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British Shakespeare Association

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Professional association for teachers, researchers, practitioners and writers interested in Shakespeare. https://linktr.ee/BSAShakespeare

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British Shakespeare Association@bsashakespeare.bsky.social · 20h ago

Coming up! This free workshop on '(Re)Mapping the Canon: Embodied knowledge as decolonial practice' invites practical exploration of emotion and coloniality in Shakespeare and his afterlives. University of Sheffield, Wed 11 Nov, 1-5pm with travel support curtesy of the #BSASmallGrantsFund!

(Re)Mapping the Canon: Embodied Knowledge as Decolonial Practice

A workshop exploring how emotion and coloniality are embodied and performed in Shakespearean texts and their afterlives

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British Shakespeare Association@bsashakespeare.bsky.social · 2d ago

Congratulations to BSA 2025 Honorary Fellows Stuart Hampton-Reeves and Alison Findlay! 🎉 Both will offer short talks at our BSA Honorary Fellows Event, Thurs 12 Nov, 5.30pm. Join us at Shakespeare's Schoolroom & Guildhall to celebrate their contributions to the BSA. Register at the link below!

BSA Honorary Fellows Event - British Shakespeare Association

12 November 2026 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm - The BSA will hold an in-person event to celebrate the BSA's 2025 Honorary Fellows, Stuart Hampton-Reeves and Alison Findlay. Both Honorary Fellows will offer short talks about their work and contributions to life of the BSA, to be followed by an informal reception. A recording of the event will be made available after the event. [...]

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Folger Shakespeare Library@folger.edu · 3d ago

“I’m really hoping that people will notice how much joy is in this exhibition,” "To Hear Her Speak" exhibition curator Dr. Patricia Akhimie says. She spoke to "The Grio" about the exhibition, at the Folger now through May 2. thegrio.com/2026/10/27/b...

Black women have a 400-year history with Shakespeare. A new exhibit in D.C. finally tells their story

Curator Dr. Patricia Akhimie brings together 400 years of artifacts exploring how Black women have engaged with Shakespeare on their own terms.

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British Shakespeare Association@bsashakespeare.bsky.social · 2w ago

Another exciting #BSASmallGrantsFund supported project invites academics, students, creative professionals and teachers to explore embodied approaches to Shakespeare and decolonial ways of working with canonical texts. More details, including funding to support attendance via the link!

Tom Rutter@obscuredrama.bsky.social · 2w ago

(Re)Mapping the Canon: Embodied Knowledge as Decolonial Practice: this workshop invites an interdisciplinary exploration of how emotion, coloniality and cultural trauma are embodied and performed in Shakespearean texts and their afterlives. More details: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Folger Shakespeare Library@folger.edu · 2w ago

"It’s a performance [and theater] history but it’s also an intellectual history about Black women as writers and artists,” says Dr. Patricia Akhimie, exhibition curator for "To Hear Her Speak." More from "The Guardian": www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

‘Shakespeare was a Black woman’: the playwright’s under-recognized connection to Black culture

A new Washington DC exhibition examines how Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou and more used the Bard’s work to help tell their own stories

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Folger Shakespeare Library@folger.edu · 3w ago

Patricia Akhimie, curator of the Folger exhibition "To Hear Her Speak," asks: “What do Black women and Shakespeare have to do with each other?” Read the full excerpt at the link below and visit the Folger to see "To Hear Her Speak," opening Oct. 16! www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...

To Hear Her Speak: Black women, Shakespeare, and early modern texts | 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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ProfKFH@profkfh.bsky.social · last mo.

🚨🎉🎉The catalogue for the groundbreaking @Folger.edu exhibit “‘To Hear Her Speak’: Black Women in Shakespeare” is live & open source. But if you are an academic, PLEASE ask your library to buy a copy. We need to show lasting interest in these times! asu.pressbooks.pub/to-hear-her-...

Acknowledgments – To Hear Her Speak

Recovers a previously hidden theater and performance history of Black women engaging with Shakespeare as actors, playwrights, costume designers, and directors.

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British Shakespeare Association@bsashakespeare.bsky.social · last mo.

FINAL CALL for all the things! 🚨 BSA Conference 2027 CfP part 1: seminar and workshop proposals 💰 #BSASmallGrants for Shakespeare related events and research 🙋 Applications to be new Membership Officer for the BSA all close today! Find handy pages for all these calls on our website.

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The British Shakespeare Association is a charitable organisation. We depend on our membership and we welcome members from all over the world and from all walks of life. Our members include leading scholars, teachers, creative practitioners and enthusiasts. If you would like to join us, the cost of annual membership is £25 (or £15 for […]

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Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄@aidannorrie.bsky.social · last mo.

Mine & @matthewsteggle.bsky.social's festschrift for the incomparable @lisahopkins.bsky.social is due for publication on 19 October. Each day until then, I'm going to give an overview of the chapters to get you excited for the volume's early moderny goodness. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...

The Edges of Early Modern English Drama

Thanks to the pioneering work of Professor Lisa Hopkins, the field of early modern English drama is now much more attuned to the various edges, spaces, and intersections that characterise the dramatic...

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Whitney Trettien@whitneytrettien.bsky.social · last mo.

In the 1860s, chess player Howard Staunton produced a photo-facsimile of Shakespeare's First Folio. It was one of the earliest attempts to use new technology to reproduce an old book. @folger.edu has Staunton’s proof sheets. I looked at them last week. If you like media/books/history, they're fun.

“How on earth came the t turned into s?!!!!”

On Howard Staunton’s photozincographic facsimile of Shakespeare’s First Folio

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Rory Loughnane@loughnrv.bsky.social · last mo.

2 outstanding reviews of The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Authorship! @academic.oup.com Grateful to Will Sharpe & all the contributors! 🎆 Peter Holland in Shakespeare: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 🎆 Alexander Thom in The 17th Century: www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

The Oxford handbook of Shakespeare and early modern authorship: The Seventeenth Century: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access

Browse all journals

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Dr Ella Hawkins@ellamchawk.bsky.social · last mo.

Elizabethan playhouses were supplied by a network of tailors, merchants & craftswomen. Their names survive in records, but little is known about their lives. I’m working on new research that brings the stories of these makers & traders centre stage. Here is the project in biscuit (cookie) form. 🍪

A photograph of eight rectangular biscuits (cookies) arranged in two rows on a square white plate. The plate is framed on all sides by a trailing vine pattern in green with pops of red. The biscuits are mostly in shades of ivory, cream, yellow, and grey, with a burst of vivid red and blue in one corner of the arrangement. Moving across the top row of biscuits from left to right, the designs include: neat lines of handwritten names in an early modern parish register; a section of a hand-drawn map from 1561 featuring St Paul’s Cathedral, with street names like ‘Carter Lane’ visible in a tiny spiky font; an extract of text from a funerary monument printed in an early modern book, ending ‘So transitory is our glory’; a section of embroidery from a funeral pall featuring metallic silver armour, crossed gold keys, and two hands holding up a crown. The biscuit designs on the bottom row include: horses prancing past shopfronts on Cheapside in the mid-sixteenth century; a receipt written in early modern secretary hand, which is difficult to read; a portrait of a stern-looking women dressed in a ruff, pearls, and sober dark clothing; swirling calligraphy and dense secretary hand featuring on a will dating from 1638.
British Shakespeare Association@bsashakespeare.bsky.social · last mo.

Just a few days left to apply to be the new Membership Officer of the BSA! Join our friendly Board of Trustees and gain benefits in networking, collaboration, professional development, and the opportunity to help steer the BSA to meet the needs of our members. Apply by 30 Sept, info on our website!

British Shakespeare Association@bsashakespeare.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📢 We have extended the call for applications for our new BSA Membership Officer to 30 Sept. The position is open to those interested in supporting oversight of the BSA's membership. Doctoral students and ECRs welcome to apply!

British Shakespeare Association@bsashakespeare.bsky.social · last mo.

Our part 1 CfP for seminar and workshop propsals for #BSA2027 'Sounding Shakespeare: Voice, Music, Sound, Silence' closes next week on 30 September. We look forward to seeing more of your excellent submissions!

British Shakespeare Association@bsashakespeare.bsky.social · 2mo ago

BSA Conference 2027, 'Sounding Shakespeare: Voice, Music, Sound, Silence' CfP part 1: call for seminar and workshop proposals open now until 30 September! The conference will take place at the University of Leeds, 21-24 July 2027.

British Shakespeare Association@bsashakespeare.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The #BSASmallGrantsFund is open for submissions now until 30 Sept! The fund offers financial support for Shakespeare related events or research. We especially encourage proposals from doctoral and ECRs, teachers and educators, and creative practitioners. www.britishshakespeare.ws/bsa-small-gr...

BSA Small Grants Fund - British Shakespeare Association

Purpose: The purpose of the BSA’s Small Grants Fund is to offer financial support to members of the BSA who wish to organize a Shakespeare-related event or conduct Shakespeare-related research. We especially encourage proposals from doctoral and early career researchers, teachers and educators, and creative practitioners.  Examples of eligible costs include: We welcome applications for […]

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