#dramatic texts

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Check out this epic wrong number text I got:

Sat next to each other at a movie once? Were in tennis together...but not at the same time?

I think John made the right call.

I responded with, "Wrong number. Don't know anything about you or John but I don't think y'all could've been that close if you don't have his real number."

...I haven't heard back.

...

It's the tennis thing that gets me. How were you in it together if it wasn't at the same time???

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Episode 22: Laura Estill on Dramatic texts, Commonplace books, and Profane & debauched atheists

“Profane, & Debaucht Atheists” (Bodleian MS Sancroft 29, p. 1)

In Episode 22 of Inside My Favorite Manuscript, Dot and Lindsey talk with Laura Estill about Bodleian MS Sancroft 29. Archbishop of Canterbury William Sancroft (1617-1693) was an avid reader and collector of extracts from various works. MS Sancroft 29 is one of many manuscripts in his hand that survives; it is a dramatic commonplace books, that is, it contains bits and pieces of many plays that Sancroft read most of them from the century before Sancroft lived, including Shakespeare. We learned so much about the reception of drama in the seventeenth century, and we hope you enjoy listening to our conversation.

Listen here, or wherever you find your podcasts

Below the cut are more images and links relevant to the conversation.

English Treasury of Wit and Language (1655) by John Cotgrave, with marginal attributions added; image from https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.1086/696155:

Bodleian MS Sancroft 97 with extracts from 2 Henry VI quarto (labelled Yorke & Lancaster “pt 1” in margin):

Foxe’s preprinted commonplace book, Pandectae Locorum Communium (1572), empty page (floods, water) – source, EEBO:

Foxe’s preprinted commonplace book, Pandectae Locorum Communium (1572), full page (tribulations, vexations)—source, EEBO:

Sancroft’s abandoned list of playes (Bodleian MS Sancroft 29, f. i):

“Profane, & Debaucht Atheists” (Bodleian MS Sancroft 29, p. 1):

Extracts from Heywood’s A Maidenhead Well Lost (top) and Webster’s Devil’s Law Case (most of page), (Bodleian MS Sancroft 29, p. 69):

Epilogue to Jonson’s Every Man in His Humour in a verse miscellany (Bodleian MS Sancroft 53, p. 6):

Links to projects mentioned in our discussion:

Commonplace Cultures

Digging into 18th-century literary culture

1664 Shakespeare Folio title page & Frontispiece:

1647 Beaumont and Fletcher Folio Table of Contents:

2 Henry VI quarto:

Henry VI Part 2, first edition

Shakespeare Documented features all primary sources that document the life and career of William Shakespeare. It has images, descriptions, a

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Carmina Burana - Wikipedia

Carmina Burana - Wikipedia

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Reading For Fluency: English for Spanish

Reading For Fluency: English for Spanish

English for Spanish at Shakespeare in the Mountains is for intelligent people who are fed up with text-books:  Libros de Texto; Detesto los Libros.  Text books give you castrated texts.  There is an unwritten assumption in the text-book: that learning is methodical, purposeful and can be planned out in curriculum units.  Systematic study pays off for sure but if you can get in touch with what…

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