A rift that took 500 years to repair: King Charles prays with the pope
Joint prayer in Sistine Chapel is symbolic act of rapprochement between Catholic church and Church of England after centuries of division
๐๐ต๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐๐ผ๐ฝ๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐น๐ผ๐๐ฒ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐ฝ๐ผ๐ป๐ฑ๐ ๐๐ผ ๐ก๐ฒ๐๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ฎ๐
โWhy should a king be subject to a priest? / Proud Rome, that hatchest such imperial grooms . . . .โ (๐๐ฅ๐ธ๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ ๐๐)
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For those new to #Shakespeare's contemporary Christopher #Marlowe, his #queer Edward, and its significance both for drama and the history of sexuality and performance, a paragraph from the preface and the introduction --
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Edward II
Critically, theatrically, and politically, the time is ripe for a new edition of Christopher Marlowe's Edward II. Critically, the play has come to be, in the paโฆ
I'm moving over from the X box. Meanwhile my edition of #Marlowe's Edward II @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
is available for pre-order. With ample critical, performance, & textual intro, annotations, plus 22 illus of C20-21 performance, early texts & readers. www.bloomsbury.com/us/edward-ii...
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Still the theater & words Prof. at MIT who now will be trying to reconnect w/ friends who left the other placesโฆ.
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Creator of the Universe.
Writer, journalist, filmmaker, professor. Pro-democracy advocate: Not capitulating. Author of Lee Harvey Oswald book, The Gunman & His Mother. Writing/publishing America, America on politics and society: America.substack.com
Dragonboater, paddleboarder, Dartmoor walker, Aare-swimmer. Also editing Titus Andronicus and interested in all things Shakespeare, performance, theatre broadcasting, post-COVID-19 creative industries. Never able to see enough shows or read enough books.
Geoffrey Chaucer (Le Vostre GC): Servaunt of the Kynge. Blogger. Wryter of verse. Wearer of litel woolen hatte. Deputy Forestere of North Petherton. He/hym/hys.
my jams are poetry, drama, music, media studies, trans studies, and performance studies
Instructor II at the University of Manitoba. I work on premodern race studies and early modern drama, critical pedagogy studies, and Black and Indigenous literature written in Canada
Weโre the national library of the UK.
early modernist, mostly
https://laurakolb.com/
Associate Professor of English at Central College. Teacher, researcher, conference-goer. Lover of Shakespeare, gardening, and home-grown tomatoes. Views my own and not my employer's. She/her.
Keeping his circuit by the slicing edge.
Spread the Weltschmerz! Buffalo / The Shapes of Fancy (https://manifold.umn.edu/projects/the-shapes-of-fancy)
Early modern literature professor, sometime editor, sometime biographer
Peer-reviewed quarterly journal, publishing articles at the cutting edge of early modern performance studies. Posts by Dr. Peter Kirwan and Katy Shinas.
The only journal devoted solely to the interdisciplinary and global study of women and gender spanning the late medieval through early modern periods. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/emw/current
Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at the University of York. Book: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/reading-the-margins-of-the-early-modern-bible-9780197267677?cc=gb&lang=en&
The 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, in order, little by little, over and over.
A Journal Associated with the Records of English Drama
earlytheatre.org
Editor, Early Theatre
Professor, English & Cultural Studies/Gender & Social Justice, McMaster University