Associate Prof. Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. Shakespeare/early modern scholar, theatre and Star Wars nerd, rebellious bookworm. Author of "Shakespeare's Hobby-Horse and Early Modern Popular Culture" (Routledge, 2022).https://bsky.app/profile/puckinspirit.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/puckinspirit.bsky.social/post/3lo5g4chspk2fMy Hungarian Shakespeare book for the general reader/book market is in the print shop now - coming out by the end of May :) combining references to cutting-edge scholarship w ones to popular culture (Star Wars/Trek, Netflix) & Hungarian literature/theatre - prepare to be 'edutained':)01 May 2025 23:01 +0000at://did:plc:4mdyfljwluaecnb32ryocwsh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lo5g4chspk2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/puckinspirit.bsky.social/post/3lkoct4msk225Szeged University ;) let's put this early modern show on the road! Still harping on my research started at the Newberry Library, Chicago ❤️18 Mar 2025 18:37 +0000at://did:plc:4mdyfljwluaecnb32ryocwsh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkoct4msk225https://bsky.app/profile/puckinspirit.bsky.social/post/3lkapxudpg225And it never ends... until the book comes out, and then it stops. Hotspur: "But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool; / And time, that takes survey of all the world, / Must have a stop."13 Mar 2025 08:55 +0000at://did:plc:4mdyfljwluaecnb32ryocwsh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkapxudpg225https://bsky.app/profile/puckinspirit.bsky.social/post/3lk64zd65yk2m#womenshistorymonth Brave women - standing up against tyranny today :) BIG footsteps to follow in... (NER= Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán's corrupt government/system)12 Mar 2025 08:10 +0000at://did:plc:4mdyfljwluaecnb32ryocwsh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lk64zd65yk2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/puckinspirit.bsky.social/post/3ljrkvewth224So thrilled to hear that an ex-student of mine will finish writing his doctoral dissertation on Shakespeare/early modern in comic books - against all odds! He disappeared for a while for personal reasons (life is hard) but this news called for some good craft beer in downtown Budapest ;)07 Mar 2025 08:14 +0000at://did:plc:4mdyfljwluaecnb32ryocwsh/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljrkvewth224https://bsky.app/profile/puckinspirit.bsky.social/post/3ljl3vvvsys2yIt's SO cool when you can finally include in your class the amazing things you found eg. in the Newberry Library - the beautiful & huge 1542 folio of Chaucer w all the marginalia! Talking about the Knight or later glosses to the Wife of Bath's part suddenly got real for my BA students :)04 Mar 2025 18:30 +0000at://did:plc:4mdyfljwluaecnb32ryocwsh/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljl3vvvsys2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/puckinspirit.bsky.social/post/3ljdkqnmbok2gPublishing (for the second time!) in the Arden Shakespeare series still feels otherwordly to me - as a PhD student in Hungary in the 1990s, learning from the Arden Shakespeare editions, I could not even dare to dream about this :) @bloomsburypublishing01 Mar 2025 18:34 +0000at://did:plc:4mdyfljwluaecnb32ryocwsh/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljdkqnmbok2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/puckinspirit.bsky.social/post/3ljb7zjdnjk2dFinally got to the point when I can get back to research and to what I found during my fellowship at the Newberry in October: talking to colleagues & PhD students about 'ordinary' women readers of George Wither & emblem books :) #earlymodernwomen28 Feb 2025 20:17 +0000at://did:plc:4mdyfljwluaecnb32ryocwsh/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljb7zjdnjk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/puckinspirit.bsky.social/post/3lca4naun4k2eLibrarians/scholars rock! So proud of @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social at the Newberry Library, Chicago (my favourite place since I spent a month of research there)! Her excellent detective work in book history even made it to the Hungarian press :) https://konyvesmagazin.hu/friss/ritka_konyvek_talal_chicago.html01 Dec 2024 07:47 +0000at://did:plc:4mdyfljwluaecnb32ryocwsh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lca4naun4k2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/puckinspirit.bsky.social/post/3lbcpcumrud2zIf you want to hear me rambling about early modern shrews (rodents & unruly women) and explain why Shakespeare is such an important part of Hungarian culture, here is the wonderful podcast of Philip Rowe: https://www.thehistoryofeuropeantheatre.com/the-culture-of-the-shrew-in-early-modern-europe-a-conversation-with-dr-natalia-pikli/19 Nov 2024 15:02 +0000at://did:plc:4mdyfljwluaecnb32ryocwsh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbcpcumrud2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/puckinspirit.bsky.social/post/3kgdcwgslzl23It's THAT final week again when I still have classes to teach+consultations w PhD students and I must write reader's reports of BA and MA theses, so there's no time for research... but my students and the wonderful people at bluesky brighten these darker days :)12 Dec 2023 06:32 +0000at://did:plc:4mdyfljwluaecnb32ryocwsh/app.bsky.feed.post/3kgdcwgslzl23