Evernote Takes On Web Reading With Clearly – NYTimes.com. Just read this on the NYT Bits column. I use Evernote a lot for…
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Posted in Reflections
Author: Diane Jakacki
Early digital modern humanist. #a11y #reluctantpugilist
Just clicked ‘send’ on an article entitled “Title Page Engravings and Re-Ordering the Quartos of A Game at Chess“. It is scheduled to be published…
Skiles Breezeway or Blackfriars Theatre?
Posted in Brittain Fellowship, and Pedagogy
[reposted from TECHStyle]
This week I’m teaching Francis Beaumont’s The Knight of the Burning Pestle as part of my English 1102 course on London City Comedy. The play is usually identified as a breakthrough Early Modern parody (of other plays like The Shoemaker’s Holiday and The Four Prentises) and one of the first English plays to break the fourth wall. It is also a very challenging read, since at any time there are some three interweaving plot lines – not to mention the added noodle-twist of trying to imagine a boys acting company playing both cast and planted audience members.
I’ve gone compartmental
Posted in Brittain Fellowship, Digital Humanities, Job search, Reflections, and Research
Sunny Sunday morning. The temperature is finally dropping below 80. And the leaves are changing. I still can’t get used to autumn in the south … No outdoors for me, though. The lists and stacks and deadlines just grow and loom. It’s not enough that there are seventy-five wiki entries waiting for me to grade them; a thirty-five page article accepted by ROMARD needs to be edited and resubmitted in ten days (thanks for reminding me – have to contact the Newberry and request permission to use their title page from A Game at Chess in the article).