Scott Trudell

at the Museo de Antropologia in Mexico City - extraordinary

It’s here! “Now I will do nothing but listen / To accrue what I hear into this song, to let sounds contribute toward it.”

Woman holding a jester's staff that wears a multicolored hat with bells and white clown makeup.

Finally making the move to Bluesky! Stay tuned for more adventures in the archives and hot takes on Renaissance drama. 🔥🔥🔥 Here's a throwback to my visit to the prop stores of Shakespeare's Globe.

sometimes Bob Dylan really nails late capitalism: “Yeah, I was eating with the pigs off a fancy tray
I was told I was looking good and to have a nice day
It all seemed so proper, it all seemed so elite
Eating that absolute garbage while being so discreet”

Looking forward to #Shax2026 in Denver!

In Fez — twenty-five years after my first journey here

Another beautiful sentence in Aurora Mattia’s _The Fifth Wound_

“I never w[o]uld have gues[sed] that you work at the University of Maryland” — achievement unlocked

Maybe there’s cause for hope that the imperialists then and now can’t navigate the waters and worlds of the upper Midwest.

As a Minnesotan—Boundary Waters trip when I was 10 was a threshold experience—I identify with the material specificity of the canoe (and of portaging in particular)

YouTube video by Peterhouse Choir Never weather-beaten sail (Trilo), Simon Jackson

I want to share this absolutely beautiful song, written by my brilliant colleague @sjjackson32.bsky.social, and performed by @Peterhousecam.bsky.social choir, which featured today on BBC Radio 3 with former master Bridget Kendall. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kll...

Good morning Boston! If I were still in DC, it would be spring. #shax225

I've updated the Printing in Prisons website! There's 2 new prison publications in the library, & I've interwoven short videos from my collaborator Roberto Gonzalez. Roberto responds to the historical archive drawing on his own experience of incarceration in Pennsylvania.

printinginprisons.org

“It seems that it’s a philosopher’s job to say every word three times, its opposite twice and then the original word again, italicised.” (Patricia Lockwood, That Shape Am I, LRB)

Excited to see this in proofs! It's for a collection called 'Literature as Sound Studies' edited by the fabulous yasser elhariry and Liesl Yamaguchi. In it I declare my love for Thomas Dekker and his "wild propagation of laughing, hissing, thundering 'scurvynoise.'"

A fascinating detail in my 1607 Graduale Romanum, printed in Antwerp: a correction pinned directly onto the sheet music with a brass pin! A 17th-century "Typo-fix" to adapt the liturgical chant to correct a printing error.

I 😍 these details!

#BookHistory #RareBooks #MusicHistory

right? who knew.

Yeah. I remember wanting to focus on English (instead of philosophy or musicology) because it felt cool. In the late 90s. Sadly it did not help me become cool.

I love the scruffiness!

“professor” tends to mean “teacher” outside the academy (and not writer/author/researcher), so academics might reach for the other terms. and/or cede the other meanings of “professor.”

scholars gonna imagine performance how they fancy it. I got interested in CC doubling because I wanted to believe that the actor playing Cupid in Lyly's Galatea could have doubled as Peter. Both are impish whipping boys in what I'm thinking about as 'pederastic racialization' in child roles..

ha I mean "unlikely that Keysar's figure is too low" -- as in, 18-20 might be an upper limit. Anything to do with doubling is guesswork!

very likely! in which case they'd be deflating the figure -- and therefore it's unlikely that Keysar's figure is too high. And although I haven't done the numbers, I think you'd probably need a minimum of 18-20 actors to do a lot of CC plays _with_ doubling...

"these def[endents] haue heard it credibly reported & doe verely beleeue it to be true that those Actors w[hich] he the said Comp[lainant] had & kept allthough none such eyther of qualety or nomber" (2/2)

Yes, I read through the lawsuit after I reread the relevant section of Lucy's CQR book. Keysar's number is presumably on the high side because it speaks to damages -- which is why Burbage and Condell are at pains to deny it (1/2).

Thanks Lucy!

thanks Harry!

@harrymccarthy.bsky.social @lucycmunro.bsky.social

Anyone know what we know (if anything) about doubling practices in the EM children's companies? The work I know on doubling tends to be focused on the adult playing companies...

reminds me of this Buontalenti sketch of masque dancers -- with different politics, I guess! elizabethancostume.net/masque/image...