Tag: theatre
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Asking Better Questions
The other night I had one of those eureka! moments that bring me joy and make me crazy. But mostly bring me joy. As some of you know I’ve been trying to sort out how to track Queen’s Men touring practices in the 1580s by teasing information out of the Records of Early English Drama…
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Checking back in
Have been flying below the radar lately. Have drafted several posts but life kept getting in the way of properly editing them. I have spent some time tweaking the site’s theme (still not happy with it, but I’ve become quite the theme hoarder).
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Off to ROMARD we go
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 in the XLX 2011 issue of Research on Medieval and Renaissance Drama. Quite the little monster – 9600 words plus endnotes, and features eight full page 17th century engravings. I…
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Skiles Breezeway or Blackfriars Theatre?
[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…