“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

'The University of Nottingham has confirmed that it will close its music and languages departments as it presses ahead with more than 500 job cuts despite widespread opposition from staff and students.' A blight on East Midlands and UK higher education.

Nottingham confirms course closures with hundreds of jobs affected

Languages and music departments to close despite strikes and protests but university insists it has addressed staff concerns in revised plans

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The boat sequence in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory; the room of screaming heads in Return to Oz; and a really visceral episode of the Transformers cartoon where they visited the ship where dead autobots were stored.

Sleepy Hollow Reviews 🎃🐎@sleepingvillage.bsky.social · 6d ago

In honor of scary media month: what is the first piece of media you remember truly frightening you as a child?

Next up in our #Shakespeare webinar series is RICHARD III. Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social will be joined by Susan L. Anderson (Mary Baldwin University) to discuss the new Oxford World's Classics edition of the play. 5 October | 6-7.15pm (BST) This is a free public event & all are welcome!

English Faculty/OWC Shakespeare Webinar: Richard III

In this free webinar, Professor Emma Smith will be discussing the new edition of Richard III from Oxford World's Classics.

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Anna Naumenko reviews Donmar Warehouse’s 2025 production of Macbeth, directed by Max Webster 🎭: www.macbethdonmarcinema.com/gallery/ 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/998122 📷: Marc Brenner

Kim Gauthier reviews Théâtre Denise-Pelletier and Surreal SoReal’s 2025 production of Le roi Lear, adapted and translated by Jean Marc Dalpé and directed by Jon Lachlan 🎭: surrealsorealtheatre.com/our-shows/ki... 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/998121 📷: Maxim Paré Fortin

Thrilled to announce the Oxford World Classics #Pericles was published today! It was a pleasure to write the Introduction for this popular play. I’ll post about it each week until my OWC #Shakespeare webinar with Prof Emma Smith on 2 Nov. 2026!

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period. The only AI I 'use' is shit foisted on me - summaries and slop vomited on my screen as part of internet browsing or injected into programs I work with until I turn those settings off or rip those parts out by the roots.

Bri Webber reviews Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2025 production of Measure for Measure, directed by Emily Burns 🎭: www.rsc.org.uk/measure-for-... 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/998123 📷: Helen Murray (Measure for Measure)

Terri Bourus reviews the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s 2025 production of Merry Wives, directed by Taylor Reynolds 🎭: www.shakespearetheatre.org/index.php/ev... 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/998124 📷: Teresa Castracane Photography (Merry Wives)

Today’s Extra Credit focuses on Bailey Sincox’s “Much Ado, Anyone But You, and Adapting the “Merry War”: An Interview with Screenwriter Ilana Wolpert”. Check out these open-access resources to go along with this open-access article! 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/998118

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW Shakespeare Bulletin 44.2, Summer 2026 #S2O #OpenAccess @ProjectMUSE tiny.one/ty32ef4v CONTRIBUTORS Hailey Bachrach Roweena Yip Bailey Sincox Terri Bourus Isobel Strevens Bri Webber Kailey Potter Kibria Nasir Nick Trusty Jo Jones Arushi Grover Kim Gauthier and more

2/ Anna Naumenko, @charlenevsmith.bsky.social, and Steven Watkins. Thanks as always to all of the contributors to this issue! If you'd like to write a review for a future edition of @shaxbull.bsky.social, or just want to find out more, DM/reply here or email me at SBPerformance@marybaldwin.edu 🙂

SB 44.2 is out now and fully Open Access 🎉 The performance reviews section features fantastic pieces from @terribourus.bsky.social, @izzistrevens.bsky.social, @briwebber.bsky.social, Kailey Potter, Kibria Nasir, Nick Trusty, Jo Jones, Arushi Grover, @teamaufidius.bsky.social 1/

Shakespeare Bulletin@shaxbull.bsky.social · 2mo ago

NEW ISSUE KLAXON: Shakespeare Bulletin 44.2 is now published via Project Muse! Check it out here 📰: muse.jhu.edu/issue/57436

now in press! 📖 the contributions to this collection are brilliant and a little bit weird (compliment!) & i can’t wait for it to be out in the world. forthcoming 2027… ✨

To watch the full production for free, join the Asian Shakespeare Intercultural Archive here, which will give you access to a wide-range of multilingual performance materials: a-s-i-a-web.org/en/splash.php

Want to see clips from the Korean performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream which Yip references in her article? Take a look at the trailer of the Yohangza Theater Company’s production here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iqet...

A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Yohangza Theatre Company.(teaser)

YouTube video by InKo Centre

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Today’s Extra Credit focuses on Roweena Yip’s “Teaching A Midsummer Night’s Dream as a Global Narrative”. Check out these open-access resources to go along with this open-access article! 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/998117

New paperbacks publishing today! 📖 The Winter's Tale: https://bit.ly/4x7h6Ph 📖 Atrocity and Early Modern Drama: https://bit.ly/3TZtEtK

Are you also involved in TTRPGs (for Shakespeare purposes, or otherwise)? You can access the TTRPG safety toolkit co-curated by Kienna Shaw and Lauren Bryant-Monk here: ttrpgsafetytoolkit.com

TTRPG Safety Toolkit

The home for the TTRPG Safety Toolkit

ttrpgsafetytoolkit.com

Curious about the relationship between the character and the player body? Check out this article by Gabriel Widing & Tova Gerge, www.gwid.se/2006/the-cha..., which discusses how the participant in TTRPGs is directly connected to the story being told about their character.

Peruse the #ShakeRace Bibliography of early modern race and premodern critical race studies, ambereendadabhoy.com/2022/06/13/s..., described by Ambereen Dadabhoy as a space which signals how "race studies could 'shake up' Shakespeare studies” & provides room for scholars of color to connect.

#ShakeRace Bibliography

This bibliography offers a genealogy of the scholarly work in premodern (critical) race studies. It exhibits the long history of this scholarship and shows the new directions for critical inquiry t…

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Today’s Extra Credit focuses on Hailey Bachrach’s “Consent and Shakespearean Dramaturgy: Towards a New Tool for Actor Empowerment”. Check out these open-access resources to go along with @bachrach.bsky.social's open-access article! 📰: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

SNOWFLAKES! They took the snowflakes off the paperback version. The one whimsical thing I’ve ever done. Perhaps, like Bohemia, the paperback is the turn to spring after a gap of time? But make sure you order the hardback if you want the rare original cover art when this is worth millions in future!

The Winter’s Tale: A Critical Reader is out in paperback on Thursday! to celebrate, I will give away 2 copies to people who share their most interesting and surprising Winter’s Tale facts in the comments. (Also on IG). And for everyone else, you can order at www.bloomsbury.com/us/winters-t...

Latest issue of Shakespeare now available! www.tandfonline.com/toc/rshk20/c... Shakespeare's marriage, #earlymodern centaurs, 'brown matters', eco-imaginaries, Turkish miniseries, and reviews!

Shakespeare

Volume 22, Issue 3 of Shakespeare

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I own a bear costume so I can have somebody chase me out of class as bear on the last day of the semester as we discuss that play

The Winter’s Tale: A Critical Reader is out in paperback on Thursday! to celebrate, I will give away 2 copies to people who share their most interesting and surprising Winter’s Tale facts in the comments. (Also on IG). And for everyone else, you can order at www.bloomsbury.com/us/winters-t...

NEW ISSUE KLAXON: Shakespeare Bulletin 44.2 is now published via Project Muse! Check it out here 📰: muse.jhu.edu/issue/57436

After a few years longer than intended, I'm so excited that the article based on my Leverhulme postdoc 'Shakespeare and Consent' is now published and is available to read for free: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...