A SaP engagement in experiential learning daily debriefs

This co-authored case study shares student perspectives on the relationship between daily debriefs and their experiential learning during a 5-day regenerative tourism field study. The pedagogical goal of this partnership was to offer five MA in Tourism Management students the opportunity to develop knowledge, skills, attributes and appreciation of a regenerative tourism experience. The findings of this case study illustrate the value of experiencing an embodied and holistic tour that was regenerative in design. Furthermore, the daily debrief activity was used as one example of how a holistic regenerative tour informed a transformative mindset for all

Mediating Criminal Conversion in City Comedy and Domestic Tragedy

This article explores the stakes of discerning criminal conversion on the early modern stage, particularly when city comedies and domestic tragedies mediate contemporaneous London events. These plots offered an intersection between contemporaneous pamphlets that framed criminality as a distinct social identity and early English dramatic practices representing spiritual conversion. The Roaring Girl defended Moll Cutpurse’s criminal adjacency by framing her urban mediation as a hagiography akin to the Digby Play of Mary Magdalene. In contrast, domestic tragedies used hybrid personification to offer ambiguity about the spiritual or forensic state of mediators or go-betweens in criminal conspiracies. These paradigms offer diverging responses to antitheatrical warnings about the associative risks of playgoing

Editorial

This editorial for Early Theatre issue 28.2 (December 2025) welcomes new editorial advisory board members and announces the journal\u27s 2025 essay prizes for research appearing in volumes 26 and 27

Introduction: Drama and Conversion

This introduction presents a new collection of essays examining the role of conversion in early modern English drama. Together, the contributions demonstrate how the theatre served as a space for dramatizing the political, theological, and psychological complexities of identity transformation. With case studies ranging from city comedy to colonial propaganda, the volume emphasizes conversion’s entanglement with race, gender, and performance. Drawing on recent scholarship, the authors highlight drama’s unique capacity to stage conversional doubt, sincerity, and dissimulation — establishing theatre as both a site of ideological reinforcement and a medium for interrogating the limits of belief and belonging

Harmonizing identities: Bridging music and pedagogy in staff-student partnerships

This reflective essay examines how my intersecting identities as an educator and musician shape my approach to teaching and staff-student partnerships. Inspired by Cook-Sather\u27s (2015) concept of identity, I explore how navigating multiple cultural identities, educational systems, and musical traditions has profoundly influenced my teaching philosophy. My classical music training, rooted in an authoritarian approach, contrasts with my Western educational journey, which encouraged independence. These distinct experiences have cultivated an appreciation for diverse pedagogical styles, each uniquely suited to their cultural contexts. My musical training also enhances my sensitivity to the emotional and expressive dimensions essential in building equitable partnerships. This essay reflects on how my cultural lens, shaped by my musical background, informs my understanding of partnership values and how students interpret these values based on their lived experiences.   This reflection highlights how my dual identity enables me to foster inclusive, dynamic spaces that embrace diverse perspectives within education

Les vestiges du handicap

This collection of poetry consists of two parts, marking a chronological transition from disability to empowerment. The first, ‘Big Yellow Buses’ and ‘The Dead of Winter’, address the consequences of growing up without an autism diagnosis, including themes of bullying, isolation, and despair. The second, ‘Autistic Bunker’ and ‘Atlas Unbound’, focus on life after receiving a diagnosis, including its effect on authenticity, purpose, and change. The temporal progression from the confusion and hardship of undiagnosed childhood and adolescence to the self-awareness and community integration of adulthood indicates a profound transformation in personal identity. By evoking the visceral and cognitive dimensions of autistic experiences across lifespan development, these poems reiterate the importance of awareness, acceptance, and community connectedness, which remain tantamount to supporting the health and wellbeing of autistic individuals currently and in the years to come.Cette œuvre poétique se compose de quatre poèmes en deux parties, marquant une transition chronologique entre le handicap et l’autonomisation. La première partie, comprenant « Big Yellow Buses » et « The Dead of Winter », aborde les conséquences d’une enfance sans diagnostic d’autisme, notamment les thèmes de l’intimidation, de l’isolement et du désespoir. La deuxième, constituée des poèmes « Autistic Bunker » et « Atlas Unbound », se concentre sur la vie après avoir reçu un diagnostic, y compris son effet sur l’authenticité, la raison d’être et le changement. La progression temporelle entre la confusion et les difficultés de l’enfance et de l’adolescence non diagnostiquées et la prise de conscience de soi et l’intégration dans la communauté à l’âge adulte indique une transformation profonde de l’identité personnelle. En évoquant les dimensions viscérales et cognitives des expériences autistiques tout au long de la vie, ces poèmes réitèrent l’importance de la prise de conscience, de l’acceptation et des liens avec la communauté, qui restent essentiels pour soutenir la santé et le bien-être des personnes autistes aujourd’hui et dans les années à venir

Ruth Lumney, ed. Dido, Queen of Carthage, by Christopher Marlowe. Manchester: Manchester University Press, The Revels Plays, 2023.

This review considers Ruth Lunney\u27s edition of Dido, Queen of Carthage by Christopher Marlowe

G. H. von Wright\u27s Connective Analysis of Goodness: The Varieties of Goodness (1963) Revisited

This article revisits G. H. von Wright’s value-theoretical treatise The Varieties of Goodness (1963) by discussing von Wright’s analytical methods and by contextualizing his work historically. Section 2 provides an overview of von Wright’s general approach to conceptual analysis and identifies two levels of analytic work—descriptive and moulding analysis—and pinpoints parallels with Peter Strawson’s proposal of connective analysis and Rudolf Carnap’s method of explication. Section 3 focuses on what I call the analytical topoi of goodness, i.e., the variety of methodological tools used by von Wright in his analysis of the conceptual varieties of goodness (see Appendix). It is suggested that von Wright’s focus on the criteria of goodness, demonstrably indebted to Ludwig Wittgenstein’s later philosophy, indirectly addresses R. M. Hare’s non-cognitivist account on the meaning of “good”. Finally, it is suggested that von Wright’s non-reductive approach in the analysis of meaning, consisting in a systematic use of many analytical topoi, is best viewed as a post-Wittgensteinian contribution, which, despite its originality, draws, in small and large, from Wittgenstein’s later philosophical methodology