Ian Burrows

Always hard to choose between supermarkets but I think Tesco not charging you to use the defibrillator puts it ahead of its competitors for me #everylittlehelps

If you can't come to the lectures then don't worry, you can always buy a copy of the book and act bits out yourself! Do let me know how you get on. amzn.eu/d/7GBbI8I

Praise for Burrows on slapstick and sympathy:
'A load of insincere, simpering nonsense' (Guardian comment)
'For a lecturer at Cambridge your entire article was stupid' (A man who found me on Facebook)
'you did this because you thought it would make you look kind and caring.' (Guardian comment)

(3/3) So Meg and I are going to wonder whether the division between dramatic space and 'the real world' is quite so simple as the grumps would have it, and we'll wonder too how it's helpful for the lecture theatre to be thought of as a dramatic space. All welcome!

Warning my students about a lecture on assault does not make them snowflakes | Ian Burrows The ‘Shakespeare for snowflakes at Cambridge University’ story was depressingly inaccurate, writes teaching associate Ian Burrows

(2/3) These lectures originally made a lot of people grumpy about the idea of warnings, leading to this article: www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/oct/31/shakespeare-trigger-warning-students-snowflakes-cambridge-university-sexual-abuse-victims

(1/3) For those in/near Cambridge: Weds and Thurs evening I'm working with the performer Meg Lewis to examine slapstick and sympathy in theatres and lecture theatres. Details here: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/47965/

The cover of a book. Title reads TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE. The illustration shows black embroidery of flowers, fruit, animals and insects on a stained cream ground.

Today is the OFFICIAL publication day for TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE! Please indulge me: I want to say a little (perhaps rather a lot) about it and share my acknowledgements - and a discount code! Appropriately,🧵1/10

Masterclass and Roundtable: Performing disturbance - CRASSH Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

All are welcome at our launch event on the 24th October, when the soprano Isabella Theodosius will be variously inviting us into and ejecting us out of her world: from 5.30pm in the Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio, 9 West Road. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/47962/

We'll be working with practitioners experienced in all kinds of dramatic spaces - theatres & lecture theatres, classrooms & clinics & counselling rooms - using the dramaturgies of disturbance to better apprehend, understand and empathise the out-of-kilter experiences of one another.

Have *you* been affected by drama - on stage, in the street, in your day to day *life*?? Then check out this new @crasshlive.bsky.social research network steered by me, @femimind.bsky.social, Cassie Lowe and Rosalind Parker: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/research/networks/affective-encounters/

YouTube video by Faculty of English, University of Oxford English Faculty Shakespeare Webinar with Emma Smith: The Comedy of Errors

You watched Sun, Sea and Selling Houses instead. Fine. I'm not angry, but I guess you probably haven't been sleeping. 'It sounds like it was great'. It was. 'What did I miss, & c'. Loads. Well you're lucky, because the lovely chaps at @engfac.bsky.social put it on catch-up: youtu.be/l5OTG2OL2Hc?...

(Also thankyou very much @drsheeha.bsky.social and Amber for tuning in!)

This reminds me of an important Shakespeare x cats question that I want to put to the academic community at large: is 'Tibbles' a corruption of Tybalt (i.e. Prince of Cats)?

We're going up against Sun, Sea and Selling Houses on Channel 4 this Monday at 6pm, but @oldfortunatus.bsky.social and I have Shakespeare in our [online] corner (and - spoiler alert - The Comedy of Errors features both sea *and* houses). Do come and join us if you're free!

Katrin, Lady Hygiene Bag, the lesser known - and in my opinion far superior - counterpart to Alfred Lord Tennyson

I couldn't manage 8 in one go, mind

Shakespeare Volume 21, Issue 2 of Shakespeare

Hey #earlymodern folks! Latest issue of *Shakespeare* just out, with a special section on 'Health and Wellbeing' guest-edited by Joan Fitzpatrick. www.tandfonline.com/toc/rshk20/2...

I do not feed the pigeons/I do not feed the sparrows, too/It gives me a sense of enormous compliance

#authoritarianbritpop

Featuring - among just the most recent additions - @bkadams.bsky.social's Julius Caesar intro, @laurajaynewright.bsky.social's Henry VIII, @bachrach.bsky.social's Richard II, @kimgilchrist.bsky.social's Cymbeline, and @harrymccarthy.bsky.social's Titus!

see (and buy?) the whole spiffy series here! www.global.oup.com/academic/search?q=New+Oxford+shakespeare&cc=gb&lang=en
All overseen with brilliance, nous, sensitivity, gallantry, intrepidness and derring-do by General Editor @oldfortunatus.bsky.social

was recently reunited with my long-lost twin brother, also called Ian - and although he's too humble to post about it I'm so enormously proud to see his (my!) name on the title page of this spiffy new Oxford World's Classics edition of The Comedy of Errors.

Love this installation piece, called simply 'Stairs' #cityofculture

1/2 Romance plays are all about strange coincidences. As I was leaving yesterday to see the Globe’s wonderful new Cymbeline my copies of the new OWC edition (for which I wrote the intro) arrived at the door. I sneaked into the SWP and grabbed a pit pic after the show…

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It’s the UK publication day for the New Oxford Shakespeare Titus Andronicus, featuring my critical introduction on theatrical innovation, rape, race, politics, and how the play has always forced audiences to confront their relationship with Shakespeare. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Thrilled: camped out for two weeks to get this shot and a sure sign Spring is on its way. Two wild bread delivery lorries facing off over territory, 10.2.25. #nature #springwatch

Jesus Christ what happened here

Note to self: design lucrative app for matching mystery keys with locations of untold bounty. (Nb. Remember to copyright 'Treasure mApp'.) (Nb. Do NOT put this on social media until copyrighted!!!)

Somebody had to unjam and unclog the washing machine filter today and it turns out this key was the problem. Is there an app that tells me what this key unlocks? Please advise.

Along with…. @bkadams.bsky.social Julius Caesar, @laurajaynewright.bsky.social Henry VIII, @bachrach.bsky.social Richard II, @irburrows.bsky.social Comedy of Errors and @kimgilchrist.bsky.social Cymbeline
Whoop!

[wind horns]

The Oxford World's Classics Titus Andronicus, feat. my new introduction, is now a month out from publication (just in time for Valentine's Day!) and available to pre-order here: pages.oup.com/trade/collec...