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Dr Caroline Taylor
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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
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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’!

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Caroline Taylor at History Showoff February 2023
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‘Montaigne was pleased with playing with his Cat’: Philosophers and Felines

(Journal Articles I Will Never Write, No. 36)
October 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Reposted by Dr Caroline Taylor
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.
September 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM
How your email finds me
Me arriving into September #GBBO
September 3, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Reposted by Dr Caroline Taylor
@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!
August 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Born With Teeth - worth it if only for the line “Beaumont and Fletcher get away with it”

@the-rsc.bsky.social
August 26, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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...
Caroline Taylor at History Showoff February 2023
YouTube video by Science Showoff
m.youtube.com
August 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Reposted by Dr Caroline Taylor
Playing for Leeds since - checks notes - 1629
@jonathanhealey.bsky.social 👀
August 6, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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
August 5, 2025 at 11:20 AM
The duality of being an ECR in seventeenth-century theatre
June 9, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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!
April 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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.
April 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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)
April 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM