A recent article by Rebecca Atwood in the Times Higher Education reports that new research has found that young academics in the UK experience high levels of anxiety over their ability to “perform.” Louise Archer, the reader in education policy studies who conducted the research, concludes that young academics worry about the pressure to publish [...]

This week, archeologists of the Museum of London, have possibly and quite serendipitously found the foundations of The Theatre on a building site for a new theatre. The Theatre was one of the first purpose-built theatre in London, located in Shoreditch. Shakespeare’s Lord Chamberlain’s men performed at this theatre until a dispute with the landlord forced them to dismantle [...]

“Glosing wordes tickle and stirre vp the affections to be conceited of some fond passion” [1]

Henry Crosse, Vertues Commonwealth (1603)

It took me a while after this first post, but this summer I did finally buy Katherine Craik’s Reading Sensations in Early Modern England (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). This is a book I wish I had written. Its subject matter is utterly [...]