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Folger Shakespeare Library @folger.edu · 10/09/2026

Shakespeare lived through climate change, too. Scholar Harry R. McCarthy says characters in the plays—from Titania to Viola to the courtiers in "The Temptest"—show the power in catastrophic times of turning "our thoughts to the collective over the individual." www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...

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Titania's warning to America | Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...

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Harry R. McCarthy (offline) @harrymccarthy.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Thank you! Miltonic... I'm that guy these days, for reasons I can't fathom.

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Harry R. McCarthy (offline) @harrymccarthy.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Beyond excited to be taking up a long-term fellowship at @folger.edu this fall!

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Harry R. McCarthy (offline) @harrymccarthy.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Me: Why do we think Little Lord Fauntleroy might have fallen out of favour with an American readership? Student: Is it because it's really boring?

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Harry R. McCarthy (offline) @harrymccarthy.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

It’ll forever be stored in the archives 😊

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Harry R. McCarthy (offline) @harrymccarthy.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Saw the Hamnet trailer last night. Looks wonderful, and sorry to be that guy, but… painted sets at the Globe?!

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Harry R. McCarthy (offline) @harrymccarthy.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Six years as Dr Harry. This guy wouldn’t have believed what’s happening now. Photo by @pascaleexeter.bsky.social minutes after @lucycmunro.bsky.social & Jane Milling gave me my laurels.

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Harry R. McCarthy (offline) @harrymccarthy.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

How delightful to log back on and see this!

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Harry R. McCarthy (offline) @harrymccarthy.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

I’ve come to the conclusion that this really isn’t the site for me - so email for work (link in bio); Instagram for cocktails.

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Kerry Sinanan @kerrysinanan.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Why is it important to counter the Jane Austen 250th birthday frenzy in this moment? Because she is being used to promote neoimperial Brexit culture under the cover of white feminism as supposedly 'radical' 1/ theconversation.com/jane-austen-...

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Jane Austen at 250: Why we shouldn’t exaggerate her radicalism

Examining Austen as a radical genius misunderstands her art and misrepresents the imperial culture that she was part of.

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Harry R. McCarthy (offline) @harrymccarthy.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

This thread is especially helpful (and reassuring!) to someone making the transition from one system into another - thank you!

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Harry R. McCarthy (offline) @harrymccarthy.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Peter Erickson - a leading light and the ultimate role model for white scholars working within the field of PCRS—and beyond.

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Harry R. McCarthy (offline) @harrymccarthy.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

(battledores were made of wood and more like ping-pong bats... you would be *amazed* at the aerodynamic variations...)

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Harry R. McCarthy (offline) @harrymccarthy.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Yes, seconded - not least since shuttlecocks = HIGHLY GENDERED and BAD FOR MASCULINITY

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Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Stop doing this! Whoever is paying @timeshighered.bsky.social‬ for story after story is also funding environmental vandalism on a catastrophic scale. This isn't journalism, it's naive ethical bankruptcy - and intellectually and pedagogically obtuse.

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Harry R. McCarthy (offline) @harrymccarthy.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Pretty good, but too sweet - I’d stick with the crumbles and the fools (rule for life)

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Harry R. McCarthy (offline) @harrymccarthy.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

My MIL is bringing gooseberry ice cream over this evening… will report back on that!

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Harry R. McCarthy (offline) @harrymccarthy.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Nigella’s gooseberry and elderflower crumble (abbreviated here)

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Harry R. McCarthy (offline) @harrymccarthy.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

I personally am taking this as an invitation never to write anything again 🙏

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Harry R. McCarthy (offline) @harrymccarthy.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety (32 today 🎈)

Harry is sitting at a restaurant table on a terrace, wearing a white silk shirt and black sunglasses, and sipping from a martini glass

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Harry R. McCarthy (offline) @harrymccarthy.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Great to see this year's Oxford World's Classics Shakespeare webinars making their way onto YouTube - here's @oldfortunatus.bsky.social and me in conversation about Titus Andronicus www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbQv...

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English Faculty / OWC Shakespeare webinar with Professor Emma Smith: Titus Andronicus

YouTube video by Faculty of English, University of Oxford

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Harry R. McCarthy (offline) @harrymccarthy.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

And thank YOU for organising a great event - I had a blast.

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EarlyModernista @ellierycroft.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

What a wonderful event we had at Bristol this evening with alum @harrymccarthy.bsky.social and Jayne Gold talking about their cutting-edge research. Followed by exceptional pasta/pizza at Moltobuono! - thanks to everyone who turned up on a rainy Thursday.

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Harry R. McCarthy (offline) @harrymccarthy.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Despite Everything Going On, my nonagenarian grandmother's principle concern about the move to LA is that I'll unconsciously adopt American spelling

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Harry R. McCarthy (offline) @harrymccarthy.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Reading this made my morning - so wonderful to see such thoughtful work on this hot mess of a play 🔥😈

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Jocelyn Leitzinger @jocelynl.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

This past semester was the most stressful of my academic career. I had 180 students and about half cheated at some point in the semester They submit weekly reflections where the questions are opinion-based, graded only on effort, don't care about grammar SO MANY students submitted ChatGPT essays

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

I think this is such a major driver of AI use in university assessments. And also just a real… disconnection between why we think students are here (to learn about history!) and why students think they are here (to get good grades, to get a job)

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ALCS @alcs.co.uk · 03/06/2025

Last night, the House of Lords defeated the Government for a fourth time by passing an amendment establishing meaningful transparency measures for the use of rightsholders’ works in AI systems, many of which are being used without recognition, permission or remuneration. (1/3)

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Harry R. McCarthy (offline) @harrymccarthy.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

I don't know what I was expecting Helkiah Crooke to compare ejaculate to, but it sure wasn't 'a company of Antickes holding hand in hand' who 'vault upon a stage' [Mikrokosmographia, book IV]

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Harry R. McCarthy (offline) @harrymccarthy.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Seems a good time to remind that I'm talking about the question of boy actors, 'transvestism', and early modern trans studies in Bristol two weeks from now: www.tickettailor.com/events/unive...

'Cattle of this Colour': Boy Actors and Early Modern Trans Studies

Boy actors and the so-called 'transvestite stage' have an uneasy relationship with early modern trans studies. In a field dominated by explorations of gendered clothing and tantalising moments of 'reveal,' the insights of trans studies, and trans people, are all too readily elided. This paper will consider whether there is a place for boy actors in early modern trans studies by offering a reading of characters like Rosalind in As You Like It which extends beyond the easy slippage from one set of clothes to another and centralises the intersecting production of gendered and racial categories to which trans studies writ large has always been trying to direct our attention. In the process, it will offer a consideration of what the mutually constitutive fields of premodern trans and critical race studies have to offer to theatre history.

Harry R. McCarthy is the author of Boy Actors in Early Modern England (Cambridge, 2022) and Performing Early Modern Drama Beyond Shakespeare (Cambridge, 2020). He recently published a new critical introduction to Titus Andronicus for the Oxford World's Classics Series (2025). Currently a Lecturer in English at the University of Exeter, in August he will take up the post of Assistant Professor of Early Modern Literature at the University of Southern California.

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Trans* Book History @transbookhistory.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

On the one hand, Awesome. Sir Ian McKellen is an awesome ally. On the other hand, please read Early Modern Trans Studies (#EMoTrans). 1/2 www.attitude.co.uk/culture/sir-...

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Sir Ian McKellen to open historic all-trans and nonbinary production of Twelfth Night

Director Phoebe Kemp said: "Twelfth Night already toys with gender and performance – it feels like Shakespeare wrote it for us"

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