Paul salzman

Little Corellas

Excellent medieval/early modern round table yesterday on beds during which we learnt how sinful it is for dogs to be on one’s bed. I guess I am going to Hell unless cat cancels out dog.

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Let us all bow down before Elaine Hobby who persuaded CUP to undertake this massive compete Behn project. I’m not sure that just being on the editorial board means I deserve this handsome volume but I am so delighted to have it ; two down only six to go.

2/2 defends himself by falsehood, and is dismissed to happiness.' Dr Johnson

1/2 'I cannot reconcile my heart to Bertram; a man noble without generosity, and young without truth; who married Helen as a coward and leaves her as a profligate: when she is dead by his unkindness, sneaks home to a second marriage, is accused by a woman whom he has wronged,

Illawarra flame tree

Partner: so when people look back on causes for the decline of English studies they will say ‘ there was someone spending their time writing about beds and blanks’.

Cherries for Valentine’s Day my partner’s favourite thing

It was such a wonderful experience . Was Brook the first to double Titania / Hyppolita etc ?

Trapezes insured by the Brook dream? Which I was lucky enough to see on its Australian tour.

My partner, also a labourer in the fields of the mind, being assisted by the bad dog.

Yep got it, thanks

Just stop working it’s 42

So I post this and two minutes later read a review in the guardian of izabella Scott ‘S the bed trick. As we say in my household: what are the chances ?

Thanks will check it out

Great thanks I haven’t read insatiate countess sounds perfect

#earlymodern ok drama people apart from M for M and Alls Well which plays have bed tricks. Just beds eg Chaste Maid don’t count for my purposes.

#earlymodern I was lucky enough to be taught by Harold love and one of his golden rules was always go back to the original source so it did take all day yesterday to find the bit of Malone quoted by Schoenbaum and it was worth it not because Schoenbaum misquoted I hasten to say.

I think I only have one more handbook/companion essay left in me. Have always been grateful to have been taken by surprise by the inimitable Andrew Hadfield who asked me to write about early modern essays when everyone else was asking me to write about early modern fiction

Dog in exile

Yuuki has stolen the dog’s bed

Can’t find my old notes on it. I agree it might be about time also repetition because Clifford loved doing and recording things over and over and over again

Great thanks.

#earlymodern Does anyone know the price of Jo Roberts’ edition of Mary Wroth’s poems when it was first published in 1983?

42 degrees today

New year resolution : be more like this.