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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
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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
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Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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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
November 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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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
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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
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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...
‘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
www.cambridge.org
October 14, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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@gregmw4.bsky.social and I received the wonderfully welcome news that 'Predramatic Theatre' has been accepted for publication by Palgrave following peer review. Who knows? It might even be out by Christmas! It has certainly been a gift working with my mentor on a topic we're both passionate about.
October 14, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I realized today that my article on source study and the plot of romeo and juliet was published online a few days ago! i'm very proud of this one & if you're working on R+J or teaching the play, please check it out
October 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
last day, people!
3 days left to submit an abstract for the seminar i'm organizing for next year's acla! come think about climate fictions (broadly) before (broadly) climate change (broadly) with me!
www.acla.org/seminar/f8b7...
October 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Very excited to be running this conference with Paul Norris. Delighted to have @mcculloughp.bsky.social as our keynote speaker. We can't wait to hear your ideas! Please share widely
September 30, 2025 at 6:02 PM
3 days left to submit an abstract for the seminar i'm organizing for next year's acla! come think about climate fictions (broadly) before (broadly) climate change (broadly) with me!
www.acla.org/seminar/f8b7...
September 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Out today!💀 (advance access, open access) my little note entitled 'Hamlet’s Garbage', Notes & Queries par excellence, and a small preview of the sorts of things that I explore in my forthcoming Textile Shakespeare: academic.oup.com/nq/article/d...
Hamlet’s Garbage
In Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado, the prince Nanki-Poo, disguised as a wandering minstrel, terms himself ‘a thing of shreds and patches’, adapting and
academic.oup.com
September 22, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Cross-Cultural Philology – Stellenausschreibungen im Exzellenzcluster: www.lmu.de/crosscultura...
Geplante Forschungsprojekte
Hier finden Sie eine Übersicht aller Forschungsvorhaben und der zugehörigen Stellenausschreibungen im Exzellenzcluster Cross-Cultural Philology.
www.lmu.de
September 22, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Trying to keep my professional chill but I’m SO excited Carnegie Mellon is launching a cluster hire in computational humanities—MULTIPLE JOBS!

1. Asst Teaching Track Prof in Computational Humanities - apply.interfolio.com/173622
2. Asst Tenure Track Prof in CH - apply.interfolio.com/173626
September 18, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I am writing a book about ideas about/theories of performance in some weird/great 16c. plays that are not often taught etc. – I would love to hear what you would hope to find in such a book to matter for your research/teaching in early modern drama!
September 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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🌟Publication Day!🌟

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Authorship, ed. Rory Loughnane and Will Sharpe

For more details about the book's contents and contributors, see here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
September 9, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Does anyone have easily to hand: William Proctor Williams, 'F1 Coriolanus Fragment Found in 17th Century Binding', Shakespeare Newsletter 16 (1966)?
September 9, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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maybe not "top", but ones that changed the way I view things & think about theatre:

*2023 titus at the sam wanamaker
*2022 soho place as you like it
*2008 (and still running) schaubühne hamlet
*a 2025 production of twelfth night at my old high school
*the merry wives currently at the globe
September 8, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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we welcome papers about public libraries, public records offices, or any other public institution that stewards or interacts with shakespeare and early modern texts.

what can we be doing—as early modernists, book historians, & shakespeareans—to defend our public libraries? think capaciously!
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:
August 15, 2025 at 11:07 AM
i spent my last day of work at the university of lausanne in london with students on the yearly shax trip and saw a surprisingly tender production of merry wives at the globe. i'm not really a good new historicist so i'cant really spin a meaningful anecdote out of this, but i was very happy!
September 2, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I'm organizing a seminar on "climate fictions before climate change" for next year's acla in montréal. if you have sth: pls submit; if you know someone: pls share widely!

www.acla.org/seminar/f8b7...
View Seminar | American Comparative Literature Association
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September 2, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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🥳 Announcing our reading group!

Thurs, Sept. 11, 4-5:30 EST, Sex Lives, Joseph Gamble
Thurs, Oct. 9, 4-5:30 EST, Glorious Bodies, Colby Gordon. @badinfinity2.bsky.social will join us!
Thurs, Nov. 13, 4-5:30 EST, Kinky Renaissance, Gillian Knoll, Joseph Gamble

Register here! tinyurl.com/mr3mjauz
GQEM Reading Group Registration
The second Thursday of each month, from 4-5:30pm EST. September 11th, Sex Lives, by Joseph Gamble October 9th, Glorious Bodies, by Colby Gordon November 13th, The Kinky Renaissance, edited by Gillian ...
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August 31, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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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
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Loudly tooting this CFP, please retweet:
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Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies - CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature
CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature
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August 26, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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ICYMI: The SAA Graduate Committee is looking for new members! These collaborative roles are open to any current Ph.D.-level SAA graduate students. Find more information and apply online by September 2: linktr.ee/saaupdates
August 25, 2025 at 4:20 PM