PROJECT POSTS
Beginning Before Shakespeare: First Post
Putting the Shh into Shakespeare
The Story So Far: First Advisory Board
Birthday Post: A Year of Before Shakespeare
The Summer of Love (and Fortune): Our Upcoming Events…
A slice of Christmas (b)log [end-of-year recap 2017]
Christmas, Newyeares tyde: A summary of works done and attendance given, 2018 [full project recap]
Box Office Bears: a new research project on animal baiting
HISTORY AND ARCHIVES
Earthquakes at the Curtain playhouse
An Elizabethan Haunting: Antitheatricality and Playgoing
Early Thoughts on the Archives
“Specially youthe”: Regulating London “Venues”
The Before Shakespeare Guide to the Elizabethan East End
“Rent must be paid, duties dischargd”: A Note on Elizabethan Landlords
Post from the Past 1: Spying the Playhouses
Post from the Past 2: A Week in the Life of William Fleetwood
Genre and the Elizabethan Troupe
Two City Stories: Mawdlen Gawen and Mrs Moodey
High and Dry at Newington Butts: The Genesis of the Permanent Playhouse
Lawsuits and Leases at Newington Butts Playhouse
Putting the might into Marlowe’s (and Nashe’s) mighty line
Audiences, Immigration, and Belonging: Strangers in Finsbury
Audiences, Immigration, and Belonging in Elizabethan theatres: putting the archive into performance
Banishment as romance convention in Early English Drama (c.1581-91)
The First Blackfriars Playhouse (1576-84): Ownership, Repertoire, Audience
Performing words: introduction to a new thread on theatre and language
Performing words #1: what is an actor?
Performing words #2: No room in the inns?
Performing words #3: thus and thus
Performing words #7: permanent
Performing words #8: playhouse
Losing the Plot: Audiences, Scraps of Performance, and Selective Participation
The Curtain Rises: Diverse Histories at the Curtain Playhouse
The Curtain Rises: Post Match Report
The Before Shakespeare Guide to [The] Theatre Etiquette
Before Shakespeare at The National Archives
Resurrecting All Hallows and Reanimating Henry Walton
Repertory and Reputation at the Curtain
COMMENT, ACADEMIA, DISCIPLINES, THEATRE HISTORY
Shakespeare: A knack for following theatrical fashion
Announcing the launch of REED Online
Let me speak to you about my huge words
Shakespeare in Scraps: Halliwell-Phillipps and Theatre History
‘barren of all interpretative comment’
Go dare; or, how scholarship lost the plot
Relearning how to learn: potential ideas for scholarly debate
Attribution, agencies, and investigation
Authorship studies: where have we got to, and where are we going?
Galatea, BritGrad and diverse alarums
Engendering Before Shakespeare: Women and Early English Playhouse Ownership
A Bit Lit: A new forum for scholarship and creativity
The possible discovery of the Red Lion, London’s first Elizabethan playhouse
PERFORMANCE
Before Shakespeare in Performance
The Three Ladies of London and Red Lion workshop, 22 January 2017
Before Conference: (and The Woman in the Moon)
The Woman in the Moon: Interviews with the Cast
“Fly me to the moon!” (Guest post by Perry Mills, Edward’s Boys)
The First Blackfriars: A Workshop Reflection
“I do fear the people”: theatre and the problem with audiences
The Woman in the Moon: In Conversation with Edward’s Boys
The Curtain Rises: Post Match Report
Rattling Bloody Facts; or, why Tamburlaine would make a rubbish boyfriend
Tudor Drama in Modern Performance (Guest post by Emma Whipday and Jessica Winston)
Ruff Play with Shakespeare: combat, gender, and entertainment
Ruff Play with Shakespeare: Postponed
Ruff Play with Shakespeare: a new video series
CONFERENCE
Before Conference: (and The Woman in the Moon)
Panel: Theatre History 1: Texts and Places
Panel: Theatre History 2: Geographies and People
Panel: Theatre History 3: Metre and Repertory
Response: After Before Shakespeare by Eoin Price
Response: Of God and Jonson: writing about new things and non-events by Mathew Lyons
Response: Reflections on the Before Shakespeare conference by Stephen Purcell
GALATEA
Interviewing Angela and Selina
Interview with Becky and Krishna
Interview with Antonia and Steve
Getting Mortal in St Austell: Galatea in Cornwall 1
Finding Gods in Truro: Galatea in Cornwall 2
The Sound of Lyly: Galatea Interview
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