James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 19hAnd Shakespeare 'pitied' social climbers (??) #ShakespeareSunday 030
James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 21hBen Jonson's take on Shakespeare's coat of arms ... from his description in 'Everyman out of his Humor'. #shakespearesunday 010
James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 21hThe circular evidence of "Warwickshire" words. theconversation.com/the-bard-did... #ShakespeareSundaytheconversation.comThe Bard didn’t use Warwickshire dialect – so was he really Shakespeare?Shakespeare’s use of dialect is a key argument used by those who stand by the traditional author. But these so-called “Warwickshire dialect” words are nothing of the sort. 010
Reposted by James LeylandJames Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Time and 6 Sonnet numbers… works.hcommons.org/me/uploads?q... #ShakespeareSunday 011
James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Time and 6 Sonnet numbers… works.hcommons.org/me/uploads?q... #ShakespeareSunday 011
Reposted by James LeylandJames Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Following Shakespeare's 154 sonnets is the long poem 'A Lover's Complaint'. The 'lover' has a napkin of 'conceited characters', cf. the abused Philomel's needlework - the only textual code in classical mythology (?) - and her mutilation invoked in Sonnet 102 (below). #shakespearesunday 022
Reposted by James LeylandTony Riches @tonyriches.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The Five Eldest Children of Charles I (1637), by Anthony van Dyck. Oil on canvas, Royal Collection, London. Left to right: Mary, James, Charles, Elizabeth and Anne #Stuarts 131
James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Following Shakespeare's 154 sonnets is the long poem 'A Lover's Complaint'. The 'lover' has a napkin of 'conceited characters', cf. the abused Philomel's needlework - the only textual code in classical mythology (?) - and her mutilation invoked in Sonnet 102 (below). #shakespearesunday 022
Reposted by James LeylandJames Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Philomel. Shakespeare's Sonnet 102 Ovid: (excised to silence her rape) ... her tongue wriggled on the ground, as if trying to speak Shakespeare: Therefore, like her I sometime *hold* my tongue Silenced? #ShakespeareSunday 022
James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Philomel. Shakespeare's Sonnet 102 Ovid: (excised to silence her rape) ... her tongue wriggled on the ground, as if trying to speak Shakespeare: Therefore, like her I sometime *hold* my tongue Silenced? #ShakespeareSunday 022
Reposted by James LeylandCheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Dogs & Horses 🥰🥰 🤗 Credit to valleychronicles 763638643
Reposted by James LeylandJames Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 06/09/2026An actor forgetting his line - unremarkable. An author not understanding his line - THAT might invite a closer look. Ben Jonson recalls Shakespeare onstage (pic). The real line from Julius Caesar III, i: - Know, Caesar doth not wrong, nor without cause / Will he be satisfied. #ShakespeareSunday 031
James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 06/09/2026An actor forgetting his line - unremarkable. An author not understanding his line - THAT might invite a closer look. Ben Jonson recalls Shakespeare onstage (pic). The real line from Julius Caesar III, i: - Know, Caesar doth not wrong, nor without cause / Will he be satisfied. #ShakespeareSunday 031
Reposted by James LeylandJames Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 30/08/2026#shakespearesunday 1929, Katharine Eggar, feminist composer, wrote this article which ties the Nevill family to: - Music for #Shakespeare's history plays - Queen's Men - Blackfriars - Master William Hunnis (our MrWH of the Sonnets dedication). www.jstor.org/stable/91755... 021
James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 30/08/2026It's taken me a long time to notice the lineage of the comb-over. 001
James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 30/08/2026#shakespearesunday 1929, Katharine Eggar, feminist composer, wrote this article which ties the Nevill family to: - Music for #Shakespeare's history plays - Queen's Men - Blackfriars - Master William Hunnis (our MrWH of the Sonnets dedication). www.jstor.org/stable/91755... 021
James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 23/08/2026#shakespearesunday Touch of irony? Digges was most famous as a translator from that "vulgar Language" Spanish. 030
James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 16/08/2026www.academia.edu/127656765/Li... Sonnet 134 So now I have confessed ... he learn'd but surety like to write for me... #shakespearesunday 020
Reposted by James LeylandJames Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Neville Is BH (Billingbear House) Rimer #shakespearesunday 021
James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Neville Is BH (Billingbear House) Rimer #shakespearesunday 021
James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 12/06/2026What? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...abc.net.auQld deputy premier short on sympathy for 'juvenile grubs' in youth detention lockdownJarrod Bleijie says children inside youth detention centres are largely to blame for lockdowns, and it's the staff that need protection. 000
Reposted by James LeylandDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 31/05/2026Amnesty International understanding that this "generative AI" shit as currently conceived and deployed is a project which enables fascism and endangers the already vulnerable and marginalized populations of the world. 2578245
Reposted by James LeylandWilliam Fertanish @fertanish.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Building analog percussion loops with a motor, keys, triangles, and drum. 65515
James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Hearing Trumps comments post meeting with Xi -like a naughty schoolboy outside the principal’s office. 000
Reposted by James LeylandYashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 27/04/2026My aunt hosing me down in her backyard in Iran after I got filthy playing at five years old. 92326
Reposted by James LeylandJames Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 26/04/2026New Evidence for the First Night of Twelfth Night, 6 January 1601 works.hcommons.org/records/cqwx... #ShakespeareSundayworks.hcommons.orgNew Evidence for the First Night of Twelfth Night, 6 January 1601On Twelfth Night, 6 January 1601, Queen Elizabeth attended a comedy performed by Shakespeare's company – the Lord Chamberlain's Men. The name of this play has not survived, but a young Italian Duke Or... 011
James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 26/04/2026New Evidence for the First Night of Twelfth Night, 6 January 1601 works.hcommons.org/records/cqwx... #ShakespeareSundayworks.hcommons.orgNew Evidence for the First Night of Twelfth Night, 6 January 1601On Twelfth Night, 6 January 1601, Queen Elizabeth attended a comedy performed by Shakespeare's company – the Lord Chamberlain's Men. The name of this play has not survived, but a young Italian Duke Or... 011
Reposted by James Leylandsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 26/04/2026We are gonna have to circle back to this. 863656549
James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 25/04/2026www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04... This journalist is perhaps Australia’s finest.abc.net.auIsrael's killing of journalists in Lebanon highlights the impunity with which it actsAccording to the Committee to Protect Journalists, the Israel Defense Forces have committed more targeted killings of journalists than any other government's military since 1992. 000
Reposted by James LeylandJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 24/04/2026This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today. 38514154216665
James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Time and Six Sonnet Numbers works.hcommons.org/records/mm83... (updated today) #ShakespeareSundayworks.hcommons.orgTime and Six Sonnet NumbersIn this note we propose that in addition to the battle against Time within specific sonnets, Shakespeare also engages with Time in the numbering of the sonnets. Each of the five early modern intervals... 000
Reposted by James LeylandJames Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Halle's Chronicles (1550) is thought to have been annotated by Shakespeare. Here's one of them (pic 1 - Cometa). 'Shakespeare' uses the scientific (Latin) term for the plain English (Comete) in the text (pic 2 - the same page from a copy that hasn't been annotated). #ShakespeareSunday #Astronomy 031
Reposted by James LeylandJames Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Time and Six Sonnet Numbers works.hcommons.org/records/jxnn... High hopes for this little note. #ShakespeareSunday 031
James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Time and Six Sonnet Numbers works.hcommons.org/records/jxnn... High hopes for this little note. #ShakespeareSunday 031
James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Halle's Chronicles (1550) is thought to have been annotated by Shakespeare. Here's one of them (pic 1 - Cometa). 'Shakespeare' uses the scientific (Latin) term for the plain English (Comete) in the text (pic 2 - the same page from a copy that hasn't been annotated). #ShakespeareSunday #Astronomy 031
James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 11/04/2026www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...abc.net.au'Sounds good to me': How Trump was sold war in IranExtraordinary reporting reveals how Israel made the case for regime change in Iran — and how the fallout is driving a profound shift in American opinion, amid deep uncertainty about what the war has achieved. 000
Reposted by James LeylandSheridan Stewart @sheridanstewart.bsky.social · 03/04/2026This exchange has a bright future. 435125
Reposted by James LeylandLAL @lindli.bsky.social · 02/04/2026My sister and I laughed so hard at this tweet one night that I named her "she doesnot leave the lizard alone" in my phone. that's still her name to this day 246845
Reposted by James LeylandJoe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 02/04/2026I still remember this one and giggle occasionally 131475173
Reposted by James LeylandJames Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 29/03/2026works.hcommons.org/records/cqwx... #shakespearesunday 001
James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 29/03/2026works.hcommons.org/records/cqwx... #shakespearesunday 001
Reposted by James LeylandDean Barker @deanbarker.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Dictionaries are descriptive, not prescriptive. 33910