Happy New Year, Friends! We start the year off right, with a little demonic conjuring and Borgia back-stabbing, in Barnabe Barnes’s The Devil’s Charter. We ‘Meet the Contemporary’ and tell you all about Barnes’s epic beef with Thomas Nashe; we give you a suuuuper gay (but also papal) ‘Taste of Text’; for our game we generate a playlist for your listening pleasure; and our ShakesBubble Gossip catches you up on what you missed over the winter break.
Curious about our playlist? Here it is:
“I want Candy” by Bow Wow Wow
“Closer” by Nine Inch Nails
“Bad Blood” by Taylor Swift
“Killing In The Name” by Rage Against the Machine
“Devil with a Blue Dress” by Mitch Ryder (NOT Elvis)
“Hallelujah” by Leonard Cohen
“For Once in My Life” by the Decemberists
“Scuse Me” by Lizzo
“Last Resort” by Papa Roach
“Everlong” by Foo Fighters