Things I have been reading lately: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro. The Book of Margery Kempe by erm Margery Kempe. Things I have been listening to lately: The Cranberries doing an acoustic version of Linger, about a million times.

In class today I played a 2 minute video of a cuckoo singing. Would recommend.

Is Falstaff's 'I am old, I am old' echoed in Eliot's 'I grow old... I grow old... / I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled'?

Nothing has changed, so we are on strike again, this time for a week.

Occured to me yesterday that I haven't lived in England for over a decade

I have a possibly misguided idea I want to trial. How to do so? I guess one could just write an essay but what if one does not want to do so?

TFW someone tries to recall an email but I'm like a little goblin on my phone with my email open and it's too late I've already seen it

Just say someone were to write a book specifically about Shakespeare and Audience - what would you want/expect the book to cover?

One nice thing about living my the beach is that I have got back into kayaking (I used to do a lot when I was young). Tonight I rolled a kayak for the first time i about 15 years.

Actor playing Hotspur in 1 Henry IV coming back as Rumour in 2 Henry IV. Someone must have done this? Anyone have an example?

Found a fish on the beach. It flapped about. Picked it up and put it back in the sea.

Another thing it would be fun to do but I'll likely never get to (and would it even work?) - a book about two different (but related) sets of audiences 400 years apart: London playgoers in the 1600s and Premier League matchgoers in the 2020s.

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Just used 'outwith' in an email for the first time #Scottish

Do we like this for a book cover image?

As a long time user of the English language I am really baffled. 'This is our city. This is our time' is obnoxious but what about 'we convey our pride in place'? Has anyone ever spoken like that? It feels like whoever did this has had to invent an idiom in order to create an even worse one.

1 like = 1 UK university rebrand

Listen, for a reasonable fee i will rebrand all UK universities.

Hahaha wtf how much did this cost?

Book cover image. How to choose?

A history of Shakespearenan unpopularity - is this a good idea?

And it's off to the press! Go, average-sized book!

Accidentally attributed Sejanus to Shakespeare in the index

I have done (in my head) a table of contents for a book about the idea of stage popularity in early modern England. It will be easily a decade before I'd be able to write any such book, probably years before I could reasonably begin it.

Indexers/people who have done indexers: how many words should an index be, roughly? The book in question is around 95,000 words.

"Nothing beats a Jet2 holiday" Luke 12:9

Is indexing during production much more of a pain than indexing before production? I would prefer the former but the latter has been suggested. I'm not getting in somebody to do the index.

Fixing up bibliography for this edited collection. So many citations related to work on lost plays. Lost play scholarship of the last decade or so really has profoundly transformed our understanding of early modern drama & its influence now clear in so many ways.

After a very long time, a collection I have been co-editing is very nearly ready to go into production. It is about reprints, revivals & dramatic renewal in 16th and 17th century English drama. Below you can see the book abstract and also the abstract for my chapter.

Today is the University of Edinburgh Open Day and I am on strike because university management refuse to rule out compulsory redundancies. The University of Edinburgh is one of the richest universities in the UK & the proposed cuts are unncessary & deeply damaging.

We're going on strike: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Bibliography - divide into primary & secondary or not? Do you care? Thoughts & reasons appreciated.

Thinking about slightly unusual edition/anthology ideas. Would you read/teach/buy an edition which included The Knight of the Burning Pestle & 2-4 of the rarely edited playa on which it riffs? E.g. Rape of Lucrece, Four Prentices of London etc

and the portrait show seems to have no faces in it at all, just paint

Do you sail a submarine?

Intertheatricality - who is interested in talking about it?

Delighted to say that my article, "The Shakspaires of Trinity Lane: A Possible Shakespeare Life-Record" is now fully published and open-access! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Today is my birthday. I have just turned 30 (i started to go back in time a few years back)

Linguo...dead? Linguo IS dead.

I'm not capable of doing this but I would like to write a book about repetition & not specifically in early modern drama either

Listening to a song you haven't heard in a decade and realizing, as the song goes on, you remember the words - a simple and great pleasure of life

Do you think that when Katy Perry saw the earth from a rocket she said it's a woman's world and you're lucky to be living in it?

We need a cover image that speaks to the topic of reprinting & reviving early modern drama. Feels a bit boring to go with a bit from Henslowe's Diary or an image of a title page but the press said no to my idea of using title page of Spanish Tragedy in the style of Warhol's Marilyn Diptych...

Why are so many songs about songs?

Tell me about good work you have read that you like - bonus points if it is about early modern drama

It has really pleased me (more than it should) that the author of a book with the title Shakespeare and Nonhuman Intelligence is named Heather Warren-Crow.

Not sure how many people know about this but Sam Cooke live at the Harlem Square Club is really extraordinary. Whole thing is on YouTube but here is my favourite bit: youtu.be/54aG0c1Bk-4?...

Let's mock the midnignt bell