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The Shakespearean Breeches Performance Catalogue | Curating records of Shakespearean breeches performance from 1660-1900 | Project Director: @aelagrand.bsky.social | www.pointslikeaman.com

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Points Like A Man @pointslikeaman.bsky.social · Nov 15

Welcome to the Bluesky profile for Points Like A Man: The Shakespearean Breeches Performance Catalogue. This catalogue is a digital project aiming to curate records of individual Shakespearean breeches performances by actresses from 1660 to 1900. ✨🎩

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Points Like A Man @pointslikeaman.bsky.social · 1d

This batch also helped us grow our number of records for performances in Philadelphia, while also helping us expand into St. Louis. You can see this growth on our interactive map of historic theatres. ✨🎩

Points Like A Man @pointslikeaman.bsky.social · 1d

In this performance, Ellen and Kate Bateman played Richard and Richmond, respectively, while Julia Jones played Prince Edward and Miss Schoolcraft played the Duke of York. The Bateman sisters were famous for playing these roles as young girls, with prints like these capturing their performances.

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Points Like A Man @pointslikeaman.bsky.social · 1d

This batch included our first performances in St. Louis, Missouri, with one production even having four performances of genderfluidity at once! On October 15, 1850, the St. Louis Theatre had a production of Richard III, with Richard, Richmond, and the two princes all being played by girls or women.

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Points Like A Man @pointslikeaman.bsky.social · 1d

Today, 93 records were added for performances of As You Like It, Coriolanus, Henry IV Part I, Julius Caesar, King John, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, and Twelfth Night in Philadelphia and St. Louis from 1822-1878 to bring the record total to 8,265. ✨🎩

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Points Like A Man @pointslikeaman.bsky.social · 1d

Throughout her doctoral work, @aelagrand.bsky.social has published in open-access journals, worked on several open-access DH sites and developed her own (PLAM!), and has been committed to teaching her classes with all open-access textbooks and materials. ✨

Points Like A Man @pointslikeaman.bsky.social · 1d

This award is open to all students, faculty, and staff, and celebrates efforts made towards embracing the value of open access at Texas A&M.

Points Like A Man @pointslikeaman.bsky.social · 1d

We are thrilled to share that our project director, @aelagrand.bsky.social, has been selected as one of two recipients of Texas A&M University Libraries' 2025 Open Access Award! ✨

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Folger Shakespeare Library @folger.edu · 2d

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Points Like A Man @pointslikeaman.bsky.social · 2d

In this batch of records were our first breeches performances in Othello. In February 1863, an actress by the name of Miss Miller played a page in Othello at the Chestnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia. While other tragedies have often seen breeches performances, Othello almost never has.

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Points Like A Man @pointslikeaman.bsky.social · 2d

Today, 88 records were added for performances of Coriolanus, Henry IV Part I, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, Richard III, and The Taming of the Shrew in Philadelphia from 1863-1865 to bring the record total to 8,172. ✨🎩

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Points Like A Man @pointslikeaman.bsky.social · 4d

Among these performances was our first record for a performance in Love's Labor's Lost! ✨ On January 6, 1862, Mrs. Charles Henri played Moth (also known as Mote) in Love's Labor's Lost at the Arch Street Theatre in Philadelphia. 🎩

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Points Like A Man @pointslikeaman.bsky.social · 4d

Today, 34 records were added for performances of As You Like It, Henry IV Part I, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Love’s Labor’s Lost, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, and The Taming of the Shrew in Philadelphia from 1854-1864 to bring the record total to 8,084! ✨🎩

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New Variorum Shakespeare @nvshakespeare.bsky.social · 5d

We are thrilled to be the cover story in the Texas A&M English Department’s student-designed and student-written newsletter:

newvariorumshakespeare.org/news

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Points Like A Man @pointslikeaman.bsky.social · 6d

From this trip, she has been able to gather 237 records for performances in Philadelphia, and another 31 records for performances in Boston, Chicago, and Washington, DC! ✨

She is now in the process of cleaning up these records and getting them ready to add to our database site! 🎩

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Points Like A Man @pointslikeaman.bsky.social · 6d

This summer, @aelagrand.bsky.social visited the Library Company of Philadelphia and UPenn's Kislak Center to consult playbills and collect records of women's breeches performances in Philadelphia! ✨🎩

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Points Like A Man @pointslikeaman.bsky.social · 6d

Check it out! Our project director, @aelagrand.bsky.social won the @honeyandwaxbks.bsky.social Book Collecting Prize for her collection of materials related to Shakespearean breeches actresses! ✨🎩 Points Like A Man even gets a shout-out!

Fine Books & Collections @finebooks.bsky.social · 15d

Alexandra E. LaGrand Wins 2025 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize
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Alexandra E. LaGrand Wins 2025 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize

Alexandra E. LaGrand has won the 2025 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize for her archive documenting Shakespearean breeches actresses over the long 19th century.The annual prize, which rewards American...

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Points Like A Man @pointslikeaman.bsky.social · Jul 5

After a bit of a break, we are back to bring you some more records! ✨ Today, 17 records were added for performances of Romeo and Juliet in Dublin, Leeds, Liverpool, London, and Torquay from 1809-1830 to bring the record total to 8,050. 🎩

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Alexandra E. LaGrand @aelagrand.bsky.social · Jun 15

Celebrating reaching 8,000 performance records on my database today 🎉 Since @pointslikeaman.bsky.social launched in 2023, it has grown exponentially, reaching 8,033 performances by 1,090 actresses at 133 theatres, representing 90 roles across 25 Shakespearean plays in cities throughout the world.

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Points Like A Man @pointslikeaman.bsky.social · Jun 15

Both of these bills are from The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, from the “Macbeth ephemera, 1840-1857” portfolio. See its catalog record below! ⤵️

legacycatalog.nypl.org/record=b1643...

New York Public Library / All Locations

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Points Like A Man @pointslikeaman.bsky.social · Jun 15

These bills feature Rignold as Macbeth at the Theatre Royal, Birmingham, in 1842, and Bateman as Macbeth at the Theatre Royal, Dublin, in 1852 when she was just ten years old! ✨🎩

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Points Like A Man @pointslikeaman.bsky.social · Jun 15

Not every day that you see actresses playing Macbeth! ✨ We’re preparing our next batch of records and came across these two playbills featuring Patricia Rignold and Kate Bateman as the titular Macbeth. 🎩

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Points Like A Man @pointslikeaman.bsky.social · Jun 9

24 records were just added for performances of Twelfth Night in Edinburgh, Liverpool, and London from 1811-1877 to bring the record total to 7,955! ✨🎩

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New Variorum Shakespeare @nvshakespeare.bsky.social · Jun 9

One of our Associate Digital Editors Dr. Kris May has won the David Greetham Prize (alongside former @tamu.bsky.social professors Heidi Craig and @lauraestill.bsky.social) for an article about trans-inclusive bibliography. Congratulations! newvariorumshakespeare.org/news/

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Points Like A Man @pointslikeaman.bsky.social · Jun 8

These mark our first performances in Chicago and Providence, as well as our first of actresses in the role of Curio in Twelfth Night. With these, we have reached 130 theatres represented in our database throughout the world and 84 roles from the Shakespearean canon! ✨🎩

Points Like A Man @pointslikeaman.bsky.social · Jun 8

We are inching ever so close to 8,000 records! ✨ Today, 50 records were added for performances of As You Like It, Cymbeline, and Twelfth Night in Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, London, New York, and Providence from 1820-1901 to bring the record total to 7,931. 🎩

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