Shakespeare Presented
@gwyoung.bsky.social
🪶✨PhD researcher (AHRC, M4C, Shakespeare Institute & SBT) on the presentation and reinterpretation of Shakespeare’s life story in Stratford-on-Avon spaces and places, past and present. Teacher and City of London guide. Views own, reposts not endorsement.
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I've been lucky enough to have had some excellent discussions (podcast and otherwise) about Shakespeare's Tragic Art, but I think this set of questions may have been the best.
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Christian Humanist Profiles 271: Shakespeare’s Tragic Art
Living among human beings gives an observant person plenty of occasions to think about delusion. Whether one watches the young revolutionary or the aging politician, the conspiracy theorist or the…
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July 6, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I've been lucky enough to have had some excellent discussions (podcast and otherwise) about Shakespeare's Tragic Art, but I think this set of questions may have been the best.
www.christianhumanist.org/2025/06/chri...
www.christianhumanist.org/2025/06/chri...
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I enjoyed myself answering some questions about Shakespeare's Tragic Art for Princeton's Humanities Council.
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humanities.princeton.edu/2025/01/08/f...
Faculty Author Q&A: Rhodri Lewis on “Shakespeare’s Tragic Art” — Princeton University Humanities Council
Rhodri Lewis is a senior research scholar and lecturer with rank of professor in the Department of English. His latest book “Shakespeare’s Tragic Art” was published in October 2024 by […]
humanities.princeton.edu
January 9, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I enjoyed myself answering some questions about Shakespeare's Tragic Art for Princeton's Humanities Council.
humanities.princeton.edu/2025/01/08/f...
humanities.princeton.edu/2025/01/08/f...
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Do you ever get the feeling the world’s gone crazy? With this in mind, I play the Flintstones theme in the style of the Russian classics.
November 16, 2024 at 7:42 AM
Do you ever get the feeling the world’s gone crazy? With this in mind, I play the Flintstones theme in the style of the Russian classics.
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now that the milton news is out, i want to stress that this work would not be possible w/o financial & institutional support of collaborative open-ended scholarship in the humanities, nor would it be possible w/o investments in vital public library infrastructures. #fundlibraries
OUT IN THIS WEEK'S @thetls.bsky.social
IDENTIFYING JOHN MILTON’S COPY OF HOLINSHED’S CHRONICLES by @roaringgirle.bsky.social,
@aarontpratt.bsky.social and me.
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IDENTIFYING JOHN MILTON’S COPY OF HOLINSHED’S CHRONICLES by @roaringgirle.bsky.social,
@aarontpratt.bsky.social and me.
the-tls.co.uk/articles/joh...
Identifying John Milton’s copy of Holinshed’s Chronicles | The TLS
In 1942 the real estate magnate and philanthropist Alfred Knight purchased a copy of Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicles in its second, expanded edition (1587). He was building a collection of rare books w...
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May 16, 2024 at 12:53 PM
now that the milton news is out, i want to stress that this work would not be possible w/o financial & institutional support of collaborative open-ended scholarship in the humanities, nor would it be possible w/o investments in vital public library infrastructures. #fundlibraries
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James Leslie Mitchell (1901–1935), better known as Lewis Grassic Gibbon, was born on this day, 13 Feb. Author of SUNSET SONG – & many other titles from historical to science fiction – he is one of the most important Scottish writers of the 20th century.
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February 13, 2024 at 12:07 PM
James Leslie Mitchell (1901–1935), better known as Lewis Grassic Gibbon, was born on this day, 13 Feb. Author of SUNSET SONG – & many other titles from historical to science fiction – he is one of the most important Scottish writers of the 20th century.
A 🎂 🧵 …
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digital.nls.uk/learning/sun...
A 🎂 🧵 …
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digital.nls.uk/learning/sun...
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New publication alert! My chapter on the uses of Dickens in Bud Handelsman's New Yorker cartoons has just appeared in Adaptation & Illustration: New Cartographies, ed by Shannon Wells-Lassagne & Sophie Aymes: “Alternative Dickens”:
“Alternative Dickens”: The Graphic Adaptation of the Inimitable in The New Yorker
The original illustrations to Dickens’s serial fiction are well-known to scholars and general readers, but there has been little sustained discussion of the relationship between Dickens’s ...
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January 29, 2024 at 3:04 PM
New publication alert! My chapter on the uses of Dickens in Bud Handelsman's New Yorker cartoons has just appeared in Adaptation & Illustration: New Cartographies, ed by Shannon Wells-Lassagne & Sophie Aymes: “Alternative Dickens”:
Excellent opportunity to build palaeography skills 🪶✨ Looks fun ✨
The project makes use of some innovative new crowdsourcing and Digital Humanities approaches.
We're also looking for volunteers to get involved - further details here: sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...
We're also looking for volunteers to get involved - further details here: sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...
Volunteers
One of the things the Project Team are most looking forward to is working alongside a community of volunteers to meet the challenge of transcribing 25,000 wills. Crowdsourcing the time and skills of t...
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January 30, 2024 at 11:05 AM
Excellent opportunity to build palaeography skills 🪶✨ Looks fun ✨
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Reminder: Gregynog Postgraduate Theory School, March 19-20. #geosky #academicsky
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"Thinking with fragments: the allure of the broken, discarded, and disjointed in urban space." Keynote lecture by Colin McFarlane and discussion of key texts. At stunning Gregynog Hall, Powys. shorturl.at/jBCM7
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"Thinking with fragments: the allure of the broken, discarded, and disjointed in urban space." Keynote lecture by Colin McFarlane and discussion of key texts. At stunning Gregynog Hall, Powys. shorturl.at/jBCM7
Gregynog Theory School 2024
Thinking with fragments: the allure of the broken, discarded and disjointed in urban space, with Keynote speaker Professor Colin McFarlane
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January 30, 2024 at 9:27 AM
Reminder: Gregynog Postgraduate Theory School, March 19-20. #geosky #academicsky
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"Thinking with fragments: the allure of the broken, discarded, and disjointed in urban space." Keynote lecture by Colin McFarlane and discussion of key texts. At stunning Gregynog Hall, Powys. shorturl.at/jBCM7
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"Thinking with fragments: the allure of the broken, discarded, and disjointed in urban space." Keynote lecture by Colin McFarlane and discussion of key texts. At stunning Gregynog Hall, Powys. shorturl.at/jBCM7
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As well as our new Material Culture of Wills project website, you can also sign up for our mailing list or follow along with our new Bluesky account:
Bluesky: @materialwills.bsky.social
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Mailing list: forms.office.com/e/JbUEq4Za1u
Bluesky: @materialwills.bsky.social
Website: sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...
Mailing list: forms.office.com/e/JbUEq4Za1u
January 30, 2024 at 8:46 AM
As well as our new Material Culture of Wills project website, you can also sign up for our mailing list or follow along with our new Bluesky account:
Bluesky: @materialwills.bsky.social
Website: sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...
Mailing list: forms.office.com/e/JbUEq4Za1u
Bluesky: @materialwills.bsky.social
Website: sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...
Mailing list: forms.office.com/e/JbUEq4Za1u
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Delighted to announce the launch of our brand new website for our project "The Material Culture of Wills, England 1540-1790". You can also follow what we're up to at @materialwills.bsky.social sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...
The Material Culture of Wills, England 1540-1790
Welcome to our project. We're a team of researchers from the University of Exeter and The National Archives using wills to explore the importance and meanings of material culture in sixteenth-, sevent...
sites.exeter.ac.uk
January 30, 2024 at 8:29 AM
Delighted to announce the launch of our brand new website for our project "The Material Culture of Wills, England 1540-1790". You can also follow what we're up to at @materialwills.bsky.social sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...
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#NewReleases2024 #31
End of My Days
Ruby Hughes (soprano), Manchester Collective
Songs of separation, isolation and mortality. Surprisingly uplifting.
End of My Days
Ruby Hughes (soprano), Manchester Collective
Songs of separation, isolation and mortality. Surprisingly uplifting.
January 29, 2024 at 6:54 AM
#NewReleases2024 #31
End of My Days
Ruby Hughes (soprano), Manchester Collective
Songs of separation, isolation and mortality. Surprisingly uplifting.
End of My Days
Ruby Hughes (soprano), Manchester Collective
Songs of separation, isolation and mortality. Surprisingly uplifting.
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Why is the public domain important for creators? Because every year, classic (& forgotten) works of art become free to remix & reuse! See this in action with our Public Domain Day Film Remix Contest submissions: blog.archive.org/2024/01/26/l...
January 28, 2024 at 3:10 PM
Why is the public domain important for creators? Because every year, classic (& forgotten) works of art become free to remix & reuse! See this in action with our Public Domain Day Film Remix Contest submissions: blog.archive.org/2024/01/26/l...