@elrjournal.bsky.social
Tri-quarterly journal publishing scholarly articles and textual studies on matters English, Literary, and Renaissance (broadly construed, 1500-1700). Current issue: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/elr/current
Although #earlymodern ads are never boring, I must admit I am glad my 1,162 ad transcribing marathon it over! 🤓🍾 💃
The last was this beautifully illustrated Mineral Water ad from Daily Post, June 6, 1730.
A few weeks ago, I received news that Shakespeare Unlearned made the shortlist for the RSA book award - a needed ray of light - and also received news that I had not won. I tried to feel bad about that but couldn't. Click through to see the winners and, as I like to think of us, the short winners.
A reminder for REP members: tonight’s reading of The Devil Is An Ass begins at the earlier time of 7pm (because Ben Jonson).
Helena: I can't help it! *runs after Demetrius* Oberon: I will HELP her! #MoonMad #SlowShakespeare
www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo...
Oberon (Jo Stone-Fewings) in the 2011 @the-rsc.bsky.social Dream, dir. Nancy Meckler. He's on Helena's side.
👀 Over the last few months, I’ve been working with the terrific triumvirate @spparkle.bsky.social, @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social & Hannah Yip to set up “Sonance: A Journal of Early Modern Sound Studies”, a diamond open access journal dedicated to historic sounds in all their wondrous & eclectic forms.
For those who have missed it and are interested, my talk is now available online.
On Monday, at 1 PM, we welcome Casey Schmitt to our Ships & Seafaring Talk, where she will present her book "The Predatory Sea", a full-length study of the entangled history of captivity and colonialism using Spanish, French and English archives. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ships-seaf...
Years ago I found a note in the parish register of Glenfield in Leicestershire which instantly became one of my favourite Civil War commentaries:
'Churchwardens, not any; because
distractions many; & distructions mightie'.
I've returned to that document, explored other pages nearby, and found...
#earlymodern
🎉📖 Greetings, Bluesky!
Our latest edition (28.2) is now live!
This issue is fully open access and free to read via Project MUSE’s Subscribe to Open Access initiative.
Start exploring here: muse.jhu.edu/journal/687
Follow us in the next few days to learn more about what's inside!
#EarlyTheatre
📝Reviewed in PBSA: Michelle O’Callaghan's book, Crafting Poetry Anthologies in Renaissance England: Early Modern Cultures of Recreation 📖
Read Daniel Traister's full review in the December 2025 issue of PBSA. Link in Bio 🔗
🔎 DOI: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/738703
@londonreviewbookshop.co.uk I am in you and it is the coolest thing🥰
www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/textil...
I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Are you – Nobody – too?
Then there’s a pair of us!
Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know!
How dreary – to be – Somebody!
How public – like a Frog –
To tell one’s name – the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog!
Have I just stumbled upon my new FAVOURITE PRINTER'S MARK? #chicken #singingchicken?
Another from the vault: @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social chat with Sara Petrosillo about Hawking #Women: #Falconry, #Gender, and Control in #Medieval Literary Culture @ohiostatepress.bsky.social #skystorians #medievalist
newbooksnetwork.com/hawking-women
Me: I don’t allow AI in my classroom, but I do let them bring their tablets.
The Tablet:
(Late antique wooden board inscribed in ink with lines 468-473 from Book I of Homer's Iliad now at the BM)
Heads up #bookhistory people! This looks incredible!
Is it a book or is it a box? Should we, could we, would we know?
"Splendid & Lovely" If ELR had pet cats these would be their names. New issue out now...
'Beyond the book: recycling print in early modern England' is out in splendid & lovely English Literary Renaissance.
50 free downloads, warm & ready to go, at www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/Q2MMD...
(pcis: Bodleian coffret lined w. Horace & Virgil; damasked pages in Worcester College deed box)
Next month we are hosting a two-day conference about ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ and ‘The Winter’s Tale’, the two texts we recently published in variorum format on our website.
What a great group of speakers we’ll be hearing from!
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Tickling Shylock, the Laughing Animal
MAGGIE VINTER
381
“Make you merry”: Forced Laughter and Other Epilogic
Failures in Henry IV, Part 2
BEATRICE BRADLEY
401
index
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SPECIAL ISSUE: COMIC EPISTEMOLOGIES
Guest Editors: Laura Kolb and Jessica Rosenberg
contents
Editorial Notices
iii
Introduction: Comic Epistemologies
LAURA KOLB AND JESSICA ROSENBERG
291
Making up People in Measure for Measure
BENEDICT S. ROBINSON
305
Tricks and the (Tragi)comic Art of Survival
EMILY SHORTSLEF
324
The Witty Episteme: Suspicion, Misogyny, and Knowingness
in Jonson’s Epicoene
HANNAH BREDAR
341
How to Know the Witch: Trivial Domestication, Tragicomedy,
and Race in The Witch of Edmonton
YUNAH KAE
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We have been remiss, absent, and not here, but, for your belated consideration: Our last issue of 2025 was a special issue guest edited by @laurakolb.bsky.social and Jessica Rosenberg entitled "Comic Epistemologies." Go read! (And see TOC in next posts). www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/elr/curr...
I'm looking for a paper or two to round out a panel on Time and Money ( #earlymodern economic cultures) for @rsaorg.bsky.social's 2026 conference in S.F: papers exploring the values, meanings, understandings of eco. exchange. Send me your proposal asap!
See: www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe... for details.
CONFERENCE: Medieval & Early Modern Students Association (MEMSA) Conference 2025
#earlymodern #earlymodernevents #medieval
#durhamcastle #natureinfocus
memorients.com/events/confe...
This is tomorrow! Join us at Guildhall Library and Archive to hear Lydia discussing the amazing new research she's doing on identity in Civic Performance!
We are very excited to share the CFP for the Margaret Cavendish Society Conference which will be held at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada, 17-19 June 2026!
We’ve acquired a remarkable group of rare medieval manuscripts that reveal new insights into life in Britain & Ireland during the Middle Ages – from religious dialogue to daily urban life.
Items include…