Was anyone else reminded of Love’s Labour’s Lost? Sort of a comparison by inversion–since obviously Artesia succeeds more quickly at getting a Welcome and makes the opposite bargain of LLL’s Princess–but the beginning of the scene sets up an agreement of lords that immediately meets the (feminine) agent of its undoing.

I’m also curious about…[Read more]

Hi folks! Latecomer hopping in to the Birth of Merlin party. I’m Sawyer (they/them/theirs or he/him/his). I’m finishing up my last dissertation year at UC Davis where I work on early modern drama, performance studies, and queer/trans studies. My research has mostly been on contemporary Shakespeare performance and how institutions negotiate making…[Read more]