Exciting to see my interview with John Yargo for the New Books Network go live! It was fun to talk about the genesis of my Teaching Shakespeare's Theatre of the World project in the pandemic and how it ultimately took shape as an exercise in perspective. Enjoy! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/k...

Kristen Abbott Bennett, "Teaching Shakespeare's Theatre of the World" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

Podcast Episode · New Books Network · June 12 · 1h 4m

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What a terrific resource! Congratulations! ✨✨✨

Laura Estill@lauraestill.bsky.social · 5mo ago

It's out! 🎉🎉🎉 "Collaboration, Technologies, and the History of Shakespearean Bibliography" Open access (just click "save pdf" for a formatted version) It was a joy working with Heidi Craig, Kris May, and Dorothy Todd on this Element www.cambridge.org/core/element... ++

Here’s the schedule and list of speakers for our two-day conference about ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ and ‘The Winter’s Tale’ next month. More details (including a Zoom link for remote attendees) will be on our website next week.

Thrilled to be settling in here at St. John's College, Cambridge, for a week of Tom Nasherie and Marlowe-related side-quests! For now, I plan to catch up on sleep so I can enjoy every minute. Let sabbatical begin!

Exciting news! My Element, Teaching Shakespeare's Theatre of the World, has been released in a digital edition (paperback coming soon!) by Cambridge UP. Even better, it's FREE to download until 15 December 2025! So many thanks to all who helped along the way! <3 www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Teaching Shakespeare’s Theatre of the World

Cambridge Core - English Literature: General Interest - Teaching Shakespeare’s Theatre of the World

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TFW you get up at 3am on fire with an idea to improve a situation that you thought would be a lost cause. You write furiously to craft a well-balanced proposal and get it off at 6am. It is now 6:36 am ... and you are WAITING for a reply...

Check out the @proverbialculture.bsky.social website! earlymodernproverbs.co.uk Coming up next week (10 Nov): Materials workshop, Univeristy of Leeds

Shakespeare & Early Modern Proverbial Culture

The site offers information about the Shakespeare and Early Modern Proverbial Culture research project, building an international network to reassess the forms, functions, and dissemination of earl…

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Sep 20, 1592: Greene's Groats-Worth of Wit and its derogatory reference to #Shakespeare is recorded in the Stationer's Register. #OTD bit.ly/3ro2vhu

Greenes, groats-worth of witte: First printed allusion to Shakespeare as a playwright

Shakespeare Documented features all primary sources that document the life and career of William Shakespeare. It has images, descriptions, and transcriptions of 500 manuscripts and printed works.

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Thrilled to see this out in the world and reaching a wider audience! Congratulations, Jamie!

Dr Jamie Paris@jamieparis.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I’m overjoyed to announce that my article “Becoming a Wolf: Indigenous Pedagogies and Settler Supervision in Sayet's Where We Belong” has been published open access in Literature Compass: compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #shakerace #adaptation #pedagogy

Did you miss our recent #Shakespeare webinar on The Comedy of Errors? Watch the recording to catch up. And don't forget to register for the next webinar on 6 Oct where Emma Smith will be exploring The Merry Wives of Windsor with Callan Davies. All welcome! youtu.be/l5OTG2OL2Hc

English Faculty Shakespeare Webinar with Emma Smith: The Comedy of Errors

YouTube video by Faculty of English, University of Oxford

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Congratulations, Doug! I look forward to checking this out!

Douglas Clark@disfordiscourse.bsky.social · last yr.

Happy to share the flyer for my book 'The Will in English Renaissance Drama', which is out this August with @universitypress.cambridge.org. Maybe your library would like a copy?! The 20% discount may be of interest to those heading to @srsrensoc.bsky.social! #earlymodern #drama #renaissance

Here's Florimell and her new friend Waffles taking a break from getting covered in grass stains. 🐶💕

I asked Copilot to generate an image based on my thoughts about this morning's writing efforts. I specifically mentioned fruit salad - perhaps because I dropped the plot, or I am hungry for breakfast. But the composition freakishly captures a hermeneutic crux I'm thinking about. I dig it. #amwriting

Tom Kyd holding down my Hinman edition as I shift back into working on my edition of Love's Labour's Lost. #helpingnothelping

Rabbit, Rabbit! It's the 1st of June and Shakespeare Association of America bulletin day! I hope you'll consider joining Emily Rowe's and my seminar as we go deep on the topic of "Unearthing" next April in Denver! #Shax2006 #SAAUpdates

The beta version of the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) datb.cerl.org/estc/ is online. More changes to come over time

Happy Friday! you can now register for our @cemskcl.bsky.social colloquium on Early Modern War Narratives! June 6th in person and online! Keynote by Andrew Hopper and Ismini Pells, funded by KCL, CEMS, & @srsrensoc.bsky.social. Register here (and pls repost!) — www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...

After hyperventilating through what may have been my busiest (and administratively stressful) semester (10 days to go!), I am pleased to inform you that I have opened my mail.

You can now see the recording of @aarontpratt.bsky.social’s recent NVS Seminar, titled ‘Selling Your Play in Jacobean England’, on our website: newvariorumshakespeare.org/news/

What joy to celebrate Emma's and Sofia's brilliant honors theses at last night's ceremonial dinner! From Penelope & Clytemnestra (Emma) to Avians & the Anthropocene (Sofia), working with these two has fed both my brain and my heart. 💜 #proudteacher #framinghamstate

Trying to put finishing touches on MS submission. As usual, this guy is monkeying up the works. #ihaveaNasheProblem #shouldhavelearnedbynow

My feline research assistants have abandoned me today, but Intern Florimell is hard at work as I copy edit my Element.

Latest issue of Shakespeare now online, with articles by @callanjd.bsky.social @drsheeha.bsky.social and many more #earlymodern folks! www.tandfonline.com/toc/rshk20/c...

Shakespeare

Volume 21, Issue 1 of Shakespeare

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Hiding from the rain waiting for a train to head back to the SAA/RSA mash-up! #Shax2025

Remember to stop by the DRE-LEMDO table at #RSA2025 and #SAA2025. DRE postcards and pins make great prizes for your students. $1 each (cash only).

On the train heading to SAA/RSA to start the day with @nvshakespeare.bsky.social! Let the games begin!

Come visit our table in the RSA/SAA Exhibit Hall in Boston. We'll be sharing the table with Digital Renaissance Editions. #SHAX2025

I am honored to be part of this discussion celebrating my colleague Vandana Singh's brilliant new book 'Teaching Climate Change: Science, Stories, Justice.' In addition to Vandana, our fellow interlocutors include Ben Alberti, Shade' Solomon, and Ishara Mills-Henry. Please join! Link in image.

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The pleasure is ours! We're delighted to have the opportunity to contribute in a small way to such an exciting project!

New Variorum Shakespeare@nvshakespeare.bsky.social · 2y ago

We are very grateful to Prof. Kristen Abbott Bennett @earlymodconv.bsky.social for sending us two of her Framingham State University undergraduates to work as “digital humanities interns” on the New Variorum Shakespeare this academic year — thank you!