https://hcommons.org/members/trickyholly/activity/ Activity feed for Holly Dugan. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 04:36:49 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 764ae69e99958dc7962065a209d6ebd6 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1740745/ Mon, 07 Jun 2021 15:32:29 -0400 0 f0d34613f0f442721a32ce6165b5e8f3 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696370/#acomment-1696371 Fri, 10 Jul 2020 12:29:58 -0400 Hello and thank you for your comment--yes! I've been working on another project but it just finished up and I hope to start posting here more regularly about research on 18th-century apes and about sixteenth-century ones as well. More soon!

In reply to - Holly Dugan wrote a new post, "A Chimp for All Seasons", on the site The Famous Ape One thing that is hard about documenting the lives of famous apes (especially those who are/were famous as performers) is the […] ]]> bba4db82c0680145528b2a0da404f1bb https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1615381/ Mon, 13 Aug 2018 17:40:56 -0400 Draft of pre-publication review of Courtyard Theatre's 2016 production of Missouri Williams' King Lear with Sheep. For the published and corrected version, please see: https://shakespearequarterly.folger.edu/web_exclusive/shakespeare-performed-courtyard-theatres-king-lear-with-sheep/

]]> 0 9bf60133cc424dc3fcde8389a30b8f84 https://thefamousape.hcommons.org/?p=55 Fri, 27 Jul 2018 10:55:28 -0400 One thing that is hard about documenting the lives of famous apes (especially those who are/were famous as performers) is the way that we conflate character, stage name, and animal. We see “Cheeta,” “Zi […]

]]> 6a006041c257799f61b786b4bdcd15ef https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1613940/ Wed, 25 Jul 2018 17:59:03 -0400 0 58717573ed0b40ad7a748a8e42841296 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1610849/ Thu, 14 Jun 2018 19:16:22 -0400 his article examines recent critical approaches to Shakespeare and the senses. Historicizing the senses has posed certain methodological challenges: what is the relationship between subjective sensory perceptions and broader cultural understandings of sensation? Does the sensate have a history? Recent work on each of the five senses demonstrates…[Read more]

]]> 0 07041c64fd8a4ce115d9ece0b1ec64d6 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1610848/ Thu, 14 Jun 2018 19:10:24 -0400 Who or what played the baboon on early modern London's stages? Such a question may seem as obscure as its answer obvious; I ask it, however, to foreground the long history of trained animal performers and their relationship to canonical English drama. The surprising presence of performing baboons in early modern London has been mostly forgotten or…[Read more]

]]> 0 f6bcdce65d55b072348ecede4fb3eec7 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1606000/ Tue, 10 Apr 2018 19:42:57 -0400 Olfaction has not figured largely in scholarly or popular understanding of early English stages; as stage properties, scents have rarely impacted the critical work on late medieval or early modern material histories of the stage, no doubt due to the assumption that olfaction lacks both a history and an archive. Nonetheless, for late medieval and…[Read more]

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