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Month: October 2017

Venus’s Palaces

October 4, 2017October 4, 2017 / beforeshakespeare / 6 Comments

She’s got it, Yeah baby, she’s got it ---Shocking Blue For 1570s and 1580s theatregoers, love was all around. One of the defining characteristics of the earliest surviving commercial plays is the predominance of the character Venus or her allegorical equivalent, Love. “Theaters and curtaines Venus pallaces,” reads a marginal note in Philip Stubbes’s The … Continue reading Venus’s Palaces

Attribution, agencies, and investigation

October 2, 2017October 5, 2017 / beforeshakespeare / 1 Comment

We welcome a guest post from Leah Scragg, responding to this summer's discussion of attribution on the blog (see here). *** This post joins a very interesting discussion of attribution studies somewhat late in the day but I would like to put forward a couple of ideas in relation to the question of why attribution … Continue reading Attribution, agencies, and investigation

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Box Office Bears: a new research project on animal-baiting

Box Office Bears has begun! But who were they and what does it mean? We are delighted to announce the start of the £978,319 AHRC-funded project ‘Box Office Bears (BOB): Animal baiting in early modern England’, officially starting today. Over the next three years we’ll be exploring the lives of the animals and people involved […]

Repertory and Reputation at the Curtain

Adeola Ogunbadewa is a research intern at the School of English at the University of Kent, where she is going into her final year reading for a BA in Spanish and Religious Studies.  She has been working on a project to develop a timeline of play events and performances at the Curtain playhouse.  The Curtain, in […]

The possible discovery of the Red Lion, London’s first Elizabethan playhouse

In the latest A Bit Lit film, the theatre historian and Before Shakespeare advisor Holger Syme speaks to Andy Kesson about last month’s announcement of the discovery of the Red Lion site, complete with a possible playhouse. See the film here, and see ABitLit.co for all of our films.

Ruff Play with Shakespeare: a new video series

This weekend would have seen our first workshop on wrestling, gender and entertainment: see below for more details. We will run our workshop in whenever and whatever the future might turn out to be, but in the meantime, our related project A Bit Lit has begun a new film series on wrestling, combat and performance. […]

A bit lit: a new forum for scholarship and creativity

This is just a short note to let you know that members of the Before Shakespeare team have set up a YouTube channel seeking to provide a space for fun, relaxed and silly conversations about scholarship and creativity. In these very difficult times, we’d love it if you joined us, as listeners, contributors or if […]

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Box Office Bears: a new research project on animal-baiting

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The possible discovery of the Red Lion, London’s first Elizabethan playhouse

Ruff Play with Shakespeare: a new video series

A bit lit: a new forum for scholarship and creativity

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