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edelsemple.bsky.social
@edelsemple.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare Studies @ UCC, Ireland • Shakespeare on screen • Women in early modern drama • Shakespearean biofiction • Cat-owner, cake-lover, books, plants • she/her
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norseincork.bsky.social
🚨 Job alert 🚨 NorseMap is recruiting for a new team member: a 3-year postdoctoral researcher with a background in Politics OR Old Norse Viking Studies to lead the 'Politics & Identity' strand of the project. Come and work with us at UCC!

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November 7, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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norseincork.bsky.social
A reminder that there are still a few days left to apply for this funded PhD, working on literary and cultural reception of the Vikings. University fees and a budget for conference attendance included in addition to the stipend: it's a great opportunity for someone! www.ucc.ie/en/hr/vacanc...
Research Vacancies | University College Cork
Learn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. Our tradition of independent thinking will prepare you for the world and the workplace in a vibrant, modern, green campus.
www.ucc.ie
November 5, 2025 at 11:39 AM
edelsemple.bsky.social
The Dragon of Shandon #Halloween parade in Cork city, #Ireland was great fun! Well done to all the makers and performers!
#Cork #CorkCity #Halloween2025
Large skeletons in a Halloween parade in Cork city. A Halloween float of an ornate giant demonic head, with brains popping out of the top. A Halloween parade float of large and s white skeletons in twisted poses. The skeletal head of the Dragon of Shandon, lit up internally, the centrepiece of this Halloween parade in Cork city.
November 1, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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vulgeraghty.bsky.social
Just so good
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October 29, 2025 at 11:49 AM
edelsemple.bsky.social
Saw a Dalek in Bradford and after years of watching #DoctorWho meant that it was cool but also properly creepy!
A red and black Dalek in a hallway
October 15, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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benbroadribb.bsky.social
If you, or anyone you know, would be willing to provide a 1,000-1,500 word review for Shakespeare Bulletin of Born With Teeth at Wyndham's Theatre, and you're available to attend the matinee performance on Wed 16 October (tomorrow), then please reply/DM here! 🙂
October 14, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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emer.bsky.social
if anyone is looking to commission writing on chloé zhao’s hamnet over the next few months:
💀 @edelsemple.bsky.social is the undisputed queen of shakespeare biofiction studies
💀 i myself specialise in irish shakespeares (especially actors), and celebrity casting.

let us write/give talks for u!
October 13, 2025 at 10:11 AM
edelsemple.bsky.social
Anita looks like she’s about to deliver the #Caturday main evening news. #cats
A one-eyed tabby cat sits at the door of a cat-tree box, with her white paws on the threshold.
October 4, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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thetls.bsky.social
'This glamorous Life writing began early. Weeks before Marlowe’s untimely and violent death, a shady intelligencer called Richard Baines had drafted the outline of the playwright’s afterlife'

Emma Smith: Our ideas of Christopher Marlowe
Early modern autofiction?
www.the-tls.com
September 27, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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ishmaelcallme.bsky.social
We're hiring! It's a job that asks *a lot* of you, I won't lie. But it's a department with solid, brilliant , resilient colleagues who try to fight the good fights. And we're unionized (APSCUF). West Chester University, Tenure-Track Asst Prof Brit Lit, Early Modern thru 18th Century
26-43 Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of British Literature - Early Modern through 18th Century
Join a vibrant equity-minded campus whose excellence is reflected in its community, cultural engagement, and student success. The Department of English invites applicants for a Full-time, Tenure-Track...
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September 26, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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drnaomibaker.bsky.social
Women have been speaking out about abuse for centuries! I wrote about Anne Wentworth, a 17th-century survivor of domestic abuse, for @theconversation.com #earlymodern
The 17th-century woman who wrote about surviving domestic abuse
In the 17th century, Anne Wentworth spoke out against her abusive husband and the religious institution that protected him.
theconversation.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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siobhankeenan.bsky.social
If you're interested in learning more about Richard Burbage's impact on Shakespeare, you might enjoy the piece I've just written for The Conversation @uk.theconversation.com - theconversation.com/richard-burb...
Richard Burbage: the Elizabethan De Niro to Shakespeare’s Scorsese
Inhabiting some of Shakespeare’s most famous characters, this Elizabethan actor deserves some proper recognition for inspiring the Bard.
theconversation.com
September 16, 2025 at 5:37 PM
edelsemple.bsky.social
Today’s movie viewing was “Shakes versus Shav”, an Irish-made short film where #Shakespeare & #GBShaw, in puppet-form, square up to one another to debate the quality of their art and their legacies! #biofiction
A leaflet for the 2025 Meath Film Festival, in Ireland, in an auditorium before a screen. Marionettes of William Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw stand on a stage beside the title of the film “SHAKES versus SHAV”. The puppets are voiced by Colm Meaney and Derek Jacobi.
September 13, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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georginanugent.bsky.social
Feel extremely lucky to work with the class act, poetic genius, and all round legend that is @lizquirke.bsky.social. Read her new essay in @stingingfly.bsky.social, it's amazing!!

stingingfly.org/2025/09/09/t...
The fear of stepping into focus – The Stinging Fly
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September 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
edelsemple.bsky.social
Enjoying my #biofiction research by seeing @the-rsc.bsky.social Born With Teeth with @ncutigatwa.bsky.social as #Marlowe and Edward Bluemel as #Shakespeare in London. @lizduffyadams.bsky.social
Photo of a poster for the play showing Ncuti Gatwa, in 16th century costume of brown leather, with a cape over one shoulder. He stands leaning over a heavy wooden table and is blowing out a candle, which he holds in one hand.
September 6, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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levostregc.bsky.social
GRUMPYE TEENAGE SHAKESPEARE:

"Thys ys just a stage, son."

"ALL THE WORLDE YS A STAGE, DAD!!!! UGH!'
September 4, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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benbroadribb.bsky.social
In 2026, Gemma Allred @gemmaallred.bsky.social Edel Semple @edelsemple.bsky.social and I are co-organising two seminars: one at SAA @saaupdates.bsky.social in Denver, CO, convened both in-person and virtually; and another at the World Shakespeare Congress in Verona, Italy. #Shax2026 #WSC2026
Shakespeare Association of America Conference, Denver CO 1-4 April 2026 Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet at Thirty Organisers: Gemma Kate Allred, Benjamin Broadribb, Edel Semple This seminar explores the legacy of Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet (1996) across Shakespearean culture and global popular culture. We invite papers considering Romeo + Juliet’s legacy across cultures and media, exploring how Luhrmann’s film has influenced the performance and adaptation of Shakespeare; where, how, and why echoes and aftershocks of Romeo + Juliet can be found in cultural objects from the past three decades; and the evolution of the film’s reception and status over time. This seminar will be convened in two parts: an in-person session held in Denver, and a virtual session held online. seminar will be convened in two parts: This seminar will be convened in two parts: an in-person session held in Denver, and a virtual session held online. A collage of images from or inspired by Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet.Romeo + Juliet. World Shakespeare Congress, Verona 20-26 July 2026 Shakespeare’s Tragedies and their Twenty-First-Century Reverberations This seminar explores reverberations of Shakespeare’s tragedies across a range of twenty-first-century media. Venturing beyond the safely-charted territory of traditional stage and screen performances, the seminar considers how Shakespeare’s tragic protagonists, narratives, themes, and tropes haunt, echo in, or inspire contemporary cultural objects. Papers may address tragic echoes and textual hauntings in drama, film, TV, prose, advertising, and other media. Key questions include: why do twenty-first-century artists look to Shakespeare’s tragedies; how can these echoes and hauntings illuminate Shakespeare’s tragedies; and how might reverberations galvanise shifts away from imbalanced power structures, and towards greater empathy and equality for historically marginalised communities? A collage of images taken from or depicting different media with reverberations of Shakespearean tragedy.
September 2, 2025 at 3:46 PM
edelsemple.bsky.social
Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo+Juliet turns thirty in 2026 - celebrate by joining our seminar on the influence, legacy, and reception of this iconic film @saaupdates.bsky.social conference! Register for the seminar on the #shax2026 website by 15 September. #romeoandjuliet #shakespeare
Text reads: “Romeo + Juliet is 30! And we’re hosting a SAA seminar to celebrate.” The image shows a screen grab from the film where Paris, played by Paul Rudd, grins excitedly during the fireworks and confetti at the Capulet ball. Headline text reads: “Romeo + Juliet is 30! And we’re hosting a SAA seminar to celebrate.” The seminar description follows with a reminder to register for the conference by 15th September 2025. Headline text reads: “Romeo + Juliet is 30! And we’re hosting a SAA seminar to celebrate.” Below this the image is a screen grab from the film Romeo+Juliet, showing an ecstatic Mercutio (played by Harold Perrineau) in a white wig and sparkly white drag ensemble, joyously dancing to the song “Young Hearts Run Free” at the Capulet ball. This image is on a neon pink background and the jokey caption reads “projected response to the seminar”.
August 31, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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irishrainforest.bsky.social
An old hawthorn, absolutely dripping with epiphytic lungwort and other lichens, polypody, mosses.

This is rainforest.
August 31, 2025 at 5:43 AM
edelsemple.bsky.social
#Caturday - Here’s Anita demonstrating one use for her tail: eye mask during a nap
A small tabby cat, with black stripes on golden brown and beige fur, sleeps curled up with her tail covering her face.
August 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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August 29, 2025 at 10:04 AM
edelsemple.bsky.social
The 2026 World #Shakespeare Congress takes place in Verona, & @gemmaallred.bsky.social @benbroadribb.bsky.social & I are organising a seminar on Shakespeare's Tragedies and their 21st-Century Reverberations - come join us! #WSC2026 Register at www.wsc2026.org
August 27, 2025 at 11:04 PM
edelsemple.bsky.social
Research this week includes the film that launched a thousand #biofiction imitators - #Shakespeare In Love (1998). So impressed by the beautiful (Oscar-winning) costumes.
Judi Dench as Queen Elizabeth I in the film Shakespeare In Love Paltrow as Viola in the film Shakespeare In Love
August 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
edelsemple.bsky.social
#Caturday - some toe beans on show today
A tabby cat is asleep. Her tail is fluffy and has black stripes. The cat’s striped legs are tipped with white at the paws. One white paw is tilted up, showing a pink foot pad and toe beans.
August 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
edelsemple.bsky.social
Bee, caterpillar, and butterfly enjoying the nasturtiums and other flowers today #SpeirGorm #photography #garden
A furry bee departs from an orange nasturtium flower. Broad, round leaves of different shades of green surround the flowers. A caterpillar sits on top of a half-eaten nasturtium leaf. The caterpillar has black spots and is bright yellow and lime green, with hairs in along its body. Around this leaf are more broad, round leaves of different shades of green. A butterfly with its wings spread - mainly tangerine orange with lines and dots of yellow, black, white, and pale blue at the wing tips - sits on a pink flower. The dianthus flower is dark pink in the centre and pale pink on the outside.
August 22, 2025 at 12:44 PM