Not long until the distribution to members in good standing of our 2022 volume, Dr Maria Shmygol 🌻's edition of Percy's The Aphrodysial. And as Percy almost certainly said at some point, it's never too late to become a member of the Malone Society... malonesociety.com

Another teaser…Justin Kuhn’s article, “Ladies Rampant: Thomas Middletown’s ‘Two New Playes’ in the English Republic” explores “More Dissemblers” & WBW printed in 1650s. Out of their Jacobean context, representation of women & gender-based hierarchies gain different signification

Annnnnd another teaser. In an extraordinary article, @SageSnayl considers Holland House in the 1650s as a site of performance, nostalgia for the pre-war King’s Men & resistance. Holland House’s principal proprietor, Isabel Rich, was a key patron of drama. Contains ace images too!

In today’s teaser, I lower the tone by writing about a flatulent devil whose farts smell like tobacco & how ballad song connects representations of roundheads in cheap print in the Restoration to rogues and vagabonds in Tudor folklore via Jonson’s masque, “Gypsies Metamorphosed”.

Today’s Teaser! Stephen Watkins examines the Dryden Davenant Tempest, carefully grown from the Shakespeare text & germinating new branches of its own. Watkins expertly traces its reception & alteration histories across stage & page, bookstalls, concert halls, & personal libraries

Next Teaser! In “Aphra Behn’s Adaptations: Paper & Stage Sources for The Rover (1677) & Sir Patient Fancy (1678)”, the distinguished duo Claire Bowditch & Elaine Hobby trace the different modes & strategies of literary borrowings in two of Behn’s plays. Langbaine oversimplified…

Penultimate teaser! heidi craig focusses on playbook publishing during three distinct periods: pre 1642, 1642-60, & post 1660 to illustrate how cast & actor lists & allusions to actors in prologues & epilogues in plays function as marketing devices & documents of theatre history

Annnnnd finally! Fran Connor eruditely examines Kirkman’s play catalogues, droll collection, practices as a bibliographer & role as theatrical antiquarian to show how print in early Restoration played an essential part in canon formation, extending beyond the triumvirate of wit

This HLQ had its genesis in Dr Maria Shmygol 🌻 & Douglas Clark living room in 2016 as Emma Depledge & I drank 🍷 & concocted a plan to put together an Shakespeare Association of America seminar, sowing the seeds for this special issue. Issue will be uploaded soon on Project Muse muse.jhu.edu/journal/677

Huge thanks to our contributors at the SAA seminar in Atlanta & for their fascinating articles, to the editors at HLQ for their thorough copy editing, peer reviewers for their helpful & positive comments, to @katieltaylor28 who helped us prepare the ms for final submission.

Thanks, brilliant Rachel Willie for these tweets & for being an incredible co-editor and a fab friend. Thanks too to our contributors for producing such excellent, thought-provoking papers on a period of dramatic history that deserves more attention than it usually receives.

Additional thanks to Newton Key for mailing feast tickets to us!! Rachel Willie I look forward to being able feast with you again soon! #NerdMail #SnailMail

We look forward to receiving your abstracts for ‘The uses and abuses of civility’ Université Neuchâtel 26-27 May 2023. Another chance to visit beautiful Ville de Neuchâtel 🇨🇭 in the sunshine!

It's the 1st December. I want to channel how I'm feeling into something positive & so would like to share a little more about what we know happened to Alexander in the hope it'll raise awareness of #sudc. I'm so grateful for the support that has given me strength to speak (1/?)

Warm thanks to ⁦Preti Taneja⁩ from my BA group, we have loved studying #WeThatAreYoung alongside #KingLear @MrGee

Pleased to share something that I started pre-pandemic, 2nd-child & new job: “Interjections and individual style: A study of restoration dramatic language” Language and Literature doi.org/10.1177/096394… Big thanks to my colleagues for their valuable feedback #stylistics #linguistics

Congratulations ⁦Josephine Besbrode⁩ & team! So proud of you, my friend!! #BAFTA Winner - LIBBY, ARE YOU HOME YET? Anna Hall, Josephine Besbrode, Luke Rothery, Danielle Jones, Celia Jennison - Candour Productions/Sky Crime ⁦Roundhay School⁩

Hop Suisse! Hopp Schwiiz! Forza Svizzera! SO PROUD of Switzerland… and not just because you’re currently winning 🌈 #Eurovision2024