Unsettling Shakespeare - our call for papers is open. Come join us! conference.anzsa.org
Unsettling Shakespeare – 2027 ANZSA Conference, Wellington, New Zealand, 10-12 February 2027
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Ben Blyth
@benblyth.bsky.social
Ph.D. Scholar-Practitioner of Medieval & Early Modern Drama @ UCalgary, Treaty 7 🍁 ⚔️ 🎭
/postmedieval/ is looking for special issue and essay cluster proposals. do you work in medieval studies—or a field that speaks to premodern cultures? we'd love to hear your ideas. if you're interested in guest-editing a collection for the journal, send us your proposal by 15 september.
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
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
#WSC2026 underway in style in the stunning #Verona! What a SITE for a Shakespeare conference!! For anyone in search of a #relevant FREE BOOK my new Cambridge Element is available online until 23 July, and pairs perfectly with an aperol spritz 🥂 cup.org/4pjI8R6
Site-Specific Shakespeare
Cambridge Core - Renaissance and Early Modern Literature - Site-Specific Shakespeare
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“Site-Specific Shakespeare” is out now with @universitypress.cambridge.org From ruined convents to parking lots to Zoom calls: this is a study of Shakespeare in the wild, where economic precarity meets creativity. Read free (til July 23): doi.org/10.1017/9781... & please share if you are able 🤩🥳🙏
Site-Specific Shakespeare
Cambridge Core - Renaissance and Early Modern Literature - Site-Specific Shakespeare
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hiddentheatre.com/about/jobs-a... We need YOU to be in our waggon crew, maybe even our waggon master! Come help our waggon move & be part of something very special & unique to York!
This coming Monday...
The Rose Playhouse@roseplayhouse.bsky.social · 3mo agoMonday 11 May @ 6.30pm online BEFORE THE ROSE: MARLOWE AT THE CURTAIN Dr Callan Davies takes you back to the years around 1587, when The Rose is being built on Bankside and Christopher Marlowe is living up in Shoreditch, close by to The Curtain Playhouse. £8 / £5 www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on
Applications are still open for the British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants. These grants help to support primary research in the humanities and social sciences. Apply now: https://bit.ly/4t0MDRl
This was so much fun to research and write! Coming your way this July, my “swashbuckling” Cambridge Element is a rallying cry for those intrepid theatre makers who dare to stage Shakespeare in the world beyond the theatre. 🎭🤺🏴☠️🍻 www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Site-Specific Shakespeare
Cambridge Core - Renaissance and Early Modern Literature - Site-Specific Shakespeare
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What theatrical forms existed beyond the stage in Shakespeare's England? In this interview and excerpt from Early Modern Performance Beyond the Public Stage, Amrita Sen and Jennifer Linhart Wood explore court masques, puppetry, and performing monkeys! @folger.edu bit.ly/4tvkYZa
Interview and excerpt: Amrita Sen and Jennifer Linhart Wood on 'Early Modern Performance Beyond the Public Stage' | Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...
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If you are in Denver for #SAA2026 you’d be very welcome today in “Mineral F” @ 2pm ⛰️ for our hybrid seminar “Rethinking Original Practices”, with the great @oelj.bsky.social and a stacked line up of seminarians! Papers fab. Swords optional. Jigging highly encouraged. 🎭 @saaupdates.bsky.social
🤯 (give or take a year on Almagro construction duration…and Curtain final activities? tho also c. 450 since opening…). Stars aligning…
*Book launch* Join Annie Tyson & @stephenunwin.bsky.social for the launch of their Arden Performance Companions on Shakespeare & Stanislavsky, and Shakespeare & Brecht. 📍Royal Central School of Speech & Drama 📆 Thu 19 March, 7–8:30pm Reserve your (free!) place: https://bit.ly/4lmMVPB
Book Launch: Annie Tyson and Stephen Unwin
Join the authors to discuss the books, Shakespeare and Brecht 2025, by Stephen Unwin, and Shakespeare and Stanislavsky 2024 by Annie Tyson.
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Alright you lot, own up. Which one of you is responsible for this shenanigan?
Today’s Extra Credit focuses on Benjamin Blyth’s article, “Shakespeare’s “Dramatic Style” at the Curtain: A Collaborative Model for Site-Responsive Practice-as-Research”. Check out these open-access resources to go along with this open-access article! 📰: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Are you a Post-Graduate Researchers, Early Career Researchers or someone starting out in a field involving the past? Join us on 16 Jan for a free event to consider how the Society could contribute to early career support! www.sal.org.uk/event/early-...
Early Career Antiquaries - Society of Antiquaries of London
We welcome Post-Graduate Researchers, Early Career Researchers and those starting out in fields involving the past to join us in considering how the Society of Antiquaries could contribute to early ca...
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NEW ISSUE KLAXON: Shakespeare Bulletin 43.2 is now published via Project Muse! In this open-access issue, scholars and practitioners engage in conversations across time, media, and geographic distance. 📰: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55948
😈Doctor John Faustus continues with chapter 19 - oh dear, a rout of Devils appear unto him, threatening him sharply. Very sharply. Literal pitchforks people, devils with pitchforks. #demon #devil #DoctorFaustus audioboom.com/posts/874511...
Doctor John Faustus (Chapter 19)
Whereupon the rout of Devils appeared unto him, threatening him sharply...
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Applications are now open for the International Writing Workshops. The scheme is designed to help early-career researchers enhance their writing skills and increase the uptake of their research in academic publications. Learn more: buff.ly/OdmgXOf
"My voice is in my sword" - SIGNED in performance. It gave me goosebumps in the telling of it let alone the performing. BRAVO!
We're at #BSA2025 @bsashakespeare.bsky.social and enjoying catching up with authors and meeting new prospective authors, while showcasing recent publications. If there's a project you'd like to discuss just come and say hello 👋
Erin Julian reviews Crow’s Theatre’s 2024 production of The Land Acknowledgement or As You Like It, created by Cliff Cardinal. 🎭: www.mirvish.com/shows/the-la... 📰: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/956906 📷: Dahlia Katz
One of the things I love about the discovery reported in today’s Guardian is that it puts paid to the prejudice you see in a lot of biofiction that Anne Shakespeare/Hathaway would have been illiterate. Nope! www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Shakespeare did not leave his wife Anne in Stratford, letter fragment suggests
Professor says text shows Hathaway lived with playwright in London, upending the established idea of an unhappy marriage
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Check out our latest blog post on 'Dark Arcadia and the wider Shakespeare Republic universe' by @sallymclean.bsky.social! We were proud to support 'Dark Arcadia' with #BSASmallGrants in 2024 and excited to see more #Shakespeare adaptation on screen. Follow the the link in our bio to read more!
It's #nationalpoetrymonth -- here's my poetry on a billboard on Calgary's Deerfoot Trail, courtesy @wordfest.com
Hello Bluesky! We are excited to be here and even more excited to announce that registration for #BSA2025 Conference 'Practising Shakespeare' is open now! 25-28 June, University of York, School of Arts & Creative Technologies Follow the link in our bio to register and view the provisional programme
