Matthew Steggle

@matthewsteggle.bsky.social

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Prof of Early Modern Eng Lit. Shakespeare and other C16-17 stuff. The rest is silence, mostly. Views own.

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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 12d

Really enjoyed this, in which @oldfortunatus.bsky.social, @lucycmunro.bsky.social, and my esteemed colleague Laurence Publicover, all wearing lightly their massive learning, talk about how much fun the Henry IV plays are.
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In Our Time - Henry IV Part 1 - BBC Sounds

Shakespeare's powerful exploration of power and succession with Hotspur, Hal and Falstaff.

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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 13d

Mayne’s The City Match, satirizing puritans: “Yesterday I went / To see a lady that has a parrot. My woman / While I was in discourse converted the fowl, / And now it can speak nought but Knox’s works. / So there’s a parrot lost.”
Not specified that it comes on - but you couldn't not, could you?

Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 19d

Next week: “At half-time, the home crowd were delighted when the second XI performed some scenes from that perennial favourite The Island Princess”.

Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 19d

Prospect magazine have suspended their paywall for this weekend - so if you want to read their review of Hamnet, or indeed anything else, it’s free till Feb 2.

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/the-...

How ‘Hamnet’ sidelines Anne Hathaway

Historical records suggest that Shakespeare’s wife was central to his career and life. So why does this film reduce her to a woman of the woods?

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · Jan 18

Very pleased that the Mrs Shakspaire letter is mentioned in the Sunday Times today!

Front page of today’s Sunday Times, with a panel for an article inside, “how accurate is Hamnet?”

Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · Jan 13

Yes, absolutely! It would have made Imtiaz Habib very happy to see it.

Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · Jan 13

And there's some great detail. Was that the Moorish Ambassador watching Hamlet in 1600? Not categorically impossible. And the night scene by the Thames, where as the camera moves Old St Paul's looms up where you would expect. For someone immersed in the stuff, the effect is uncanny. (3/3)

Old St Paul's, the cathedral which was destroyed in the Great Fire of London.

Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · Jan 13

From a Shakespearean's POV - much more Hamlet than was in the novel, and that worked thrillingly well. Inevitably scope to argue about historical fidelity, but Shakespeare, glass houses, stones. (2/3)

Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · Jan 13

I loved Hamnet, which was beautiful throughout, and very joyful (by the standards of films about the plague). (1/3)

Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · Jan 7

Have emailed you!

Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · Jan 7

That piece by you and Heather likewise! I had no idea Adams was a card-carrying white supremacist, which as you say gives a pretty chilling twist to the whole affair.

Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · Jan 7

But it’s Berkhout’s show, and his essay is really marvellous. (5/5)

Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · Jan 7

furtling around some typhoid-ridden backstreets around 1840, looking for an address that Shakespeare obviously never lived at, you might enjoy it. Meanwhile, Paster, Lesser, and Wolfe start on the more serious concerns. (4/5)

Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · Jan 7

Berkhout’s essay is vast, and I only get to one small part, basically trying to reinforce and expand on his footnotes 89-102. If you like old maps, old newspapers, and (3/5)

Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · Jan 7

Berkhout’s subject is the copy of Lambarde’s Archaionomia (1568) now at the Folger which contains what’s often called the “seventh signature” of Shakespeare. No spoilers here, but it’s quite a wild ride. (2/5)

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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · Jan 7

he new issue of SQ is devoted to an epic bit of detective work by the late Carl T. Berkhout: wide-ranging, technically brilliant, and really alarming. Brief contributions from Gail Kern Paster, Zachary Lesser, Heather Wolfe, and me, start picking up the pieces. (1/5)

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Volume 76 Issue 4 | Shakespeare Quarterly | Oxford Academic

Shakespeare Quarterly (SQ) is a leading journal in Shakespeare studies, publishing highly original, rigorously researched essays, notes, and book reviews.

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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · Dec 31

Likewise! Just don’t let on and hopefully no-one will ever know.

Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · Dec 30

I second that OHHHHHHH!

Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · Dec 30

That’s an amazing object!

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Jay Moschella @jaymoschella.bsky.social · Dec 30

Last BPL new acquisition of the year is a copy of the very rare gradual printed by Johann Emerich for Lucantonio Giunta in Venice in 1499. This is the largest book (by dimensions) printed during the 15th century and it required a custom-manufactured paper stock to print. 1/8

A sample page of red and black printed music on four-line red staves, woodcut initial, and type; on the right, an image of the blind tooled pigskin binding

Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · Dec 14

Had not seen that! Thank you!

Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · Dec 13

John Carey was a brilliant scholar and public intellectual, but he was also a model professional academic, and personally kind. In the 90s he ended up supervising my D Phil when no one else much fancied it, and for that I am eternally grateful.

Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · Dec 7

I mean, it’s there in black and white on the internet, but I still have some doubts…

Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · Dec 1

Thanks to Aberystwyth Bibliographical Group for hosting me for a zoom talk the other week on Mrs Shakespeare and binding waste! They also recorded the talk, which was kind: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9PK...

In the Company of Mrs Shakespeare

YouTube video by David Stoker

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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · Nov 26

Did not know that! Will check it out! Also, fun trivia - it features in an episode of Peep Show where Mark is watching a performance of it.

Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · Nov 26

I’m sorry to hear that. The Satanic Epic is one of my favourite Milton books.

Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · Nov 26

Bowers’s in works of Thomas Dekker, with commentary in a separate volume by Cyrus Hoy. Great choice of play!

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Laura Estill @lauraestill.bsky.social · Nov 19

Out now!

The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Constance Crompton, @raysiemens.bsky.social , Richard J. Lane, and myself

And better yet? It's #openaccess!
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

Order hard copies here: www.routledge.com/The-Companio...

Thanks to all contributors! 🎉

a handsome book cover: The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities in Practice ; blue at top and bottom and with ethereal black and white and rainbow edged dots evoking information transfer (shaped like a long fish's tail, perhaps). Edited by Constance Crompton, Laura Estill, Richard J. Lane, and Ray Siemens

Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · Nov 17

Congratulations on the D Phil!

Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · Nov 10

Thank you so much for sharing this!!

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