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Beth Sharrock retweeted
26 Jul 2025
A lovely new review of Light on Darkness in @The_Tablet by the excellent @felicityebrown thetablet.co.uk/books/the-ca…
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Beth Sharrock retweeted
3 Apr 2025
This week, Dr @SteveTPurcell of @uniofwarwick, talks about '“A Queer Twist to #Shakespeare: Achilles and Patroclus in postwar productions of Troilus and Cressida' - a real teaser for his upcoming book on the play for @ManchesterUP's Shakespeare Performed: Globe to Global series
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Beth Sharrock retweeted
26 Feb 2025
Congratulations to Dr Beth Sharrock @mirthnomatter on a wonderful, convivial launch of 📚Shakespeare Broadcasts and the Question of Value📚 (Cambridge Elements). @uniofwarwick Shakespeare's cultural value is always a topic close to my heart! Beautifully chaired by Steve Purcell.
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Beth Sharrock retweeted
Don’t miss your chance to read new Cambridge Element Shakespeare Broadcasts and the Question of Value by @mirthnomatter Free access available until 24 February.
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#cambridgeelements #literature
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17 Feb 2025
Finally, I'm so fortunate to be able to reproduce in part a transcript of a RSC Live broadcast as an Appendix to this Element. I'm proud that the paratexts to the Book might be enriching in and of themselves.
With sincere thanks to @Illuminations for his generosity.
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17 Feb 2025
The Conclusion argues that broadcast paratexts are integral to debates about the formation of Shakespeare's contemporary cultural value. It questions how digital paratexts may be informed by, and inform, our reading of Shakespeare's texts.
For DWW, who is also integral.
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17 Feb 2025
Chapter 3 explores how paratexts to The Merry Wives of Windsor imagine Shakespeare at work. How is the play "explained" by a narrative of artistic pressure?
For their wonderful supervision of my work with minimal pressure, to @DrPeteKirwan & Erin Sullivan (@ShakesInstitute)
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17 Feb 2025
Chapter 2 considers the challenge of framing Titus Andronicus: a play whose extremities of violence has often seen it offered as a transgressive 'alternative' to ideas of Shakespeare's popular canon.
For @MrSoupSpoon , who is also 'deeper read'.
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17 Feb 2025
Chapter 1 compares @TheRSC 's broadcast of Two Gentlemen of Verona (2014) with the footnotes to Johnson's 1765 edition. I ask why TGV is so often offered to audiences as a piece of "juvenilia."
For @felicityebrown , who shares with this play the most scene-stealing dog
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17 Feb 2025
I open with Pope, whose fantastic 1725 Preface owns the difficulty of editing *all* of Shakespeare works (with their "great excellencies [...] and almost as great defects").
For my family, whose great excellencies are - thankfully - without great defects
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17 Feb 2025
I was so fortunate to find, in @roaringgirle & @loughnrv , editors who embraced the Element's approach to digital materials and/as printed texts. They welcomed this study and nurtured it with patience at every stage.
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17 Feb 2025
This Element is interested in how paratexts (in print & live theatre broadcast performances) are used to present "tricky" plays to audiences.
How do you frame the value of a work that has been disparaged by critics for centuries, or whose reputation for violence is infamous?
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12 Feb 2025
I'm so excited to share that my Element, 'Shakespeare Broadcasts and the Question of Value' is now available online. It's currently Open Access until the 24th!
Below is a short 🧵 on the book and the wonderful people who brought it together...
cambridge.org/core/elements/…
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12 Feb 2025
In the Conclusion, I argue that broadcast paratexts are integral to debates about the formation of Shakespeare's contemporary cultural value.
I question how digital paratexts may be informed by, and inform, our reading of Shakespeare's texts.
For DWW, who is also integral.
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12 Feb 2025
Finally, I'm so fortunate to be able to reproduce a partial transcript of an RSC Live broadcast as an Appendix to the Element. I'm proud that the paratexts to the book might be enriching in and of themselves.
With sincere thanks to @Illuminations for his generosity.
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