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Lucy Munro

@lucycmunro.bsky.social

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Professional literature geek. Theatre history and weird old plays. Leyton Orient aficionada. Writing a book about the Globe and Blackfriars Playhouses. she/her

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Lucy Munro @lucycmunro.bsky.social · Nov 15

Hello, Bluesky! I've had an account for a bit but haven't posted, so here's a bit of current research. This is the signature of Margaret Brend Zinzan, from a deposition in the Court of Chancery in April 1626 (TNA, C 24/521). (1/3)

An early seventeenth-century signature saying 'margret zinzan'.

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Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social · 8d

Mary Baldwin University is embarking on drastic cuts of its liberal arts programme and of humanities subjects more generally.

A bad case of mishandled management, and colleagues and students will suffer as a result (including #AmericanShakespeareCenter!)

Sign the petition here: c.org/VmXd75Pf7h

Sign the Petition

Protect MBU's Liberal Arts Legacy

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 9d

I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...

The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?

The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity

Reposted by Lucy Munro, Margot C. Finn

Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social · 12d

15 November 1582: In Mortlake, Dr John Dee is conversing with angels again, along with his scryer Edward Kelley, with whom he has recently reconciled. Dee starts a new record book today, his Quartus Liber Mysteriorum, and they use a 'showstone', or crystal ball. They speak ... 1/
#earlymodern

Lucy Munro @lucycmunro.bsky.social · 16d

Congratulations!!!

Lucy Munro @lucycmunro.bsky.social · 23d

Yep - and probably more frequently revived pre 1642 than the extant records show, given its currency on the stage in the mid 1630s.

Lucy Munro @lucycmunro.bsky.social · 23d

It's interesting to look across the period because it often seems to be a question of whether a play made it into a later repertory - e.g. Bussy and The Coxcomb ending up with the King's Men; Cupid's Revenge and Heywood's Rape of Lucrece with Queen Henrietta Maria's Men and Beeston's Boys, etc.

Lucy Munro @lucycmunro.bsky.social · 23d

I find the question of which Fletcher & collaborators plays are represented here very interesting - it doesn't map coherently onto later assessments of the canon.

Lucy Munro @lucycmunro.bsky.social · 23d

... Custom of the Country; Volpone; Pericles; Merry Devil of Edmonton; Philaster; Maid's Tragedy; Every Man in his Humour.

Lucy Munro @lucycmunro.bsky.social · 23d

On recorded revivals (e.g. court performance, records of individual playgoers, etc) plus allusions strongly suggesting theatrical currency: Spanish Tragedy; Tamburlaine; Winter's Tale; Rollo; Scornful Lady; Beggars' Bush; Coxcomb; Cupid's Revenge; Alchemist; 1 Henry IV; Bussy D'Ambois; Othello...

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The Leyton Orientear @leytonorientear.com · Oct 26

Issue 300 is SOLD OUT!

As is yesterday’s programme, so #LOFC shouldn’t mind us sharing this extract: a tribute to everyone who helped us along the way, whether they wrote, read, bought, sold, subscribed, sang, drew, designed, made flexidiscs, carried, collected, donated, or supported us in any way

Lucy Munro @lucycmunro.bsky.social · Oct 16

The Great Ouse is clearly Britain’s greatest river.

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Unchartered Streets @uncharteredstreets.bsky.social · Oct 11

It's 5pm and the wyverns are dancing. Orient 4 Doncaster Rovers 0. #leytonorient #lofc

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Daniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social · Sep 13

Anyone else see a screaming face, or just me? 😱 TNA C 147/1138

A damaged deed

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Domenico Lovascio @domlovascio.bsky.social · Aug 29

Today marks 400 years since John Fletcher’s death: the Jacobean playwright died of the plague and was buried at St. Saviour’s (now Southwark Cathedral) on 29 August 1625. I’m guest-editing a special Ben Jonson Journal issue celebrating this anniversary: coming soon!

Lucy Munro @lucycmunro.bsky.social · Aug 28

Lovely big Jacobean portraits by William Larkin of lovely big Jacobean clothes.

Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · Aug 28

Today's artist w/out a (known) birthday: William Larkin. Painter of Jacobean costumes & a few faces too. Here, Catherine Lyte Howard, Lady Thynne, in 1613.

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Unchartered Streets @uncharteredstreets.bsky.social · Aug 28

Not sure there’s much I can add to what Clare says, but… if you’ll forgive a little self-indulgence, here are the ads we took out in NME and Melody Maker at the time. The paper’s yellowed a bit over the years, but… the words still seem to say what we meant them to say.

Sarah Records "A Day For Destroying Things" advert in NME and Melody Maker from 1995.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · Aug 28

Today's artist w/out a (known) birthday: William Larkin. Painter of Jacobean costumes & a few faces too. Here, Catherine Lyte Howard, Lady Thynne, in 1613.

Reposted by Lucy Munro, Greg Walker

Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · Aug 26

Loudly tooting this CFP, please retweet:
sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies - CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature

CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature

sites.google.com

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dr emer mchugh @emer.bsky.social · Aug 25

me on @cmatbaby.bsky.social’s EURO-COUNTRY and why it gives voice to a distressingly normalised post-recession malaise. i hope you read!

The emblem of modern Ireland? Not fiddles and Guinness but a soulless shopping plaza | Emer McHugh

The singer CMAT dances around a retail centre in a video for her new album. It is the elegy those of us who grew up in the post-Celtic tiger recession have been craving, says Irish writer Emer McHugh

www.theguardian.com

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Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · Aug 24

@profkfh.bsky.social look what finally arrived - I cannot wait to dig in!!! 🤩

Kim F. Hall’s book, THE SWEET TASTE OF EMPIRE, sitting on a wooden table partly on top of a purple, yellow, blue, and white table runner

Reposted by Lucy Munro, Kathleen Kennedy

Daniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social · Aug 21

I found a cool Shakespeare thing. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Will at centre of legal battle over Shakespeare’s home unearthed after 150 years

Document from 1642 made by husband of Shakespeare’s granddaughter found in unlabelled box at National Archives

www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Lesley A. Hall, Lucy Munro, Michael H. Whitworth

Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · Aug 21

Please help. Please sign. I work on a part-time degree for mature students to study for a BA in English Literature & Community Engagement. Its direct access and designed for those who didn't or couldn't go to Uni at 18. Bristol plan to close it. We want to save it.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Save our pioneering widening participation undergraduate degree in English Literature and Community Engagement at the University of Bristol

19 August 2025 Dear Evelyn Welch (Vice-Chancellor) cc Judith Squires (Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost), Tansy Jessop (Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education and Students) The School of Humanities has ...

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Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social · Aug 19

Pls sign and share this open letter to the Bristol VC, against the School of Humanities's decision to withdraw the BA in English Literature and Community Engagement (ELCE): the only part-time, flexible undergraduate degree programme available at the University forms.gle/SbyhXPSJgQTc...

Save our pioneering widening participation undergraduate degree in English Literature and Community Engagement at the University of Bristol

19 August 2025 Dear Evelyn Welch (Vice-Chancellor) cc Judith Squires (Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost), Tansy Jessop (Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education and Students) The School of Humanities has ...

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Unchartered Streets @uncharteredstreets.bsky.social · Aug 17

Ever since it was unveiled, there’s been something naggingly familiar about Orient’s retina-bothering 25/26 season third strip, and… I’ve just twigged what it is: bizarrely, the inspiration seems to be the Field Mice’s dandelion-tastic 91/92 For Keeps tour T-shirt.
#SarahRecords #TheFieldMice #lofc

Letyon Orient 25/26 season third kit.

Field Mice "For Keeps" tour T-shirt.

Lucy Munro @lucycmunro.bsky.social · Aug 14

Hurray! I’m so pleased to see this!

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Yunah Kae @yunahkae.bsky.social · Aug 14

new essay just out in ELR, "How to Know the Witch: Trivial Domestication, Tragicomedy, and Race in The Witch of Edmonton"🤩 Go check it out if you dig weird EM plays
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

How to Know the Witch: Trivial Domestication, Tragicomedy, and Race in The Witch of Edmonton | English Literary Renaissance: Vol 55, No 3

Abstract What does it mean to “know” a witch in early modern culture, and how do questionable knowledge-processes become tested and verified in comedies? Dekker, Ford, and Rowley’s 1621 tragicomedy, T...

www.journals.uchicago.edu

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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · Jul 30

- 400 jobs to go at Lancaster University

- 1 in 4 people will be made redundant

But where's the financial evidence for this extreme action?

Please read 👇

Sign the petition 👇

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Sign the Petition

Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable

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Leyton Orient Football Club - Unofficial @leyton-orient-fc.bsky.social · Feb 18

A HUGE WIN FOR THE O'S! 😍

Kelman and Donley secure all three points for Orient in North Wales!

COME ON! 🙌

#LOFC #OneOrient

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · Mar 28

looked those up because they seem amazing and congratulations to Margaret Cavendish on both coming back from the dead and now proudly living as an out penguin

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Leyton Orient Football Club - Unofficial @leyton-orient-fc.bsky.social · May 3

WHAT A PERFORMANCE! 💪

The O's pick up all three points, ensuring a sixth-place finish and a play-off spot! 🤩

The Orient faithful absolutely superb throughout ❤️

#LOFC #OneOrient