The publisher of my forthcoming book wants promotion, eh? This may be more than I bargained for:

Shakespeare Off the Shelf

A few weeks back, I gave this talk at KU's Hall Center for the Humanities. What fun!

From Rayna Kalas, Frame, Glass, Verse: The Technology of Poetic Invention in the English Renaissance (Cornell UP, 2007), 16. This reads to me like a germ of all the great work on materiality, poetry, making, language, historicity, etc. etc. done in the 16 years since this was published.

An epigram published in 1608, and I don't quite know what to think about it:

A Scholer newly entred marriage life,
Following his studdie did offend his wife,
Because when she his company expected,
By bookish busines she was still neglected:
Comming vnto his studdy, Lord (quoth she)
Can papers cause you loue them more then mee:
I would I were transform'd into a Booke
That your affection might vpon me looke,
But in my wish, withall be it decreed,
I would be such a Booke you loue to reede,
Husband (quoth she) which books form: should I take,
Marry (said hee) were best an Almanacke,
The reason wherefore I doe wish thee so,
Is, euery yeare wee haue a new you knowe.