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i don’t know if i’ve actually read a full reading of marlowe’s the jew of malta (besides maybe the bits in greenblatt’s chapter on marlowe generally in renaissance self fashioning). i think this was a good one.

milton i love you for making a self insert angel who is the only one to stand up to satan before the fall. that is so beautiful of you.

i ask that everyone please respect my privacy at this time

i’m speeding through this it’s so good. the use of different points of view is amazing. abigail’s narration in first person vs erica’s chapters being third person… the disassociation from the self because of dysphoria. and the chapter in second person. mwah.

made it through part 1!! 🥳

let the summer 2026 paradise lost reading group commence!!!

someone i know dm’ed me on instagram asking if im okay because im marked that im reading this on storygraph

do we think margery ever gets tired of being gods most specialist girl?

was just fully reading this during an unrelated seminar. lol.

locking tf back in.

lydgate opening this with a self-insert canterbury tales fanfic where he insists he was there too and the other pilgrims wanted him to tell a tale soo bad. amazing.

guy really into shakespeare’s richard ii: omg richard ii

reading this over quickly again to teach it! 😌

it’s crazy that shakespeare is second nature to me but go back like 200 years and i crumble

finally done with all the biblical cycles!!! 😫

high school me was just doing whatever. what do you mean i read this in 2019??

finding the individual plays is not working so i'm just logging this now. starting the york corpus christi plays

ah shit, here we go again.

I did NOT finish this in time for my meeting today, worth it to go to the Faustus movie night though. ☺️

The fact that I was supposed to have read this weeks ago for seminar but I didn't even open it until now......

Experience of reading this play. Underlining lines like. Is this sex? Yes this is sex.

Insane that this book was written so specifically with me in mind. Queer history play retelling. Hal and Richard (II) parallels. Soooo me coded.

Soo excited to reread this :D

oh my god the chapter on donne is so good.

edward begging to see gaveston again before he’s killed and mortimer saying he’ll send his head to him instead… that’s evil sorry

edward begging to see gaveston before he’s killed and mortimer sending his head instead….. evil. sorry.