Patrick Durdel
@pdurdel.bsky.social
climate fictions 1500-1800, postdoc at oxford. first book project on "writing performance: early modern drama and the work of interpretation." other things on intention, non-performance, plot, mistakes, pig bladders.
https://patrickdurdel.org
https://patrickdurdel.org
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I have a big new essay out that argues that Erich Auerbach is the crucial figure for historicist reading in lit studies today + argues that the epistemology of such reading depends on the profoundly humanist criterion "sufficient passion" muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
February 12, 2026 at 5:22 PM
I have a big new essay out that argues that Erich Auerbach is the crucial figure for historicist reading in lit studies today + argues that the epistemology of such reading depends on the profoundly humanist criterion "sufficient passion" muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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Early Modern European Neurodivergence: Call for Papers is now live! August 3rd and 4th 2026 at Swansea University. See the link in our bio for the submission form or scan the QR code in this post🤩🎉
February 10, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Early Modern European Neurodivergence: Call for Papers is now live! August 3rd and 4th 2026 at Swansea University. See the link in our bio for the submission form or scan the QR code in this post🤩🎉
been reading a lot older things about textual editing and sure sounds like alchemy sometimes
January 31, 2026 at 2:43 PM
been reading a lot older things about textual editing and sure sounds like alchemy sometimes
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Some academic publishing contract advice: make sure your contract specifies 1. a qualified human copyeditor will copyedit on the MS; 2. a qualified human proofreader will proofread the MS; 3. that production must have a proper system for version control (!).
January 28, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Some academic publishing contract advice: make sure your contract specifies 1. a qualified human copyeditor will copyedit on the MS; 2. a qualified human proofreader will proofread the MS; 3. that production must have a proper system for version control (!).
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out in the wild! (library got it before i received my author copy)
January 22, 2026 at 2:49 PM
out in the wild! (library got it before i received my author copy)
out in the wild! (library got it before i received my author copy)
January 22, 2026 at 2:49 PM
out in the wild! (library got it before i received my author copy)
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once again, I think I'm grateful to have long ago memorized W. H. Auden's "The Fall of Rome"
January 21, 2026 at 5:59 PM
once again, I think I'm grateful to have long ago memorized W. H. Auden's "The Fall of Rome"
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We have been remiss, absent, and not here, but, for your belated consideration: Our last issue of 2025 was a special issue guest edited by @laurakolb.bsky.social and Jessica Rosenberg entitled "Comic Epistemologies." Go read! (And see TOC in next posts). www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/elr/curr...
English Literary Renaissance | Vol 55, No 3
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January 8, 2026 at 7:27 AM
We have been remiss, absent, and not here, but, for your belated consideration: Our last issue of 2025 was a special issue guest edited by @laurakolb.bsky.social and Jessica Rosenberg entitled "Comic Epistemologies." Go read! (And see TOC in next posts). www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/elr/curr...
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Delighted the new year brings (at last!) vol. 53 of Shakespeare Studies to the world, in all its purple-edged glory: Marlowe stars in the Forum, & the NGP, Articles & Reviews all full of wit & wisdom. Congratulations to Jim Siemon for 11 years of leadership, w/ huge gratitude for our collaboration!
January 7, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Delighted the new year brings (at last!) vol. 53 of Shakespeare Studies to the world, in all its purple-edged glory: Marlowe stars in the Forum, & the NGP, Articles & Reviews all full of wit & wisdom. Congratulations to Jim Siemon for 11 years of leadership, w/ huge gratitude for our collaboration!
Important things happening!!
Happy New Year and a pretty stupendous start to 2026 from my perspective as Predramatic Theatre -my co-authored book with @gregmw4.bsky.social - was published by Palgrave on Friday!
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Very kindly, our reader said of the book :-
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Very kindly, our reader said of the book :-
Predramatic Theatre
This co-authored book offers a new and contemporary approach to pre-modern drama texts and performance practice.
link.springer.com
January 5, 2026 at 12:49 PM
Important things happening!!
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We’re excited for #Shax2026 in Denver, but have you considered submitting a proposal for #Shax2027 in Atlanta? The deadline to submit proposals to the #Shax2027 program committee is February 15!
Have questions? Check out our website: linktr.ee/saaupdates
Have questions? Check out our website: linktr.ee/saaupdates
December 29, 2025 at 6:14 PM
We’re excited for #Shax2026 in Denver, but have you considered submitting a proposal for #Shax2027 in Atlanta? The deadline to submit proposals to the #Shax2027 program committee is February 15!
Have questions? Check out our website: linktr.ee/saaupdates
Have questions? Check out our website: linktr.ee/saaupdates
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After a little blip in the release of my book, I'm happy to say that accurate digital and physical versions are now available from @universitypress.cambridge.org! #earlymodern #renaissance #elizabethan #tudor #drama #jonson #marlowe #middleton #shakespeare #thewill
'Look not so fierce on me'
'Look not so fierce on me'
The Will in English Renaissance Drama
Cambridge Core - Renaissance and Early Modern Literature - The Will in English Renaissance Drama
www.cambridge.org
December 28, 2025 at 11:56 AM
After a little blip in the release of my book, I'm happy to say that accurate digital and physical versions are now available from @universitypress.cambridge.org! #earlymodern #renaissance #elizabethan #tudor #drama #jonson #marlowe #middleton #shakespeare #thewill
'Look not so fierce on me'
'Look not so fierce on me'
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Please consider donating to help make Meghan Andrews's forthcoming work open-access. Meghan passed away from cancer in 2023 and was honored at the MSA conference in Deptford with the Meghan C. Andrews Memorial Lecture. You can find the link to the GoFundMe here: tinyurl.com/yc8pdpbu
Donate to Help Publish Meghan's Shakespeare Monograph, organized by Sarah Neville
Shakespeare scholar Meghan C Andrews passed away in 2023, after a valiant… Sarah Neville needs your support for Help Publish Meghan's Shakespeare Monograph
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December 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Please consider donating to help make Meghan Andrews's forthcoming work open-access. Meghan passed away from cancer in 2023 and was honored at the MSA conference in Deptford with the Meghan C. Andrews Memorial Lecture. You can find the link to the GoFundMe here: tinyurl.com/yc8pdpbu
this is an absolutely brilliant book, go check it out & order it for your libraries!
Anthropocene Affordances is now out in the world!🌎
I’m proud (and very excited!) to share that my dissertation Anthropocene Affordances has just been published in the Literary Ecologies series at @transcript-verlag.bsky.social.💡 Check out the book here: www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7....
I’m proud (and very excited!) to share that my dissertation Anthropocene Affordances has just been published in the Literary Ecologies series at @transcript-verlag.bsky.social.💡 Check out the book here: www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7....
December 9, 2025 at 10:55 AM
this is an absolutely brilliant book, go check it out & order it for your libraries!
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📢 Excited to announce this Call for Papers for ‘Clio Reframed’, a conference at Oxford on 18-19 June 2026 exploring early modern women as writers of history. @engfac.bsky.social @oxfordcems.bsky.social
Abstracts due by 28 Feb! clioreframed.hcommons.org/call-for-pap...
Abstracts due by 28 Feb! clioreframed.hcommons.org/call-for-pap...
Call for Papers
clioreframed.hcommons.org
December 9, 2025 at 10:25 AM
📢 Excited to announce this Call for Papers for ‘Clio Reframed’, a conference at Oxford on 18-19 June 2026 exploring early modern women as writers of history. @engfac.bsky.social @oxfordcems.bsky.social
Abstracts due by 28 Feb! clioreframed.hcommons.org/call-for-pap...
Abstracts due by 28 Feb! clioreframed.hcommons.org/call-for-pap...
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Resource announcement: 'Theatronomics: the business of theatre, 1732-1809'
The beta web resource from the Theatronomics project is now live, with a database of eighteenth-century financial records of the Covent Garden and Drury Lane theatres.
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6235
The beta web resource from the Theatronomics project is now live, with a database of eighteenth-century financial records of the Covent Garden and Drury Lane theatres.
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6235
Resource Announcement: ‘Theatronomics: the business of theatre, 1732-1809’ – BARS Blog
www.bars.ac.uk
December 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Resource announcement: 'Theatronomics: the business of theatre, 1732-1809'
The beta web resource from the Theatronomics project is now live, with a database of eighteenth-century financial records of the Covent Garden and Drury Lane theatres.
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6235
The beta web resource from the Theatronomics project is now live, with a database of eighteenth-century financial records of the Covent Garden and Drury Lane theatres.
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6235
today is publication day for Closet Drama in Early Modern England! i wrote most of my chapter while moving apartment, burning the midnight oil in the library because we didn't have internet in the new place yet. i think it's a slightly mad piece of writing, but i let you be the judge of that!
November 27, 2025 at 5:29 PM
today is publication day for Closet Drama in Early Modern England! i wrote most of my chapter while moving apartment, burning the midnight oil in the library because we didn't have internet in the new place yet. i think it's a slightly mad piece of writing, but i let you be the judge of that!
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It was so lovely to see so many people at our November meeting yesterday! Thanks for coming, everyone 🌟
If you’re a PGR or ECR working on anything Early Modern and you’d like to be a part of our community, drop us an email at revelsoffice@gmail.com 🤍
If you’re a PGR or ECR working on anything Early Modern and you’d like to be a part of our community, drop us an email at revelsoffice@gmail.com 🤍
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
It was so lovely to see so many people at our November meeting yesterday! Thanks for coming, everyone 🌟
If you’re a PGR or ECR working on anything Early Modern and you’d like to be a part of our community, drop us an email at revelsoffice@gmail.com 🤍
If you’re a PGR or ECR working on anything Early Modern and you’d like to be a part of our community, drop us an email at revelsoffice@gmail.com 🤍
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seeking pointers to texts (academic or otherwise; primary or secondary; early modern or not) that discuss/theorize 'failure'?
bonus points if it specifically addresses _textual_ 'failure'.
here's an impression of fallen type for your troubles👇
bonus points if it specifically addresses _textual_ 'failure'.
here's an impression of fallen type for your troubles👇
November 20, 2025 at 6:38 PM
seeking pointers to texts (academic or otherwise; primary or secondary; early modern or not) that discuss/theorize 'failure'?
bonus points if it specifically addresses _textual_ 'failure'.
here's an impression of fallen type for your troubles👇
bonus points if it specifically addresses _textual_ 'failure'.
here's an impression of fallen type for your troubles👇
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Call for papers for the next Medieval English Theatre Society Meeting (28th March 2026). The theme of the meeting will be ‘Records and Performance’.
November 6, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Call for papers for the next Medieval English Theatre Society Meeting (28th March 2026). The theme of the meeting will be ‘Records and Performance’.
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Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
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Monday 10 November
@ 7.30pm online
PUB CRAWLING WITH PLAYHOUSES
Join Professor Laurie Johnson @lostplayhouse.bsky.social for a ramble around the inns, taverns & ale-houses of Elizabethan London, to discover their role in the emergence of playhouse culture.
Book: www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on
@ 7.30pm online
PUB CRAWLING WITH PLAYHOUSES
Join Professor Laurie Johnson @lostplayhouse.bsky.social for a ramble around the inns, taverns & ale-houses of Elizabethan London, to discover their role in the emergence of playhouse culture.
Book: www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on
November 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Monday 10 November
@ 7.30pm online
PUB CRAWLING WITH PLAYHOUSES
Join Professor Laurie Johnson @lostplayhouse.bsky.social for a ramble around the inns, taverns & ale-houses of Elizabethan London, to discover their role in the emergence of playhouse culture.
Book: www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on
@ 7.30pm online
PUB CRAWLING WITH PLAYHOUSES
Join Professor Laurie Johnson @lostplayhouse.bsky.social for a ramble around the inns, taverns & ale-houses of Elizabethan London, to discover their role in the emergence of playhouse culture.
Book: www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on
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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❤️
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TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE is official-publication-date-minus-2-weeks (11 November) which is a LOT👀 (I can't remember feeling this wound up about other books, I have the concentration of a gnat at the moment🙄) but seems to be live as an e-book already so, available to your Kindle right now, apparently...
October 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE is official-publication-date-minus-2-weeks (11 November) which is a LOT👀 (I can't remember feeling this wound up about other books, I have the concentration of a gnat at the moment🙄) but seems to be live as an e-book already so, available to your Kindle right now, apparently...
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Wonderful surprise to see that Shakespeare Survey 78 is now out in the world, including a piece by yours truly on inter-English conflict in The Merry Wives of Windsor that I am actually quite proud of!
www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
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‘Here’s Company’: Fractured Englishness and Conflicted Communities in The Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry V - Shakespeare Survey 78
Shakespeare Survey 78 - October 2025
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October 14, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Wonderful surprise to see that Shakespeare Survey 78 is now out in the world, including a piece by yours truly on inter-English conflict in The Merry Wives of Windsor that I am actually quite proud of!
www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...