#ShakespeareSunday and #MarloweSunday too. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

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At the Thursday Seminar this week, we're delighted to welcome back our brilliant alumnus @eoinprice.bsky.social , now of @edinburghuni.bsky.social, who is speaking to us about how often early modern playgoers went to see plays 👀 #Shakespeare #earlymodern #earlymodernhistory

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Elizabethan playhouses were supplied by a network of tailors, merchants & craftswomen. Their names survive in records, but little is known about their lives. I’m working on new research that brings the stories of these makers & traders centre stage. Here is the project in biscuit (cookie) form. 🍪

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I'm on strike again. Depending on how things go, I may not teach another class until the end of October. Depressing, for many reasons. The University of Edinburgh continues to press ahead with massive job cuts, coming off the back of the largescale programme closures announced earlier this month.

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Sometimes you see something that stops you in your tracks: 'Item paide to Singwills wyfe the Auncient bearer whose husband died flourishinge the Auncient in the hall -- ix s'

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