Eoin Price
@eoinprice.bsky.social
Shakespeare troll, now in Scotland
https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/eoin-price
https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/eoin-price
It is grimly funny that the University of Oxford shut down their Future of Humanity institute.
December 1, 2025 at 11:56 PM
It is grimly funny that the University of Oxford shut down their Future of Humanity institute.
A thing that has happened this year is that I am back kayaking again after a break of around 14 years. It is strange to have not done something I am actually genuinely really good at for so long and though I don't really regret taking such a long break from it I am enjoying doing it again
November 29, 2025 at 8:28 PM
A thing that has happened this year is that I am back kayaking again after a break of around 14 years. It is strange to have not done something I am actually genuinely really good at for so long and though I don't really regret taking such a long break from it I am enjoying doing it again
We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it...
November 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM
We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it...
Behold! resolve.cambridge.org/core/books/r... out in summer 2026
Reprints and Revivals of Renaissance Drama
Cambridge Core - Renaissance and Early Modern Literature - Reprints and Revivals of Renaissance Drama
resolve.cambridge.org
November 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Behold! resolve.cambridge.org/core/books/r... out in summer 2026
Wow. This is so interesting. Fascinating to see the number of revivals dropping. We can now also see in figures how the canon of revived classics has been reduced further. Shakespeare accounted for 89% of all classical revivals in 2023!
Just out. I've written a major report (with David Edgar) looking at the effect of Covid on British Theatre. You can download it here: www.britishtheatreconsortium.co.uk/britishtheat...
British Theatre Before and After Covid
www.britishtheatreconsortium.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Wow. This is so interesting. Fascinating to see the number of revivals dropping. We can now also see in figures how the canon of revived classics has been reduced further. Shakespeare accounted for 89% of all classical revivals in 2023!
A book about approaches to/methodologies of the study of historical audiences: is it a thing? Should it be?
November 26, 2025 at 5:33 PM
A book about approaches to/methodologies of the study of historical audiences: is it a thing? Should it be?
Monty Panesar has just cracked a broad smile
November 21, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Monty Panesar has just cracked a broad smile
An important part of being on strike is walking dogs on a beach.
November 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
An important part of being on strike is walking dogs on a beach.
Don't really use bluesky much & don't have the following I used to have on Twitter and so my inane posts don't get the traction they used to. The one below is actually on an important topic though so would appreciate it if you could amplify.
ON STRIKE AGAIN BECAUSE THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH REFUSES TO RULE OUT COMPULSORY REDUNDANCIES!
November 17, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Don't really use bluesky much & don't have the following I used to have on Twitter and so my inane posts don't get the traction they used to. The one below is actually on an important topic though so would appreciate it if you could amplify.
ON STRIKE AGAIN BECAUSE THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH REFUSES TO RULE OUT COMPULSORY REDUNDANCIES!
November 17, 2025 at 9:19 AM
ON STRIKE AGAIN BECAUSE THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH REFUSES TO RULE OUT COMPULSORY REDUNDANCIES!
Epigram Engraved on the Collar of a Dog Which I Gave to His Royal Highness
I am his highness’s dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
I am his highness’s dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
November 12, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Epigram Engraved on the Collar of a Dog Which I Gave to His Royal Highness
I am his highness’s dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
I am his highness’s dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
Happiness in early modern drama is an interesting topic because it seems to be on the fringes of both tragedy and comedy. The former shows it fleetingly before obliterating it; the latter gestures towards it, sometimes unconvincingly.
November 8, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Happiness in early modern drama is an interesting topic because it seems to be on the fringes of both tragedy and comedy. The former shows it fleetingly before obliterating it; the latter gestures towards it, sometimes unconvincingly.
I don't understand the semiotics of the game ending mechanism in The Traitors. Red means banish and green means don't banish but red also means continue the game and green means stop the game.
November 7, 2025 at 5:49 AM
I don't understand the semiotics of the game ending mechanism in The Traitors. Red means banish and green means don't banish but red also means continue the game and green means stop the game.
Would love to see a production of Tamburlaine that was just part one. No sequel.
November 6, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Would love to see a production of Tamburlaine that was just part one. No sequel.
Any chance anyone has a copy of the Malone Society An Alarum for London? And if so could I have a reference checked?
November 4, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Any chance anyone has a copy of the Malone Society An Alarum for London? And if so could I have a reference checked?
We are going to be going on strike again...
November 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
We are going to be going on strike again...
What were the most popular plays in 16/17 century? In no order, a non-exhaustive list: Cambyses, Tamburlaines, Spanish Tragedy, Jew of Malta, Faustus, Mucedorus, 1 Henry IV, Hamlet, Othello, A Game at Chess, a bunch of B&F: Philaster, Maid's Tragedy, Scornful Lady, Cupid's Revenge. Others?
November 4, 2025 at 9:05 AM
What were the most popular plays in 16/17 century? In no order, a non-exhaustive list: Cambyses, Tamburlaines, Spanish Tragedy, Jew of Malta, Faustus, Mucedorus, 1 Henry IV, Hamlet, Othello, A Game at Chess, a bunch of B&F: Philaster, Maid's Tragedy, Scornful Lady, Cupid's Revenge. Others?
Put tiny kettle on lad, I'm gasping - one of the many great underrated The Thick of It quotes. Add your own below.
October 22, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Put tiny kettle on lad, I'm gasping - one of the many great underrated The Thick of It quotes. Add your own below.
For a long time I thought the expression 'why do only fools and horses work?' meant why is it that only fools and horses do/are made to do work? But now I see it means why should one do work, which is after all made only for fools and horses; why should one do the work of horses and fools?
October 17, 2025 at 10:36 AM
For a long time I thought the expression 'why do only fools and horses work?' meant why is it that only fools and horses do/are made to do work? But now I see it means why should one do work, which is after all made only for fools and horses; why should one do the work of horses and fools?
Batter my cod three personed God
October 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Batter my cod three personed God
Today I taught Edward II, the sequel to Edward I.
October 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Today I taught Edward II, the sequel to Edward I.
I can't be the only one who found Hamnet almost offensively mawkish and trite?
October 12, 2025 at 10:30 AM
I can't be the only one who found Hamnet almost offensively mawkish and trite?
I miss chatting about silly plays
October 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I miss chatting about silly plays
Tell you what is a really brilliant play - The Spanish Tragedy. It's such a terrible name for a play (though admittedly, Hieronimo is Mad Againe, while baffling, is a good alternative).
September 29, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Tell you what is a really brilliant play - The Spanish Tragedy. It's such a terrible name for a play (though admittedly, Hieronimo is Mad Againe, while baffling, is a good alternative).
Things I have been reading lately: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro. The Book of Margery Kempe by erm Margery Kempe.
Things I have been listening to lately: The Cranberries doing an acoustic version of Linger, about a million times.
Things I have been listening to lately: The Cranberries doing an acoustic version of Linger, about a million times.
September 25, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Things I have been reading lately: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro. The Book of Margery Kempe by erm Margery Kempe.
Things I have been listening to lately: The Cranberries doing an acoustic version of Linger, about a million times.
Things I have been listening to lately: The Cranberries doing an acoustic version of Linger, about a million times.