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Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Elizabethan playhouses were supplied by a network of tailors, merchants & craftswomen. Their names survive in records, but little is known about their lives. I’m working on new research that brings the stories of these makers & traders centre stage. Here is the project in biscuit (cookie) form. 🍪
A photograph of eight rectangular biscuits (cookies) arranged in two rows on a square white plate. The plate is framed on all sides by a trailing vine pattern in green with pops of red. The biscuits are mostly in shades of ivory, cream, yellow, and grey, with a burst of vivid red and blue in one corner of the arrangement. Moving across the top row of biscuits from left to right, the designs include: neat lines of handwritten names in an early modern parish register; a section of a hand-drawn map from 1561 featuring St Paul’s Cathedral, with street names like ‘Carter Lane’ visible in a tiny spiky font; an extract of text from a funerary monument printed in an early modern book, ending ‘So transitory is our glory’; a section of embroidery from a funeral pall featuring metallic silver armour, crossed gold keys, and two hands holding up a crown. The biscuit designs on the bottom row include: horses prancing past shopfronts on Cheapside in the mid-sixteenth century; a receipt written in early modern secretary hand, which is difficult to read; a portrait of a stern-looking women dressed in a ruff, pearls, and sober dark clothing; swirling calligraphy and dense secretary hand featuring on a will dating from 1638.
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Shakespeare News @shakespearenews.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
This week's Shakespeare News: "…what if the Scottish king was actually a 13-year-old child star at the height of early 2000s TV fame?"
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Euphoria, Puppet Eroticism, and macb*tches
Plus:
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Shakespeare News @shakespearenews.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Shakespeare is the Met Gala: step up, strap in, grab 14 kinds of tape and your scariest friend and take that intensely stupid dress for a ride.
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Shakespeare is the Met Gala
Plus: King John, understatement, and energy-sucking butt magnets
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Shakespeare News @shakespearenews.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Swordfighters, Sets, and Secret Shakespeare Fans + Macbeth with cats
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Swordfighters, Sets, and Secret Shakespeare Fans
Plus: Macbeth but with cats
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Shakespeare News @shakespearenews.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
So much Shakespeare news / even Gielgud mixed up Cordelia/Ophelia.
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H.P. Lovecraft, Golf Carts, and Leeks
Plus: "All I can tell you is get a light Ophelia."
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Shakespeare News @shakespearenews.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Plus: Justice for Roger Rees' Malcolm sweater.
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Stick Figures, Sweaters, and Sleep No More
Plus: Happy 462nd Birthday!
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Shakespeare News @shakespearenews.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Celebrate Shakespeare's Birthday with a double dose of Shakespeare News! Featuring @lucycmunro.bsky.social on Shakespeare's London house, plus Olivier on Mastermind, and that time the Pope accidentally stole a Folio.
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Shakespeare’s London House Exactly Where We Thought
Plus: Ice cream, the Pope, and lighting yourself on fire
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Shakespeare News @shakespearenews.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
This week's Shakespeare News is out and I did not know it was possible to make Titus more horrifying. But smash it together with “My Little Pony” and… PIXIE POO: “Ack! What happened to your hoofsies?!”
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Joe McCarthy, Stephen King, and My Little Titus Andronicus
Plus: Handsome Dan in "Midsummer"
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Shakespeare News @shakespearenews.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Kicking off Shakespeare's birthday month with R&J, Agatha Christie, and lots of faerie smut. Link in bio.
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Shakespeare News @shakespearenews.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Plenty of Romeo and Juliet to kick off Shakespeare’s birthday month, starting with the 30th anniversary of John Leguizamo blowing up a gas station.
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Mirrors, Murder, and Magic Sheets
Plus: R+J @ 30
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Shakespeare News @shakespearenews.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
"If his authorship is simply a matter of incubation—if the experiences we’re watching him live through are not in fact formative—then why bother dramatizing his life at all?"
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Bachelorettes, Branagh, and Biofiction
Plus: “The Fool…is replaced in this production by a turtle”
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Shakespeare News @shakespearenews.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
"People often say to me, oh, is Reduced Shakespeare supposed to be the antidote to boring Shakespeare? And the question just always flummoxes me because I've never seen anything that I consider to be boring Shakespeare.”
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Bridgerton, Boys, and Baking Powder
Plus: Sure, add live deer to "As You Like It," what could possibly go wrong?
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Shakespeare News @shakespearenews.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
St. Patrick’s Day and the Ides of March have a surprising number of things in common. #1: When your wife says, “Don’t go out.” DON’T GO OUT.
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St Patrick’s Day vs the Ides of March, How Are You Celebrating?
Plus: Justice for Calpurnia
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Shakespeare News @shakespearenews.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Hamlet in the original Klingon, “…a gyrating stripper Paris", and @jbf1755.bsky.social on Martha Andresen's Shakespeare class.
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Star Trek, Strippers, and Student Matinees
Plus: “Okay, I *was* going to bring up lesbian Othello…”
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Shakespeare News @shakespearenews.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Aaron Hill’s Henry the Fifth (1723) is wild. Henry’s ex-lover Harriet whom he seduced and abandoned follows him to France, sneaks into his tent disguised as a boy, tells him he’s an a$$hole, gives him letters exposing Scroop et. al., and stabs herself.
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The Grinch, Houdini, and Baz Luhrmann Walk Into Stoned King Lear
Plus: Groff, As You Like It
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Shakespeare News @shakespearenews.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Alll the season announcements in Shakespeare News
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Much Ado on Broadway, Game of Thrones at the RSC, and Macbeth at the Met
Plus: A German Richard III lost his horse *and* his sword
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Shakespeare News @shakespearenews.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
This week's Shakespeare News "Welcome the ghosts."
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Steadicams, Sports, and Show Stops
Plus: All the Macbeths: pop, drag, “Friends”, ha ha, therapy, lipstick
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Shakespeare News @shakespearenews.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
“I would have liked to have played Hamlet.” “That train has left the station.” “Oliver played him when he was 42.” “Olivier was a better actor than you.” #ShakespeareSunday
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Stella, Stencils, and Sacred Spaces
Plus: McKellen does More & Maggie mudlarks
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Shakespeare News @shakespearenews.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
"Sit down in it? I’m going to DIE in it."
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California Gurls, Tiny Earrings, and Moose Heads
Plus: Which Shakespeare descendants ended up in Australia?
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Shakespeare News @shakespearenews.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Also includes: a new "Henry IV" mashup, a funky French "Tempest" with a backflipping harpy, and a comedy version of "R&J".
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Bridgerton, Bookclubs, and Banquo on Roller Skates
Plus: Timon Tonight
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Shakespeare News @shakespearenews.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
A snowy Sunday Shakespeare News. Also includes: Al Pacino in OSF costumes, *All* the Shakespeare on "The Traitors", and Puckish Pitt starts. #ShakespeareSunday
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Star Wars, Southern Accents, and Sonic Stories
Plus: Did Shakespeare have his first kiss under this tree?
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Shakespeare News @shakespearenews.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
First-half-of-January Shakespeare News (5/5) Also includes: a sci-fi "Tempest", a Lakota "Twelfth Night", and Josh Brolin doing "Caesar" speeches.
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Porters, Pepys, and Pens
Plus: Romeo and Juliet and Godzilla
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Shakespeare News @shakespearenews.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
December Shakespeare News (4/5) Also includes: a new musical Henry V, Paul Rudd lying about Hamlet, and a 19th c. child actor.
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Panto, Demonic Mushrooms, and Shakespeare in Space
December Shakespeare News
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Shakespeare News @shakespearenews.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
November Shakespeare News (3/5) Also includes: AI Midsummers, Steve Jobs, and possets.
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Mockumentaries, Jack the Ripper, and “Pursued by bear” wine
November Shakespeare News
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Shakespeare News @shakespearenews.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
October Shakespeare News (2/5) Also includes: an onstage wedding, Julia Roberts, and so much "Fate of Ophelia"
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Headless Teddy Bears, Naughty Swans, and a "Weasel-Like" Academic (defamatory)
October Shakespeare News
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Shakespeare News @shakespearenews.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Multiple months of Shakespeare news! 1/5 Also includes: Robert Redford, Lorca, and what Marlowe would have smelled like.
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Tragedeighs, Netball, and Muppets
Plus: Keanu's Mercutio got him an agent
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Shakespeare News @shakespearenews.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
New [Shakespeare] news in the new [chicken] court! Also includes: the "female Hamlet," Scalia plays Macbeth (really), and a perpetual food/booze bequest.
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Strictly, Scilly, and Satire
Plus: A fried chicken King Lear
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Shakespeare News @shakespearenews.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
New Shakespeare News! Also incudes: lute players, perpetual stew, and "the guy with the eyes" www.shakespearenews.com/p/tyndale-ty...
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Tyndale, Tycho, and Title IX
Plus: Van Gogh, Joan Baez, and She's the Man: The Musical
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Shakespeare News @shakespearenews.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
A month of Shakespeare News 4/4 Also includes: which Shakespeare character must be "comfortable with oligarchy"?
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Audra McDonald, Peter Marks, and Shakespeare's secret gay lover
Plus: Hamlet in a g-string
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Shakespeare News @shakespearenews.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
A month of Shakespeare News 3/4 Also includes: an ad-rap-tation of Caesar and a “sexy as hell” Richard III.
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Book Nooks, Cookie Cutters, and Dogs in Ruffs
Plus: Oscar Isaac stabbing lasagna
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Shakespeare News @shakespearenews.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
A month of Shakespeare News 2/4 Also includes: wetsuits and whippits.
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Wound Men, Wills, and Puppets
Plus: "Sam Shepard shouted, “F*ck Shakespeare!"
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Shakespeare News @shakespearenews.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
A month of Shakespeare News! 1/4 Featuring crypto bros, bear spray, and “less smut, more mutt.”
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Taylor Swift, Paul Mescal, and Adam Smith
Plus: Juliet isn't dead she's just hibernating (and a bear)
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Shakespeare News @shakespearenews.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Year Two of Shakespeare News! Featuring an unholy Annie/MacB mashup from @stratfest.bsky.social, Brad Lander sonnets from @drewsof.bsky.social & Lithub, and the history of theater + beer from @kyleathomas.bsky.social.
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Jane Austen, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Fairy Daddies
Plus: Who the %#&$ gave Puck heelys?
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