Yunah Kae
@yunahkae.bsky.social
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Yunah Kae
@yunahkae.bsky.social
· Aug 14
How to Know the Witch: Trivial Domestication, Tragicomedy, and Race in The Witch of Edmonton | English Literary Renaissance: Vol 55, No 3
Abstract What does it mean to “know” a witch in early modern culture, and how do questionable knowledge-processes become tested and verified in comedies? Dekker, Ford, and Rowley’s 1621 tragicomedy, T...
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new essay just out in ELR, "How to Know the Witch: Trivial Domestication, Tragicomedy, and Race in The Witch of Edmonton"🤩 Go check it out if you dig weird EM plays
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On the blog, @austintichenor.bsky.social shares threes takes on "Macbeth" that focus on the human struggle within the tragedy in new and unexpected ways, including a production at the @the-rsc.bsky.social, a novel about Lady Macbeth, and a film for streaming.
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"I'm Lovin' It": Variations on Macbeth | Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...
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November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
On the blog, @austintichenor.bsky.social shares threes takes on "Macbeth" that focus on the human struggle within the tragedy in new and unexpected ways, including a production at the @the-rsc.bsky.social, a novel about Lady Macbeth, and a film for streaming.
www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...
www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...
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Thrilled to see this Review Essay nearing publication in postmedieval. In 'Whiteness made visible: Recent Work in Premodern Critical Race Studies', I review four fascinating books on whiteness in art history, fiction, and drama, ranging from the medieval period to the twenty-first century.
November 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Thrilled to see this Review Essay nearing publication in postmedieval. In 'Whiteness made visible: Recent Work in Premodern Critical Race Studies', I review four fascinating books on whiteness in art history, fiction, and drama, ranging from the medieval period to the twenty-first century.
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Encompassing a wide range of genres, media & art forms across a broad historical scope, 'Shakespeare and Seriality' identifies central strategies of serialization in Shakespeare's plays & their adaptations.
Available to read open access on Bloomsbury Collections: https://bit.ly/3IYOMLU
#OAWeek
Available to read open access on Bloomsbury Collections: https://bit.ly/3IYOMLU
#OAWeek
October 22, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Encompassing a wide range of genres, media & art forms across a broad historical scope, 'Shakespeare and Seriality' identifies central strategies of serialization in Shakespeare's plays & their adaptations.
Available to read open access on Bloomsbury Collections: https://bit.ly/3IYOMLU
#OAWeek
Available to read open access on Bloomsbury Collections: https://bit.ly/3IYOMLU
#OAWeek
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a tiny bit of good news is that we have secured funding to digitize john milton's copy of holinshed's CHRONICLES (1587).
the images will form part of MILTON'S LIBRARY, an open-access site featuring the 10 books positively identified as milton's w/ transcriptions/translations of his marginal notes.
the images will form part of MILTON'S LIBRARY, an open-access site featuring the 10 books positively identified as milton's w/ transcriptions/translations of his marginal notes.
![A close-up image of a handwritten note in a sixteenth-century book. The note reads: 'Spenser repor / teth otherwise / [o]f this Knight / [D]ialogue of Ire- / [la]nd / [p]. 76.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:glqdunvigi5zxowf6heik65g/bafkreigi4rz7omz3cell5pa7hlyceoxd4fxsjy2ynmcd37fozanjejhsry@jpeg)
October 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
a tiny bit of good news is that we have secured funding to digitize john milton's copy of holinshed's CHRONICLES (1587).
the images will form part of MILTON'S LIBRARY, an open-access site featuring the 10 books positively identified as milton's w/ transcriptions/translations of his marginal notes.
the images will form part of MILTON'S LIBRARY, an open-access site featuring the 10 books positively identified as milton's w/ transcriptions/translations of his marginal notes.
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really nice piece on this btw from @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...
"The Printing Press Democratized Knowledge": When Slogans Masquerade as History — Sonja Drimmer
The phrase is said so frequently it seems, like the mechanism it celebrates, to mechanically replicate itself. It's become a favorite catchphrase among tech boosters of any sort (see my post on...
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October 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
really nice piece on this btw from @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...
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One of the most daring theological works of the C17th, published by Elizabeth Avery in 1647. It reconsiders every mainstream Protestant teaching about the apocalypse, and caused her to be denounced as a heretic, including by her own brother. I tell Avery’s story in Voices of Thunder #earlymodern
October 9, 2025 at 10:26 AM
One of the most daring theological works of the C17th, published by Elizabeth Avery in 1647. It reconsiders every mainstream Protestant teaching about the apocalypse, and caused her to be denounced as a heretic, including by her own brother. I tell Avery’s story in Voices of Thunder #earlymodern
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Congratulations to Prof. Marvin Hunt, one of our NVS ‘Hamlet’ editors, on the publication of Volume 2 of ‘Hamlet: The Critical Tradition’! @ardenpublisher.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/us/hamlet-97...
Hamlet
A companion to volume 1, Hamlet: Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition, Volume 2 presents key critical accounts of Hamlet from 1885-1964. The volume offers, in s…
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October 7, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Congratulations to Prof. Marvin Hunt, one of our NVS ‘Hamlet’ editors, on the publication of Volume 2 of ‘Hamlet: The Critical Tradition’! @ardenpublisher.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/us/hamlet-97...
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An excellent true thing is that I gave unequivocally anti-“AI” talks at Wesleyan and Tufts this month where the computer scientists and engineers in attendance have no interest in allowing this industry to hijack education and asked me “how can we get our students to take your classes?”
I will start teaching my students how to use AI when my colleagues in computer science start to teach Homer, Dante, Langston Hughes, Borges, Foucault, Audre Lord, Spivak, and Donna Haraway in their classes
I realize many people don’t quite get that not every single professor in every single university teaches computer science and might actually be trained in and invested in teaching other things, like let’s say, history? Or poetry.
Or sociology.
It is not our job to teach students how to use AI.
Or sociology.
It is not our job to teach students how to use AI.
September 29, 2025 at 12:53 AM
An excellent true thing is that I gave unequivocally anti-“AI” talks at Wesleyan and Tufts this month where the computer scientists and engineers in attendance have no interest in allowing this industry to hijack education and asked me “how can we get our students to take your classes?”
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September 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Up next at #Globe4Globe 2025: Animal Justice!
Karen Raber - Resisting Tyranny: Shakespeare’s Animals
Gigi Pinwill - Shakespeare’s Animals: An Actor Prepares
Barbara Taylor - They Howled All Together: Imagining Predators with Shakespeare
#G4G2025
Karen Raber - Resisting Tyranny: Shakespeare’s Animals
Gigi Pinwill - Shakespeare’s Animals: An Actor Prepares
Barbara Taylor - They Howled All Together: Imagining Predators with Shakespeare
#G4G2025
September 12, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Up next at #Globe4Globe 2025: Animal Justice!
Karen Raber - Resisting Tyranny: Shakespeare’s Animals
Gigi Pinwill - Shakespeare’s Animals: An Actor Prepares
Barbara Taylor - They Howled All Together: Imagining Predators with Shakespeare
#G4G2025
Karen Raber - Resisting Tyranny: Shakespeare’s Animals
Gigi Pinwill - Shakespeare’s Animals: An Actor Prepares
Barbara Taylor - They Howled All Together: Imagining Predators with Shakespeare
#G4G2025
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What is an 'Afghan Tartar'? Guest contributor Timur Khan attempts to find the answer in today's MEMOries blog post.
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What is an ‘Afghan Tartar’? A Short Overview of a Puzzling Phrase | MEMOs
As with the ‘Afghan Tartars,’ people plug gaps in knowledge about people loosely, by analogy or merging with other categories.
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September 9, 2025 at 10:41 AM
What is an 'Afghan Tartar'? Guest contributor Timur Khan attempts to find the answer in today's MEMOries blog post.
memorients.com/articles/wha...
memorients.com/articles/wha...
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Prepping for my first one-shot digital humanities workshop 💪 Intro to Data for Humanists that is the most gentle walkthrough for folks who aren't used to thinking about their work in these terms.
Working with data from my two fav projects: @ccp-org.bsky.social and the Womens Print History Project
Working with data from my two fav projects: @ccp-org.bsky.social and the Womens Print History Project
September 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Prepping for my first one-shot digital humanities workshop 💪 Intro to Data for Humanists that is the most gentle walkthrough for folks who aren't used to thinking about their work in these terms.
Working with data from my two fav projects: @ccp-org.bsky.social and the Womens Print History Project
Working with data from my two fav projects: @ccp-org.bsky.social and the Womens Print History Project
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The new season of REP play-readings kicks off with 1 Henry IV at 7.30 p.m. on 24 September, and will feature the King’s Men repertory of 1612-14, including The Duchess of Malfi, Valentinian and several Shakespearean revivals.
- see the full autumn schedule here:
www.readingearlyplays.com
- see the full autumn schedule here:
www.readingearlyplays.com
Welcome | Reading Early Plays
Reading Early Plays is a group that meets regularly online to explore drama written before the closure of the London theatres in 1642. We are interested in tracing the connections within groups of pla...
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September 5, 2025 at 1:17 PM
The new season of REP play-readings kicks off with 1 Henry IV at 7.30 p.m. on 24 September, and will feature the King’s Men repertory of 1612-14, including The Duchess of Malfi, Valentinian and several Shakespearean revivals.
- see the full autumn schedule here:
www.readingearlyplays.com
- see the full autumn schedule here:
www.readingearlyplays.com
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The #AI fairy stories of today's tech bros parallel those they told about nanotechnology 20 years ago. In both cases, the tech echo-chamber demanded the rest of us accept a nightmarish future for the sake of *their* egos, magical thinking, and wealth. @philipcball.bsky.social writes: 🧪 🗃
No suffering, no death, no limits: the nanobots pipe dream | Aeon Essays
Thirty years ago, nanotech was about to change everything. Let’s not get tricked again by Silicon Valley’s magical thinking
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September 2, 2025 at 12:08 PM
The #AI fairy stories of today's tech bros parallel those they told about nanotechnology 20 years ago. In both cases, the tech echo-chamber demanded the rest of us accept a nightmarish future for the sake of *their* egos, magical thinking, and wealth. @philipcball.bsky.social writes: 🧪 🗃
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Check out our wonderful Dr Simon Smith's recent blog post about the history of Twelfth Night in indoor and outdoor spaces. Available on the @folger.edu blog here:
www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...
#twelfthnight #folger #Shakespeare #theatre
www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...
#twelfthnight #folger #Shakespeare #theatre
From the Dark House to the Box Tree: Twelfth Night indoors and out | Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...
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September 2, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Check out our wonderful Dr Simon Smith's recent blog post about the history of Twelfth Night in indoor and outdoor spaces. Available on the @folger.edu blog here:
www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...
#twelfthnight #folger #Shakespeare #theatre
www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...
#twelfthnight #folger #Shakespeare #theatre
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I've updated #EarlyModern Resources earlymodernweb.org/resources/ Quite a few new links but also a big overhaul of the site to be more usable + a visual refresh.
(If you can't see a change, you may need to clear your browser cache and refresh hard. 😬)
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Welcome to Early Modern Resources – EMR
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September 1, 2025 at 10:44 AM
I've updated #EarlyModern Resources earlymodernweb.org/resources/ Quite a few new links but also a big overhaul of the site to be more usable + a visual refresh.
(If you can't see a change, you may need to clear your browser cache and refresh hard. 😬)
(If you can't see a change, you may need to clear your browser cache and refresh hard. 😬)
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Our first event of the semester will be a book launch for Dr. Whitney Sperrazza’s ‘Anatomical Forms’ (UPenn Press, 2025). Thurs 11 Sept, 12:30pm CT, in person and streamed on Zoom. For more details and Zoom link: newvariorumshakespeare.org/news/
September 1, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Our first event of the semester will be a book launch for Dr. Whitney Sperrazza’s ‘Anatomical Forms’ (UPenn Press, 2025). Thurs 11 Sept, 12:30pm CT, in person and streamed on Zoom. For more details and Zoom link: newvariorumshakespeare.org/news/
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If you are in or near Baltimore you should know that the Walters Art Museum (which is free!) has a small but wonderful exhibit about cats in medieval manuscripts
August 31, 2025 at 5:46 PM
If you are in or near Baltimore you should know that the Walters Art Museum (which is free!) has a small but wonderful exhibit about cats in medieval manuscripts
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New special issue, "Shakespeare in Asian Currents" now available, with criticism, performance, and a roundtable on future directions! #earlymodern #shakespeare www.tandfonline.com/toc/rshk20/c...
Shakespeare
Special issue on ‘Shakespeare in Asian Currents’, guest edited by Bi-qi Beatrice Lei and Judy Celine Ick. Volume 21, Issue 3 of Shakespeare
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August 30, 2025 at 3:12 PM
New special issue, "Shakespeare in Asian Currents" now available, with criticism, performance, and a roundtable on future directions! #earlymodern #shakespeare www.tandfonline.com/toc/rshk20/c...
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Just discovering this database of books as symbols in Renaissance art--a wonderful resource #EarlyModern #HerBook basiraproject.org
BASIRA • Books as Symbols in Renaissance Art
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August 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Just discovering this database of books as symbols in Renaissance art--a wonderful resource #EarlyModern #HerBook basiraproject.org
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An updated Dictionary of AI to help cut through the obfuscating buzzwords. sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...
*with thanks to Joseph Potts and @petertarras.bsky.social for their contributions
*with thanks to Joseph Potts and @petertarras.bsky.social for their contributions
A Dictionary of "AI" — Sonja Drimmer
Even if you spend just a small amount of time listening to people who believe that any kind of digital technology (whether that’s “artificial intelligence” or not) is an unquestioned good, you’ll hear...
sonjadrimmer.com
August 27, 2025 at 10:54 AM
An updated Dictionary of AI to help cut through the obfuscating buzzwords. sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...
*with thanks to Joseph Potts and @petertarras.bsky.social for their contributions
*with thanks to Joseph Potts and @petertarras.bsky.social for their contributions
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