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Erin E. Kelly

@eekelly.bsky.social
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Associate professor of English and director of the Academic and Technical Writing Program at University of Victoria. Associate editor of Early Theatre. Ask me about weird, old plays

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emer mchugh’s the devils @emer.bsky.social · 5h
did you know that preorders for IRISH SHAKESPEARES are open today? Tell your libraries! www.routledge.com/Irish-Shakes...
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Irish Shakespeares: Gender, Sexuality, and Performance in the Twenty-First Century
Irish Shakespeares explores performances, adaptations, and appropriations of Shakespeare in Irish theatrical contexts, and how they articulate concerns and conversations about gender and sexual politi...
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Martha Hickson @sassylibrarian.bsky.social · 20h
Hunterdon County NJ is fighting back. The Perks of Being a Wallflower is on the chopping block there in Readington 10/13.
Bridge Brigade signs on Rt 78 in Readington NJ: Book Banning is UnAmerican
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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This year’s #BannedBooksWeek coincides with ALA’s official 150th anniversary. To mark the occasion, ALA has released a list of the 150 most challenged books documented from 1990, when ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom began tracking book challenges, through 2025. ala150.org/150books
Photo of a bookshelf filled with various books that have been banned or challenged, including "Maus," "Sex Is a Funny Word," "This Book Is Gay," "Persopolis," and "1984." Text over photo reads: "ALA Releases List of 150 Books Most Frequently Targeted for Censorship Since Tracking Began. American Library Association logo
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Erin Weinberg @bardolator.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
In today’s exciting bookmail, our departmental reading room has just acquired my awesome friend and colleague @jamieparis.bsky.social ’s latest book! Read it, order it for your library, and attend this afternoon’s online launch!
Jamie Paris’s new book: Clothed Villainy: Acting White in Early Modern Drama”
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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Registration now open! Join us for Futures: A RaceB4Race Symposium, where we will consider the stakes behind the work we do and the ways it stands to shape the futures we envision. January 22-23, 2027 | Tempe, AZ na.eventscloud.com/futures
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Love these photos of a gansey sweater over at Highland Threads. Such great knitting. A gansey is a type of fisherman sweater with identical front and back sides. Last photo shows one from Flamborough Marine, my favorite contemporary maker for this style. highlandthreads.co.uk/wick-museum
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Beyond Shakespeare @handle.invalid · 08/10/2026
🔊Monday afternoon at 2.30pm GMT+1 we're live-streaming our audio recording session for two early plays... The Interlude of Youth & Abraham and Isaac (Northampton/Dublin text) It's free to listen to live, but afterwards the patreon page will go behind a paywall. #audio #drama #live #theatre #sheep
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Billy Wilder's wonderful grave, at Westwood Village Memorial Park — L.A.
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Beyond Shakespeare @handle.invalid · 07/10/2026
🔊Latest exclusive release for our wonderful patrons - we're zipping past King Leir to the really rather harrowing end of Cordila. Higgins' goes all medieval on us, as Despair turns up with a present for the ousted Queen. #literature #history #Patreon #Exclusive www.patreon.com/beyondshakes...
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Higgins' Mirror for Magistrates | Exploring 18 - Cordila (Exclusive) | Beyond Shakespeare
We return to Mirror for Magistrates, the next iteration! From 1574, John Higgins continued the franchise with prequels.
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Beyond Shakespeare @handle.invalid · 06/10/2026
⚔️Revenge is a dish best served with an ambush... More from the book of Doctor John Faustus... audioboom.com/posts/895646...
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Doctor John Faustus (Chapter 31)
Revenge is a dish best served ambushy.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Banning a booke ys extinguishing a beacon. Banning a booke ys silencinge a thousand voyces speakinge yn the heart. Banning a booke ys refusinge to looke at the stars. Banning a booke ys damming a streame of feelinge and invitinge flood. Banning a booke ys making a violent litel shryne to ignorance.
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Beyond Shakespeare @handle.invalid · 06/10/2026
Capitalised letter R in yellow on a black background...
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🪼Ghost Jellyfishlines 🔜 PaxU🪼 @jellyfishlines.itch.io · 04/10/2026
A reminder that most banned books are by queer/trans, Black, and other writers of global majority! Petition your local gov and library to protect these books at all costs! Also get a book by any author that is queer BIPOC, read it, talk about it, and share it with a friend!
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Friday the 13th part VI: Mandy Lives! @fridaypfender.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
An Interview with A Vampire (1994) #Muppets #Horror #Horrorsky #SeaameStreet #ToyPhotography
Intrepid reporter Kermit the frog interviews Count Von count
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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 03/10/2026
In response to Michael Tracey's request for Jane Doe's name, this image was created by Brittany Alexander for anyone who would wish to use it as their profile picture on any social media account. Medusa is often seen as the ultimate archetypal victim of institutional betrayal. #WeAreJaneDoe
B&W image of Medusa with the words We Are Jane Doe
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Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🦊 🍁Need a cosy autumnal read? Why not buy a copy of my epic retelling of Reynard the Fox? Marina Warner called it "marvellously spirited and adroit storytelling" & the Wall Journal "a tour de force of storytelling." Buy here: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro... and here amazon.co.uk/dp/1851245553/
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Beyond Shakespeare @handle.invalid · 02/10/2026
🔊Latest pod drop - it's the close of our little Thyestes trilogy, with the post-show discussion of the play. Do go back and have a listen to the play if you like, open a beer, and you will get a sense of where we were as we recorded this. #audio #discussion #histroy audioboom.com/posts/895645...
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Post-Show Discussion: Thyestes
Post show chattage...
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ich sing as it doth rayne, Ich sing as it doth rayne - What a merveilous feelinge! Ich am mirthful agayne. Ich laughe loude at cloudes That glowere above, The sonne yn myne herte Ich am redy for love.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Lady costumed for the masque, as a rather racy Flora. Painted in miniature by Isaac Oliver. Today is his day.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Some smal horses trye to go on showes Thei get called 'out of fashion' That nevir happenid to Lil' Sebastian
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Beyond Shakespeare @handle.invalid · 02/10/2026
🎟️Another ticket sold for our Christmas show... always nice to see. Are you coming along for some Christmas cheer? #drama #theatre #live www.ticketsource.com/beyondshakes...
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Gino @geo-vision.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
👇🏽👇🏾👇🏿 bsky.app/profile/pgui...
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History Sister @annashi.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
How to integrate AI into your history.
An AI image based on a print by John Trundle 1606.
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Kate Ozment @grubstreetwomen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A few shots from the exhibit on Schomberg's life and library. He collected some of Phyllis Wheatley's library books 🥺
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Sophie Weinberg @sophie-rose-reads.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Putting out a #bookhistory bat signal: does anyone have any resources on the history+production of ink balls/ball leathers? Finding it difficult to locate sources on preparing sheepskin for non-leather, non-parchment purposes…
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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 30/09/2026
Amplifying this bat signal—the Beef & Sheep Lab has skins for us we can use to make inking balls & we need help from folks who know how to work with animal skins
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Beyond Shakespeare @handle.invalid · 30/09/2026
And that's it for the Merry Tales of the Mad Men of Gotham... were they merry? Were they tales? Answers to some of these questions have largely not been forthcoming... but that's jest books for you. Where will we go next? Who knows! #literature #books #jests www.patreon.com/beyondshakes...
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Mad Men of Gotham 20 (Exclusive) | Beyond Shakespeare
Welcome to our final look at The Merry Tales of the Mad Men of Gotham, gathered together by A. B. of Physic, Doctor.
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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 25/09/2026
Fun fact. Canada's arts & culture gdp is basically the same as oil & gas at about $70 billion. Direct funding for the arts & culture is about $700 million annually albertaviews.ca/arts-publicl... It's up to $30 billion for oil & gas depending on how you count www.theenergymix.com/canada-pours...
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Workinge IX to V, nys no waye to make a livinge, Scarsli gettinge by, all the takinge but no givinge, Thei but selle thy mynde and ne nevir issue credit -- Ynogh to make thee wax woode yf thou let it!
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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Beyond Shakespeare @handle.invalid · 26/09/2026
😀On Monday we're live-streaming our audio recording session for Hick Scorner, a play from the reign of Henry 8th. It's the whole play, in full, live - to be edited later for the podcast. The stream is via our £3+ tier patreon, where our last show is still available.👇 www.patreon.com/beyondshakes...
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
if you say "The Museum of English Rural Life" three times in a mirror, nothing happens. but if you speak it a fourth time, a man in a smock appears and asks you to incant the poem on the side of this rather menacing jug
harvest festival jug featuring a rather spooky sunshine designthe reverse of the jug, featuring a poem. it reads: "Harvest is come all
busy now in making
of the Barley mow if
you the Barley mow
neglect of Good ale you
can not then expect"
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
When you write a book you actually write several books. There's the one you know you wrote. Then there's the one your readers bring their experiences to. This is a big part of the magic. As soon as it goes out into the world, your book multiplies & becomes many versions of itself, all equally valid.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 24/09/2026
🗂️ Ever seen those tiny images of old documents on sheets of film? That’s microfiche! So, how do they go from film to the Internet Archive? See how these and more are digitized at the Physical Archive tour! 📆 Tues, Oct 20 🕕 6–8 PM 📍 IN-PERSON: Richmond, CA 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1997613506...
Maeve Iwasaki demonstrates microfiche digitization at the Internet Archive's physical archive. Photo by Brad Shirakawa, October 21, 2025.Photo of Brewster Kahle at the Internet Archive’s physical archive site. He is leaning forward and looking into a large shipping container used for storage, with pallets visible inside.
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Beyond Shakespeare @handle.invalid · 24/09/2026
🎟️The line up for our Christmas Revels!🎟️ The Towneley Second Shepherds Play A Christmas Mess Narcissus - A Twelfth Night Entertainment Christmas, His Masque by Ben Jonson Plus a host of short bits and pieces, and a post show discussion. 6 Dec, White Bear, from 1pm www.ticketsource.com/beyondshakes...
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Saint Dorothy, preparing herself for execution, with help of some cute putti bringing baskets of roses, miraculously available amid winter snow. Painted in 1516 by Hans Baldung Grien, whose day is today.
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Erin E. Kelly @eekelly.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
God only knows how much longer…. Um, never mind
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
• OLD ENGLISH: Hwæt. We Gardena in geardagum, / þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon... • MIDDLE ENGLISH: Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote, / The droghte of March hath perced to the roote... • EARLY MODERN ENGLISH: To be, or not to be, that is the Question: / Whether 'tis Nobler in the minde...
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
HAPPY INTERNATIONAL BI VISIBILITY DAY
cover of NOT POUNDED BY BI ERASURE BECAUSE MY CURRENT HETERO-PRESENTING RELATIONSHIP DOES NOT INVALIDATE MY QUEERNESS featuring a ladybuck in a red suit lookin over at a VERY ANGRY sentient eraser they are on a long street with lush green plants on either side
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Beyond Shakespeare @handle.invalid · 23/09/2026
😈Latest exclusive release for our wonderful patrons - it's an exploring session working through Chapter 50 of Doctor John Faustus, the book which was the source of the play. We're nearing the end of the text now, but still in some of the jest book type material. www.patreon.com/beyondshakes...
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Doctor John Faustus - Chapter 50 (Exclusive) | Beyond Shakespeare
Welcome to more from our monthly read through and discussion of The History of the Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Doctor John Faustus,
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It ys the seasoun of decoratif gourdes, ye knaves
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Giving you a side-eye from 1530, a woman painted a la Cranach by Hans Baldung Grien. Today is his day.
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Medieval Institute Publications @mip-medpub.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Early Drama, Art, and Music series is getting a new title soon! 'Gendered Violence and Violent Genders on the Premodern Stage,' edited by Melissa Ridley Elmes and Matthew Charles Carter, will be out later this fall. Preorders are available now! wmich.edu/medievalpubl...
Cover of "Gendered Violence and Violent Genders on the Premodern Stage."Text reading: "Through an approach that includes essays crossing methodologies and the artificial boundaries of periodization, as well as essays that engage with similar concepts in different genres and across national divides in an era in which France and England were decidedly influencing one another, this book provides a single-volume starting point for (re)considering periodization, genre, and the representation of gender according to social contexts."
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The Workers Circle @workerscircle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
More than 10,000 people including Workers Circle Democracy Circles from North VA are fighting back to stop the demolition of the Kennedy Center. #DemandDemocracy
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Beyond Shakespeare @handle.invalid · 19/09/2026
🔊📹Latest Behind the Scenes release for our wonderful patrons - it's a further look at work on The World and the Child, with audio from workshops for £5+ tiers, and video for £10+ tier. We're increasingly doing more R&D on possible projects, releasing most weeks. www.patreon.com/beyondshakes...
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BTS World and the Child | Workshop (21/07/26) | Beyond Shakespeare
Hello, As part of our ongoing development of certain small scale productions, we returned to The World and the Child which we staged during
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Beyond Shakespeare @handle.invalid · 17/09/2026
🎄Yeah, we know, Christmas... bit early... but we do have a fun line up of entertainments this 6 December. They are, mostly, on the silly end of the spectrum of drama (though we might occasionally be serious and mention the ghost of Lent to come). #BookNow! #show www.ticketsource.com/beyondshakes...
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Erin E. Kelly @eekelly.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A cousin of the dos-a-dos binding: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dos-%C3...
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Dos-à-dos binding - Wikipedia
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James Damron @runswindows95.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Word hates my book about decapitation. It keeps removing my headers.
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Beyond Shakespeare @handle.invalid · 16/09/2026
🔊Latest exclusive release for our wonderful patrons: another dive into the criminal underworld of early modern literature with 👮‍♂️The Cony-Catchers👮‍♀️ This month we complete The Third and Last part of Cony-catching by Robert Greene, before we go off on a new tangent. www.patreon.com/beyondshakes...
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The Cony-Catchers ep.36 (Exclusive) | Beyond Shakespeare
Hello! The team complete Book 3 - The Third and Last part of Cony-catching, with the new devised knavish art of Fool-taking. The like Cosnag
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