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Matthew Steggle

@matthewsteggle.bsky.social
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Prof of Early Modern Eng Lit at @bristoluni.bsky.social. Working on Shakespeare biography and other C16-17 stuff. The rest is silence, mostly. Views own.

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Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
For day 4 of #LisaFest, we have Andrew Duxfield's excellent chapter on water in Marlowe’s Edward II and Drayton’s Mortimeriados. For Andrew, Marlowe's works show a consistent interest in water: while scholars have noted his "engagement with cartography", there has been less interest in what...
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“Sooner shall the sea o’erwhelm my land”: Water in Marlowe’s Edward II and Drayton’s Mortimeriados

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Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Welcome to #LisaFest day 3, where today's chapter is by @obscuredrama.bsky.social. One of two Marlowe chapters in the volume, Tom's has the suitably scintillating title, 'Faustus on the Edge of the Universe'. Like @racheljwillie.bsky.social's chapter, Tom's chapter picks up on the imagery of...
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Faustus on the Edge of the Universe

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Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Welcome to October (the best month of the year, imho) and day 2 of #LisaFest. Today's chapter is by the thoroughly excellent @racheljwillie.bsky.social, who has been a constant source of support and sanity throughout. Rachel's chapter focuses on Lyly's _The Woman in the Moon_, a neglected...
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“O Nature, place Pandora in my sphere”: Embodied (E)motion in Lyly’s The Woman in the Moon

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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
They certainly could! There’s a case involving Christopher Marlowe: earlytheatre.org/earlytheatre...
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I read this as UEA, and was very confused.
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Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The first chapter of #LisaFest is by the excellent (and fellow Antipodean) @billangus.bsky.social. Coming up with the order for chapters can be tricky, but I always knew I wanted Bill's to open the collection. In addition to the pleasingly perfect alliteration of its title, Bill's chapter covers...
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Politicians, Projectors, and Parasites: Lurkers at the Margins of Inner Performance

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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is going to be a thread to watch…
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Really enjoyed this!
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Sounds like it’s adjacent to constructive dismissal. I’m so sorry.
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Yes! There’s that bit where someone sings, “Oh the cherry lips of Nelly, / They are red and soft as jelly…” and it gets worse from there.
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Thomas Heywood’s The Rape of Lucrece, with its ill-advised musical comedy sequences. Really just uncharacteristically mean-spirited and crass (as I remember it).
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Medieval Institute Publications @mip-medpub.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Coming soon from the Late Tudor and Stuart Drama Series: "The Edges of Early Modern English Drama: History, Performance, and the Scholarship of Lisa Hopkins" edited by Aidan Norrie and Matthew Steggle. Look for it this fall, or preorder your copy now! wmich.edu/medievalpubl...
Cover of "The Edges of Early Modern English Drama."Text reading: "Thanks to the pioneering work of Professor Lisa Hopkins, the field of early modern English drama is now much more attuned to the various edges, spaces, and intersections that characterise the dramatic output of the period...

This collection examines works by a range of dramatists—including Beaumont, Dekker, Fletcher, Heywood, Jonson, Lyly, Marlowe, Massinger, Middleton, Sampson, and Shakespeare—and demonstrates that paying close attention to the edges of these dramatic works reveals much about the conditions in which these texts were conceived, produced, and received."
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Well, that debate would be your first three months…
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Love’s Labours Won!! (but, seriously, yes please to whatever).
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Amen!
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
a forgery, and the article tries to identify the forger, of whom you’ve probably heard, and thinks about the whole cultural thing they created (3/3).
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
which was a worldwide sensation in the early C20, and has since been completely forgotten. Spoilers ahead, it was (2/3)
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
In excellent company in this issue. My article tells the frankly loopy story of Shakespeare’s secret Catholic will (1/3) borrowers-ojs-azsu.tdl.org/borrowers/is...
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Vol. 18 No. 1 (2026): Fall 2026 | Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
That’s very interesting! News to me.
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
New publication - a v short note picking out a detail in a little-read Jacobean play. Features cakes and cream. academic.oup.com/nq/advance-a...
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Brett Greatley-Hirsch @notwithoutmustard.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Latest issue of Shakespeare now available! www.tandfonline.com/toc/rshk20/c... Shakespeare's marriage, #earlymodern centaurs, 'brown matters', eco-imaginaries, Turkish miniseries, and reviews!
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Shakespeare
Volume 22, Issue 3 of Shakespeare
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Brandi K. Adams @bkadams.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I wrote about AI from 1588 for the @folger.edu Collation Blog! www.folger.edu/blogs/collat...
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Artificial Intelligence, 1588 | 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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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
… and, there's a print source that backs it up. Babington later insists that “buy” just means being exposed to the Gospel: Babington, Comfortable notes upon the bookes of Exodus and Leviticus (1604), 288.
 But let no man thinke that this water that is, the swéete and cheering comfort of the Gospell, is to be got by mans merites (as some teach) but euer remember the Prophets words, Ho, euery one that thirsteth come ye to the waters, and ye that haue no siluer, come [688] buy and eate; come, I say, buy wine and milke without siluer and without monie. &c.
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Isaiah 55:1 goes in part: “every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat”. Perhaps Babington in some sermon explained “buy” as meaning “hear” the word of God?
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Saw a rare bird, a performance of Aphra Behn’s The City Heiress as part of Canterbury Shakespeare Festival. Really interesting, esp for The Rover.
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I”m sorry for your loss, Jim. He sounds wonderful. And that Jonson biography is a fine piece of work.
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Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Great to see that this book is now published! Situated Readings of Spenser, Shakespeare, and Donne: Essays in Honor of Judith H. Anderson Edited by Tamara A. Goeglein and Jennifer C. Vaught Medieval Institute Publications, 2026 wmich.edu/medievalpubl...
A mostly black-and-white front cover of a book, with some blocks of translucent gold. The featured image is “White Squares,” by Lee Krasner.
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
And this particular copy... does it, erm, behave itself? en.wikisource.org/wiki/More_Gh...
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More Ghost Stories/The Tractate Middoth - Wikisource, the free online library
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Eoin Price @eoinprice.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
A long time in the making, Reprints & Revivals of Renaissance Drama, which I edited with Harry Newman (a long time friend), is now out! It's a collection about forms of renewal in print & performance & their importance to the production & reception of early modern drama.
Front cover of a book, Reprints and Revivals of Renaissance DramaBack cover of a book, Reprints and Revivals of Renaissance Drama.First contents pageSecond contents page
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I've had some dealings with Exeter this week. In spite of the intended job cuts, academics were working into the evenings trying to put out some of the fires that the announcement had started. They deserve better.
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Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 25/06/2026
Petition against redundancies at Exeter. Humanities and Social Sciences staff are hardest hit, with 25% of posts in subjects including History, English, Modern Languages and Politics slated to be cut.
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Sign the Petition
Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Have read this cover to cover again for proofing, and it’s really good. (I mean, I would say that, but it just is). Inventive, committed essays all pursuing edges and angles opened up by the work of @lisahopkins.bsky.social.
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Bad news! Some more marking has come in. Good news! There’s quite a generous deadline.
A deadline set to midnight, 1st January, 3000 AD.
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
I have a note out! It offers some new life-records of this unlovely man. academic.oup.com/nq/advance-a...
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Dr. Will Green @drwillgreen.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Guess who's book is published today 🥳 www.routledge.com/Thomas-Middl...
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Oh, it’s pernicious stuff!
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
(But then the article itself is about a completely bogus Shakespeare inscription, so maybe the non-existent business professionals would feel that did speak to their anxieties. I love that phrase about “meaningful authors”, too. It just feels so sad.)
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I got this book club scam email. It’s quite polished, except that the book in question is only nine pages long, so I hope the 1,320 entrepreneurs in Colorado aren’t too disappointed when they settle down to read it. Mind you, being fictitious should cushion the blow a bit.
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Touched a nerve!
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Amazing!
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Very cool indeed! I don’t suppose it mentions Joan Hart, who would have been in residence in the cottage at that date, or her son (Shakespeare’s nephew) Thomas?
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Clare Hopkins is my old boss! Do say hello from me.
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I did not know that!
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I love his comment about the college: “Trinity had never been unkind to me. There used to be much snap-dragon growing on the walls opposite my freshman’s rooms there, and I had for years taken it as the emblem of my own perpetual residence even unto death in my University.”
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
There’s a guy called John Walker who was renting a lodging in Trinity Lane for 8 shillings a week (!) in 1614. Mind you, he was a clot.
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Brett Greatley-Hirsch @notwithoutmustard.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
#earlymodern peeps! The good folks at UVic HCMC have created a static version of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson Online, so this major work of scholarship remains ACCESSIBLE AND FREE. We're also working to remediate the editions themselves into the @lemdo-uvic.bsky.social ecosystem.
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
So, yes, fabulous stuff!
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Also, the ground plan is v evocative. This is my favourite detail. Shk spent his life in Stratford around dunghills, and here one is literally outside his front door in London. academic.oup.com/sq/article-a...
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Plus… Susanna in London. @kscheil.bsky.social shows that someone, likely Susanna, commissioned Anne’s memorial brass from a high-end London engraver. Perhaps she too stayed in the Blackfriars while doing things like that. www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Anne Shakespeare's Epitaph
Cambridge Core - Renaissance and Early Modern Literature - Anne Shakespeare's Epitaph
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
First, as article says, v interesting implications for Shakespeare’s (the Shakespeares’?) engagement with London in 1613. It’s big enough to be 2 houses.
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