Eoin Price

Excellent. Thanks again!

Thanks! I thought it looked different from other coromorants I've seen but I am obviously not very observant! I also associate them with the sea so wasn't expecting one on a lake. You live and learn!

A black bird sitting on a post in a blue lake.

A black bird sitting on a post in a blue lake.

A black bird sitting on a post in a blue lake.

Anyone know what bird this is? Some kind of heron?

Me too!

Thanks! I'll have a look and see re Berek! I know there's some work on cast lists/dramatic personae etc but his is a slightly different case

Has anyone written about references to non-title characters on early modern printed book title pages? Most playbook title pages don't refer to characters beyond those that are eponymous but some do (including several now very famous plays) in interesting & sometimes surprising ways.

Yes that sounds good, thanks! Don't know Benjamin as well as I should!

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Haven't read that. Cheers, will take a look!

Yes - thanks, this rings a distant bell!

Yes for sure there can be comfort in the ritual of watching or reading something you know well

Yes, thanks, this is the sort of thing I mean.

Yes, thanks, interested to hear more will be thinking about this for a good long time I suspect!

And how much of what is different will I actually notice or care about when what I have come for us is the same again?

For example - if I want to see something I liked again I may wish to do so because I really liked that thing & want to experience it again, not differently (though it will be different) but as it was the first time.

Is it possible to talk about repetition in a way that doesn't end up prioritizing difference? So much writing about repetition emphasizes that replication is never possible & I agree but...how do we talk about the pleasure of sameness without emphazing how sameness is never quite the same?

Doing proofs and I am pleased with, relieved about, and proud of, the co-authored introduction. It was really good to work with Harry Newman, a long time friend from the PhD days, now one billion years ago by my reckoning.

Actually I probably can't - I'd forget what I had said and repeat myself.

My special skill is that I can do it out of order

A good skill to have - I do not

Do you know the alphabet without thinking about it or do you have to count it out in your head first? For example, do you know without hesitation that R comes before S?

Google search bar reads 'shackerley marmion'. Result reads 'It looks like there aren't any 'Books' matches on this topic

Huh, this is weird

I have two chapters left to write in this book (both on repetition) & this week I thought about them properly for the first time since the Marlowe Society of America in 2024. And when I say properly I mean, I've had a bit of a think this evening and read half an article.

I think free to use but only with a clubcard

Proofs of title page of edited collection. Text reads: REPRINTS AND REVIVALS OF RENAISSANCE DRAMA. Edited by EOIN PRICE University of Edinburgh. HARRY NEWMAN Royal Holloway, University of London.

First page of introduction.

Behold!

Yeah we actually had a nice chat though I don't hope to have it again soon.

Last week my students asked me about whether Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare. It's the first time I can recall it happening in 12+ years of full time university teaching. People who teach Shakespeare, do you find students sometimes bringing it up?

This is really great news, both because it's a wonderful project and because @oldfortunatus.bsky.social is a brilliant advocate for our subject.

I was really thrilled to see this - fantastic news, congrats!

Foreground - black cockapoo on beach. Background - waves lapping against shore.

Happy new year from Aphra Bear.