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The Wisdom Pedlars, Antiquarian Book Auctions @wisdompedlars.bsky.social · 4d

This work contains the only known bookplate illustrated by artist & author Mervyn Peake. Designed for a surgeon who operated on his family, in lieu of fees. It depicts the 3 little bones of the middle ear

#books #antiquarian #medicine #bookplate #histmed bit.ly/4pSUgbo

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Illuminations @illuminations.bsky.social · 11d

In Bradford for Widescreen Weekend and staying at the grand but somewhat faded Midland Hotel where, I am perversely delighted to discover, in 1905 Sir Henry Irving breathed his last on this staircase. His manager, Bram Stoker, was in attendance.

Photograph of grand staircase stretching away from the camera, with decorative metal handrails and a patterned carpet.

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James Wallace @jameswallace.bsky.social · 11d

Sir Henry’s body was whisked down to London by train, and the sculptor Sir George Frampton was employed to make a death mask.

I’ve traced 9 copies of it - back in 2019 I bought one of them at auction that had belonged to the Irving family.

It hangs on the wall and is looking over me now.

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Marwood @andmarwood.bsky.social · 12d

#Starmer
#BritCard

Family Fortunes meme with Les Dennis and... Keir Starmer.

"We asked how do you fix the cost of living crisis...
You said Digital IDs..."

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cpuk (trampoline park connoisseur and occasional comic printer) @comicprintinguk.bsky.social · 13d

“BritCard?”

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 21d

'And that underlying rhythm probably sounds quite familiar: it’s like a heartbeat. Shakespeare loved iambic pentameter because it sounds very close to natural, heart-felt speech': argh, this kind of thing (from Shakespeare's Globe website) drives me mad: someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/10-reasons...

10 Reasons Why the Iambic Pentameter is Not Like the Human Heartbeat

On an idea about poetry that needs to die

someflowerssoon.substack.com

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James Wallace @jameswallace.bsky.social · 22d

Interesting, and that would fit, with him not master to just one but working across the company with any / all apprentices where necessary, especially when they had extended scenes all together without their masters - for example in Dream, where, as its author, he would be best placed to do that.

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James Wallace @jameswallace.bsky.social · 23d

Related: as well as being an actor & playwright, I often wonder if he took particular responsibility for training / directing the younger actors in the plays he had written, so took roles that meant he was either acting with them, or free to rehearse them.

Older actors could look after themselves.

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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · Sep 2

Sat 20 Sept, 12noon-8.30pm
THE 8th ROSE READATHON

Our hugely popular fund-raiser returns!

Choose to watch or take part, as we gallop through 1hr versions of six plays by Shakespeare, Marlowe & Jonson.

Roles drawn from a hat & scripts provided.

More info & book: www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on

Infographic, with date, times & ticket prices (per play: £10 to take part, £5 to watch) in modern red type, together with a jumble of the titles in old fashioned black type taken from the original printings of the six plays in the Readathon: Twelfth Night, The Alchemist, Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth, The Massacre at Paris, and The Comedy of Errors.

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James Wallace @jameswallace.bsky.social · Sep 4

🤞

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Illuminations @illuminations.bsky.social · Aug 9

Linked to yesterday's OTD post, this is terrific - thanks @jameswallace.bsky.social

James Wallace @jameswallace.bsky.social · Aug 8

Have you seen this?

Cantu (the first magician to make doves appear, apparently) eight years earlier, doing part of his act in Politiquerías, the Spanish version of Laurel and Hardy’s Chickens Come Home (1931).

m.youtube.com/watch?v=qIOD...

Cantu Magician -Politiquerias- Laurel and Hardy 1931

YouTube video by Christian de MIEGEVILLE

m.youtube.com

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James Wallace @jameswallace.bsky.social · Aug 8

Here he is on the cover of The Sphinx magazine in 1944 (for sale on eBay)

James Wallace @jameswallace.bsky.social · Aug 8

Have you seen this?

Cantu (the first magician to make doves appear, apparently) eight years earlier, doing part of his act in Politiquerías, the Spanish version of Laurel and Hardy’s Chickens Come Home (1931).

m.youtube.com/watch?v=qIOD...

Cantu Magician -Politiquerias- Laurel and Hardy 1931

YouTube video by Christian de MIEGEVILLE

m.youtube.com

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James Wallace @jameswallace.bsky.social · Aug 4

4K Wicker Man Box Set… 👌

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James Wallace @jameswallace.bsky.social · Aug 2

Saw this and thought of you:

alvarozinosamaro.substack.com/p/star-treks...

Star Trek's Intellectual Integrity

As I write this, the first three episodes of the third season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (SNW) have been released.

alvarozinosamaro.substack.com

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James Wallace @jameswallace.bsky.social · Aug 2

🎵 Shitler
has only got one ball
Don junior
has two but ve-ry small
Ivanka’s
are two great clankers
But poor old Eric
has no tes-tic-les 🎵

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · Aug 2

needs to build some ballroom

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James Wallace @jameswallace.bsky.social · Jul 31

fyi @mathewlyons.bsky.social

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James Wallace @jameswallace.bsky.social · Jul 22

Production photo from a modern revival?

Obvious choice: Sejanus

(William Houston; Will & Peter de Jersey. Dir. Greg Doran 2005 RSC)

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James Wallace @jameswallace.bsky.social · Jul 22

What’s the period covered?

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James Wallace @jameswallace.bsky.social · Jul 21

Glad you finally managed to get hold of it

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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · Jul 21

The Rose was the first theatre on Bankside, but the very first south of the Thames was built a mile away in Elephant & Castle in the mid-1570s.

Henslowe records receipts for 10 performances there in 1594, just before it closed.

Find out about the Newington Butts Playhouse @reedproject.bsky.social

The Records of Early English Drama online entry for the record of Newington Butts Playhouse contained in Philip Henslowe's Diary in 1594, giving the dates and receipts for ten performances there between 3-13 June

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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · Jul 18

We've replaced the rope-lights outlining The Rose's archaeological remains, currently preserved underwater.

The red lights mark the inner & outer walls of the seating galleries.

The blue lights show the front of the stage in 1587, and then pushed back in 1592/3.

Looking south-north, & east-west.

A photograph of the archaeological remains of The Rose Playhouse, currently preserved underwater in a very wide and tall basement underneath an office block, looking from the south to the north, with illuminated rope lights in red outlining the position of the inner and outer walls of the seating galleries that ring the yard, with two ropes of blue lights on the north side of the yard, marking the front of the stage in 1587, then pushed back a few feet when The Rose was expanded in 1592/3. The modern day raised viewing platform is just visible at the top right of the photograph. Light from the viewing platform is reflected on the surface of the water.

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James Wallace @jameswallace.bsky.social · Jul 9

You and @andykesson.bsky.social there nine years ago - 8 June 2016

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James Wallace @jameswallace.bsky.social · Jul 9

It’s public already, though still much I want add, so likewise if you have any thoughts or suggestions to send back my way, they’d be gratefully received!

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James Wallace @jameswallace.bsky.social · Jul 9

(I’ve been building The Rose’s new website, and have been working on it this afternoon, so this kind of thing is on my mind.)

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