A survey of the pedagogy aims that supported a course designed to create a public humanities podcast.

Elizabeth Tavares’s double of review of Rethinking Theatrical Documents in Shakespeare’s England, edited by Tiffany Stern and Loss and the Literary Culture of Shakespeare’s Time, edited by Roslyn L. Knutson, David McInnis, and Matthew Steggle.

Two guerrilla movements have disrupted Digital Humanities pedagogy in the past decade: the event syllabus, and the appropriation of Twitter as a composition genre. The event syllabus typically presents as a web-based archive of articles that help the public both instruct themselves about racialized violence and provides resources to teach a kind…[Read more]

The Sun Tavern was a victualing house on the east side of New Fish Street, just north of London Bridge between lower Thames Street and Little Eastcheap. Settled just under St. Magnus’ monument and yard, the tavern sat on the boundary between Bridge Within Ward and Billingsgate Ward. A small sign with an orb and a dot, the common marker of the s…[Read more]

How does one make a medieval English morality play relevant for 2018? By thematizing one of the oldest devices of actorly virtuosity, doubling, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Pulitzer-nominated Everybody has found a way to access contemporary ideas about death in exploring the intersection with the identity politics of race. Advertising materials for t…[Read more]

What if the theatre industry that made someone like William Shakespeare possible was predicated on collaboration rather than individual endeavour? Of the many necessary explorations conducted and questions posed by Laurie Johnson in his recent monograph, Shakespeare’s Lost Playhouse, this may be the most surprising. This necessary and l…[Read more]