We continue our journey with the KM and navigate our way through the 1630s towards the inevitable closure of the theatres in 1642. The 2022 announcement is v. exciting!

If you’re interested in 1630s Caroline drama, specifically that performed by the #KingsMen, you can join REP & listen in on (or read a role in) all of this season’s plays! Membership is £25 per year & renewable in January but if you join now it will be the half-year fee of £12.50

Just catching up on the Reading Early Plays (REP) reading of Lodowick Carlell’s ‘1 Arviragus and Philicia’. Opening line of the Prologue = ‘We promised you a new play by our bill’. One for you Eoin Price?

May be of interest to the new cohort of Shakespeare Institute students…

Very excited to be a part of this, with a case-study on the Reading Early Plays (REP) 2020 Shakespeare Zoom marathon in association with the Shakespeare Institute. Many thanks to my fabulous team of contributors: Kate Burrows, Kat Twigg, @DiLo922, Dr Sarah Hodgson and Martin Wiggins. Coming soon!

Happy birthday to me! This birthday comes at the beginning of a much-needed 2 month leave of absence from the PhD. I spent it with my husband and kids and absolutely smashed them all at ten pin bowling 🎳 🙌🏻

Planning for BritGrad 2022 is under way! Today, we're thrilled to introduce committee members Tony Ferguson (Co-Treasurer) and Sarah Hodgson (Registrar)! #britgrad2022

Haven’t tweeted for a while. Been struggling with ill health - both physical and emotional. Taking another LoA for a couple of months. Keep the C16-17 gossip coming. Who was suing who? Who cut who out of whose will? Whose apprentice married their daughter? Much appreciated.

🧵Our first #KingsWomenWednesday thread is on a woman who spent a lot of her life on the outskirts of the King's Men: Faith Kempsall. While not closely associated with the King's Men, Faith's name crops up across documents relating to the King's Men's company members and family.

It’s #KingsWomenWednesday, and our thread is on Thomasine Ostler (1595-1621), the ‘disobedient’ daughter of King’s Men sharer John Heminges. Known to theatre historians as the plaintiff in Ostler v. Heminges, Thomasine’s use of the law courts has much to tell us about her life.

A new #KingsWomenWednesday thread by the wonderful Héloïse Sénéchal (@HMSenechal) covering Thomasine Ostler. I've had the enormous pleasure of watching H compile this research over the last 2 years. Thomasine's life is incredible, and I'm so glad that her story is being told 💃🏻

Slightly different #KingsWomenWednesday today, as we imagine how those of the women amongst the upper-middling sort might have dressed, an exercise that also demonstrates the issues we have with loss in the archives.

📢 Announcing REP’s 2022 Summer Play-Reading Marathon 📢 You are warmly invited to join REP as we read through the entire dramatic canon of Christopher Marlowe in the congenial surroundings of Mansfield College, Oxford. More details here: readingearlyplays.com/2022marathon

#KingsWomenWednesday Two weeks ago, our thread was on John Heminges’ ‘disobedient’ daughter Thomasine; this week we focus on her older sister, Ales (Alice).