Chris Crosbie
@crosbie1564.bsky.social
Associate professor at NC State. Writing about Shakespeare & ethics (http://bit.ly/3E9UnZj). Some chess & hiking here. Revenge Tragedy & Classical Philosophy (EUP): http://bit.ly/2rjkbAc
🧐 Quite the plot summary of Hamlet
November 21, 2025 at 7:22 PM
🧐 Quite the plot summary of Hamlet
Beautiful hiking in Shenandoah National Park this past weekend. One of my favorite shots of the trip, mostly because I hardly needed the zoom.
November 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Beautiful hiking in Shenandoah National Park this past weekend. One of my favorite shots of the trip, mostly because I hardly needed the zoom.
Hands down one of the funniest & most effective uses of intonation to breathe new life into a line. (Ben Whishaw as Richard II in The Hollow Crown, 2012)
October 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Hands down one of the funniest & most effective uses of intonation to breathe new life into a line. (Ben Whishaw as Richard II in The Hollow Crown, 2012)
Continue preparing this talk or now just watch The Hollow Crown for the rest of the day?
October 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Continue preparing this talk or now just watch The Hollow Crown for the rest of the day?
The case study in captioning I went with: This butchered version of an interview with Paul Robeson about Othello.
September 29, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The case study in captioning I went with: This butchered version of an interview with Paul Robeson about Othello.
The problem this talk aims to solve: Captioning videos that you don’t host yourself. So crucial for accessibility when using the wealth of Shakespearean material out there.
September 23, 2025 at 1:18 PM
The problem this talk aims to solve: Captioning videos that you don’t host yourself. So crucial for accessibility when using the wealth of Shakespearean material out there.
Continuing my work on communal ethics today. Subtitle of the week: “The Habit of Humility…Fetched out of the Wardrobe of Saint Paul!”
September 22, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Continuing my work on communal ethics today. Subtitle of the week: “The Habit of Humility…Fetched out of the Wardrobe of Saint Paul!”
Working on a talk on captioning Shakespeare to improve accessibility. Grateful to NCSU’s Delta Faculty Fellows program for providing the support to pursue this!
September 22, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Working on a talk on captioning Shakespeare to improve accessibility. Grateful to NCSU’s Delta Faculty Fellows program for providing the support to pursue this!
It’s been brought to my attention that I’ve been enjoying Jeffrey Knapp’s *Shakespeare’s Tribe* too much. I regret the error.
July 29, 2025 at 7:53 PM
It’s been brought to my attention that I’ve been enjoying Jeffrey Knapp’s *Shakespeare’s Tribe* too much. I regret the error.
Admittedly a weird way to pass a beautiful summer day, but I’ve enjoyed wandering around Aristotle’s Ethics yet again…
July 25, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Admittedly a weird way to pass a beautiful summer day, but I’ve enjoyed wandering around Aristotle’s Ethics yet again…
And now the snakes, as amazing and unsettling as they are!
May 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
And now the snakes, as amazing and unsettling as they are!
5 days of hiking in the Outer Banks. Grateful for the respite and for all those who’ve worked to preserve our natural, wild spaces. (4 of my favorite shots across the days)
May 14, 2025 at 5:49 PM
5 days of hiking in the Outer Banks. Grateful for the respite and for all those who’ve worked to preserve our natural, wild spaces. (4 of my favorite shots across the days)
Desk copy day! All Folger editions this cycle. Teaching a class for future teachers of Shakespeare in the Fall. Especially excited to try out the Folger Method book on Macbeth.
May 1, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Desk copy day! All Folger editions this cycle. Teaching a class for future teachers of Shakespeare in the Fall. Especially excited to try out the Folger Method book on Macbeth.
Bought an old printer’s tray today. Zero regrets.
April 6, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Bought an old printer’s tray today. Zero regrets.
Was just thinking of this line this morning! Got wondering about its possible connection to Holinshed’s account of Donwald burying of Duff under a small river, lest his bleeding wounds incriminate.
April 4, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Was just thinking of this line this morning! Got wondering about its possible connection to Holinshed’s account of Donwald burying of Duff under a small river, lest his bleeding wounds incriminate.
For my #Raleigh & #WakeForest folks: I’ll be in conversation w/ Valerie Nieman at @page158books.bsky.social Wed. April 9th at 6pm. We’ll be discussing her new book Upon the Corner of the Moon, which tells a pre-history of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. We’d love to see you there! Her flyer for the event👇
April 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
For my #Raleigh & #WakeForest folks: I’ll be in conversation w/ Valerie Nieman at @page158books.bsky.social Wed. April 9th at 6pm. We’ll be discussing her new book Upon the Corner of the Moon, which tells a pre-history of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. We’d love to see you there! Her flyer for the event👇
Benjamin West’s *King Lear* (1788) from Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. (And many thanks to the organizers for a superb #Shax2025 & #RenSa2025)
March 23, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Benjamin West’s *King Lear* (1788) from Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. (And many thanks to the organizers for a superb #Shax2025 & #RenSa2025)
Tonight at 4:30! Come talk with Julia Lupton, Donovan Sherman, Patrick Gray, Douglas Clark, and me about Intentionality in Shakespeare & early modern life. Would love to see you there! #RenSA2025 #RSA2025 #Shax2025
March 22, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Tonight at 4:30! Come talk with Julia Lupton, Donovan Sherman, Patrick Gray, Douglas Clark, and me about Intentionality in Shakespeare & early modern life. Would love to see you there! #RenSA2025 #RSA2025 #Shax2025