Dr Caroline Taylor

Throwback to History Showoffs at @southwarkcathedral.bsky.social! Thanks so much again to @scienceshowoff.bsky.social for letting me blab on about 17th-century Lockdowns and the appearance of Matt Hancock in Ben Jonson’s ‘The Alchemist’! m.youtube.com/watch?v=zdv1...

🚨Extended Deadline Klaxon🚨 The deadline to submit papers for the Stuart Drama Conference has been extended to 16th October. Get your proposals in and get excited! @racheljwillie.bsky.social @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social @bkadams.bsky.social

Thank you, Yersinia Pestis. The suspected outbreak of pneumonic plague in Russia is about to make my work VERY relevant. Check this out for a cheeky preview, and a bit of gallows humour! m.youtube.com/watch?v=zdv1...

Last chance to submit proposals for the Stuart Drama Conference! It’s shaping up to be a really exciting event. Get your paper proposals in by Friday!

Time to send us your proposals for Stuart Drama! HT @racheljwillie.bsky.social @bkadams.bsky.social @cazzert.bsky.social

👀 over the last few months, I’ve been working on a project with that terrific triumvirate of scholarly erudition @bkadams.bsky.social, @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social & @cazzert.bsky.social, and we’re almost ready to lure y’all to Liverpool in July 2027 to be part of it…

Stuart Drama Conference! Liverpool, 2027 CFP due in October stuartdrama.com/cfp/stuart-d... I've been dreaming and scheming about this conference with @racheljwillie.bsky.social @cazzert.bsky.social @bkadams.bsky.social for nearly a year now.

The CFP for the Stuart Drama Conference (July 2027) is officially open! stuartdrama.com/cfp/stuart-d... Been a privilege to dream this up with the incredible @racheljwillie.bsky.social @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social and @bkadams.bsky.social. So excited to share it with you all!

NEW ISSUE KLAXON: Shakespeare Bulletin 43.4 is now published via Project Muse! Find the final issue of Shakespeare Bulletin's 2025 volume, now fully open access. 📰: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56610

Very pleased to say that my review of Margaret Oakes’ ‘To Gender or Not to Gender’ is out in the new issue of Shakespeare Bulletin @shaxbull.bsky.social Check out the review below (and while you’re at it, check out @fairbanc.bsky.social’s too!) muse.jhu.edu/issue/56610/...

A sneak peek at a fun theatre project I was working on in January! torch.ox.ac.uk/article/the-... @davidftaylor.bsky.social @ballasterros.bsky.social @torchoxford.bsky.social @thethelmas.bsky.social

‘Montaigne was pleased with playing with his Cat’: Philosophers and Felines (Journal Articles I Will Never Write, No. 36)

Fascinated that In Our Time is one of the BBC’s most popular podcasts among under 35s. The young people demand three academics and a peer discussing Demosthenes, apparently. And they’re right to do so.

How your email finds me

@emjlynajsh.bsky.social and I are delighted to be running this conference on EM practical texts, generously supported by @themhra.bsky.social, and with fabulous keynotes by @endeeekay.bsky.social and Laurence Publicover. Abstracts due by 24th November!

Born With Teeth - worth it if only for the line “Beaumont and Fletcher get away with it” @the-rsc.bsky.social

Playing for Leeds since - checks notes - 1629 @jonathanhealey.bsky.social 👀

Now that the paperwork is through, I'm delighted to reintroduce myself as Dr Caroline Taylor! Thank you so much to my examiners - Prof Gill Woods and @racheljwillie.bsky.social - and my wonderful supervisors - @oldfortunatus.bsky.social and @davidftaylor.bsky.social - for all their support! #PhDone

The duality of being an ECR in seventeenth-century theatre

There are some English words which I had no recourse to use before starting my DPhil on plague and theatre that I now only know how to spell in the early modern way. Is it ‘putrefy’, ‘putrify’, or ‘putryfye’. They all look right to me!

Very much looking forward to seeing this! Although I’m not sure that suggesting that a man who wrote 126 sonnets to another man was in fact attracted to men quite counts as a “queer reimagining” of his life (as it was described in Tatler today). It’s probably just historically accurate.

The couple sat on the same row as me in the library keep leaning over their desks to kiss each other’s necks. I just had a heart attack when Word crashed and I couldn’t save the edits I’ve made to my thesis. We are not having the same library experience. (Word has sorted itself out. I have not)