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edelsemple.bsky.social
@edelsemple.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare Studies @ UCC, Ireland • Shakespeare on screen • Women in early modern drama • Shakespearean biofiction • Cat-owner, cake-lover, books, plants • she/her
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Just finished reading @csittenfeld.bsky.social American Wife (which I enjoyed, but also had to shout at - the husband character mainly) The novel “Rodham” is still my favourite by this author.
Cover of the book American Wife, showing a woman on a bicycle, looking back over her shoulder. A house and field are in the background.
November 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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The Dragon of Shandon #Halloween parade in Cork city, #Ireland was great fun! Well done to all the makers and performers!
#Cork #CorkCity #Halloween2025
Large skeletons in a Halloween parade in Cork city. A Halloween float of an ornate giant demonic head, with brains popping out of the top. A Halloween parade float of large and s white skeletons in twisted poses. The skeletal head of the Dragon of Shandon, lit up internally, the centrepiece of this Halloween parade in Cork city.
November 1, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Finished The Death of Shame @ambroseparry.bsky.social (& recommend the series if Edinburgh gothic-y detective sounds appealing!) and starting The Last Word @ellygriffiths.bsky.social (another series I can’t get enough of!)
The cover of “The death of shame” showing a snake wrapped around an apple. The colours of the cover are silver, gold, and dark purple. The text also states that this is the final Raven and Fisher mystery. The cover for the book “The last word” shows an isolated cottage against a beautiful golden sunset. There is an open gate leading to an old laneway, surrounded by heathers, scrub, and a few trees. The tagline says: words can be dangerous sometimes they kill.
October 27, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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After seeing it everywhere and waiting months to borrow it from the library, I’m starting to read Fourth Wing by @rebeccayarros.bsky.social 📚 💙
The cover of the audiobook for Yarros’ FOURTH WING. The tagline reads “Fly… or die” The golden cover includes line drawings of clouds and dragons.
October 20, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Saw a Dalek in Bradford and after years of watching #DoctorWho meant that it was cool but also properly creepy!
A red and black Dalek in a hallway
October 15, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Thanks for the shoutout @emer.bsky.social - I know you and I would love to write about #Hamnet #Shakespeare #biofiction
Poster for the film Hamnet
October 13, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Reading last in a mystery series for a bit of cosy crime - Murder in Bloom by Rosie Sandler
#BookSky #AmReading📚 💙
Cover of audiobook for MURDER IN BLOOM, part of The Gardener Mysteries series, by Rosie Sandler. The cover seems to be lined by grass, and in the centre is the book title and a cartoonish red lily in a broken pot, with blood along the pot’s crack.
October 13, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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Anita looks like she’s about to deliver the #Caturday main evening news. #cats
A one-eyed tabby cat sits at the door of a cat-tree box, with her white paws on the threshold.
October 4, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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The Postscript Murders, part of the DS Harbinder Kaur series, which came recommended - by detective fiction expert @mary1010.bsky.social - and I’ve the next book lined up already!
#Booksky 📚 💙 #crimefiction
The audiobook cover of the book The Postscript Murders by Elly Griffiths, which is read by Nina Wadia. The tagline, in small font, says “Inventing crime stories can get you killed”. The cover image shows Brighton Pier shrouded in fog, under a moody grey sky, and a beach chair sat on a stony shore.
September 29, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Post one of the most haunting shots in movie history from a film made before the year 2000
The three witches from Orson Welles 1948 adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
September 29, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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Just finished Human Rites by @junodawson.bsky.social and started Katabasis by R.F. Kuang. And look at the very cool book covers! 📚 💙
The lilac cover to Juno Dawson’s book Human Rites, with the tagline “There’ll be the devil to pay”. The black, white, and gold cover to R F Kuang’s book Katabasis. The tagline reads “To hell with love”.
September 22, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Speeding through the third book in @junodawson.bsky.social superb series “Her Majesty’s Coven” - so good I can’t get enough of it &don’t want it to end! #BookSky 📚 💙 Bonus - audiobook is read by @nicolacoughlanbr.bsky.social!
September 15, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Today’s movie viewing was “Shakes versus Shav”, an Irish-made short film where #Shakespeare & #GBShaw, in puppet-form, square up to one another to debate the quality of their art and their legacies! #biofiction
A leaflet for the 2025 Meath Film Festival, in Ireland, in an auditorium before a screen. Marionettes of William Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw stand on a stage beside the title of the film “SHAKES versus SHAV”. The puppets are voiced by Colm Meaney and Derek Jacobi.
September 13, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Enjoying my #biofiction research by seeing @the-rsc.bsky.social Born With Teeth with @ncutigatwa.bsky.social as #Marlowe and Edward Bluemel as #Shakespeare in London. @lizduffyadams.bsky.social
Photo of a poster for the play showing Ncuti Gatwa, in 16th century costume of brown leather, with a cape over one shoulder. He stands leaning over a heavy wooden table and is blowing out a candle, which he holds in one hand.
September 6, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo+Juliet turns thirty in 2026 - celebrate by joining our seminar on the influence, legacy, and reception of this iconic film @saaupdates.bsky.social conference! Register for the seminar on the #shax2026 website by 15 September. #romeoandjuliet #shakespeare
Text reads: “Romeo + Juliet is 30! And we’re hosting a SAA seminar to celebrate.” The image shows a screen grab from the film where Paris, played by Paul Rudd, grins excitedly during the fireworks and confetti at the Capulet ball. Headline text reads: “Romeo + Juliet is 30! And we’re hosting a SAA seminar to celebrate.” The seminar description follows with a reminder to register for the conference by 15th September 2025. Headline text reads: “Romeo + Juliet is 30! And we’re hosting a SAA seminar to celebrate.” Below this the image is a screen grab from the film Romeo+Juliet, showing an ecstatic Mercutio (played by Harold Perrineau) in a white wig and sparkly white drag ensemble, joyously dancing to the song “Young Hearts Run Free” at the Capulet ball. This image is on a neon pink background and the jokey caption reads “projected response to the seminar”.
August 31, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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#Caturday - Here’s Anita demonstrating one use for her tail: eye mask during a nap
A small tabby cat, with black stripes on golden brown and beige fur, sleeps curled up with her tail covering her face.
August 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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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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Research this week includes the film that launched a thousand #biofiction imitators - #Shakespeare In Love (1998). So impressed by the beautiful (Oscar-winning) costumes.
Judi Dench as Queen Elizabeth I in the film Shakespeare In Love Paltrow as Viola in the film Shakespeare In Love
August 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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#Caturday - some toe beans on show today
A tabby cat is asleep. Her tail is fluffy and has black stripes. The cat’s striped legs are tipped with white at the paws. One white paw is tilted up, showing a pink foot pad and toe beans.
August 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Bee, caterpillar, and butterfly enjoying the nasturtiums and other flowers today #SpeirGorm #photography #garden
A furry bee departs from an orange nasturtium flower. Broad, round leaves of different shades of green surround the flowers. A caterpillar sits on top of a half-eaten nasturtium leaf. The caterpillar has black spots and is bright yellow and lime green, with hairs in along its body. Around this leaf are more broad, round leaves of different shades of green. A butterfly with its wings spread - mainly tangerine orange with lines and dots of yellow, black, white, and pale blue at the wing tips - sits on a pink flower. The dianthus flower is dark pink in the centre and pale pink on the outside.
August 22, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Reading #Shakespeare #biofiction plays this weekend for research and recalling some great productions like Dead Centre’s #Hamnet in 2017 #annehathaway #williamshakespeare
Covers of five books of recent plays: Shakespeare’s Will, The Book of Will, The Dark Lady, Hamnet by Dead Centre, and Hamnet by the RSC.
August 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Reading @dervlamctiernan.bsky.social DI Cormac Reilly crime series - set in Galway #booksky 📚 💙
The cover of the audiobook The Ruin written by Dervla McTiernan, read by Aoife McMahon. The cover shows a man standing on a stone bridge over a dark river, beneath a cloudy sky.
August 11, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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#Hedgehog will pose for a photo, but no autographs please! #SpeirGorm #wildlife
August 9, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Croatian cats for #caturday
A cat, orange and white coloured, makes it way down a bricked slope A calico cat lies stretched comfortably positioned in a shaded gully of a stonewall.
August 9, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Romeo+Juliet turns thirty in 2026 - come celebrate the influence, legacy, and reception of this iconic film by joining our #shax2026 seminar @saaupdates.bsky.social conference! @benbroadribb.bsky.social @gemmaallred.bsky.social #romeoandjuliet1996 #shakespeare #romeo+juliet
Image shows the iconic poster for the 1996 film Romeo + Juliet and a written description of a seminar about this film’s influence on performance and adaptations of Shakespeare, its legacy, echoes, and reception over the last three decades. The seminar will take place at the Shakespeare Association of America conference in 2026.
August 6, 2025 at 4:50 PM