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Tag Archives: early modern

“the civility of my knee, my hat and hand”: Thomas Browne’s “Religio Medici”

April 8, 2017

Thomas Browne, the seventeenth-century doctor and speculative thinker, is one of the authors I’ve only begun to read in the …

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Paint, Time and Paradox: A Stroll Round the Ashmolean

March 4, 2017

A few weeks ago we were in Oxford, and had a couple of spare hours so went to the Ashmolean …

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Maids, Wives, Widows: An Interview with Sara Read

September 1, 2015

Earlier in the year I reviewed Dr. Sara Read’s new book Maids, Wives, Widows: Exploring Early Modern Women’s Lives 1540-1740, …

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Maids, Wives, Widows: Exploring Early Modern Women’s Lives 1540-1740, by Sara Read

June 16, 2015

In August 1643, 5,000 women protested outside Parliament, wearing white ribbons to demand peace in the ongoing civil conflicts. During …

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John Lyly and early modern authorship, by Andy Kesson

March 26, 2014

“It is difficult to overstate Lyly’s impact on early modern culture, but this book will do its very best” (3). …

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The Elizabethan Top Ten: Defining Print Popularity in Early Modern England, ed. Andy Kesson and Emma Smith

January 10, 2014

The Elizabethan Top Ten: Defining Print Popularity in Early Modern England is an extraordinary and exhilarating collection of essays edited …

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Something rotten in the state of SAMCRO: Hamlet and Sons of Anarchy

November 6, 2013

I’m currently teaching on a course called “Screen Shakespeares”, and many of the most intriguing discussions take place around works …

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Another Boleyn Girl: Anne Boleyn by Howard Brenton, at Shakespeare’s Globe

May 16, 2013

Anne Boleyn’s had a lively time of it since her death.  At the time of her execution she was rumoured …

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The Playmate’s Tragedy: Anna Nicole by Mark-Anthony Turnage

May 9, 2013

I found my allotted space near the top of the Royal Opera House and began the ancient English ritual of …

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Awkward Shakespeare: Michael Sheen as Hamlet at the Young Vic

May 8, 2013

“That was creepy,” said my sister, “I’ve been round actual deserted asylums, and that was creepy by comparison.”  To enter …

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