It was my honor to meet actor, director, and military hero Akhtem Seitablayev--a Crimean Tatar--at the Viaduk Art and Theatre Festival in Ivano-Frankivsk last week. His Veteran's Theatre adaptation of The Aeneid = 💯 Take heart, Crimean Tatars! Crimea is being liberated!

In this, though I cannot be said to be a flattering honest man, it must not be denied but I am a plain-dealing villain. #ShakespeareSunday

Keanu Reeves Says Goodbye

Alt: Keanu Reeves as Don John in Much Ado About Nothing

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This looks like a really great way to spend early July next year. Who is going to join me?

RILCH at LJMU@rilch-ljmu.bsky.social · 5mo ago

#CfP: “Stuart Drama” conference, 6-9 July 2027, @ljmuofficial.bsky.social. Abstracts by 2 October 2026 #Skystorians #EarlyModernEvents stuartdrama.com

As someone who has published books with 100+ images, here are my tips for finding free #earlymodern images (and tips for discounts when you have to pay for them!) 🗃️ sarahabendall.com/2020/03/11/e...

Dr Laura Sangha@lsangha.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Question for #EarlyModern #Skystorians please! 🗃️ What are your favourite online places to search for public domain images? (free to use, out of copyright, cleared by copyright owner for public use etc)? Example: Public Domain Image Archive pdimagearchive.org

Be highly suspicious of accounts trying to sow division in the Crockett/Talarico US Senate primary contest.

It doesn't fix everything but poetry can help us stay human in these crazy times.

Joseph Fasano@josephfasano.bsky.social · 9mo ago

for Alex Pretti

Another Open Access issue, 43.2 features brilliant reviews from @pascaleexeter.bsky.social, Lucy J S Clarke, Adib Faiz, Laurie Maguire, @cheflory.bsky.social, @rachel-l-spence.bsky.social, @frarke.bsky.social Zola P Feasel and @joestephenson.bsky.social, @terribourus.bsky.social, Bernard Krumm, 1/2

Shakespeare Bulletin@shaxbull.bsky.social · 11mo ago

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

Very happy for my review of an innovative production of Shakespeare's /Taming of the Shrew/ to appear in @shaxbull.bsky.social's most recent issue (dir. Jude Christian at Shax's Globe). It was the second production my students and I saw during summer 2024, and we couldn't stop talking about it.

Shakespeare Bulletin@shaxbull.bsky.social · last yr.

NEW ISSUE KLAXON: Shakespeare Bulletin 43.1 is now published! Now fully open access, this issue features a cluster of essays edited by Louise Geddes and Nora J. Williams reflecting on casting, race, community, and tragedy in productions performed on and off Broadway. 📰: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55715

I think we’re really going to have to do a lot more of this. A massive deprogramming so that people can read more than ten words at a time without anxiety. www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?

Universities teaching literature students how to cope with long novels

Critics blame GCSE English for deterring teenagers from the subject, describing the literature syllabus as boring and repetitive

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O, that record could with a backward look, Even of five hundred courses of the sun, Show me your image in some antique book, Since mind at first in character was done! #ShakespeareSunday

I do not want AI in Slack. I do not want AI in Google. I do not want AI on Facebook. I do not want AI in documents or spreadsheets. I do not want AI in Adobe Acrobat. I do not want AI in Zoom. I do not want AI on news sites. I do not want AI in the patient portal for my doctor's office. I do not wan

You have said, but whether wisely or no, let the forest judge. #ShakespeareSunday

Your turn big public universities! A lot of us are now looking at you Ohio State, Michigan, Texas & Texas A&M, Arizona State, Virginia, Illinois, Minnesota, Michigan State, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Penn State, and on and on and on... www.harvard.edu/research-fun...

#ShakespeareSunday Somebody's got to post it: The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burned on the water: the poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were lovesick with them; the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke . . . .

I sent my accomplishments! Wouldn't it be great if Elmo's inbox was flooded with 25 million emails that they had to sort through?

Alt National Park Service@altnps.bsky.social · 2y ago

Are you bored tonight? Send your five accomplishments, maybe your shopping list, or your five thoughts on Elon from the past week to OPM at HR@opm.gov.

Lots of reporting suggested that, this time around, Trump and his lawyers would avoid the sloppy legal work that plagued his first administration so they’d fare better in the courts. I see no evidence of that in this round of executive orders. This is poor, slipshod work obviously assisted by AI.

What would you have done in Germany in the 1930s? In other words, what are you doing now?

E Pluribus Unum@january.6.was.a.failedcoup.com · 2y ago

Here a side-to-side comparison between Hitler and Musk and their salute... you decide if this isn't a nazi salute

but O ere long Huge pangs and strong Will pierce more near his heart. Giovanni Bellini, Circumcision of Christ (circa 1500)

@pariglas.bsky.social Hey, there! Does your expertise stretch back to 17th-century Venetian glass and English glass? I have . . . questions.

#ShakespeareSunday Since today is the feast of Thomas Becket, I will share this line spoken by Exton in R2 5.4, seemingly inspired by Henry 2's similar question re: Becket: Didst thou not mark the King, what words he spake, “Have I no friend will rid me of this living fear?” Was it not so?

a man in a red robe stands in front of a table with the words will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest below him

ALT: a man in a red robe stands in front of a table with the words will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest below him

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From the excellent Good Tickle Brain:

#ShakespeareSunday When all aloud the wind doth blow And coughing drowns the parson's saw And birds sit brooding in the snow And Marian's nose looks red and raw....

a bird is perched on a branch with red berries

ALT: a bird is perched on a branch with red berries

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Looking forward to #BSA2025! @oelj.bsky.social is going to put together a great conference.

Dr Ollie Jones@oelj.bsky.social · 2y ago

The first round Call for Participation for BSA Conference 2025 is open! #BSA2025 'Practising Shakespeare: new collaborations, expanding horizons' will be hosted by the University of York, 25-28 June. View the full CfP www.britishshakespeare.ws/conference/

Hello, anyone here? Let me throw some hashtags out and see what happens: #shakespeare #earlymoderndrama #restorationdrama #renaissanceliterature #englishliterature