Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions: The Politics of Reading in Early Modern England (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000)

I read Kevin Sharpe’s Reading Revolutions with unwavering attention from cover to cover. While reading, I took notes in the WordPress administrator panel, and when the book touched upon issues that my thesis deals with, I [...]

When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me?
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In an earlier Friday Companion Species post, I wondered what would happen to Donna Haraway’s ideas about relating to the other if they were modelled on cats rather than dogs. I wrote that the [...]

I am always fascinated by lists anyway, but this CFP also ties in with my ongoing forays into the question of early modern interactive reading. The Renaissance Society of America is devoting a session to the ways in which printed catalogues, lists and indices structured early modern reading, bookselling and more:

We are inviting paper proposals [...]

The next issue of Carnivalesque will be hosted by Alun Salt on 13 March. It will be an ancient/medieval edition, but since it is women’s history month, Alun is also accepting early modern posts on women’s history for this edition. The challenge before us, then, is to write and nominate posts on anything ancient or [...]

The discussion on interactive reading reminded me of a fascinating instance of interactive playgoing in the early modern theatre, scripted into Francis Beaumont’s comedy The Knight of the Burning Pestle (1607). Interaction between actors and the audience in theatre history of the early modern stage is often discussed in connection with the role of the [...]

Natalie Bennett yesterday took a wrong turn in the National Portrait Gallery, and suddenly found herself tantalizingly close to Shakespeare. Thanks for a great review of the Searching for Shakespeare exhibition that officially opens today!

For the first time since I started about six months ago, this blog has had more than a thousand unique visitors in a month! Robots and crawlers excluded, that is. I have no idea if that is about average, but it made my day! Thanks to everyone who read Earmarks, commented on posts, or linked [...]