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An eighteenth-century mystery – longish thread. While I was feverish with covid, I bought a random book. (1/16)
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Matthew Steggle
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Matthew Steggle
@MatthewSteggle
Prof of Early Modern Eng Lit. Shakespeare; lost plays; other C16-17 stuff. In the Sky now.
Bristol, England Katılım Eylül 2012
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With customary precision and elegance (how does he make it look so bloody easy?) Charles Nicholl writes about Mrs Shakspaire for the New York Review of Books.
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This was a lot of fun! Also the trip to the desert island at the end. Apologies in advance to the seagulls.
ThatShakespeareLife@ThatShakespeare
NEW EPISODE: A forgotten letter addressed to “Good Mrs Shakspaire” may rewrite what we thought we knew about Anne Hathaway—and where she lived. This week on That Shakespeare Life, @MatthewSteggle shares how this tiny archival discovery might place Anne in London, right alongside her famous husband. 🎧 Listen now → cassidycash.com/ep380
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Thanks to @sixteenthCgirl for having me on the Not Just The Tudors podcast to talk about Shakespeare’s Family: bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p…
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herefordcathedral.org/Event/in-the-c… Just to give a plug for this talk, in Hereford Cathedral, on 27 June.
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Impressive work from @France24_en and @GavinLeeNews on the Shakspaire letter.
Gavin Lee@GavinLeeNews
‘Good Mrs Shakespeare’ ✍️🎭 #Shakespeare scholar @MatthewSteggle has deciphered a letter fragment sent to #AnneHathaway that appears to tell us he might not have left his wife behind in Stratford 🤯 & that they lived for a while on Trinity Lane London.. youtu.be/imXFvpoD5Ns?si…
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@marclauritsen Well… IMHO not much will budge that. Eg if main claim's right, then it’s all more data points for his time in London, links to Shoreditch, links to printer Richard Field… but all could be seen as part of the clever conspiracy. Arguing it is like nailing jelly to a wall.
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Spectacular stuff, Matthew. Curious of course what light if any it sheds on the pesky authorship question.
Matthew Steggle@MatthewSteggle
Delighted to say that my article, "The Shakspaires of Trinity Lane: A Possible Shakespeare Life-Record" is now fully published and open-access! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
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@dandiedinmont Just out! And open access as well: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
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@MatthewSteggle Has your paper been published yet? I would love a link to read it (but couldn't find it on the journal website). Anything that enhances our understanding of Anne Shakespeare's life is very exciting.
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Delighted to have some Shakespeare work of mine feature in Guardian today. More info in Bluesky (place also works really well and is not owned by a twit).
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Delighted to say that my article, "The Shakspaires of Trinity Lane: A Possible Shakespeare Life-Record" is now fully published and open-access! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
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@rjma_uk Robbie, this is terrible to hear. Nicola was such an amazing person, and I am thinking of you and your colleagues.
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Devastated by the loss of my friend and colleague Nicola Verdon. Nicola was a wonderful academic - an expert in her field, a supportive colleague, and someone who cared deeply about her students.
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@starcrossed2018 @eoin_price I was going to say Cynthia’s Revels, but not kidding! (I was also going to specify the Q version). But Arden would be good too.
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@eoin_price Cynthia's Revels. KIDDING!! Arden of Faversham (for real).
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Name a play you have never seen performed but what would like to see
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Life update: wonderful and actually enjoyable PhD viva with Anna Marie Roos & Felicity James this afternoon, passed (astonishingly) with no corrections. I am one happy boy. #PhDone
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@SianLHarris Long article rather than a book, but damninteresting.com/andree-and-the… might fit the bill.
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Some good news going into the weekend. Cambridge University Press are offering me on a contract for my book Playgoing Time in Elizabethan London. I will be delighted to finish it some time in the next decade.
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@corylus Trinity is nice. It’s on the smaller side, but it has among the biggest gardens, and a reputation for being more laid back.
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People in my phone who might have knowledge of Oxford University. If one was going to the open day in a hugely preliminary 'this is what a (v atypical) university looks like' way, which would be a couple of good colleges to look round? Assume maths- or chem- adjacent subject.
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@RachelJWillie @SianLHarris 90% is an A in most marking schemes.
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@MatthewSteggle @SianLHarris I like how your sentence construction implies it hasn’t been avoided in the past… 😳
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