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Can anyone make me like Romeo and Juliet? Teaching it again this week, and I've never been a fan. Maybe an amazing bit of crit that will prove me wrong?

What do ostriches have to do with forced labor in the seventeenth century? Hester Pulter knew, and Claire Richie helps us understand in her new edition of one of Pulter’s emblem poems: pulterproject.northwestern.edu/poems/ae/the-o…

✨🎭 TODAY! 3pm BST Plots & Painted Tyrants: Performing #Hecuba in the sixteenth century. This year's annual Classics & English lecture, delivered by Carla Suthren! Join us in Oxford Classics Outreach' lecture theatre or online at: ox.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/… Faculty of English University of Oxford ClassicalReceptions

Good news, the Higher Education Academy has confirmed that, after many years of doing it, I can in fact teach. (I am now a Fellow of the above)

Are you interested in #rot? Join me and the fabulous Dr Alice Tarbuck for a fun afternoon of deliquescence and decay! Please spread the word: we want to be omnidisciplinary, & warmly welcome all pertinent (& some impertinent) contributions. forms.gle/BD4sGYaVPReTh4…

One nice little touch is though the front board is ripped, it allows you to see that it was made of compressed sheets of discarded pages from other books.

The Little Apple Bookshop is 27 years old today! Wow, that means we must both have been 14 years old when we opened it. Impressive, huh? The Maths doesn't lie! 🎂🤔🧮 🪇

A pleasure to read Victoria Button's review of our 2021 collection *The Paper Trade in Early Modern England* in the most recent Renaissance Quarterly 📖

Fellow paper nerds, does anyone know a source that specifies the weight of typical early modern paper sizes? I.e, how much a sheet of foolscap, pot, or royal paper might weigh?

Early mod. folks — has anyone, to your knowledge, written about the masque depicted in the memorial portrait of Sir Henry Unton? Painted c.1596 - 1606 according to the National Portrait Gallery and showing a masque of Mercury and Diana. My brief search only returns two articles.

The academic fantasy

Very much enjoying the angry annotations of an early 19C reader who thinks Malone is an ‘audacious despoiler’, possessed by a ‘licentious unauthorised spirit of alteration’. In short, ‘This fellow ought to be hang’d.’

The news is out! I'm thrilled to share that I rediscovered eight 17th-century paper objects made by schoolgirls when Sutton House NT was one of Hackney's many female academies. These paper cuts are an extremely rare example of an art form written about by Hannah Woolley (1/2)