So, I am still here, and have been writing a bunch of stuff, I just forget to post about what I'm writing in the moment! Histories Ficathon XV reveals were today, so this seems like a good time to do a roundup. But first, thanks to MossGrownTowers for my awesome giftfic, Shakespeare & Co.. Yay for fic about the Lord Chamberlain's Men hanging out ( Read more... )

So, I wrote Henry VI fic about Cade's rebellion, because I think I'm going to take my first shot at teaching (3/4 of) the first tetralogy this fall, and apparently fanfic is one of the ways I think through things before teaching them? At any rate, it's stunning how timely that bit feels. I think I went in thinking "oh, this is going to feel really ( Read more... )

So, I wrote some new Shakespeare fan-stuff, because apparently this is what I do these days instead of a) getting ready for Week 2 of classes; b) writing that article I'm supposed to be writing; c) getting started on the extremely complicated side editing gig I've been offered (but don't yet have a formal contract for, so I guess not getting too ( Read more... )

So, I'm supposed to be writing a sober article about the medieval / Renaissance dice game of hazard (as depicted in The Canterbury Tales specifically). Apparently what I do end up writing, under those circumstances, is semi-Shakespeare fic, semi-historical RPF about the game of hazard, Antony and Cleopatra, metatheatricality, and, um, seventeenth- ( Read more... )

I'm alive! I see that I haven't posted here in two years, which is kind of wild, but I simply haven't been doing a lot of fandom stuff, and that tends to be what this journal is for. Anyway, that has abruptly changed, because a few weeks ago I woke up at 3 a.m. with, I swear, the voice of Richard Burbage's ghost in my head and an urge to write ( Read more... )

It may be the most-niche-interest sort of thing I have ever written, viz., Antony and Cleopatra fic, from the point of view of one of the servants, about the characters hanging out and playing historical board games. Nevertheless, here it is: In the House of Beauty.

... because if there's one thing I can't resist, it's making up new ways to save Hamlet. Special thanks to whoever it was on my f-list who wondered, years ago, why Bernardo and Marcellus seem to think Horatio's status as a scholar gives him special expertise in how to speak to ghosts.

Graduate Seminar in Practical Necromancy; or, Rosencrantz and ( Read more... )

This is all the fault of lareinenoire, who asked whether the Friar Laurence in Two Gentlemen was the same as the one in R&J, and if so, what was he doing there. (Per the play, he was wandering in penance through the forest -- which seems to explain a remarkable number of things.)

( The Second Time as Farce )

Now that Histories Ficathon author reveals are over, I can claim credit for The Lord Who Doesn't Lie, possibly the only fic about medieval demandes d'amour games anywhere on AO3. Hotspur / Kate, mostly fluff.

Dance of DeathI. In his last days, the Cardinal supposed death to be the end; he had long since lost faith in anything else. He is not ready for what comes after: his mistress, as pretty and lively and vain and covetous as she was in life ( Read more... )