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assistant prof college of charleston | early modernist |
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new essay just out in ELR, "How to Know the Witch: Trivial Domestication, Tragicomedy, and Race in The Witch of Edmonton"🤩 Go check it out if you dig weird EM plays
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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How to Know the Witch: Trivial Domestication, Tragicomedy, and Race in The Witch of Edmonton | English Literary Renaissance: Vol 55, No 3
Abstract What does it mean to “know” a witch in early modern culture, and how do questionable knowledge-processes become tested and verified in comedies? Dekker, Ford, and Rowley’s 1621 tragicomedy, T...
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/736909
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The Arden Shakespeare
13 days ago
Explore the ways Shakespeare presents the transformation of the early modern natural world through the exploitation of natural resources in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. 'Shakespeare’s Ecology of Natural Resources' by Sophie Chiari, out now:
https://bit.ly/4hGTqea
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Alice Wickenden
20 days ago
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-literar...
I see the book has a tentative page. Will be so worth reading, & hopefully very useful for teaching with
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Literary Form After Matter 1550–1700
Literary Form After Matter 1550–1700
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-literary-form-after-matter-1550-1700.html
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The Arden Shakespeare
about 1 month ago
*New research* 'Closet Drama in Early Modern England' edited by Aurélie Griffin & Sophie Lemercier-Goddard looks at plays that were performed in private non-playhouse settings between 1560-1670, covering textual history, women's writing & contemporary staging. Find out more:
https://bit.ly/4qsQ16D
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Rob Townsend
about 1 month ago
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring"
bit.ly/4ohKuOe
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"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
https://bit.ly/4ohKuOe
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Jesse Locker
about 1 month ago
Sir Anthony Weldon, A Cat May Look Upon a King (printed for William Roybould, at the Unicorn in Pauls Church-yard, 1652)
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claire m. l. bourne
about 1 month ago
seeking pointers to texts (academic or otherwise; primary or secondary; early modern or not) that discuss/theorize 'failure'? bonus points if it specifically addresses _textual_ 'failure'. here's an impression of fallen type for your troubles👇
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John Kuhn
about 1 month ago
today in my lecture on King Lear I am going to talk about my favorite Renaissance engraving, Brueghel's "Big Fish Eat Little Fish". I use it as a gloss on Albany's horrible prediction: "it will come / humanity must perforce prey on itself / Like monsters of the deep."
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Karl Steel
about 1 month ago
h/t to Susie Nakely for putting Arendt and the Clerk's tale side by side
opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu/clt1/
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The Clerk’s Tale – The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales
https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu/clt1/
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Matthew Harrison
about 1 month ago
finally figured out what this larry summers crap reminded me of:
@laurakolb.bsky.social
's essay on anger and Shakespeare's women. She points out the doubleness of such revelations: a rhetoric of discovery, yet what is discovered is what we knew. essay here:
electricliterature.com/the-very-mod...
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The Very Modern Anger of Shakespeare’s Women - Electric Literature
What “Measure for Measure” means to us in 2019
https://electricliterature.com/the-very-modern-anger-of-shakespeares-women/
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Elizabeth Lopatto
about 1 month ago
I just heard Walter Benjamin referred to as "the original aura farmer" and now I need to lie down
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Folger Shakespeare Library
about 2 months ago
On the blog,
@austintichenor.bsky.social
shares threes takes on "Macbeth" that focus on the human struggle within the tragedy in new and unexpected ways, including a production at the
@the-rsc.bsky.social
, a novel about Lady Macbeth, and a film for streaming.
www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...
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"I'm Lovin' It": Variations on Macbeth | Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...
https://www.folger.edu/blogs/shakespeare-and-beyond/variations-on-macbeth/
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Iman Sheeha (she/her)
about 2 months ago
Thrilled to see this Review Essay nearing publication in postmedieval. In 'Whiteness made visible: Recent Work in Premodern Critical Race Studies', I review four fascinating books on whiteness in art history, fiction, and drama, ranging from the medieval period to the twenty-first century.
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The Arden Shakespeare
2 months ago
Encompassing a wide range of genres, media & art forms across a broad historical scope, 'Shakespeare and Seriality' identifies central strategies of serialization in Shakespeare's plays & their adaptations. Available to read open access on Bloomsbury Collections: https://bit.ly/3IYOMLU
#OAWeek
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claire m. l. bourne
3 months ago
a tiny bit of good news is that we have secured funding to digitize john milton's copy of holinshed's CHRONICLES (1587). the images will form part of MILTON'S LIBRARY, an open-access site featuring the 10 books positively identified as milton's w/ transcriptions/translations of his marginal notes.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
3 months ago
really nice piece on this btw from
@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social
sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...
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"The Printing Press Democratized Knowledge": When Slogans Masquerade as History — Sonja Drimmer
The phrase is said so frequently it seems, like the mechanism it celebrates, to mechanically replicate itself. It's become a favorite catchphrase among tech boosters of any sort (see my post on...
https://sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/9/10/the-printing-press-democratized-knowledge-a-slogans-masquerading-as-history
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Naomi Baker
3 months ago
One of the most daring theological works of the C17th, published by Elizabeth Avery in 1647. It reconsiders every mainstream Protestant teaching about the apocalypse, and caused her to be denounced as a heretic, including by her own brother. I tell Avery’s story in Voices of Thunder
#earlymodern
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New Variorum Shakespeare
3 months ago
Congratulations to Prof. Marvin Hunt, one of our NVS ‘Hamlet’ editors, on the publication of Volume 2 of ‘Hamlet: The Critical Tradition’!
@ardenpublisher.bsky.social
www.bloomsbury.com/us/hamlet-97...
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Hamlet
A companion to volume 1, Hamlet: Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition, Volume 2 presents key critical accounts of Hamlet from 1885-1964. The volume offers, in s…
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/hamlet-9781350287396/
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Elise A. Mitchell
3 months ago
www.insurrecthistory.com/archives/xd6...
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Colonial “Illegals”: Marronage Communities and the Ongoing War on Migrants — INSURRECT!
“Experience is our best teacher, and we must check time: remember what we have lost, who we have been, and commit to supporting, in whatever ways we can, the communities and networks of undocumented w...
https://www.insurrecthistory.com/archives/xd62mi95jllxkrdio1sndh9dsks8fx
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Sonja Drimmer
3 months ago
An excellent true thing is that I gave unequivocally anti-“AI” talks at Wesleyan and Tufts this month where the computer scientists and engineers in attendance have no interest in allowing this industry to hijack education and asked me “how can we get our students to take your classes?”
add a skeleton here at some point
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Sonja Drimmer
4 months ago
Time to take this out for another spin.
sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...
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Claire Hansen
4 months ago
Up next at
#Globe4Globe
2025: Animal Justice! Karen Raber - Resisting Tyranny: Shakespeare’s Animals Gigi Pinwill - Shakespeare’s Animals: An Actor Prepares Barbara Taylor - They Howled All Together: Imagining Predators with Shakespeare
#G4G2025
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Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs)
4 months ago
What is an 'Afghan Tartar'? Guest contributor Timur Khan attempts to find the answer in today's MEMOries blog post.
memorients.com/articles/wha...
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What is an ‘Afghan Tartar’? A Short Overview of a Puzzling Phrase | MEMOs
As with the ‘Afghan Tartars,’ people plug gaps in knowledge about people loosely, by analogy or merging with other categories.
https://memorients.com/articles/what-is-an-afghan-tartar-a-short-overview-of-a-puzzling-phrase?fbclid=IwdGRleAMs47ZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHlHjTdR79LmtoHuJqURB634vdX9xLrG7oNPbglOqwg0smJse1tyLEaB-hE3w_aem_3-zNdlRI0kyDkDeASvOnQA
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Kate Ozment
4 months ago
Prepping for my first one-shot digital humanities workshop 💪 Intro to Data for Humanists that is the most gentle walkthrough for folks who aren't used to thinking about their work in these terms. Working with data from my two fav projects:
@ccp-org.bsky.social
and the Womens Print History Project
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Reading Early Plays (REP)
4 months ago
The new season of REP play-readings kicks off with 1 Henry IV at 7.30 p.m. on 24 September, and will feature the King’s Men repertory of 1612-14, including The Duchess of Malfi, Valentinian and several Shakespearean revivals. - see the full autumn schedule here:
www.readingearlyplays.com
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Welcome | Reading Early Plays
Reading Early Plays is a group that meets regularly online to explore drama written before the closure of the London theatres in 1642. We are interested in tracing the connections within groups of pla...
https://www.readingearlyplays.com/
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)
4 months ago
The
#AI
fairy stories of today's tech bros parallel those they told about nanotechnology 20 years ago. In both cases, the tech echo-chamber demanded the rest of us accept a nightmarish future for the sake of *their* egos, magical thinking, and wealth.
@philipcball.bsky.social
writes: 🧪 🗃
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No suffering, no death, no limits: the nanobots pipe dream | Aeon Essays
Thirty years ago, nanotech was about to change everything. Let’s not get tricked again by Silicon Valley’s magical thinking
https://aeon.co/essays/no-suffering-no-death-no-limits-the-nanobots-pipe-dream
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Shakespeare Institute
4 months ago
Check out our wonderful Dr Simon Smith's recent blog post about the history of Twelfth Night in indoor and outdoor spaces. Available on the
@folger.edu
blog here:
www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...
#twelfthnight
#folger
#Shakespeare
#theatre
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From the Dark House to the Box Tree: Twelfth Night indoors and out | Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...
https://www.folger.edu/blogs/shakespeare-and-beyond/twelfth-night-indoors-and-out/
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Sharon Howard
4 months ago
I've updated
#EarlyModern
Resources
earlymodernweb.org/resources/
Quite a few new links but also a big overhaul of the site to be more usable + a visual refresh. (If you can't see a change, you may need to clear your browser cache and refresh hard. 😬)
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Welcome to Early Modern Resources – EMR
https://earlymodernweb.org/resources/
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New Variorum Shakespeare
4 months ago
Our first event of the semester will be a book launch for Dr. Whitney Sperrazza’s ‘Anatomical Forms’ (UPenn Press, 2025). Thurs 11 Sept, 12:30pm CT, in person and streamed on Zoom. For more details and Zoom link:
newvariorumshakespeare.org/news/
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Laura Davulis
4 months ago
If you are in or near Baltimore you should know that the Walters Art Museum (which is free!) has a small but wonderful exhibit about cats in medieval manuscripts
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Brett Greatley-Hirsch
4 months ago
New special issue, "Shakespeare in Asian Currents" now available, with criticism, performance, and a roundtable on future directions!
#earlymodern
#shakespeare
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rshk20/c...
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Shakespeare
Special issue on ‘Shakespeare in Asian Currents’, guest edited by Bi-qi Beatrice Lei and Judy Celine Ick. Volume 21, Issue 3 of Shakespeare
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rshk20/current
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Martine van Elk
4 months ago
Just discovering this database of books as symbols in Renaissance art--a wonderful resource
#EarlyModern
#HerBook
basiraproject.org
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BASIRA • Books as Symbols in Renaissance Art
https://basiraproject.org/
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Sonja Drimmer
4 months ago
An updated Dictionary of AI to help cut through the obfuscating buzzwords.
sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...
*with thanks to Joseph Potts and
@petertarras.bsky.social
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A Dictionary of "AI" — Sonja Drimmer
Even if you spend just a small amount of time listening to people who believe that any kind of digital technology (whether that’s “artificial intelligence” or not) is an unquestioned good, you’ll hear...
https://sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/8/20/a-dictionary-of-ai
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Tom Rutter
4 months ago
Loudly tooting this CFP, please retweet:
sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...
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Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies - CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature
CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature
https://sites.google.com/sheffield.ac.uk/scems/blog/cfp-reading-the-practical-in-early-modern-literature
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new essay just out in ELR, "How to Know the Witch: Trivial Domestication, Tragicomedy, and Race in The Witch of Edmonton"🤩 Go check it out if you dig weird EM plays
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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How to Know the Witch: Trivial Domestication, Tragicomedy, and Race in The Witch of Edmonton | English Literary Renaissance: Vol 55, No 3
Abstract What does it mean to “know” a witch in early modern culture, and how do questionable knowledge-processes become tested and verified in comedies? Dekker, Ford, and Rowley’s 1621 tragicomedy, T...
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/736909
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Folger Shakespeare Library
5 months ago
A six-episode podcast drops you inside "Hamlet" from the prince's POV. Now on *our* pod, director Jeremy McCarter of Make-Believe Association explains how 21st-century technology unlocked a fresh take on Shakespeare's tragedy. 🎧 at
bit.ly/4m5TyFI
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Inside Hamlet's Head with Jeremy McCarter | Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...
https://bit.ly/4m5TyFI
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The Public Domain Review
6 months ago
This wonderful 1805 book exposes the reality behind various tricks and illusions of the day, beginning with arguably the most enigmatic of the tricks listed, that of the “Learned Pig”, or as the excellent frontispiece refers to it “The Pig of Knowledge”:
publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...
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Candice Frederick
6 months ago
playbill.com/article/pbs-...
PBS to Broadcast Twelfth Night Starring Peter Dinklage, Lupita Nyong'o, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Sandra Oh
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PBS to Broadcast Twelfth Night Starring Peter Dinklage, Lupita Nyong'o, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Sandra Oh
If you can't get a free ticket to the Shakespeare in the Park production, you can watch the play at home.
https://playbill.com/article/pbs-to-broadcast-twelfth-night-starring-peter-dinklage-lupita-nyongo-jesse-tyler-ferguson-sandra-oh
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Dr Louise Ryland-Epton
6 months ago
I’ve posted about
#poltergeists
👻 today so it’s probably a good moment to post my latest
#witchcraft
🧹 blog. This story is big & complicated but here it is blog sized.
www.louiserylandepton.co.uk/blog/the-fir...
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The First English Witch: Agnes Mylles and the Death of William Bayntun — Louise Ryland-Epton
In the spring of 1564, as Queen Elizabeth I's reign was still finding its footing, a tragedy unfolded in the Wiltshire countryside. A baby died and three women became implicated in his alleged ‘murder...
https://www.louiserylandepton.co.uk/blog/the-first-english-witch-agnes-mylles-and-the-death-of-william-bayntun
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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris
6 months ago
“Wound Man” is an illustration which first appeared in European surgical texts during the Middle Ages. It laid out schematically the various wounds a person might suffer in battle or in accidents, with accompanying text stating treatments. It's Friday! Tag yourself as a wound.
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“with an abundance of critical firepower and editorial momentum balanced on either side, the stage is set for a wearyingly inconclusive contention between rival scholarly dynasties." loll why is this sentence so hilarious
7 months ago
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Liza Blake 🏹 ♠️
7 months ago
Look what I got today:
@wsperrazza.bsky.social
's magnificent new time, fresh off the presses!
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Tom Ashbyトム ∙ アシュビー
8 months ago
For those who missed it: The English Short Titles Catalogue (ESTC) has finally been relaunched with the help of the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL) following the cyber-attack on the
@britishlibrary.bsky.social
. Find it here:
datb.cerl.org/estc/
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Louise Geddes
9 months ago
@bambrooklyn.bsky.social
is hosting a Macbeth festival that looks demonically good:
www.bam.org/film/2025/ma...
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Macbeth(s)
This wide-ranging week of films spotlights the Bard’s most screen adapted work.
https://www.bam.org/film/2025/macbeths
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Adam Zucker Again
9 months ago
Next Friday, 3:30 - Shakespeare Unlearned will be locally launched! Lucky for me, Joey Gamble joins me in conversation at the
@umassamherst.bsky.social
Kinney Center. Topics: difficult words, pedagogy, and the communal, equitable pleasures offered by obscurity in early modern drama and poetry.
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Chris Crosbie
10 months ago
For any of the
#Shax2025
&
#RSA2025
folks who might find this useful, here’s the hub of Shakespearean performances & other videos I’ve been developing over the last couple of years for teaching. Feel free to use & share it widely!
sites.google.com/ncsu.edu/the...
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The Shakespeare Media Archive
https://sites.google.com/ncsu.edu/the-shakespeare-media-archive/home
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