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Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · 13h

The Council just gave us new, bigger bins for paper, which suggests that even if we are Recycling we are not Reducing. If there's one thing more important than the continuing habitability of our planet it's keeping capitalism going

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Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Is it bad form to repost this?

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Edward's Boys @edwardsboys.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The next production by Edward’s Boys will be Your Five Gallants by Thomas Middleton, a playwright with whom we have had some dealings. Mid-March 2027. Tour is a work in process - although Stratford-upon-Avon, London and Paris (France) are confirmed. Please spread the word. More details to follow.

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Lisa Hopkins @lisahopkins.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Now available for pre-order: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-reading... #edinburghup.bsky.social

Cover of Reading the Coastline in Shakespeare's Britain, edited by Bill Angus and Lisa Hopkins

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Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Mine & @matthewsteggle.bsky.social's festschrift for the incomparable @lisahopkins.bsky.social is due for publication on 19 October. Each day until then, I'm going to give an overview of the chapters to get you excited for the volume's early moderny goodness. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...

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The Edges of Early Modern English Drama

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...

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Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

OK so do I go with this footnote or

Some readers may find the unorthodox stress-pattern
reminiscent of Matt Berry’s fictional actor Steven Toast.

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Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Catch m'colleague Cathy Shrank hereon!

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Fitzcarraldo Editions @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🔵 ANNIVERSARY SALE: 40 PER CENT OFF 🔵 To celebrate twelve years since we published our first book, we are running a sale with 40 per cent off across our site 🎈 Use the code 2026ANNIVERSARY at checkout. The sale ends at 11.59 p.m. BST on 30 September. fitzcarraldoeditions.com/shop/?utm_so...

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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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Dr Anna Hegland @alhegland.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

My article on Winter’s Tale and The Lady’s Tragedy is online! It’s the idea that made it out of the group chat: this article builds on conversations I had @memsunikent.bsky.social about bodies in performance, & in the #WTWatchParty during COVID lockdowns, & now it’s out in the world! #EarlyModern

Image of the Taylor & Francis page for the journal Shakespeare, with the title of a newly released article by OP: “Not to be Altered”: The Author-Character in Shakespeare and Middleton. End ID.

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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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Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

📚 Book review: Female Servants in Early Modern England, by Charmian Mansell, reviewed by Susan D. Amussen 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #BookReview #skyhistorians #GenderHistory

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Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Early modernists will understand that this was not what I was looking for.

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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

📢 Excited to announce this Call for Papers for 'Imagining Diﬀerence in Early Modern London', a conference exploring how EM Londoners experienced and negotiated forms of diﬀerence.

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James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Seems unfair that advanced degrees in England give you a storehouse of useless critical knowledge if in Italy they give you extremely cool psychic powers. I knew I should have gone to La Sapienza.

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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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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 12/08/2026

“We need to work at scale to make sure that we don’t have some really big unintended consequences [of subject closures]”, Sanders said, adding that employers tell universities they want critical thinking and communication skills—“things that humanities training and disciplines enable”.

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Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

My hot Shakespearean take on the new Mountain Goats album is that we're in Tempest territory, i.e. a selfconsciously late artwork about lateness

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Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Early instance of the verb 'to google' (Lemnius, Touchstone of Complexions, 1576)

Neyther are they incited to these immoderate pleasures through reason or auy well stayed discretion, but by impotencie of mynde and wylfull affection, digressing and swaruyng from modestye, temperaunce and moderacion: y• lack wherof googleth theyr vnstayed heades, and caryeth them into many inordinate pranckes of childishe insolencie.

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Squat, green bulbs, bitter as smoke, I offer you figs from Sheffield’s east end. They have exile’s toughened flesh and skin; its deep-cut bloodline. Special one-day offer: 35% off 'Skin', the second collection of poems by Chris Jones skinchrisjones.wordpress.com

Several hardback copies of Chris Jones's poetry collection 'Skin'

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

A 🧵with an update on the wills project: #EarlyModern 🗃️

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Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I've just spent the last half-hour trying to write a gloss on the word 'coming' in _All's Well_, 2.4 that's broad-minded without being salacious; what have you been up to?

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Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Cognitive dissonance on the front page

The Times: Net zero 'risks blackouts' above picture of France aflame

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Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Spot the difference between (1) what I actually went to the library for, (2) what I got distracted by (it's summer, right?)

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Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Have you watched Ruby's video standing up for English and Humanities/Social Sciences/Arts subjects yet? She's a brilliant former student of mine who's pulled out all the stops to help with our campaign. She even convinced me to film a segment 🫣. Watch, sign and share! youtu.be/3HKCsUUsUNs?...

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In Defence of the Humanities Degree

YouTube video by Ruby Granger

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Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

'If he wants to spend the summer arguing with a bin, I won’t stop him' -- surprisingly OK line from Reeves there...

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Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Daughter of theatre historian C. J. Sisson, I was interested to discover -- and writer of Upstairs, Downstairs

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Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

After a rather drawn-out process, I am so delighted that the festschrift for the wonderful @lisahopkins.bsky.social that @matthewsteggle.bsky.social and I have edited is only a few months out from publication with @dgb-mem.bsky.social! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...

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Lisa Hopkins @lisahopkins.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Out in paperback today:

Cover of the Revels edition of John Ford's The Queen, or the Excellency of Her Sex

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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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Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Google's response on Terence Hawkes, heroically failing to accept that there might be more than one place called Birmingham in the world

Born 13 May 1932, Birmingham, Alabama, United States

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

GET EXCITED! Our biennial conference is happening in THAT LONDON in 2027! It's our 💎 Diamond 💎 Jubilee, so get ready for a party. The #Renaissance Beyond Borders Warburg, 30 June-3 July 2027 Deadline for proposals: 25 September 2026 all info: rensoc.org.uk/cfp/12th-bie... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

screenshot of The Renaissance Beyond Borders: SRS conference 2027
30 Jun 2027-3 July 2027
deadline 25 September 2026
Location: the warburg institute and school of advanced study, university of london

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Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Please sign this. What's happening at Hertfordshire is unconscionable. c.org/jVWPyJDnZz

c.org

Sign the Petition

Save the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire

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Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I can't believe I'm writing a gloss on this

Text reads 'Spending his manlie marrow in her armes'

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Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

As an adopted Sheffielder I'm pleased to see the word 'nesh' appearing in a 16th-century text: Philip Stubbes complains, 'be sure this pampering of our bodies, makes them weker, tenderer, and nesher, than otherwyse they would be if they were vsed to hardnesse'.

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Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Does our @labouruk.bsky.social government think that young people should have the opportunity to study the humanities at university? Judging by their total indifference to what's happening in UK HE, the answer is no.

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Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

When you appreciate that The Alchemist is basically 'comedy in which the landlord wins' it gets much easier to elicit atudents' views about the ending

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Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I can't be the first one to play this game with the latest @lrb.co.uk

Reading the LRB, exposing the words 'Am I perhaps in Italy?', in front of the Arch of Titus

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

From the latest issue of The Onion. This is just brilliant writing.

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Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

For some reason it is very difficult to get students to accept that the angels in Doctor Faustus might be actual angels and for some reason this Bothers Me

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

AI - revolutionising scholarship...

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Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Just when you think you're completely immune to clickbait

Text: BBC's Professor Hannah Fry gives chilling warning about Pringles

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