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🎄❄️ Greetings, Bluesky!

The release of our forthcoming edition (28.2) is just around the corner this December!

Eager to know what’s inside? Keep an eye on our Skeets in the coming days.

This edition will be completely open access!

#EarlyTheatre #Drama
December 17, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Hello, world! 🎙️

We're thrilled to share that our newest issue is live on Project Muse: buff.ly/4qCfd3e — free for public access! 🎊 🎭️

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July 9, 2026 at 3:03 PM
"The bears are back. The bears are in the house." @callanjd reviews REED's new Bear Gardens/Hope Playhouse collection. buff.ly/h8o2EKI

#EarlyTheatre #Drama
July 11, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Would early modern Londoners go to see a play or hear a play? Chloe Preedy ponders what it would have been like to SMELL a play in “John Marston’s ‘Poules-worke.’” Now available in Early Theatre 29.1. buff.ly/OUNyu3u

#EarlyTheatre #London
July 10, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Now out in Early Theatre 29.1: Raphael Lyne draws on the first-person plural “we” in Antipodes (c.1636), comparing it with other works to show how Brome captures both the possibilities and the risks of mutuality. buff.ly/6RZIgP0

#Antipodes #EarlyTheatre
July 10, 2026 at 5:04 PM
What counts as lawful, as opposed to criminal, conversion? And what are the stakes of each? This depends on which genre of early modern English drama is taking up such questions, according to Sheila Coursey. Read more in ET's upcoming Dec 2025 issue.
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December 18, 2025 at 6:45 PM
An erroneous manuscript note describes the Croxton Play of the Sacrament as a translation from a Spanish text. Alexandra Atiya explores how this play actually was shaped by Spain. muse.jhu.edu/article/994424

#EarlyTheatre #Drama
July 10, 2026 at 3:06 PM
I once considered writing something about statuary and the characters who fall for them eg Ovid, pygmalion, and Winter’s Tale. Seems while I was thinking about it, others went and wrote some cool stuff. Like the piece above and the very different article here: earlytheatre.org/earlytheatre...
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December 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM
🎉📖 Greetings, Bluesky!
Our latest edition (28.2) is now live!

This issue is fully open access and free to read via Project MUSE’s Subscribe to Open Access initiative.

Start exploring here: muse.jhu.edu/journal/687

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February 6, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Can't work out how to see replies so not sure if this has already been suggested but earlytheatre.org/earlytheatre...
‘To kill harmless cattle': Animal Victims and The Witch of Edmonton | Early Theatre
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November 20, 2024 at 11:01 AM
A fascinating multidisciplinary, sociohistorical study of the theatre couple of early modern Italy, The Theatre Couple of Early Modern Italy: Self-Fashioning and Mutual Marketing by Serena Laiena is reviewed by Rosalind Kerr. buff.ly/gvngYUK

#Italy #EarlyTheatre
July 13, 2026 at 2:45 PM
Hello BSky!

Big news! 🎉 🎉 🎉

Our latest issue releases imminently. Keep an eye on our pre-release posts in the coming days for an early look inside. 📖

#EarlyTheatre #Summer2026
July 5, 2026 at 10:16 AM
So happy to see this out in the world: earlytheatre.org/earlytheatre/
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December 31, 2024 at 7:28 PM
This new collection edited by Scott Oldenburg and Matteo Pangallo "provide[s] novel means to engage with early modern texts then and now." Check out Philip Goldfarb Styrt's review of None a Stranger There: buff.ly/Sr7Zhib

#EarlyModern #EarlyTheatre
July 12, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Dustin Meyer applauds Darren Freebury Jones's “impressive” work in attribution studies in his review of Shakespeare’s Borrowed Feathers (@manchesterup). buff.ly/RxfalLw

#Shakespeare #EarlyTheatre
July 14, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Nora Williams's book Canonical Misogyny gives @pascaleexter "a refreshed sense of hope and purpose" regarding the ways in which "Performance matters. Our practice matters" when it comes to challenging misogyny. buff.ly/QgGOoJw

#Performance #EarlyModern #EarlyTheatre
July 15, 2026 at 5:04 PM
My latest publication is out in Early Theatre: new evidence about a specific playgoer in early modern Worcester (UK)--and not just any other playgoer but one of the rarest kinds to appear in the historical record by name: a middle-class woman. earlytheatre.org/earlytheatre...
In Great Haste to See a Play: A Woman Playgoer in Jacobean Worcester | Early Theatre
This note transcribes a letter written by Mary Ingram of Worcester sometime between 1607 and 1614, in which she describes going to see a play. The note provides some context about Mary, and her sister to whom she sent the letter, and what performance she might have gone to see, and what her letter reveals about early modern women as playgoers in the provinces.
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June 16, 2025 at 12:57 PM
In early modern English domestic tragedy, criminality is transformative, whereas in English city comedy, it appears less serious and even redeeming. For a deeper understanding, see Sheila Coursey's essay in ET December 2025: buff.ly/Odmf7UH

#EarlyTheatre #Drama
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February 10, 2026 at 6:30 PM
If you are interested in premodern drama and editing, check out Early Theatre's call for an assistant editor! It's a really supportive and inclusive journal / group of people putting out excellent scholarship.

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August 27, 2023 at 8:03 PM