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About a month ago, Jordan Tannahill posted what he called an “anti-canon of essential Canadian theatre and performance” in list form as a note on Facebook; a few weeks later, a modified version appeared as blog post on praxistheatre.com; and yesterday, Sarah Garton Stanley’s response to Tannahill’s original list was
[At long last, a new early modern post. The essay below will appear in a volume on Marlowe in Context, edited by Emily C. Bartels and Emma Smith, and forthcoming from Cambridge University Press later this year — for full citations, see the print version.]
What exactly was Christopher Marlowe’s ‘moment’? Was it the late […]
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Before I respond to Jacob Zimmer’s thoughtful and generous comments on my “5 Points of Contention,” I first have to give him, or rather his company, Small Wooden Shoe, massive kudos for staging a reading of, would you believe it, Kleist’s Prince of Homburg on Monday — by sheer coincidence, one […]
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[This is a very lightly edited version of a paper I gave last weekend at the Renaissance Society of America conference in Washington, DC. Many thanks to Adam Hooks and András Kiséry for organizing the panel and for their excellent papers!]
Thomas Dekker should be central to discussions of early modern theatre, but he isn’t. […]
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For the longest time, academic Shakespeare specialists have simply ignored the so-called authorship controversy. In the face of a steady stream of books proposing one supposed “real Shakespeare” after another, we in the academy have largely shrugged and turned back to the kind of work we consider important, relevant, and worthwhile; and most of that […]
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