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March 2026.

In paperback: SHAKESPEARE'S BORROWED FEATHERS: HOW EARLY MODERN PLAYWRIGHTS SHAPED THE WORLD'S GREATEST WRITER.

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#ShakespearesBorrowedFeathers #Shakespeare #EarlyModernDrama #Literature #BookRelease #History #TheatreHistory #MustRead
December 14, 2025 at 8:34 PM
dramaticletters.bsky.social
Returned from my birdsite hiatus just in time for the great migration. Here for all things #earlymodern #letterwriting #bookhistory and #earlymoderndrama!
November 29, 2024 at 1:08 PM
lemdo-uvic.bsky.social
Linked Early Modern Drama is on Bluesky! We are housed at @uvic.ca and supported by @uvichumanities.bsky.social. #earlyModernDrama #Shakespeare #digitalEditions #editing #textEncoding
March 19, 2025 at 1:19 AM
commonmugwort.bsky.social
I’m in this, with some fabulous people, and you should come see us, obviously.
#Marlowe #EarlyModernDrama
beyondshakes.bsky.social Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · Aug 31
Keep hearing some buzzing about performing Marlowe more... obviously we're doing Doctor Faustus twice in October so... you know... do the thing.
If you want to.
It's not like you're signing your life away.
In blood.
www.ticketsource.co.uk/beyondshakes...
August 31, 2025 at 11:20 AM
passamezzo.bsky.social
One for #throwbackthursday
Playing for the Lions part's production of The City Wives Confederacy at Greenwich Playhouse in 2009

#Vanbrugh #restorationdrama #restorationcomedy #earlymusic #thelionspart #earlymodern #earlymoderndrama #musicianlife #17thCentury #17thC
December 12, 2024 at 9:15 AM
joestephenson.bsky.social
Hello, anyone here? Let me throw some hashtags out and see what happens:
#shakespeare
#earlymoderndrama
#restorationdrama
#renaissanceliterature
#englishliterature
November 20, 2023 at 2:55 AM
freeburian.bsky.social
Fill yer stocking. 📖 🎄 🎅

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#giftideas #Shakespeare #EarlyModernDrama #Literature #BookRelease #History #TheatreHistory #MustRead
December 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM
passamezzo.bsky.social
It's Bandcamp Friday, and we've got lots of music for you to listen to!
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#earlymusic #earlymusicensemble #bandcamp #bandcampfriday #recordingartist #earlymodern #earlymoderndrama
Passamezzo
London based early music ensemble specialising in English 16th and 17th repertoire. Early modern music, song, ballads, theatre & dance. Viols, lute, voices, violin, recorders, harp. Christmas, Elizab...
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October 3, 2025 at 8:37 AM
kaydaly.bsky.social
Here's an absolutely ripping podcast on #earlymodern #playwright Thomas Middleton, with a delightful side trip into Moll Cutpurse!

#earlymoderndrama #drama #theater #earlymoderntheater

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Thomas Middleton
The prolific and versatile Jacobean playwright tasked with 'improving' some of Shakespeare
www.bbc.co.uk
April 19, 2025 at 7:20 PM
pangallo.bsky.social
Call for essay proposals for a planned volume honoring the memory of William Proctor Williams. Essays are sought on subjects such as #textual criticism, scholarly #editing, #bookhistory, early modern #theater history, #earlymoderndrama, & #Shakespeare. call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/03/...
March 24, 2024 at 11:39 AM
kaydaly.bsky.social
If every #novel I've ever written can include Ben Jonson in some way, I will have achieved my life's purpose.

@benjonson.bsky.social
#earlymodern #earlymoderndrama #EnglishTheater #amwriting #writinglife #historicalfiction
March 3, 2025 at 5:01 PM
jamescummings.bsky.social
Reminder to register soon! If you are interested in #EarlyModernDrama or #DigitalEditions then this is a talk you should consider attending.
jamescummings.bsky.social James Cummings @jamescummings.bsky.social · Apr 15
Our next ATNU Virtual Speaker is @janellejenstad.bsky.social on 23 April 2025, talking about "From Macbeth to Mucedorus: Changing how we Edit and Publish Early Modern Plays". Register now!

research.ncl.ac.uk/atnu/news/at...
Image of Janelle Jenstad and the LEMDO logo superimposed on top of the Douai Manuscript Macbeth.
April 22, 2025 at 12:47 PM
kaydaly.bsky.social
Performing tonight, but you can still get on-demand tickets for watching the video this week (available starting Tues).
#Earlymoderndrama #earlymoderntheater #drama #theater #christophermarlowe

www.redbulltheater.com/the-jew-of-m...
THE JEW OF MALTA by Christopher Marlowe
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March 24, 2025 at 11:14 PM
passamezzo.bsky.social
#ThrowbackThursday
Playing in Balshaw's Jigge in 2023.
A #17thCentury musical play, discovered by the amazing @wallyberry.bsky.social and performed for the first time in 350 years.
An audience member sketched us on her programme.

#earlymusic #musicianlife #earlymodern #earlymoderndrama #ballad #jig
June 18, 2026 at 8:39 AM
passamezzo.bsky.social
A #17thCentury playhouse song for this glorious spring weather...

John Wilson: Love's Emblems
From Beaumont and Fletcher's 1614 play, Valentinian.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_7F...

#earlymusic #earlymodern #earlymoderndrama #soprano
#beaumont #fletcher #johnwilson #lute #viol #earlymusicensemble
John Wilson: Love's Emblems
Love's Emblems: a song from Beaumont and Fletcher's 1614 play, Valentinian.Eleanor Cramer: sopranoRichard de Winter: baritoneSam Brown: luteAlison Kinder: ba...
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May 10, 2024 at 9:12 AM
janalena.bsky.social
So much fun. @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with Serena Laiena, over The Theater Couple in Early Modern History #earlymodernsky #skystorians #historians #earlymodern #theaterhistory #earlymoderndrama
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Serena Laiena, "The Theatre Couple in Early Modern Italy: Self-Fashioning and Mutual Marketing" (U Delaware Press, 2023) - New Books Network
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November 24, 2024 at 9:15 PM
kaydaly.bsky.social
Why is that writing a novel about #Shakespeare requires shitting all over Ben Jonson?

@benjonson.bsky.social?

#historicalfiction #booksky 💙📚 #earlymodernengland #earlymodern #earlymodernlit #earlymoderndrama #histfic
February 1, 2025 at 1:51 PM
commonmugwort.bsky.social
Celebrate the 400th anniversary of Thomas Middleton’s A Game at Chess with the Beyond Shakespeare Company: beyondshakespeare.org/a-game-at-ch...
#EarlyModern #EarlyModernDrama #ThomasMiddleton
A Game at Chess by Thomas Middleton
A Game at Chess by Thomas Middleton was produced for an epic nine (possibly more) back to back performances in August 1624. Usually described only as a piece of satire, working in topical references t...
beyondshakespeare.org
July 21, 2024 at 10:31 AM
kitmarlowe1564.co.uk
#TheAdventOfMarlowe
I. RAISE A GLASSE!
Opening one Kit Marlowe aduent calendar window euerie morning for a prettie picture and some seasonal goode cheere!
#ChristopherMarlowe #EarlyModernDrama
POST: #TheAdventOfMarlowe I. RAISE A GLASS! Opening one Kit Marlowe advent calendar window every morning for a pretty picture and some seasonal good cheer! QUOTE: "View but his picture in this tragic glass, And then applaud his fortunes as you please." Prologue to Tamburlaine the Great Part 1 PICTURE: The opened advent calendar window for 1st December shows Kit Marlowe sat in an armchair and wearing a red paper hat. He sits with his back to us in front of a roaring log fire, in a cosy parlour with wooden panelling on the walls and low wooden beams along the ceiling. The room is decorated for Christmas, with a tall Christmas tree in the far corner decorated with candles, tinsel and hanging ornaments. There are lit candles on the wall and a wreath and holly around the fireplace. On the table are a number of bottles of wine from the Australian wine producer Tamburlaine. On the wall above the fireplace is the purported portrait of Kit Marlowe from 1585, and the seated Kit is raising a half empty (or half full) glass to it. Part of the portrait is visible through the top half of the glass.
December 1, 2024 at 8:24 AM
kitmarlowe1564.co.uk
#TheAdventOfMarlowe
XVIII. PRESENTS CHAMBER
Opening one Kit Marlowe aduent calendar window euerie morning for a prettie picture and some seasonal goode cheere!
#ChristopherMarlowe #EarlyModernDrama #AdventCalendar
POST: #TheAdventOfMarlowe 18. PRESENTS CHAMBER Opening one Kit Marlowe advent calendar window every morning for a pretty picture and some seasonal good cheer! QUOTE: "I, John Faustus of Wittenberg, Doctor, by these presents do give both body and soul to Lucifer, Prince of the East, and his minister Mephistopheles" PICTURE: The opened advent calendar window for 18th December shows the woodcut chamber of Doctor Faustus as seen on the title page of the 1619 Quarto edition of the play (the so-called B-text "with new additions"). The Doctor stands "within his circle" that has "Jehovah's name forward and backward anagrammatized", one angel hovering above each shoulder. He has made an effort for Christmas: black paper chains adorn the wall next to his globe, and a woodcut Christmas tree stands by the book-shelf. Mephistopheles already holds one large wrapped present with a bow on top, but Faustus is handing him a second. Kit Marlowe peers in through the diamond-paned window from outside.
December 18, 2024 at 8:32 AM
kitmarlowe1564.co.uk
#TheAdventOfMarlowe
VII. SILENT KNIGHT
Opening one Kit Marlowe aduent calendar window euerie morning for a prettie picture and some seasonal goode cheere!
#ChristopherMarlowe #EarlyModernDrama #AdventCalendar
POST: #TheAdventOfMarlowe 7. SILENT KNIGHT Opening one Kit Marlowe advent calendar window every morning for a pretty picture and some seasonal good cheer! QUOTE: "Dumb swans, not chattering pies do lovers prove, They love indeed, who dare not say they love." Sir P.S. (Philip Sidney), His Astrophel and Stella (1591) PICTURE: The opened advent calendar window for 7th December shows an old wood-panelled hall with a large fireplace and a blazing fire in the grate. A table in the foreground in front of the fire is laden with a range of rich food, including meats, fruit, and breads amongst festive candles and Christmas greenery. On the left side of the table are two roast swans, an Elizabethan delicacy. Behind the table is Sir Philip Sidney, from whose sonnet sequence Astrophel and Stella today's quote is taken (Sonnet 54 in modern editions). In the far corner of the room stands a knight's suit of armour, and we can just see Kit Marlowe peering around the door at Sidney, tankard in hand and wearing a red party hat.
December 7, 2024 at 9:07 AM
lazarustheatre.bsky.social
"Lost, I am Lost! My fates have doomed my death.
The more I strive, I love; the more I love,
The less I hope. I see my ruin, certain."

#TisPity #JohnFord #EarlyModernDrama 🗡️🫀🩸
June 7, 2025 at 2:32 PM
kitmarlowe1564.co.uk
#TheAdventOfMarlowe
VIII. TOY STORY
Opening one Kit Marlowe aduent calendar window euerie morning for a prettie picture and some seasonal goode cheere!
#ChristopherMarlowe #EarlyModernDrama #AdventCalendar
POST: #TheAdventOfMarlowe 8. TOY STORY Opening one Kit Marlowe advent calendar window every morning for a pretty picture and some seasonal good cheer! QUOTE: "MACHIAVELLI: I count religion but a childish toy, And hold there is no sin but ignorance." Prologue to The Jew of Malta. PICTURE: The opened advent calendar window for 8th December shows the inside of a Tudor chapel, the fifteenth century church at Rycote Park in Oxfordshire with thick wooden roof beams. The chapel is divided by a beautifully carved rood screen, behind which we can just see a large Christmas tree in front of a huge wall-high window. The pulpit, galleries and pews are occupied by a mix of religious figures from Marlowe's time. Discarded Christmas wrapping paper covers the floor between the pews, and each character holds a toy present. In the top gallery on the left stands St Edmund Campion waving an Elizabethan child's rattle with bells. Under a canopy, Archbishop John Whitgift holds an Edmund Blackadder doll. Inside the panelled sections beneath the galleries, we see Baldrick with a red nose (played by Tony Robinson, left) and a bored looking Queen Elizabethan I (right). In the pews on the left, rear to front sit Pope Gregory XIII holding a Christmas calendar, John Foxe holding a child's ball and cup game (throwing the ball behind him at Gregory's head), and Sir Francis Walsingham holding a spy glass and a small upside down card with "M" printed on it. In the pulpit on the right is Niccolò Machiavelli, holding a purple suited toy doll of the singer formerly known as Prince. In the central aisle sits Kit Marlowe on an old wooden rocking horse.
December 8, 2024 at 9:32 AM
kitmarlowe1564.co.uk
This yuletide, to assuage my atheistick reputation & inspired by the Fortnum & Mason shoppe, I haue decorated the beautiful birthplace as a calendar to bring thee #TheAdventOfMarlowe. Open one windowe each morning for a pretty picture and seasonal goode cheere!
#ChristopherMarlowe #EarlyModernDrama
POST: This yuletide to assuage my atheistic reputation and inspired by the Fortnum & Mason shop, I have festively decorated the beautiful birthplace as a calendar to bring thee #TheAdventOfMarlowe. Open one window each morning for a pretty picture and some seasonal good cheer! PICTURE: An old photo of the half-timbered house on St. George's Street in Canterbury that was purportedly owned by the Marlowe family and thus the house where Christopher Marlowe was born. The house is somewhat the worse for wear, with plaster and paint cracking. Efforts have been made to decorate the house, with fairy lights dangling from the roof guttering, and an inflatable Santa with lights sitting on the chimney. In the back garden over the high wall can be seen a pair of lighted snowmen and a Christmas tree. The large back window of the house is divided into 20 panes, and each has a number. Likewise the window in the gable with three panes is numbered. The window panes are randomly numbered 1 to 23. The big back gate in the wall is numbered 24, thus completing the 24 numbered windows of an Advent calendar.
November 30, 2024 at 9:37 AM
pangallo.bsky.social
The deadline to submit a chapter proposal for "Tyranny, Resistance, and the Performance of Early Modern Drama" is approaching! More info at call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/... #earlymodern #tyranny #resistance #Shakespeare #drama #performancestudies #earlymodernstudies #earlymoderndrama
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August 14, 2026 at 10:57 AM