ellierycroft.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Theatre at University of Bristol: early modern bodies, PaR, gender. Formerly thinking about hair, now thinking about walking: also defining 'the Predramatic'. Teacher, cat-lover, writer, and mum, in varying measures.
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Do present your findings to this urgent UoB study, which I have subtitled, 'Why are cats?'
the-bristol-mix.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2025/02/26/m...
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Yay, congratulations!!!
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Thanks, Tracey. Patrick, I love Davis, J., Normington, K., Bush-Bailey, G., & Bratton, J. (2011). Theatre History and Historiography. In B. Kershaw, & H. Nicholson (Eds.), Research Methods in Theatre and Performance. Happy to talk through other relevant publications in March ☺️
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This is very far from a vintage episode
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Me too, sadly
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Ok good thanks... I went green today for the 'five day old bruise' look.
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@cathyhume.bsky.social I take your silence as dissent 😂
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?? Thoughts
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gender inequality on a number of occasions, otherwise I'm not sure that that perspective would have been in the room. So I thoroughly enjoyed it! And it seemed meaningful - let's hope it goes somewhere.
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For those who expressed an interest, it was a very unusual experience! I was certainly sitting in a room full of scientists and policy-makers and was definitely the outlier. Having said that, people were incredibly receptive to what I was saying and I was pleased to be able to yoke things back to
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I will - thanks for the interest.
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Good point - and these were humans after all, not objects. It's tricky - a few aristocratic women did commission portraits of themselves for instance, but then how far were the codes within those culturally determined? (I'm no art historian btw!)
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A couple of very intelligent people have now said this, so thank you - makes me feel less of a fool.
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I suspect they are just going to say it's my fault because it does say, somewhere, in 8pt, at the bottom of the webpage, that it's not the govt site 😭
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EXCELLENT. I think you're going to enjoy some forthcoming work, I'll be sure to share it with you as and when it comes out.
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Wish this was live streamed!
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more responsibility for their choices and self-representation than they probably enjoyed. It's a fine balance between not making historical women completely voiceless victims of oppressive structures, and endowing them with freedom that a repressively honour-bound culture would not have afforded.
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double session on 'Performing Early Modern Bodies' @ SAA; presenting on Richard II @ ESRA in Porto; travel to Switzerland and Greece; and some other 'watch this space' stuff in process. Looking forward to what is shaping up to be a brilliant year.
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And my brain did exactly the same reading this post.
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Good for you, Harry - I know how much you were looking forward to it.
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Happy New Year beautiful woman x
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Fantastic teaching texts though, for exactly those reasons.
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(And on the latter, see @norajw.bsky.social's Canonical Misogyny.) Shame about the MoV - I had my doubts from afar too.
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I'll join this please
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It's also these curious kids asking great questions - I'm a wreck! History really is the future.