Kind of excited for the NYC release reading for The Emilys this Thursday evening in Park Slope... come hang out with me and watch Heather and Luis be their usual brilliant selves. (6PM, Barnes and Noble.)

Pleased to see it out at last! Digging down into the lived experience and ways of thinking that objects, fabrics, scents etc brought with them onto the stage, in short chapters based around particular things (with colour images!).

The Arden Shakespeare@ardenpublisher.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Beds, perfumes, doublets, torches, lutes, clocks, handkerchiefs… Who owned these objects in early modern England? How were they used? @profcatheriner.bsky.social's 'Shakespeare's Objects' explores 33 significant objects in full colour illustration. Out today! https://bit.ly/4f7YOaM

this will be THE event of the 2027 conference season! abstracts due 1 Oct. gascoigneat450.org

If you see a review by me of the @edwardsboys.bsky.social absolutely excellent performance of The Knight of the Burning Pestle and it does *not* contain the descriptor "hippie wizard baby boomer uncle" - please send angry letters to the editor, chastising them for artistic infringement.

paperbacks! 📚🖤

It takes a lot of energy for me to not post all day about the extraordinary corruption of the US executive branch, the passivity and cowardice of the legislative branch, the intellectual spuriousness of the judicial branch, and the Knicks.

Anne Boleyn portrait story in NYT is high quality #drimmerbait. @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social... thoughts?

Stuart Drama Conference! Liverpool, 2027 CFP due in October stuartdrama.com/cfp/stuart-d... I've been dreaming and scheming about this conference with @racheljwillie.bsky.social @cazzert.bsky.social @bkadams.bsky.social for nearly a year now.

Our Director Dr. Robert Stagg has been appointed Consulting Editor for the forthcoming revamp of the @folger.edu Folger Shakespeare Editions. Alongside fellow Consulting Editors @bkadams.bsky.social and @adamzucker.bsky.social his task this year is to suggest updates / changes to these editions:

It's Official Publication Day for the first plays in the Arden Shakespeare 4th series! Been working toward this moment since 2015. Been using Arden editions since Shakespeare class in 1991. The very first Arden edition was Hamlet, 1899. I'm so proud to be part of this historic editorial project.

127 years after the very first Arden Shakespeare play published in 1899, a new generation of editions begins today. The first 2 plays - Titus Andronicus and Julius Caesar - are out now 🎉 Discover the Fourth Series: https://bit.ly/48RVXiA

Kind of enjoying my new life as a spokesmodel.

Heather Abel on Instagram: "Good advice! Would you preorder THE EMILYS? Signed copies available through @bookmoonbooks (link in bio) come with a super special secret hand drawn map of the real and fic...

145 likes, 37 comments - heatherkabel on May 9, 2026: "Good advice! Would you preorder THE EMILYS? Signed copies available through @bookmoonbooks (link in bio) come with a super special secret hand dr...

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A novelist I'm married to is good at the meme, it appears. Pre-orders are a huge boost, so if you are interested, repost! and pre-order The Emilys by @heatherabel.bsky.social at a local bookshop, or at www.bookmoonbooks.com, which will send you an artist's map of the book's Western MA locations.

Professors Over the Age of 50 Who Go to Great Lengths to Pretend Not to Understand the New Technology Vindicated Once Again.

Spring = Sprung, and the new issue of ELR is out. A bouquet of work by Justin Kuhn, Wendy Wall, Yaacov Bronstein, @ellierycroft.bsky.social, and Andreas Bassett. From Middleton, to Pulter, to Milton, to Walking and Masculinity, to Title Page Conventions. A truly ELR issue of ELR. Go read!

We are happy to discuss projects for the series. Contact us: oup.c19race@gmail.com I’m guessing it goes without saying that we are eager to work with scholars of color.

They call it 'Concur' because we can all agree it's The Worst.

I have a meeting scheduled for next week with some amazing high school students who sought me out to assist them in their movement to resist AI in their school. It's happening, folks!

Anne Lutz Fernandez@lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 5mo ago

An outstanding, comprehensive rebuke of AI mania in K-12 by @winterjessica.bsky.social that rounds out by highlighting the growing coalition of parents, educators, and other concerned humans that is working fast and hard to tamp it down.

my article on George Herbert and trans studies is out in Renaissance Quarterly. It's really only about one poem, but it is THE poem you're thinking of, so you should check it out -- www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

The picture on my office door for many a year.

Dr. Peter Paul Rubens@peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Scholar dreams of taking up a sword & having mighty adventures. Will soon return to his books for better adventures! By Jan de Heem, born OTD in 1606.

Mon 27 April @ 6.30pm online Join Professor Tiffany Stern to discover why theatrical broadsheet ballads were sold outside The Rose, who wrote them, printed them & sung them, and why & how they were connected with the plays performed there £5 / £8 More info & book: www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on

Found a Shakespeare thing; wrote about it in @thetls.bsky.social: www.the-tls.com/regular-feat....

A man of property

Just outside the City of London, in the secluded streets once occupied by the monastic precinct of the Black Friars, is an unassuming warehouse building

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The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505, 📸 by @alexbrandon

Spending time in the real world at a conference with friends and colleagues is, in fact, good.

✨JUST PUBLISHED✨ EDITING AN EARLY MODERN PLAY by Suzanne Gossett & Gordon McMullan a long overdue new introduction to the pleasures and challenges of editing early modern drama free to download until 04.10: www.cambridge.org/core/element... cc @loughnrv.bsky.social

It's lovely to see this book finally making its way into the world. Co-edited with my brilliant colleague Richard Stacey, it examines Shakespeare's imaginative shaping of individual words, and parts of words. Thanks to our excellent contributors, and reviewers. www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...

Shakespeare and the Shape of Words

Cambridge Core - Renaissance and Early Modern Literature - Shakespeare and the Shape of Words

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Action shot of me explaining my research to the Deans this AM, taken by the one and only @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social.

Would love to hear the tapes of the Pepys cellar sesh with Colonel Strangeways, the Lord Mayor, and Sir Richard Floyd.

Samuel Pepys@samuelpepys.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Sir W. Batten and I to my Lord Mayor’s, where we found my Lord with Colonel Strangways and Sir Richard Floyd, Parliament-men, in the cellar drinking, where we sat with them, and then up.

One reason we need to foreground art is so that people who would prefer not to engage in any self-reflection might understand that introspection has been central to the human experience for millennia. bsky.app/profile/dave...

Dave Lee@davelee.me · 6mo ago

Where to begin with this

400 years ago there was no such thing as introspection, the self, the concept of a person, noses [in the modern sense], hammers, money, OR the numbers eight and nine. And it was better then!