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Susan Anderson
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Early modern disability, civic pageantry and music. Also cats.
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Tonight! Lights on at the Blackfriars with me talking about Lear and madness!
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Screenshot of the schedule of talks at the Blackfriars theatre in Staunton. March 7 is Meaning and Madness in King Lear with Dr. Susan Anderson
March 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Contents page 2 of Shax/Play
Page 2 of contents for Shakespeare / Play Act 3 Playing with bodies and minds 7 'The fit is momentary: Disability narratives and playing with norms in Shakespeare Susan Anderson 8 Notorious abuse: Madness, race and the cruelty of play in Twelfth Night and A Midsummer Nights Dream Urvashi Chakravarty 9 'Happy nights to happy days: Minoritarian Mercutios, affect and the Bury Your Gays trope in adaptations of Romeo and Juliet Vanessa I. Corredera Act break 3: Shakespeare / Play Dance Barbara Ravelhofer Act 4 Playing with stagecraft 10 Staging a moment of song Elisabeth Lutteman 11 Shakespeare and puppet play: Performing objects in early modern and contemporary staging Nicole Sheriko 12 'Become a Christian and thy loving wife: Conversion play in The Merchant of Venice Hailey Bachrach Act break 4: The bear stage Callan Davies, with Sophy Charlton, Andy Kesson, Liam Lewis, Hannah O'Regan and Elizabeth Wright Act 5 Games and jests 13 'Cooling card[s]': Early modern playing cards and images of kingship in Shakespeare's Henry VI plays Louise Fang 14 Here's a fellow frights English out of his wits: Playing with humour in The Merry Wives of Windsor Lieke Stelling 15 Word games: Affect and play in Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet Anne Sophie Refskou Jig: Classroom play: Strategies for teaching Shakespeare with games Gina Bloom Afterword: Taking a bow Tiffany Stern
November 25, 2024 at 7:24 PM
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Contents page 1 of Shax/Play
Page 1 of contents for Shakespeare / Play : Playbill: Introduction, or what is (a) play? Emma Whipday Prologue Callan Davies Act 1 Playing with parts 1 Playing the 'second part' Laurie Maguire 2 Sex workers and silence in Measure for Measure: The absent part of Kate Keepdown Emma Whipday 3 Who is a Great Shakespearean? Emer McHugh Act break 1: Lost, but once played: Enlarging the performative possibilities of Shakespeare's theatre David McInnis Act 2 Playing (with) women 4 Fairy toys and 'women's work' in A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Merry Wives of Windsor Chloe Kathleen Preedy 5 Women walking in Shakespeare: Playing with gendered space Eleanor Rycroft 6 The listening figure: Women performers playing with Shakespeare in Victorian tableaux vivants Sally Barnden Act break 2: Playing in private? Household performance in Mary Wroth's Love's Victory Alison Findlay
November 25, 2024 at 7:24 PM
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Thanks to living in a far-off land these days it took a *lot* longer for my contributor copy of Shakespeare/Play to arrive…! Worth the wait though - so chuffed to be in the company of these amazing co-contributors and editor!
Hardback copy of “Shakespeare / Play” edited by Emma Whipday. The cover is black with lines in neon rainbow colours that swoop across it like parts of letters.
November 25, 2024 at 7:12 PM
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Finally out in paperback! Hurrah!
Picture of a copy of A Cultural History of Disability in the Renaissance, edited by Susan Anderson and Liam Haydon.
March 18, 2024 at 9:06 PM
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Fantastic lecture this evening at MBU art department from journalist and artist Brian Palmer reflecting on his career and incredible photography. Images from Afghanistan in the 2000s, China in the 80s, and documenting recent efforts to care for neglected Virginia cemeteries for enslaved people.
Poster advertising the Susan Paul Firestone Lecture given by Brian Palmer on Monday 11 March 2024
March 12, 2024 at 1:06 AM
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Today 5pm at the Blackfriars! Very excited to be participating in a panel on disability and Julius Caesar!
Poster advertising the Friday Night Lights On panel on disability and Julius Caesar with a background picture of the cast of the American Shakespeare Center’s current production of the play.
March 8, 2024 at 7:44 PM