Philip Schwyzer
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The website for the Shakespearean Graves project is now live -- check it out!
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#ShaxEpitaphs
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#ShaxEpitaphs
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THE SCRIVENER:
Here’s a good world the while! Who is so gross
That cannot see this palpable device?
Yet who so bold but says he sees it not?
Heed the Scrivener #RichardIII 3.6 #ShakespeareSunday
Here’s a good world the while! Who is so gross
That cannot see this palpable device?
Yet who so bold but says he sees it not?
Heed the Scrivener #RichardIII 3.6 #ShakespeareSunday
January 25, 2026 at 6:13 AM
THE SCRIVENER:
Here’s a good world the while! Who is so gross
That cannot see this palpable device?
Yet who so bold but says he sees it not?
Heed the Scrivener #RichardIII 3.6 #ShakespeareSunday
Here’s a good world the while! Who is so gross
That cannot see this palpable device?
Yet who so bold but says he sees it not?
Heed the Scrivener #RichardIII 3.6 #ShakespeareSunday
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If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.
January 24, 2026 at 8:29 PM
If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.
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📢JOYCE YOUINGS LECTURE 2025-26 IS NEXT WEEK📢
Prof. Jane Whittle: Work & gender, status & power: the surprising history of everyday chores in early modern England
🗓️ 28 January, 3pm, followed by drinks reception
📍 Uni of Exeter & Zoom
🗃️ All welcome, register here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-joyce-...
Prof. Jane Whittle: Work & gender, status & power: the surprising history of everyday chores in early modern England
🗓️ 28 January, 3pm, followed by drinks reception
📍 Uni of Exeter & Zoom
🗃️ All welcome, register here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-joyce-...
The Joyce Youings Memorial Lecture 2025-6: Professor Jane Whittle
Work and gender, status and power: the surprising history of everyday chores in early modern England.
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January 23, 2026 at 9:20 AM
📢JOYCE YOUINGS LECTURE 2025-26 IS NEXT WEEK📢
Prof. Jane Whittle: Work & gender, status & power: the surprising history of everyday chores in early modern England
🗓️ 28 January, 3pm, followed by drinks reception
📍 Uni of Exeter & Zoom
🗃️ All welcome, register here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-joyce-...
Prof. Jane Whittle: Work & gender, status & power: the surprising history of everyday chores in early modern England
🗓️ 28 January, 3pm, followed by drinks reception
📍 Uni of Exeter & Zoom
🗃️ All welcome, register here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-joyce-...
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January 22, 2026 at 1:23 PM
My contribution to the Colston statue debate is hot off the press, a mere five and a half years after the events of June 2020!
journals.uio.no/acta/article...
journals.uio.no/acta/article...
View of The Curation of Iconoclasm, from the English Reformation to the Statue of Edward Colston
journals.uio.no
January 14, 2026 at 1:43 PM
My contribution to the Colston statue debate is hot off the press, a mere five and a half years after the events of June 2020!
journals.uio.no/acta/article...
journals.uio.no/acta/article...
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Tragically, her words ‘appalled’ the rancorous, not their rancour. The stanza continues: ‘And suncke so deepe into their boyling brests, / That downe they let their cruell weapons fall, / And lowly did abase their loftie crests / To her faire presence, and discrete behests’.
RIP.
RIP.
January 12, 2026 at 11:09 AM
Tragically, her words ‘appalled’ the rancorous, not their rancour. The stanza continues: ‘And suncke so deepe into their boyling brests, / That downe they let their cruell weapons fall, / And lowly did abase their loftie crests / To her faire presence, and discrete behests’.
RIP.
RIP.
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
The Canadian actor William Hutt (d. 2007) has a Shakespearean epitaph, and I must say it's one of my favourites:
"When my cue comes, call me, and I will answer."
Beautiful.
#ShaxEpitaphs (1/3)
"When my cue comes, call me, and I will answer."
Beautiful.
#ShaxEpitaphs (1/3)
December 7, 2025 at 11:38 AM
The Canadian actor William Hutt (d. 2007) has a Shakespearean epitaph, and I must say it's one of my favourites:
"When my cue comes, call me, and I will answer."
Beautiful.
#ShaxEpitaphs (1/3)
"When my cue comes, call me, and I will answer."
Beautiful.
#ShaxEpitaphs (1/3)
A #ShaxEpitaphs mystery.... Here I can just about make out 'not strain|d. It droppeth as the gentle rain | from Heaven.' But the first four(?) words look like something other than 'The quality of mercy'. Can anyone decipher this??
It's the memorial of Samuel Ball Green of Missouri (d. 1858).
It's the memorial of Samuel Ball Green of Missouri (d. 1858).
December 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
A #ShaxEpitaphs mystery.... Here I can just about make out 'not strain|d. It droppeth as the gentle rain | from Heaven.' But the first four(?) words look like something other than 'The quality of mercy'. Can anyone decipher this??
It's the memorial of Samuel Ball Green of Missouri (d. 1858).
It's the memorial of Samuel Ball Green of Missouri (d. 1858).
The latest blog on the Shakespearean Graves website is up now!
shaxepitaphs.exeter.ac.uk/2025/11/30/n...
Would be genuinely fascinated to hear if anyone has further examples of Shakespearean headstone inscriptions from computer games 🪦👾
shaxepitaphs.exeter.ac.uk/2025/11/30/n...
Would be genuinely fascinated to hear if anyone has further examples of Shakespearean headstone inscriptions from computer games 🪦👾
November 25 project update – Shakespearean Graves
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November 30, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The latest blog on the Shakespearean Graves website is up now!
shaxepitaphs.exeter.ac.uk/2025/11/30/n...
Would be genuinely fascinated to hear if anyone has further examples of Shakespearean headstone inscriptions from computer games 🪦👾
shaxepitaphs.exeter.ac.uk/2025/11/30/n...
Would be genuinely fascinated to hear if anyone has further examples of Shakespearean headstone inscriptions from computer games 🪦👾
"I mean, you'd never know you were in a box, would you? It would be just like being asleep in a box. Not that I'd like to sleep in a box, mind you. Not without any air. You'd wake up dead for a start, and then where would you be?"
Thank you, Tom, for my first audition monologue, and much more.
Thank you, Tom, for my first audition monologue, and much more.
November 29, 2025 at 7:04 PM
"I mean, you'd never know you were in a box, would you? It would be just like being asleep in a box. Not that I'd like to sleep in a box, mind you. Not without any air. You'd wake up dead for a start, and then where would you be?"
Thank you, Tom, for my first audition monologue, and much more.
Thank you, Tom, for my first audition monologue, and much more.
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Et, in Arcadia:
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...
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 5:19 PM
Et, in Arcadia:
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...
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...
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My co-authored chapter with Vicky Sparey on 'The Perils and Promises of Puberty' is soon to be published in Sarah Toulalan's book Early Modern Bodies. There are chapters by @amiebolissian.bsky.social , @davehitchcock.bsky.social & others. You can preorder here
www.routledge.com/Early-Modern...
www.routledge.com/Early-Modern...
Early Modern Bodies
Early Modern Bodies is a wide-ranging and detailed introduction to a variety of different approaches to and perspectives on bodies in the early modern period, circa 1500–1750.
The collection guides re...
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November 14, 2025 at 12:24 PM
My co-authored chapter with Vicky Sparey on 'The Perils and Promises of Puberty' is soon to be published in Sarah Toulalan's book Early Modern Bodies. There are chapters by @amiebolissian.bsky.social , @davehitchcock.bsky.social & others. You can preorder here
www.routledge.com/Early-Modern...
www.routledge.com/Early-Modern...
Hundreds, perhaps thousands of the fallen of WWI were buried with epitaphs drawn from Shakespearean. A selection can be found here: www.epitaphsofthegreatwar.com/tag/shakespe...
None more haunting than the inscription for Alfred Dunne (aged 17)
O MONSTROUS WORLD
TO BE DIRECT AND HONEST
IS NOT SAFE
None more haunting than the inscription for Alfred Dunne (aged 17)
O MONSTROUS WORLD
TO BE DIRECT AND HONEST
IS NOT SAFE
Shakespeare
www.epitaphsofthegreatwar.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Hundreds, perhaps thousands of the fallen of WWI were buried with epitaphs drawn from Shakespearean. A selection can be found here: www.epitaphsofthegreatwar.com/tag/shakespe...
None more haunting than the inscription for Alfred Dunne (aged 17)
O MONSTROUS WORLD
TO BE DIRECT AND HONEST
IS NOT SAFE
None more haunting than the inscription for Alfred Dunne (aged 17)
O MONSTROUS WORLD
TO BE DIRECT AND HONEST
IS NOT SAFE
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No more noble British tradition than resigning over some nonsense everyone is only pretending to be angry about rather than all of the actually bad things you've done.
November 9, 2025 at 6:10 PM
No more noble British tradition than resigning over some nonsense everyone is only pretending to be angry about rather than all of the actually bad things you've done.
The website for the Shakespearean Graves project is now live -- check it out!
shaxepitaphs.exeter.ac.uk
#ShaxEpitaphs
shaxepitaphs.exeter.ac.uk
#ShaxEpitaphs
Shakespearean Graves
shaxepitaphs.exeter.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The website for the Shakespearean Graves project is now live -- check it out!
shaxepitaphs.exeter.ac.uk
#ShaxEpitaphs
shaxepitaphs.exeter.ac.uk
#ShaxEpitaphs
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I think our country sinks beneath the yoke.
It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash
Is added to her wounds.
#Macbeth 4.3.49-51
#ShakespeareSunday
It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash
Is added to her wounds.
#Macbeth 4.3.49-51
#ShakespeareSunday
October 26, 2025 at 8:54 AM
I think our country sinks beneath the yoke.
It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash
Is added to her wounds.
#Macbeth 4.3.49-51
#ShakespeareSunday
It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash
Is added to her wounds.
#Macbeth 4.3.49-51
#ShakespeareSunday
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📢This Sunday in #Exeter!
Historical reenactment based on historical research, in a former priory, converted to a domestic dwelling during the reformation.
'my perfect Sunday ... '
#EarlyModern 🗃️
Historical reenactment based on historical research, in a former priory, converted to a domestic dwelling during the reformation.
'my perfect Sunday ... '
#EarlyModern 🗃️
Come and see the house at St Nicholas Priory, Exeter brought to life in 1602, exploring a 'New history of women's work'.
Sunday 26th October
11am - 3pm
Historical research by Jane Whittle, Mark Hailwood, Hannah Robb and Taylor Aucoin.
Sunday 26th October
11am - 3pm
Historical research by Jane Whittle, Mark Hailwood, Hannah Robb and Taylor Aucoin.
October 23, 2025 at 10:06 AM
📢This Sunday in #Exeter!
Historical reenactment based on historical research, in a former priory, converted to a domestic dwelling during the reformation.
'my perfect Sunday ... '
#EarlyModern 🗃️
Historical reenactment based on historical research, in a former priory, converted to a domestic dwelling during the reformation.
'my perfect Sunday ... '
#EarlyModern 🗃️
Ah, it's Shakespeare's own infamous epitaph, 'Curst be he that moves my bones!'
But no, this is Mary Caldwell (d. 1873), buried in Ipswich Massachusetts.
The curse is surprisingly popular. And adding 'Shakespeare' at the bottom helps prove you're a literature lover, not some freak. #ShaxEpitaphs
But no, this is Mary Caldwell (d. 1873), buried in Ipswich Massachusetts.
The curse is surprisingly popular. And adding 'Shakespeare' at the bottom helps prove you're a literature lover, not some freak. #ShaxEpitaphs
October 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Ah, it's Shakespeare's own infamous epitaph, 'Curst be he that moves my bones!'
But no, this is Mary Caldwell (d. 1873), buried in Ipswich Massachusetts.
The curse is surprisingly popular. And adding 'Shakespeare' at the bottom helps prove you're a literature lover, not some freak. #ShaxEpitaphs
But no, this is Mary Caldwell (d. 1873), buried in Ipswich Massachusetts.
The curse is surprisingly popular. And adding 'Shakespeare' at the bottom helps prove you're a literature lover, not some freak. #ShaxEpitaphs
What an incredible poet, what a loss
September 27, 2025 at 8:30 AM
What an incredible poet, what a loss
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📢NEW MAILING LIST FOR CEMS!📢
Exeter's Centre for #EarlyModern Studies recently switched to a JiscMail list to allow people to join/unsubscribe more easily.
FYI: we often host hybrid 🗃️ events.
Interested? Instructions on how to join the mailing list are here:
www.exeter.ac.uk/research/cen...
Exeter's Centre for #EarlyModern Studies recently switched to a JiscMail list to allow people to join/unsubscribe more easily.
FYI: we often host hybrid 🗃️ events.
Interested? Instructions on how to join the mailing list are here:
www.exeter.ac.uk/research/cen...
Centre for Early Modern Studies | Centre for Early Modern Studies | University of Exeter
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September 26, 2025 at 9:08 AM
📢NEW MAILING LIST FOR CEMS!📢
Exeter's Centre for #EarlyModern Studies recently switched to a JiscMail list to allow people to join/unsubscribe more easily.
FYI: we often host hybrid 🗃️ events.
Interested? Instructions on how to join the mailing list are here:
www.exeter.ac.uk/research/cen...
Exeter's Centre for #EarlyModern Studies recently switched to a JiscMail list to allow people to join/unsubscribe more easily.
FYI: we often host hybrid 🗃️ events.
Interested? Instructions on how to join the mailing list are here:
www.exeter.ac.uk/research/cen...
Exeter folk will be familiar with the equestrian statue of Sir Redvers Buller. There's no Shakespearean epitaph on the monument, but at its unveiling in 1905, a celebratory bamboo arch bore the inscription: "A soldier firm and sound of heart and
of buxom valor" (Henry V, 3.6.25).
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of buxom valor" (Henry V, 3.6.25).
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September 26, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Exeter folk will be familiar with the equestrian statue of Sir Redvers Buller. There's no Shakespearean epitaph on the monument, but at its unveiling in 1905, a celebratory bamboo arch bore the inscription: "A soldier firm and sound of heart and
of buxom valor" (Henry V, 3.6.25).
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of buxom valor" (Henry V, 3.6.25).
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I'm itching to share the 29(!) variations on 'after life's fitful fever he sleeps well' we've discovered so far as #ShaxEpitaphs, but don't want to try your patience. Just three:
AFTER LIFE'S TROUBLED JOURNEY SHE SLEEPS WELL
AFTER LIFE'S SCARLET FEVER I SLEEP WELL
LIFE'S FITFUL PLAY IS O'ER
AFTER LIFE'S TROUBLED JOURNEY SHE SLEEPS WELL
AFTER LIFE'S SCARLET FEVER I SLEEP WELL
LIFE'S FITFUL PLAY IS O'ER
September 20, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I'm itching to share the 29(!) variations on 'after life's fitful fever he sleeps well' we've discovered so far as #ShaxEpitaphs, but don't want to try your patience. Just three:
AFTER LIFE'S TROUBLED JOURNEY SHE SLEEPS WELL
AFTER LIFE'S SCARLET FEVER I SLEEP WELL
LIFE'S FITFUL PLAY IS O'ER
AFTER LIFE'S TROUBLED JOURNEY SHE SLEEPS WELL
AFTER LIFE'S SCARLET FEVER I SLEEP WELL
LIFE'S FITFUL PLAY IS O'ER
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Hamlet: Alexander the Great is DIRT now
www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo...
Three Hamlets, musing on the skull: Christopher Eccleston at the West Yorkshire Playhouse (2002); Alan Cumming at the Donmar (1993); Ben Kingsley, RSC (1975)
www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo...
Three Hamlets, musing on the skull: Christopher Eccleston at the West Yorkshire Playhouse (2002); Alan Cumming at the Donmar (1993); Ben Kingsley, RSC (1975)
September 14, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Hamlet: Alexander the Great is DIRT now
www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo...
Three Hamlets, musing on the skull: Christopher Eccleston at the West Yorkshire Playhouse (2002); Alan Cumming at the Donmar (1993); Ben Kingsley, RSC (1975)
www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo...
Three Hamlets, musing on the skull: Christopher Eccleston at the West Yorkshire Playhouse (2002); Alan Cumming at the Donmar (1993); Ben Kingsley, RSC (1975)