Melinda Gough (she/her)
@melindajgough.bsky.social
Editor, Early Theatre
Professor, English & Cultural Studies/Gender & Social Justice, McMaster University
Professor, English & Cultural Studies/Gender & Social Justice, McMaster University
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Coming soon in Early Theatre 28.2: Molly Ziegler explores how Aaron’s melancholy in Titus Andronicus becomes a tool, shaping early modern ideas of race. Though mentioned only once, "melancholy" helps the play define whiteness, showing how Black bodies were commodified to secure a white Roman legacy.
December 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Coming soon in Early Theatre 28.2: Molly Ziegler explores how Aaron’s melancholy in Titus Andronicus becomes a tool, shaping early modern ideas of race. Though mentioned only once, "melancholy" helps the play define whiteness, showing how Black bodies were commodified to secure a white Roman legacy.
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I am so excited for this article to come out, and so grateful to Early Theatre for publishing it. This has been a long journey, but a testament to the fact that scholarship can be a slow process and that the archives still have so much to tell us.
Coming soon in Early Theatre 28.2: @ebryan.bsky.social analyzes the connections between the conscription of boys by early modern English choirs and theatre companies and how the Virginia Company prompted authorities to take Powhatan children to populate Henerico College.
#EarlyModern #Drama
#EarlyModern #Drama
December 18, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I am so excited for this article to come out, and so grateful to Early Theatre for publishing it. This has been a long journey, but a testament to the fact that scholarship can be a slow process and that the archives still have so much to tell us.
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Up next in December 2025: Issues in Review contributing editor @swittek.bsky.social introduces a brace of short, cutting edge essays tackling how early modern English drama represented conversion -- a complex process shaped, this IR shows, by by race, gender, politics, and performance.
#EarlyDrama
#EarlyDrama
December 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Up next in December 2025: Issues in Review contributing editor @swittek.bsky.social introduces a brace of short, cutting edge essays tackling how early modern English drama represented conversion -- a complex process shaped, this IR shows, by by race, gender, politics, and performance.
#EarlyDrama
#EarlyDrama
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What counts as lawful, as opposed to criminal, conversion? And what are the stakes of each? This depends on which genre of early modern English drama is taking up such questions, according to Sheila Coursey. Read more in ET's upcoming Dec 2025 issue.
#EarlyTheatre #EarlyModern @swittek.bsky.social
#EarlyTheatre #EarlyModern @swittek.bsky.social
December 18, 2025 at 6:45 PM
What counts as lawful, as opposed to criminal, conversion? And what are the stakes of each? This depends on which genre of early modern English drama is taking up such questions, according to Sheila Coursey. Read more in ET's upcoming Dec 2025 issue.
#EarlyTheatre #EarlyModern @swittek.bsky.social
#EarlyTheatre #EarlyModern @swittek.bsky.social
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Bess Bridges in Fair Maid of the West, analyzed by way of Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski’s theory of moral exemplarity: learn more from Jordan Zajac SJ's forthcoming essay, out soon in ET's Dec 2025 'Drama and Conversion' Issues in Review organized and edited by @swittek.bksy.social.
#EarlyModern
#EarlyModern
December 18, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Bess Bridges in Fair Maid of the West, analyzed by way of Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski’s theory of moral exemplarity: learn more from Jordan Zajac SJ's forthcoming essay, out soon in ET's Dec 2025 'Drama and Conversion' Issues in Review organized and edited by @swittek.bksy.social.
#EarlyModern
#EarlyModern
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What happens to faithful wives in early modern English plays where prodigal sons give way to prodigal husbands? Hannah Korrell explores how "Griselda Fights Back," along the way changing trajectories of gender in conversion narratives. Forthcoming in 28.2's Issues in Review. @swittek.bsky.social
December 18, 2025 at 9:30 PM
What happens to faithful wives in early modern English plays where prodigal sons give way to prodigal husbands? Hannah Korrell explores how "Griselda Fights Back," along the way changing trajectories of gender in conversion narratives. Forthcoming in 28.2's Issues in Review. @swittek.bsky.social
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What's in a name -- Romeo's name? And what's conversion (not just love) got to do with it? Read more in @hollypickett.bsky.social's essay on Romeo's transformation 'from renegade to martyr': forthcoming in our upcoming Issues in Review, ET 28.2 (Dec 2025). @swittek.bsky.social
December 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
What's in a name -- Romeo's name? And what's conversion (not just love) got to do with it? Read more in @hollypickett.bsky.social's essay on Romeo's transformation 'from renegade to martyr': forthcoming in our upcoming Issues in Review, ET 28.2 (Dec 2025). @swittek.bsky.social
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Emily Parise highlights the paradox in Marlowe's Jew of Malta: while early modern religious conversion suggests an internal change, the need for outward performance can lead to insincerity. Learn more in our Dec 2025 Issues in Review on Drama and Conversion organized by @swittek.bsky.social
December 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Emily Parise highlights the paradox in Marlowe's Jew of Malta: while early modern religious conversion suggests an internal change, the need for outward performance can lead to insincerity. Learn more in our Dec 2025 Issues in Review on Drama and Conversion organized by @swittek.bsky.social
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In our upcoming December issue: Kirsten Mendoza critiques the white/right ways of (reading) Shakespeare. Don't miss her essay reviewing books by David Sterling Brown; Miles Grier; Farah Karim-Cooper; Arthur L. Little, Jr; and Ian Smith. @universitypress.cambridge.org @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
swittek.bsky.social
December 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM
In our upcoming December issue: Kirsten Mendoza critiques the white/right ways of (reading) Shakespeare. Don't miss her essay reviewing books by David Sterling Brown; Miles Grier; Farah Karim-Cooper; Arthur L. Little, Jr; and Ian Smith. @universitypress.cambridge.org @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
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🎄❄️ Greetings, Bluesky!
The release of our forthcoming edition (28.2) is just around the corner this December!
Eager to know what’s inside? Keep an eye on our Skeets in the coming days.
This edition will be completely open access!
#EarlyTheatre #Drama
The release of our forthcoming edition (28.2) is just around the corner this December!
Eager to know what’s inside? Keep an eye on our Skeets in the coming days.
This edition will be completely open access!
#EarlyTheatre #Drama
December 17, 2025 at 6:26 PM
🎄❄️ Greetings, Bluesky!
The release of our forthcoming edition (28.2) is just around the corner this December!
Eager to know what’s inside? Keep an eye on our Skeets in the coming days.
This edition will be completely open access!
#EarlyTheatre #Drama
The release of our forthcoming edition (28.2) is just around the corner this December!
Eager to know what’s inside? Keep an eye on our Skeets in the coming days.
This edition will be completely open access!
#EarlyTheatre #Drama
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Coming soon to Early Theatre 28.2: Mayra Cortes asks us to look again at - or rather listen to - the play-within-a-play of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
#Shakespeare #MND
#Shakespeare #MND
December 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Coming soon to Early Theatre 28.2: Mayra Cortes asks us to look again at - or rather listen to - the play-within-a-play of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
#Shakespeare #MND
#Shakespeare #MND
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Coming soon in Early Theatre: Laura Deluca (@lauradeluca.bsky.social) theorizes representations of Carthaginian noblewoman Sophonisba in plays by Marston (c. 1606), Nabbes (1637), and Lee (1704) as an idealized white woman.
#EarlyModern #Drama
#EarlyModern #Drama
December 17, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Coming soon in Early Theatre: Laura Deluca (@lauradeluca.bsky.social) theorizes representations of Carthaginian noblewoman Sophonisba in plays by Marston (c. 1606), Nabbes (1637), and Lee (1704) as an idealized white woman.
#EarlyModern #Drama
#EarlyModern #Drama
So excited for this celebration!
Follow the Engendering the Stage project @engenderstage.bsky.social and read more at: engenderingthestage.humanities.mcmaster.ca
Follow the Engendering the Stage project @engenderstage.bsky.social and read more at: engenderingthestage.humanities.mcmaster.ca
Project Overview -
Engendering the Stage is an international research project on the performance of gender in early modern Europe.
engenderingthestage.humanities.mcmaster.ca
December 4, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Happy to announce the publication of research arising from our workshop at Stratford Festival, in 2018! 😀😀🎉
Our book centres feminist, queer, and trans scholars and artists exploring complexities of gendered performance on stage today and within archival history.
utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....
Our book centres feminist, queer, and trans scholars and artists exploring complexities of gendered performance on stage today and within archival history.
utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....
December 4, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Happy to announce the publication of research arising from our workshop at Stratford Festival, in 2018! 😀😀🎉
Our book centres feminist, queer, and trans scholars and artists exploring complexities of gendered performance on stage today and within archival history.
utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....
Our book centres feminist, queer, and trans scholars and artists exploring complexities of gendered performance on stage today and within archival history.
utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....
December 4, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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🎭 Join Shakespeare Centre London on 12 December for the launch of Engendering the Stage in the Age of Shakespeare and Beyond, a new book revealing the deeper complexities of gendered performance on stage today and within the records of theatre history.
🔗 Register ⬇️
🔗 Register ⬇️
Book Launch: Engendering the Stage in the Age of Shakespeare and Beyond | King's College London
Celebrating the publication of Engendering the Stage in the Age of Shakespeare and Beyond.
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December 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
🎭 Join Shakespeare Centre London on 12 December for the launch of Engendering the Stage in the Age of Shakespeare and Beyond, a new book revealing the deeper complexities of gendered performance on stage today and within the records of theatre history.
🔗 Register ⬇️
🔗 Register ⬇️
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Exciting to be among this rich collection just published, edited by Peter Cockett & @melindajgough.bsky.social . It brings together some lively thinking and conversations between actors, scholars, & makers arising from a residency at Stratford Festival: utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....
Engendering the Stage in the Age of Shakespeare and Beyond - University of Toronto Press
Engendering the Stage in the Age of Shakespeare and Beyond steps beyond the myth of the all-male stage, centring feminist, queer, and trans scholars and artists to reveal the deeper complexities of gendered performance on stage today and within the records of theatre history.
utppublishing.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Exciting to be among this rich collection just published, edited by Peter Cockett & @melindajgough.bsky.social . It brings together some lively thinking and conversations between actors, scholars, & makers arising from a residency at Stratford Festival: utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....
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Our newest edition is out now! ✏️ (4/4)
Building on our earlier conversation, this concluding thread reveals what more you can find in our latest issue (28.1)! #StayInformed #ExcitingNews
Building on our earlier conversation, this concluding thread reveals what more you can find in our latest issue (28.1)! #StayInformed #ExcitingNews
August 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Our newest edition is out now! ✏️ (4/4)
Building on our earlier conversation, this concluding thread reveals what more you can find in our latest issue (28.1)! #StayInformed #ExcitingNews
Building on our earlier conversation, this concluding thread reveals what more you can find in our latest issue (28.1)! #StayInformed #ExcitingNews
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Our newest issue is out!!! 🎙️ (2/4)
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55088
Following the last thread, here's what more you can find in our latest issue (28.1)!
#StayTuned #ExcitingNews
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55088
Following the last thread, here's what more you can find in our latest issue (28.1)!
#StayTuned #ExcitingNews
Project MUSE - Early Theatre: A Journal associated with the Records of Early English Drama-Volume 28, Number 1, 2025
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August 28, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Our newest issue is out!!! 🎙️ (2/4)
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55088
Following the last thread, here's what more you can find in our latest issue (28.1)!
#StayTuned #ExcitingNews
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55088
Following the last thread, here's what more you can find in our latest issue (28.1)!
#StayTuned #ExcitingNews
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🎭 Hello, Bluesky! (1/4)
We're excited to share that Early Theatre 28.1 is now live!
buff.ly/tFadeCz
This issue is fully open access and free to read via Project Muse’s Subscribe to Open Access.
Curious what’s inside? Follow this post and the threads that follow for highlights, links, and more!!
We're excited to share that Early Theatre 28.1 is now live!
buff.ly/tFadeCz
This issue is fully open access and free to read via Project Muse’s Subscribe to Open Access.
Curious what’s inside? Follow this post and the threads that follow for highlights, links, and more!!
August 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
🎭 Hello, Bluesky! (1/4)
We're excited to share that Early Theatre 28.1 is now live!
buff.ly/tFadeCz
This issue is fully open access and free to read via Project Muse’s Subscribe to Open Access.
Curious what’s inside? Follow this post and the threads that follow for highlights, links, and more!!
We're excited to share that Early Theatre 28.1 is now live!
buff.ly/tFadeCz
This issue is fully open access and free to read via Project Muse’s Subscribe to Open Access.
Curious what’s inside? Follow this post and the threads that follow for highlights, links, and more!!
Reposted by Melinda Gough (she/her)
We can’t wait to share ET's upcoming Issues in Review section on Queer and Trans Issues in Medieval Drama edited by @jeffgstoyanoff.bsky.social. Look for this work in issue 27.2 of Early Theatre by the end of the year!
December 20, 2024 at 7:04 PM
We can’t wait to share ET's upcoming Issues in Review section on Queer and Trans Issues in Medieval Drama edited by @jeffgstoyanoff.bsky.social. Look for this work in issue 27.2 of Early Theatre by the end of the year!
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December 19, 2024 at 9:25 PM
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Historicizing the Embodied Imagination in Early Modern English Literature (Palgrave, 2024) will be released in the coming weeks. Many thanks to my wonderful co-editor, Grant Williams, and our terrific contributors who have produced amazing chapters. More info here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
August 1, 2024 at 2:20 AM
Historicizing the Embodied Imagination in Early Modern English Literature (Palgrave, 2024) will be released in the coming weeks. Many thanks to my wonderful co-editor, Grant Williams, and our terrific contributors who have produced amazing chapters. More info here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Nearly 300 @Yale faculty condemn the criminalization of @Yale students engaged in acts of peaceful protest. @Yale
must drop all charges, take no disciplinary action against those arrested, and respect peaceable speech and assembly on campus. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
must drop all charges, take no disciplinary action against those arrested, and respect peaceable speech and assembly on campus. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
April 26, 2024 Yale Faculty Letter
docs.google.com
April 26, 2024 at 2:39 PM
Nearly 300 @Yale faculty condemn the criminalization of @Yale students engaged in acts of peaceful protest. @Yale
must drop all charges, take no disciplinary action against those arrested, and respect peaceable speech and assembly on campus. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
must drop all charges, take no disciplinary action against those arrested, and respect peaceable speech and assembly on campus. docs.google.com/document/d/1...