Tom Rutter
@obscuredrama.bsky.social
Shakespeare/Marlowe/playing companies/science/early modern drama, University of Sheffield
Annual whiteboard sketch of invention, nature's child, fleeing stepdame study's blows
October 29, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Annual whiteboard sketch of invention, nature's child, fleeing stepdame study's blows
Did a Triffid design this notebook?
October 14, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Did a Triffid design this notebook?
Remembering when, in the wake of a conversation in which I questionably proposed ideological overlap between Aphra Behn and Jilly Cooper, I produced this mashup:
October 7, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Remembering when, in the wake of a conversation in which I questionably proposed ideological overlap between Aphra Behn and Jilly Cooper, I produced this mashup:
Dowden on Shakespeare gets a bad press these days but this jab at Coleridge hits home
June 19, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Dowden on Shakespeare gets a bad press these days but this jab at Coleridge hits home
Acceptable coinages, Y/N?
June 13, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Acceptable coinages, Y/N?
Caught in the act: this is who keeps turning the movement-sensitive light switch under my bathroom mirror on and off.
May 24, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Caught in the act: this is who keeps turning the movement-sensitive light switch under my bathroom mirror on and off.
With perfect timing for the new papacy, look what was waiting for me in the mail room when I came in today @malonesociety.bsky.social
May 9, 2025 at 8:42 AM
With perfect timing for the new papacy, look what was waiting for me in the mail room when I came in today @malonesociety.bsky.social
Flyong the @srsrensoc.bsky.social flag at the Palazzo Pitti
April 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Flyong the @srsrensoc.bsky.social flag at the Palazzo Pitti
Pleasing timeline juxtaposition
March 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Pleasing timeline juxtaposition
I always enjoy my seminar in @uoscollections.bsky.social , especially when students find rude typos in the running headers of canonical texts:
March 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I always enjoy my seminar in @uoscollections.bsky.social , especially when students find rude typos in the running headers of canonical texts:
No wonder AI's so clever, it lives in the future
![Text reads: AI Overview: The 2025 National Student Survey (NSS) closed on Wednesday, April 30, 2025. [...]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:54knqyvvsfb6ojep7xwjo755/bafkreifkfo7pmykjt7ocyflb72ltw5enfnnk3uztkyoaoxvlttulasg7ba@jpeg)
February 17, 2025 at 10:19 AM
No wonder AI's so clever, it lives in the future
I felt unfettered & alive
January 21, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I felt unfettered & alive
Thanks, Bloomsbury, for unleashing my afternoon earworm
January 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Thanks, Bloomsbury, for unleashing my afternoon earworm
Thanks, Google AI Overview, but I wasn't asking you and I am somewhat sceptical.
December 19, 2024 at 9:10 AM
Thanks, Google AI Overview, but I wasn't asking you and I am somewhat sceptical.
A propos nothing, this is an excellent image.
October 31, 2024 at 12:59 PM
A propos nothing, this is an excellent image.
This must surely be top of the list
October 15, 2024 at 2:16 PM
This must surely be top of the list
You have to love mid-twentieth-century British historians
September 24, 2024 at 10:48 AM
You have to love mid-twentieth-century British historians
I'm a week late to this party
September 23, 2024 at 8:28 PM
I'm a week late to this party
I've been a late arrival to the Mountain Goats party but the centrality of Peter Hughes to their sound is obvious. Glad to have heard and seen him at work.
August 19, 2024 at 10:37 PM
I've been a late arrival to the Mountain Goats party but the centrality of Peter Hughes to their sound is obvious. Glad to have heard and seen him at work.
Check out the lineup for 'Page, Performance and Culture' on 12 June! To register as an attendee (in person or online) go to forms.gle/5Lt35mTjmRCM... by Friday 5 June. Thanks to @BSAShakespeare for providing funding.
May 30, 2024 at 2:36 PM
Check out the lineup for 'Page, Performance and Culture' on 12 June! To register as an attendee (in person or online) go to forms.gle/5Lt35mTjmRCM... by Friday 5 June. Thanks to @BSAShakespeare for providing funding.
Fresh from giving a talk about the guy in the picture above me. I don't think anyone had to be hospitalised after being blinded by the light reflected off my expanding forehead
November 24, 2023 at 2:56 PM
Fresh from giving a talk about the guy in the picture above me. I don't think anyone had to be hospitalised after being blinded by the light reflected off my expanding forehead
