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Susanne Gruss replied to the topic Welcome! Introduce Yourself in the discussion
The Birth of Merlin Reading Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoHi everyone, I’m Susanne – another first-time reader of the play.
I specialise in (early modern) law and literature, and have a particular interest in genre (how do early modern genre politics/evolving genres influence the depiction of legal conflicts on the stage?), revenge, and non-Shakespearean drama. Oh, and pirates! Because the German…[Read more]
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Duncan Lees replied to the topic Welcome! Introduce Yourself in the discussion
The Birth of Merlin Reading Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoHi everyone, I’m Duncan, and I’m currently in the final(ish) year of a PhD in Education and Applied Linguistics, doing a case study on teaching Shakespeare workshops at a Chinese university using ethnomethodology (the other EM I’m interested in). It was a surprise to find myself in the social sciences, as for many years I taught film studies,…[Read more]
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Eleanor Rycroft replied to the topic Welcome! Introduce Yourself in the discussion
The Birth of Merlin Reading Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoHi everyone, I’m Ellie and an early modernist with a special interest in gender, politics, and the practice-based/staging side of things. I’m also Nora’s colleague right now which is a) how I know she’s awesome and b) how I know about The Birth of Merlin! I’m very grateful to her for setting up a structured way for me to finally read this play.…[Read more]
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Charlene Smith replied to the topic Welcome! Introduce Yourself in the discussion
The Birth of Merlin Reading Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoHi, everyone! I’m Charlene and my pronouns are she/her/hers. I’ve not read this play before but I am a big proponent of early modern theatre not by Shakespeare. I’m the artistic director of Brave Spirits Theatre of Alexandria, VA, and we produce more of Shakespeare’s contemporaries than any other theatre company in the DC metropolitan area,…[Read more]
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Sally Barnden replied to the topic Welcome! Introduce Yourself in the discussion
The Birth of Merlin Reading Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoHello! My name is Sally. I’ve never read this play before, but I’m interested in early modern drama and its afterlives.
My work is on archives of mostly-Shakespeare performances since the Restoration–I’ve worked on performance photography, and I’m currently working on a project with the Royal Collections and trying to think about letters,…[Read more]
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David Nicol replied to the topic Welcome! Introduce Yourself in the discussion
The Birth of Merlin Reading Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoHello, I’m Dave! I have read this play more often than I care to admit, although I can never remember exactly what happens in it. My general perception is that the first three acts are fantastic and then it goes off the rails. But I look forward to being corrected.
I once wrote a book about Middleton and Rowley’s collaborations. Birth of Merlin…[Read more]
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Brandi Adams replied to the topic Welcome! Introduce Yourself in the discussion
The Birth of Merlin Reading Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoHi everyone! My name is Brandi and I’m a first time reader of the play.
I am interested in the history of the book and reading–including spaces of reading such as libraries, studies, and the university– as they are performed in 16th and 17th century early modern drama. I’ve also recently become very interested in the politics of editing early…[Read more]
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Eoin Price replied to the topic Welcome! Introduce Yourself in the discussion
The Birth of Merlin Reading Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoHello. My name is Eoin and I am pleased to join this group. It has been a very long time since I read this play.
I’m interested in the politics of printing and performing 16th and 17th century plays and in reprints and revivals of early modern drama in later centuries, including our own. My pronouns are he/him/his. When I am not doing early…[Read more]
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Nora J Williams started the topic Welcome! Introduce Yourself in the discussion
The Birth of Merlin Reading Group on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoHi everyone! Thanks for coming. This is a general discussion thread, and a great place to say hello and introduce yourself before we jump into act-by-act discussions next week.
To kick things off: I’m Nora, I’m interested in twentieth- and twenty-first-century performances of early modern drama, and particularly in representations of sexual…[Read more]
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Nora J Williams created the group
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Maheswari D deposited இலக்கியங்களில் மருத்துவச் சிந்தனைகள்/ THOUGHTS OF MEDICINE IN LITERATURE, Volume-2, March 2020 Special Issue-4, Vol-2 in the group
Shakespeare on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThis is the Vol – 2, SPECIAL ISSUE 4: VOL – 2, MARCH 2020 issue.
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Cristina León Alfar deposited Women and Shakespeare’s Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal in the group
Shakespeare on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months agoHow does a woman become a whore? What are the discursive dynamics making a woman a whore? And, more importantly, what are the discursive mechanics of unmaking? In Women and Shakespeare’s Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal, Cristina León Alfar pursues these questions to tease out familiar cultural stories about female se…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar started the topic New publication in the discussion
Shakespeare on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoAlfar, Cristina León “Speaking Truth to Power as Feminist Ethics in Richard III.” Social Research: An International Quarterly, vol. 86, no. 3, Nov. 2019, pp. 789–819. (Available through ProjectMuse muse.jhu.edu/article/741025.)
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Yan Brailowsky deposited Ab ovo or in medias res? Rewriting History for the Early Modern Stage Or, How Elizabethan History Plays Collapsed Referentiality in the group
Shakespeare on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoShakespeare’s representations of history often have replaced history itself in the popular imagination: Julius Caesar, Margaret of Anjou, Henry V, Richard III — popular recollections of their lives and deaths are intimately linked with Shakespeare’s accounts of their stories, despite the playwright’s deviations from historical facts. In order t…[Read more]
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Yan Brailowsky deposited La nuit genrée ou l’obscure clarté des scènes anglaises in the group
Shakespeare on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoGendered night, or the nocturnal brightness of the early modern English stage
In French, critics speak of the night using feminine terms, but the term is grammatically neutral in English. Despite this neutrality, night may be gendered. In Romeo and Juliet, virgins hide their shame from their lovers by hiding in the dark. If night is consecrated…[Read more] -
Yan Brailowsky deposited Reconnaissance et « acknowledgment » sur la scène élisabéthaine in the group
Shakespeare on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoFor poets like Sir Philip Sidney, the numerous incongruities found in Elizabethan drama fly in the face of Aristotelian theory. London audiences in 1580-1600 would have been hard pressed to recognize the time and place of the action represented on stage from one scene to the next. By comparing Greek theory and Elizabethan practice, this paper…[Read more]
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Yan Brailowsky deposited ‘My bliss is mixed with bitter gall’: gross confections in Arden of Faversham in the group
Shakespeare on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoWhat might strike some as Arden of Faversham’s faulty construction may perhaps be ascribed to the fact that Arden’s murderers, as well as the play’s audience, had to learn how to “temper poison” (i.229). Poison is not simply a means to commit murder, its use also requires great dexterity, one which must be interpreted within a historical and metat…[Read more]
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Emma Smith deposited Genderqueer Twelfth Night in the group
Shakespeare on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoHow might the work on gender in Twelfth Night be challenged by trans theory, narratives, and experience?
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Emma Smith deposited On Editing in the group
Shakespeare on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months agoCovering the changes in Shakespeare editorial theory and practice over the decades between the publication of the Oxford Shakespeare (1986) and the New Oxford Shakespeare (2016), this article surveys a range of modern texts with different rationales and aimed at different readerships. The article has three sections: the imagery associated with…[Read more]
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