Chris Crosbie
@crosbie1564.bsky.social
Associate professor at NC State. Writing about Shakespeare & ethics (http://bit.ly/3E9UnZj). Some chess & hiking here. Revenge Tragedy & Classical Philosophy (EUP): http://bit.ly/2rjkbAc
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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
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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
Today’s updates: 1. The RSC’s “I, Cinna (The Poet)” under Julius Caesar. This inaugurates the new “Retellings” feature I hope to expand. 2. A link to a feedback form at the bottom of every page.
For anyone teaching Shakespeare this semester: Here’s the hub of Shakespearean performances & other videos I’ve been developing over the last couple of years for teaching. Feel free to use & share it widely! sites.google.com/ncsu.edu/the...
The Shakespeare Media Archive
sites.google.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Today’s updates: 1. The RSC’s “I, Cinna (The Poet)” under Julius Caesar. This inaugurates the new “Retellings” feature I hope to expand. 2. A link to a feedback form at the bottom of every page.
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Somewhat astonishingly, here it is, a book, a thing in the world... More, including acknowledgements, soon❤️
October 31, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Somewhat astonishingly, here it is, a book, a thing in the world... More, including acknowledgements, soon❤️
The full video of Julie Taymor’s adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is available via PBS: www.pbs.org/video/a-mids...
ALL ARTS Performance Selects | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Season 2022
From award-winning director Julie Taymor comes a Shakespeare adaptation like none other.
www.pbs.org
October 31, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The full video of Julie Taymor’s adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is available via PBS: www.pbs.org/video/a-mids...
It’s Monday morning, so I don’t feel entirely terrible I had to use Google Books to see what I argued about something years ago….
October 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
It’s Monday morning, so I don’t feel entirely terrible I had to use Google Books to see what I argued about something years ago….
For the #ShakespeareSunday crowd…
New updates: Richard II (costuming), Sonnets (Alan Rickman reading 130), Lear (Olivier), and others.
For anyone teaching Shakespeare this semester: Here’s the hub of Shakespearean performances & other videos I’ve been developing over the last couple of years for teaching. Feel free to use & share it widely! sites.google.com/ncsu.edu/the...
October 26, 2025 at 8:07 PM
For the #ShakespeareSunday crowd…
New updates: Richard II (costuming), Sonnets (Alan Rickman reading 130), Lear (Olivier), and others.
For anyone teaching Shakespeare this semester: Here’s the hub of Shakespearean performances & other videos I’ve been developing over the last couple of years for teaching. Feel free to use & share it widely! sites.google.com/ncsu.edu/the...
The Shakespeare Media Archive
sites.google.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
New updates: Richard II (costuming), Sonnets (Alan Rickman reading 130), Lear (Olivier), and others.
Hands down one of the funniest & most effective uses of intonation to breathe new life into a line. (Ben Whishaw as Richard II in The Hollow Crown, 2012)
October 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Hands down one of the funniest & most effective uses of intonation to breathe new life into a line. (Ben Whishaw as Richard II in The Hollow Crown, 2012)
Tonight! Hope to see you there, #Raleigh folks!
Happy to share I’ll be speaking on Shakespeare & communitarian ethics at Wolfe & Porter bar in #Raleigh. October 13, 7-9pm. Hope any #Durham folks here can make it as well! Event info here: www.lecturelounge.org/events/shake... #Shakespeare
Shakespeare and Communitarian Ethics | Lecture Lounge | Learn. Mingle. Grow.
Dr. Christopher Crosbie discusses how Shakespearean drama helps us consider the ethics of forming communities and the relationship of communities to social toleration.
www.lecturelounge.org
October 13, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Tonight! Hope to see you there, #Raleigh folks!
Continue preparing this talk or now just watch The Hollow Crown for the rest of the day?
October 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Continue preparing this talk or now just watch The Hollow Crown for the rest of the day?
Tried creating an infographic of John Rawls’ “veil of ignorance” for this talk. It’s troubling just how terrible A.I. is at visually representing “poverty.”
Happy to share I’ll be speaking on Shakespeare & communitarian ethics at Wolfe & Porter bar in #Raleigh. October 13, 7-9pm. Hope any #Durham folks here can make it as well! Event info here: www.lecturelounge.org/events/shake... #Shakespeare
Shakespeare and Communitarian Ethics | Lecture Lounge | Learn. Mingle. Grow.
Dr. Christopher Crosbie discusses how Shakespearean drama helps us consider the ethics of forming communities and the relationship of communities to social toleration.
www.lecturelounge.org
October 6, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Tried creating an infographic of John Rawls’ “veil of ignorance” for this talk. It’s troubling just how terrible A.I. is at visually representing “poverty.”
@page158books.bsky.social Hi Sue & Dave! Please feel free to share with your amazing network of fellow book-loving folks, if interested!
Happy to share I’ll be speaking on Shakespeare & communitarian ethics at Wolfe & Porter bar in #Raleigh. October 13, 7-9pm. Hope any #Durham folks here can make it as well! Event info here: www.lecturelounge.org/events/shake... #Shakespeare
Shakespeare and Communitarian Ethics | Lecture Lounge | Learn. Mingle. Grow.
Dr. Christopher Crosbie discusses how Shakespearean drama helps us consider the ethics of forming communities and the relationship of communities to social toleration.
www.lecturelounge.org
October 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
@page158books.bsky.social Hi Sue & Dave! Please feel free to share with your amazing network of fellow book-loving folks, if interested!
Happy to share I’ll be speaking on Shakespeare & communitarian ethics at Wolfe & Porter bar in #Raleigh. October 13, 7-9pm. Hope any #Durham folks here can make it as well! Event info here: www.lecturelounge.org/events/shake... #Shakespeare
Shakespeare and Communitarian Ethics | Lecture Lounge | Learn. Mingle. Grow.
Dr. Christopher Crosbie discusses how Shakespearean drama helps us consider the ethics of forming communities and the relationship of communities to social toleration.
www.lecturelounge.org
October 2, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Happy to share I’ll be speaking on Shakespeare & communitarian ethics at Wolfe & Porter bar in #Raleigh. October 13, 7-9pm. Hope any #Durham folks here can make it as well! Event info here: www.lecturelounge.org/events/shake... #Shakespeare
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For anyone teaching Shakespeare this semester: Here’s the hub of Shakespearean performances & other videos I’ve been developing over the last couple of years for teaching. Feel free to use & share it widely! sites.google.com/ncsu.edu/the...
The Shakespeare Media Archive
sites.google.com
August 19, 2025 at 12:47 PM
For anyone teaching Shakespeare this semester: Here’s the hub of Shakespearean performances & other videos I’ve been developing over the last couple of years for teaching. Feel free to use & share it widely! sites.google.com/ncsu.edu/the...
The case study in captioning I went with: This butchered version of an interview with Paul Robeson about Othello.
September 29, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The case study in captioning I went with: This butchered version of an interview with Paul Robeson about Othello.
The problem this talk aims to solve: Captioning videos that you don’t host yourself. So crucial for accessibility when using the wealth of Shakespearean material out there.
September 23, 2025 at 1:18 PM
The problem this talk aims to solve: Captioning videos that you don’t host yourself. So crucial for accessibility when using the wealth of Shakespearean material out there.
Continuing my work on communal ethics today. Subtitle of the week: “The Habit of Humility…Fetched out of the Wardrobe of Saint Paul!”
September 22, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Continuing my work on communal ethics today. Subtitle of the week: “The Habit of Humility…Fetched out of the Wardrobe of Saint Paul!”
Working on a talk on captioning Shakespeare to improve accessibility. Grateful to NCSU’s Delta Faculty Fellows program for providing the support to pursue this!
September 22, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Working on a talk on captioning Shakespeare to improve accessibility. Grateful to NCSU’s Delta Faculty Fellows program for providing the support to pursue this!
For anyone teaching Shakespeare this semester: Here’s the hub of Shakespearean performances & other videos I’ve been developing over the last couple of years for teaching. Feel free to use & share it widely! sites.google.com/ncsu.edu/the...
The Shakespeare Media Archive
sites.google.com
August 19, 2025 at 12:47 PM
For anyone teaching Shakespeare this semester: Here’s the hub of Shakespearean performances & other videos I’ve been developing over the last couple of years for teaching. Feel free to use & share it widely! sites.google.com/ncsu.edu/the...
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For those of you going to Denver’s SAA, please consider joining @roaringgirle.bsky.social and me to talk about the importance of public libraries, Shakespeare, and other early modern literature. There’s so much to consider in our current political climate:
![[ SEMINAR • SAA 2026 ]
SHAKESPEARE & PUBLIC LIBRARIES
This seminar examines the role of public libraries (local, national and international) in the preservation, dissemination, and study of the books and other media that transmit works by Shakespeare and other early modern writers. The recent identification of two books once owned by John Milton—a Shakespeare First Folio and a copy of Holinshed's Chronicles-at two American public libraries (The Free Library of Philadelphia and the Phoenix Public Library, respectively) and the presence of another of Milton's books (a sammelband of early Italian editions) at a third (The New York Public Library) invites us to acknowledge and rethink an implicit bias towards well-funded elite libraries and collections as privileged sites of textual and historical research. How might our knowledge of early modern textual history and the history of early modern books in the longue durée change with greater consideration of public collections? What do (and could) scholarly partnerships with public libraries look like-and what can they achieve in terms of bolstering the value of humanistic inquiry? How might the histories of (and transmitted by) the early modern books in these collections, which we are uniquely positioned to tell, relate to the specific local communities that they serve? In this way, the seminar is also interested in the ways that public libraries feature Shakespeare in the promotion of their circulating collections, educational programming, and public events, as many U.S. public libraries did during the quatercentenaries of Shakespeare's death in 2016 and of the publication of the first folio in 2023. While the idea for this seminar emerges from our experiences working in American public libraries, we would welcome contributions from scholars and librarians considering the role of public libraries in Shakespeare and early modern studies in various different regional and national traditions.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:oh4p26m2rd2cibjqvf2bse54/bafkreiaazajgst3ydy73ehvnbbxmvzrbbw3edutrkg6kgamublvov3ig5m@jpeg)
August 11, 2025 at 2:42 AM
For those of you going to Denver’s SAA, please consider joining @roaringgirle.bsky.social and me to talk about the importance of public libraries, Shakespeare, and other early modern literature. There’s so much to consider in our current political climate:
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Just did some prep work with Anita for this today. Do come join us! We hope for a friendly, robust conversation in Denver this spring.
Going to #Shax2026? Come chat about ethics & the early modern theater with Anita Sherman and me!
August 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Just did some prep work with Anita for this today. Do come join us! We hope for a friendly, robust conversation in Denver this spring.
Just did some prep work with Anita for this today. Do come join us! We hope for a friendly, robust conversation in Denver this spring.
Going to #Shax2026? Come chat about ethics & the early modern theater with Anita Sherman and me!
August 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Just did some prep work with Anita for this today. Do come join us! We hope for a friendly, robust conversation in Denver this spring.
It’s been brought to my attention that I’ve been enjoying Jeffrey Knapp’s *Shakespeare’s Tribe* too much. I regret the error.
July 29, 2025 at 7:53 PM
It’s been brought to my attention that I’ve been enjoying Jeffrey Knapp’s *Shakespeare’s Tribe* too much. I regret the error.
Admittedly a weird way to pass a beautiful summer day, but I’ve enjoyed wandering around Aristotle’s Ethics yet again…
July 25, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Admittedly a weird way to pass a beautiful summer day, but I’ve enjoyed wandering around Aristotle’s Ethics yet again…
Early modern religious history folks, I seek recommendations! I'm writing a short bit in my book about the idea one may kneel in front of an icon if one’s intent isn’t idolatrous, or is just to keep peace w/ one’s neighbor. What criticism have you found helpful in this ballpark?
July 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Early modern religious history folks, I seek recommendations! I'm writing a short bit in my book about the idea one may kneel in front of an icon if one’s intent isn’t idolatrous, or is just to keep peace w/ one’s neighbor. What criticism have you found helpful in this ballpark?