Adam B
@adambcqx.bsky.social
Editor, Early Modernist - formerly MA and half a PhD at the Shakespeare Institute, now with Reading Early Plays
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Adam B
@adambcqx.bsky.social
· Apr 30
Mercury and an English Soldier
A Pleasant Dialogue by Barnabe Rich from 1574
mercurysdialogue.wordpress.com
My online modern spelling edition of A Dialogue Between Mercury and an English Soldier (1574) by Barnabe Rich.
- containing a visit to the court of Venus, a translation of Bandello’s Lady of Chabry, and Rich’s wholesale pilfering from multiple military manuals.
mercurysdialogue.wordpress.com
- containing a visit to the court of Venus, a translation of Bandello’s Lady of Chabry, and Rich’s wholesale pilfering from multiple military manuals.
mercurysdialogue.wordpress.com
Meanwhile, in local news …
(Police described the wanted man as “unexpectedly short.”)
(Police described the wanted man as “unexpectedly short.”)
November 10, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Meanwhile, in local news …
(Police described the wanted man as “unexpectedly short.”)
(Police described the wanted man as “unexpectedly short.”)
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Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
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Fortinbras: no words... EXEUNT. FINIS. THE END.
www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo...
And so it ends... Branagh carried off, and in his coffin in the 1996 film; Andrew Scott in a publicity image for the Almeida production in 2017.
www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo...
And so it ends... Branagh carried off, and in his coffin in the 1996 film; Andrew Scott in a publicity image for the Almeida production in 2017.
November 9, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Fortinbras: no words... EXEUNT. FINIS. THE END.
www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo...
And so it ends... Branagh carried off, and in his coffin in the 1996 film; Andrew Scott in a publicity image for the Almeida production in 2017.
www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo...
And so it ends... Branagh carried off, and in his coffin in the 1996 film; Andrew Scott in a publicity image for the Almeida production in 2017.
Louis Jourdan in ‘Count Dracula’ (BBC 1977)
- available to stream in the UK on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social until 8th November
⬆️🔉🔊⬆️
- available to stream in the UK on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social until 8th November
⬆️🔉🔊⬆️
November 6, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Louis Jourdan in ‘Count Dracula’ (BBC 1977)
- available to stream in the UK on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social until 8th November
⬆️🔉🔊⬆️
- available to stream in the UK on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social until 8th November
⬆️🔉🔊⬆️
Our #Playmakers project has reached the stage where I can sit in a café, drumming out pentameters on the table with my fingers & searching the OED for the non-anachronistic mot juste.
#AmWriting
#CunningFlorentines
#VeryFirstDraft
#AmWriting
#CunningFlorentines
#VeryFirstDraft
![1.1. Cunning scratch
Great Venice welcomes you, our honoured guests,
The lions of st marks do roar their x. [praise] [your xx roar] a golden jewel in an azure sea, This xx city now so [filled/runs/flows] with gold That [xxx] we cannot choose but build A [massive] treasury beyond the xx dreams [scrambling] Of Babel's ancient tow'ring engineers To store and safeguard all our xx wealth.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:24k7knxe3drox5waa6rsh3ay/bafkreibjo7cm5aollohtzcqzjkozqqsrijcdg4dc4w3zcnnmursnzo247e@jpeg)
November 5, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Our #Playmakers project has reached the stage where I can sit in a café, drumming out pentameters on the table with my fingers & searching the OED for the non-anachronistic mot juste.
#AmWriting
#CunningFlorentines
#VeryFirstDraft
#AmWriting
#CunningFlorentines
#VeryFirstDraft
Reposted by Adam B
Reposted by Adam B
if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social — who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June — said it all in this.
can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.
can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.
What We Lost When Condé Nast Unceremoniously Shuttered Teen Vogue
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social — who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June — said it all in this.
can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.
can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.
From the documentary Our Mister Shakespeare (1944) - a travelogue of Stratford Upon Avon & the surrounding area, including this and one other scene from #Shakespeare
- unclear who the actors are playing Hamlet & Ophelia. Does anyone recognise them?
- unclear who the actors are playing Hamlet & Ophelia. Does anyone recognise them?
November 4, 2025 at 3:46 PM
From the documentary Our Mister Shakespeare (1944) - a travelogue of Stratford Upon Avon & the surrounding area, including this and one other scene from #Shakespeare
- unclear who the actors are playing Hamlet & Ophelia. Does anyone recognise them?
- unclear who the actors are playing Hamlet & Ophelia. Does anyone recognise them?
The Magisterium’s Musical Exorcism Unit attempting the capture & removal of an irregular rodent daemon from the pipes of what has come to be known as the Cathedral’s Marvelous Mechanical Mouse Organ.
November 4, 2025 at 1:54 PM
The Magisterium’s Musical Exorcism Unit attempting the capture & removal of an irregular rodent daemon from the pipes of what has come to be known as the Cathedral’s Marvelous Mechanical Mouse Organ.
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Stars and Statues Made Human, Olympian Knights, Princes of Virginia!
This Wednesday in REP we read three masques for the Lady Elizabeth’s Wedding in 1613.
- written by Chapman & Beaumont, designs by Inigo Jones, music by Johnson, Coprario & Confesse
No Farthingales May Be Worn
This Wednesday in REP we read three masques for the Lady Elizabeth’s Wedding in 1613.
- written by Chapman & Beaumont, designs by Inigo Jones, music by Johnson, Coprario & Confesse
No Farthingales May Be Worn
November 4, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Stars and Statues Made Human, Olympian Knights, Princes of Virginia!
This Wednesday in REP we read three masques for the Lady Elizabeth’s Wedding in 1613.
- written by Chapman & Beaumont, designs by Inigo Jones, music by Johnson, Coprario & Confesse
No Farthingales May Be Worn
This Wednesday in REP we read three masques for the Lady Elizabeth’s Wedding in 1613.
- written by Chapman & Beaumont, designs by Inigo Jones, music by Johnson, Coprario & Confesse
No Farthingales May Be Worn
[unclear how they came to ingest the poison; perhaps via pigeons that the parents caught & fed to them.]
www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/2559223...
www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/2559223...
Peregrine falcon chicks 'poisoned' as post-mortem results revealed
The peregrine falcon chicks were a popular sight at Worcester Cathedral, followed by many on the YouTube livestream
www.worcesternews.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 8:27 AM
[unclear how they came to ingest the poison; perhaps via pigeons that the parents caught & fed to them.]
www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/2559223...
www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/2559223...
Bottom of the ninth it is then ….
November 2, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Bottom of the ninth it is then ….
- arrived in the post today, Tower of London (1938) with Basil Rathbone as Richard III; having recently streamed the 1962 remake where Vincent Price was the King (in the earlier version he’d played the Duke of Clarence); Olivier’s Shakespearean Richard III was filmed in 1955.
November 1, 2025 at 9:47 PM
- arrived in the post today, Tower of London (1938) with Basil Rathbone as Richard III; having recently streamed the 1962 remake where Vincent Price was the King (in the earlier version he’d played the Duke of Clarence); Olivier’s Shakespearean Richard III was filmed in 1955.
- from Worcester’s Bridge of Lights festival last night
October 31, 2025 at 10:15 AM
- from Worcester’s Bridge of Lights festival last night
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“Had I plantation of this isle, my lord … And were the king on’t, what would I do?”
- Tonight in REP we will have an AGM at 7pm, followed by a reading of The Tempest to mark its 1612/13 revival by The Kings’ Men.
- Tonight in REP we will have an AGM at 7pm, followed by a reading of The Tempest to mark its 1612/13 revival by The Kings’ Men.
October 29, 2025 at 11:12 AM
“Had I plantation of this isle, my lord … And were the king on’t, what would I do?”
- Tonight in REP we will have an AGM at 7pm, followed by a reading of The Tempest to mark its 1612/13 revival by The Kings’ Men.
- Tonight in REP we will have an AGM at 7pm, followed by a reading of The Tempest to mark its 1612/13 revival by The Kings’ Men.
Youth in European dress. Iran, 18th century or later, @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Youth in European dress. Iran, 18th century or later, @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social
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Tonight we read The Maid's Tragedy by Beaumont and Fletcher (marking its revival by The King’s Men in 1612/13)
- no difficulties finding a text, as we will be reading from group leader Martin Wiggins’ own edition of the play.
- no difficulties finding a text, as we will be reading from group leader Martin Wiggins’ own edition of the play.
October 22, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Tonight we read The Maid's Tragedy by Beaumont and Fletcher (marking its revival by The King’s Men in 1612/13)
- no difficulties finding a text, as we will be reading from group leader Martin Wiggins’ own edition of the play.
- no difficulties finding a text, as we will be reading from group leader Martin Wiggins’ own edition of the play.
Just voted in @nationaltrust.org.uk AGM
October 20, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Just voted in @nationaltrust.org.uk AGM
Dante descends into the seventh circle of Hell …
![[Still from Thunderbirds: Scott Tracy, wearing a fireproof suit, talking to his brother Virgil via radio]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:24k7knxe3drox5waa6rsh3ay/bafkreid6x5ufjaav2pirjhjoybvzwslcsnr2pwrhxftwf77lmkumhj7rhy@jpeg)
October 19, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Dante descends into the seventh circle of Hell …
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Somewhere a scholar of Early Modern drama is mourning the lost income of no longer being paid to “help” Boris with his Shakespeare book.
October 16, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Somewhere a scholar of Early Modern drama is mourning the lost income of no longer being paid to “help” Boris with his Shakespeare book.
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We hope Princess Elizabeth & Frederick V turned up on time for the King’s Men 1613 revival of Othello, performed in celebration of their wedding (we know; not a great wedding play!)
If they wanted to attend REP’s reading of the play they’d need to be there at 7pm not 7.30 (it’s a long play).
If they wanted to attend REP’s reading of the play they’d need to be there at 7pm not 7.30 (it’s a long play).
October 15, 2025 at 7:33 AM
We hope Princess Elizabeth & Frederick V turned up on time for the King’s Men 1613 revival of Othello, performed in celebration of their wedding (we know; not a great wedding play!)
If they wanted to attend REP’s reading of the play they’d need to be there at 7pm not 7.30 (it’s a long play).
If they wanted to attend REP’s reading of the play they’d need to be there at 7pm not 7.30 (it’s a long play).
For every character providing exposition at the beginning of the play (an ‘Expo Lord’) there must be another requesting such exposition (‘Expo Req Lord’?) and here, in Beggars’ Bush, is a fantastically open (“tell me everything that’s happened in the last five years”) example.
October 14, 2025 at 11:00 AM
For every character providing exposition at the beginning of the play (an ‘Expo Lord’) there must be another requesting such exposition (‘Expo Req Lord’?) and here, in Beggars’ Bush, is a fantastically open (“tell me everything that’s happened in the last five years”) example.