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Tom Rutter

Tom Rutter

@obscuredrama.bsky.social

670 followers 280 following 180 posts

Shakespeare/Marlowe/playing companies/science/early modern drama, University of Sheffield

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Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · 23h

Calling it: the 'Nesquik tax'

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Brett Greatley-Hirsch @notwithoutmustard.bsky.social · 3d

Special issue, "Adapting Shakespearean Romance in Indian Cinema" (guest-edited by @thea987.bsky.social and Rosa Garcia-Periago) out now! www.tandfonline.com/toc/rshk20/2... #Shakespeare #earlymodern

Special issue on ‘Adapting Shakespearean Romance in Indian Cinema’, guest-edited by Thea Buckley and Rosa García-Periago. Volume 21, Issue 4 of Shakespeare

www.tandfonline.com

Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · 5d

I must return to SJC and befriend their cats immediately. Bringing Dreamies.

Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · 8d

Finally got round to leaving the Labour party, so don't say I didn't get anything done on a strike day 😢

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 8d

it's on

presale in two days, sign up for the link: laylo.com/mountaingoat...

THE MOUNTAIN GOATS with special guest Craig Finn. Image of a fishing boat on the water with a small hilly island behind it. Tour dates listed. Those dates are at https://laylo.com/mountaingoats/m/2026EUUK

Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · 12d

Sarah Dustagheer's book on the King's Men performing at the Globe and at Blackfriars might be a starting point as it discusses the practicalities of indoor performance and I seem to remember that it discusses the aesthetic effect of candlelight

Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · 12d

'legegs'

Dialogue from All’s Well That Ends Well in which the word ‘legs’ is amusingly (to me, anyway) spelled.

Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · 18d

🥳

Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · 18d

It's one of those days when the only way forward is to buy the new Mountain Goats album

Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · 19d

There is a counterfactual article in this surely

Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · 19d

No Troublesome Reign?

Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · 19d

No 2-part Henry IV?

Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · 19d

Alternative universe where he never wrote part 2

Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · 19d

I have long been of this opinion

Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · 22d

Wondering whether any metal bands have ever used a theorbo onstage for one of their slow numbers, and if not why not

Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · 26d

The diodes down my left side

Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · 27d

Annual whiteboard sketch of invention, nature's child, fleeing stepdame study's blows

crude stick figures depict Astrophil and Stella 1

Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · Oct 24

I'm suddenly getting this sort of thing too. AI?

Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · Oct 23

@sdp.bsky.social

Unicorns Happen @silvy777.bsky.social · Oct 23

tech.yahoo.com/article/ring...

"Amazon is reportedly pitching its cloud and AI services to law enforcement agencies, and Ring [doorbell cam subsidiary of Amazon] is looking to work with Flock and other surveillance companies."

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Unicorns Happen @silvy777.bsky.social · Oct 23

tech.yahoo.com/article/ring...

"Amazon is reportedly pitching its cloud and AI services to law enforcement agencies, and Ring [doorbell cam subsidiary of Amazon] is looking to work with Flock and other surveillance companies."

Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · Oct 23

Just Manchester and London, which I can't make ...

Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · Oct 23

If you mean AM, good luck! I think he'd have turned me over to Topcliffe before lunchtime

Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · Oct 23

Didn't know they were touring. Oh well, probably just as well for what's left of my hearing.

Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · Oct 19

I was disappointed not to get a picture of 'Fuck off F****e' on the back of her jacket

Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · Oct 18

Yes! Were you in the conga chain?

Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · Oct 18

See you there!

Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · Oct 18

Current task: making the response to readers sound less grumpy

Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · Oct 16

Taken by the Fairies: Fairy Practices and the Production of Popular Culture in A Midsummer Night's Dream
Mary Ellen Lamb

Shakespeare Quarterly
Vol. 51, No. 3 (Autumn, 2000), pp. 277-312

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Emily Naish @emjlynajsh.bsky.social · Oct 15

The deadline is still over a month away, but reminder about this @themhra.bsky.social funded conference @fairbanc.bsky.social and I are organising on the exciting subject of **early modern practical texts**!

📅 Abstracts due 24/11.

Full details can be found here:
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

Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · Oct 14

Did a Triffid design this notebook?

Reads 'Plants over people'