Asst Professor of English Literature + Director of New Variorum Shakespeare @TAMU
Houston, TX
Joined April 2013
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“Comments upon Shakespeare keep pace with the National Debt, and will at last become equally insufferable and out of fashion”
— Robert Southey, qtd in this book which we’ll be giving an online launch on Friday under the auspices of @NVS_TAMU
Join us: newvariorumshakespeare.org/n…
THIS WEEK! We’re hosting an online book launch for ‘Collaboration, Technologies, and the History of Shakespearean Bibliography’ (co-authored by some of our NVS team).
More info here:
newvariorumshakespeare.org/n…
“The Seine is the only river in the world that runs between two bookshelves.”
— Kirsty Lang, speaking about the Parisian bouquinistes 📚
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From James Merrill’s letters, as lovely a piece of art criticism as I know. “When I was little my mother used to say there was an animal heaven where pets went after death…Vermeer makes you believe in a heaven for things + textures—cracked leather, brass, paper, silk, + yarn.”
“there is no reason to assume that all universalisms have to be the European Enlightenment universalism that historicist criticism has urged us to shun”
(Jonathan Burton)
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Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine and Billy Wilder having lunch during filming "The Apartment," 1960.
For all the eye-popping spectacles in Ken Russell’s ‘The Devils’ (1971), which I saw in reissue at a local cinema tonight, I was perhaps most shocked to find the poet Christopher Logue playing Cardinal Richelieu…
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One week to go!
Our next NVS Seminar will be an online book launch for this new CUP Element!
Join us on Friday 23 October at 12 noon CT. Zoom link available here: newvariorumshakespeare.org/n…
Today my ‘Introduction to Shakespeare’ students visited the @tamulibraries @TAMU Historic Press Room to try typesetting and printing on this replica of a seventeenth century printing press:
Yesterday I took my ‘Introduction to Shakespeare’ students to see the @tamulibraries @TAMU Second Folio, which includes this delightfully conspicuous misprint:
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One week to go! 🗓️ Next Wed 21 Oct, 4.30pm UK time: #Macbeth in the Shakespeare Exchange with Ewan Fernie and Alistair Wilkinson. Join live or watch the recording. Free, online: bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/r… #ShakespeareExchange #Macbeth @Team_English1
🇮🇹 The New Variorum Shakespeare @NVS_TAMU will be featured in next year’s Seminario Permanente di Studi Shakespeariani at Sapienza University of Rome. Looking forward to joining my NVS colleagues Sonia Massai, Eric Rasmussen, Heidi Craig and Kris May in January. 🇮🇹
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Meet Professor @EFernie, Chair of the Shakespeare Institute, academic anchor for BBC's Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius and co-author of Macbeth, Macbeth. Talking Macbeth with Alistair Wilkinson, Wed 21 Oct, 4.30pm UK. Free: forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/… #ShakespeareExchange #Macbeth
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Unfinished Latin translation of Ibn ʿArabshāh’s biography of Timur, by Dionysius Vossius (1612-1633). Vossius studied Arabic with Jacob Golius, whose edition of Ibn ʿArabshāh was later published (without translation) in 1636. Amsterdam University Library, ms Bc 2
A stiffly staged and restrictively designed ‘Romeo and Juliet’ @alleytheatre last night — a shame because there were a number of fresh (to me) interpretations of individual lines, especially from Matthew Amendt’s darkly neurotic Mercutio.
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Houston, the Bayou City Art Festival is back at Memorial Park this weekend! 🤘🎨 Explore hundreds of artists, live music, interactive activities, food and more!
📅 Oct. 9–11 | 10 AM–6 PM
📍 Memorial Park
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