Knowledge Commons | Sawyer Kemp | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/sawyerkemp/activity/ Activity feed for Sawyer Kemp. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:31:12 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 bd8632702f346cdb31c03b53704c4d49 Sawyer Kemp replied to the topic Act One in the discussion The Birth of Merlin Reading Group https://hcommons.org/groups/the-birth-of-merlin-reading-group/forum/topic/act-one/#post-30542 Tue, 21 Apr 2020 18:20:15 -0400 Was anyone else reminded of Love's Labour's Lost? Sort of a comparison by inversion--since obviously Artesia succeeds more quickly at getting a Welcome and makes the opposite bargain of LLL's Princess--but the beginning of the scene sets up an agreement of lords that immediately meets the (feminine) agent of its undoing.

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]]> eef0f149eb2e226a09f13c5d7d1a9845 Sawyer Kemp replied to the topic Welcome! Introduce Yourself in the discussion The Birth of Merlin Reading Group https://hcommons.org/groups/the-birth-of-merlin-reading-group/forum/topic/welcome-introduce-yourself/page/2/#post-30541 Tue, 21 Apr 2020 17:35:51 -0400 Hi folks! Latecomer hopping in to the Birth of Merlin party. I'm Sawyer (they/them/theirs or he/him/his). I'm finishing up my last dissertation year at UC Davis where I work on early modern drama, performance studies, and queer/trans studies. My research has mostly been on contemporary Shakespeare performance and how institutions negotiate making…[Read more]

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