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We’ve been tracking bears in inns, arenas, and marketplaces, but they were also “presented” in royal residences and recreational spaces, including the distinguished Banqueting House.
In 1583, on a cold winter’s night, a great fire swept through the town of Nantwich in the north-west of England…
We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to join our English and Creative Writing team in the School of Humanities & Social Sciences and join the ‘Box Office Bears: Animal Baiting in Early Modern England’ research team.
I have frequently been asked when I talk about the BOB project, “did the bears hibernate”? We can answer this question in two ways: by looking at what we know about modern bears, and by looking at archival accounts.
Was Shakespeare gay? Was Shakespeare Catholic? Did Shakespeare write Shakespeare, or did Shakespeare instead draft in somebody who was not Shakespeare to do his Shakespeare for him, due to reasons? These are just some of the interesting questions Shakespeareans have asked about Shakespeare in recent years, but in this blog post I will instead ask: did Shakespeare hang out with bears?
Last year, we launched our prototype website with an animation about the fire of Nantwich in 1581 and what it meant for the town’s bears. This new post sees the Box Office Bears team discussing “where do animals belong in early modern England?”