Eoin Price
@eoinprice.bsky.social
Shakespeare troll, now in Scotland
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Has anyone written about references to non-title characters on early modern printed book title pages? Most playbook title pages don't refer to characters beyond those that are eponymous but some do (including several now very famous plays) in interesting & sometimes surprising ways.
February 15, 2026 at 9:48 PM
Has anyone written about references to non-title characters on early modern printed book title pages? Most playbook title pages don't refer to characters beyond those that are eponymous but some do (including several now very famous plays) in interesting & sometimes surprising ways.
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The UK government is proposing radical and punitive changes to settlement rules. This is settlement, not citizenship. The consultation is open until 12 February; please respond to it and oppose these evil proposals. Amnesty have a good guide: www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/gu...
Guidance for responding to 'A Fairer Pathway to Settlement' consultation
We are Amnesty International UK. We are ordinary people from across the world standing up for humanity and human rights.
www.amnesty.org.uk
January 22, 2026 at 10:22 AM
The UK government is proposing radical and punitive changes to settlement rules. This is settlement, not citizenship. The consultation is open until 12 February; please respond to it and oppose these evil proposals. Amnesty have a good guide: www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/gu...
Is it possible to talk about repetition in a way that doesn't end up prioritizing difference? So much writing about repetition emphasizes that replication is never possible & I agree but...how do we talk about the pleasure of sameness without emphazing how sameness is never quite the same?
February 10, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Is it possible to talk about repetition in a way that doesn't end up prioritizing difference? So much writing about repetition emphasizes that replication is never possible & I agree but...how do we talk about the pleasure of sameness without emphazing how sameness is never quite the same?
Doing proofs and I am pleased with, relieved about, and proud of, the co-authored introduction. It was really good to work with Harry Newman, a long time friend from the PhD days, now one billion years ago by my reckoning.
February 6, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Doing proofs and I am pleased with, relieved about, and proud of, the co-authored introduction. It was really good to work with Harry Newman, a long time friend from the PhD days, now one billion years ago by my reckoning.
Do you know the alphabet without thinking about it or do you have to count it out in your head first? For example, do you know without hesitation that R comes before S?
February 4, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Do you know the alphabet without thinking about it or do you have to count it out in your head first? For example, do you know without hesitation that R comes before S?
I have two chapters left to write in this book (both on repetition) & this week I thought about them properly for the first time since the Marlowe Society of America in 2024. And when I say properly I mean, I've had a bit of a think this evening and read half an article.
February 2, 2026 at 10:23 PM
I have two chapters left to write in this book (both on repetition) & this week I thought about them properly for the first time since the Marlowe Society of America in 2024. And when I say properly I mean, I've had a bit of a think this evening and read half an article.
Last week my students asked me about whether Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare. It's the first time I can recall it happening in 12+ years of full time university teaching. People who teach Shakespeare, do you find students sometimes bringing it up?
January 26, 2026 at 1:38 PM
Last week my students asked me about whether Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare. It's the first time I can recall it happening in 12+ years of full time university teaching. People who teach Shakespeare, do you find students sometimes bringing it up?
This is really great news, both because it's a wonderful project and because @oldfortunatus.bsky.social is a brilliant advocate for our subject.
Congratulations to Professor Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social who has been awarded a three-year Major Research Fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust for her project: ‘Imperial bibliography: books, race and value’.
Find out more about the project on our website:
Find out more about the project on our website:
Professor Emma Smith awarded Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship
english.web.ox.ac.uk
January 14, 2026 at 6:38 PM
This is really great news, both because it's a wonderful project and because @oldfortunatus.bsky.social is a brilliant advocate for our subject.
Happy new year from Aphra Bear.
January 2, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Happy new year from Aphra Bear.
Betelgeuse, which is hundreds of times bigger than the Sun is easily visible in the night sky as a little red blot. It is unimaginably massive & one of the biggest things it is possible to see with your own unaided eyes.
December 26, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Betelgeuse, which is hundreds of times bigger than the Sun is easily visible in the night sky as a little red blot. It is unimaginably massive & one of the biggest things it is possible to see with your own unaided eyes.
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A new essay from me on the contentious topic of the sexuality of James VI and I - an attempt to get past the old ‘did he or didn’t he’ by looking at the king’s style as read by his contemporaries and subsequent historians. King James - QAF. main--britishartstudies-29.netlify.app/issues/29/qu...
British Art Studies
*British Art Studies* is an innovative space for new peer-reviewed scholarship on all aspects of British art.
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December 18, 2025 at 7:43 PM
A new essay from me on the contentious topic of the sexuality of James VI and I - an attempt to get past the old ‘did he or didn’t he’ by looking at the king’s style as read by his contemporaries and subsequent historians. King James - QAF. main--britishartstudies-29.netlify.app/issues/29/qu...
Ricky Ponting clearly doesn't like Jofra Archer. Come on now, the guy took 5 for and is now 30 odd not out. He is not the problem here and wasn't really the problem in either of the earlier tests either. I wish there would be more commentators calling out this stuff.
December 18, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Ricky Ponting clearly doesn't like Jofra Archer. Come on now, the guy took 5 for and is now 30 odd not out. He is not the problem here and wasn't really the problem in either of the earlier tests either. I wish there would be more commentators calling out this stuff.
Does anyone have acceaa to and can anyone photograph, the contents page of MUP's Three Renaissance Usury Plays ed. Lloyd Edward Kermode?
December 17, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Does anyone have acceaa to and can anyone photograph, the contents page of MUP's Three Renaissance Usury Plays ed. Lloyd Edward Kermode?
Just saw a kingfisher. They are so extraordinary. How do they belong here?
December 10, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Just saw a kingfisher. They are so extraordinary. How do they belong here?
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.
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!