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Dr Caroline Taylor

@cazzert.bsky.social

📚🎭 17th Century Theatre Oxford University Professional Yorkshireman “The more I learnt the more I learnt to doubt” https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/people/caroline-taylor

67 Followers  |  130 Following  |  17 Posts  |  Joined: 21.02.2025  |  1.7069

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‘Montaigne was pleased with playing with his Cat’: Philosophers and Felines

(Journal Articles I Will Never Write, No. 36)

13.10.2025 15:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Fascinated that In Our Time is one of the BBC’s most popular podcasts among under 35s. The young people demand three academics and a peer discussing Demosthenes, apparently. And they’re right to do so.

03.09.2025 14:37 — 👍 867    🔁 170    💬 19    📌 28

How your email finds me

03.09.2025 12:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@emjlynajsh.bsky.social and I are delighted to be running this conference on EM practical texts, generously supported by @themhra.bsky.social, and with fabulous keynotes by @endeeekay.bsky.social and Laurence Publicover. Abstracts due by 24th November!

26.08.2025 14:06 — 👍 10    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0

Born With Teeth - worth it if only for the line “Beaumont and Fletcher get away with it”

@the-rsc.bsky.social

26.08.2025 10:02 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
Caroline Taylor at History Showoff February 2023
YouTube video by Science Showoff Caroline Taylor at History Showoff February 2023

Throwback to History Showoffs at @southwarkcathedral.bsky.social! Thanks so much again to @scienceshowoff.bsky.social for letting me blab on about 17th-century Lockdowns and the appearance of Matt Hancock in Ben Jonson’s ‘The Alchemist’!

m.youtube.com/watch?v=zdv1...

22.08.2025 11:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Playing for Leeds since - checks notes - 1629
@jonathanhealey.bsky.social 👀

06.08.2025 10:41 — 👍 19    🔁 2    💬 3    📌 0

Thank you!

05.08.2025 19:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you!

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Thank you!

05.08.2025 15:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you!!

05.08.2025 15:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you!

05.08.2025 15:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you Helen!

05.08.2025 15:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you, Rachel!

05.08.2025 15:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Now that the paperwork is through, I'm delighted to reintroduce myself as Dr Caroline Taylor! Thank you so much to my examiners - Prof Gill Woods and @racheljwillie.bsky.social - and my wonderful supervisors - @oldfortunatus.bsky.social and @davidftaylor.bsky.social - for all their support!

#PhDone

05.08.2025 11:20 — 👍 34    🔁 1    💬 6    📌 1
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The duality of being an ECR in seventeenth-century theatre

09.06.2025 15:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

There are some English words which I had no recourse to use before starting my DPhil on plague and theatre that I now only know how to spell in the early modern way. Is it ‘putrefy’, ‘putrify’, or ‘putryfye’. They all look right to me!

15.04.2025 16:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Very much looking forward to seeing this! Although I’m not sure that suggesting that a man who wrote 126 sonnets to another man was in fact attracted to men quite counts as a “queer reimagining” of his life (as it was described in Tatler today). It’s probably just historically accurate.

11.04.2025 14:08 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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10.04.2025 09:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The couple sat on the same row as me in the library keep leaning over their desks to kiss each other’s necks. I just had a heart attack when Word crashed and I couldn’t save the edits I’ve made to my thesis.

We are not having the same library experience.

(Word has sorted itself out. I have not)

09.04.2025 14:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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