (Dec 2025). Access it here: buff.ly/CEkupVb #ET

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Catholic imagery in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: what do conversion and martyrdom have to do with it? Read more in @hollypickett.bsky.social's essay, out now in ET 28.2 (Dec 2025). Access at: buff.ly/UpO7n4Z #ShakespeareSunday #Drama

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Scholars often dismiss Luce in The London Prodigal as passive, but Hannah Korrell's essay argues that Luce sheds her 'Patient Griselda' role, actively converting her prodigal husband. Read more in ET 28.2: buff.ly/7Zyqiwm #EarlyModern #Drama

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Bess Bridges in The Fair Maid of the West, analyzed by way of Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski’s theory of moral exemplarity: read Jordan Zajac SJ's essay in ET's 'Drama and Conversion' Issues in Review (edited by @swittek.bksy.social). buff.ly/XztIGDO

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Moll Cutpurse, in Dekker and Middleton's The Roaring Girl, as "catalytic converter"! Read more in Sheila Coursey's essay published in our most recent Issues in Review on "Drama and Conversion," edited by @swittek.bsky.social (ET 28.2, Dec 2025). Access here: buff.ly/Odmf7UH

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

@swittek.bsky.social presents "Drama and Conversion." This Issues in Review explores how early moderns viewed identity and power through conversion, intertwining race, gender, politics, and performance. Access: buff.ly/yadZHOo

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Kirsten Mendoza critiques traditional and racial perspectives on Shakespeare in her review of recent works by David Sterling Brown, Miles Grier, Farah Karim-Cooper, Arthur L. Little, Jr, and Ian Smith. Access at: buff.ly/NRWBvPO #Review #EarlyModern

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Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Emily Bryan (@ebryan.bsky.social) analyzes connections between conscription of boys by early modern English choirs and theatre companies, on the one hand, and the Virginia Company's prompting of authorities to take Powhatan children. Read Bryan's open access article here: buff.ly/vhFHQ47

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