Great to see that this book is now published! Situated Readings of Spenser, Shakespeare, and Donne: Essays in Honor of Judith H. Anderson Edited by Tamara A. Goeglein and Jennifer C. Vaught Medieval Institute Publications, 2026 wmich.edu/medievalpubl...

A long time in the making, Reprints & Revivals of Renaissance Drama, which I edited with Harry Newman (a long time friend), is now out! It's a collection about forms of renewal in print & performance & their importance to the production & reception of early modern drama.

I've had some dealings with Exeter this week. In spite of the intended job cuts, academics were working into the evenings trying to put out some of the fires that the announcement had started. They deserve better.

Catherine Fletcher@catherinefletcher.info · last mo.

Petition against redundancies at Exeter. Humanities and Social Sciences staff are hardest hit, with 25% of posts in subjects including History, English, Modern Languages and Politics slated to be cut.

Petition against redundancies at Exeter. Humanities and Social Sciences staff are hardest hit, with 25% of posts in subjects including History, English, Modern Languages and Politics slated to be cut.

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Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

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Have read this cover to cover again for proofing, and it’s really good. (I mean, I would say that, but it just is). Inventive, committed essays all pursuing edges and angles opened up by the work of @lisahopkins.bsky.social.

Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄@aidannorrie.bsky.social · 2mo ago

After a rather drawn-out process, I am so delighted that the festschrift for the wonderful @lisahopkins.bsky.social that @matthewsteggle.bsky.social and I have edited is only a few months out from publication with @dgb-mem.bsky.social! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...

Bad news! Some more marking has come in. Good news! There’s quite a generous deadline.

I have a note out! It offers some new life-records of this unlovely man. academic.oup.com/nq/advance-a...

Guess who's book is published today 🥳 www.routledge.com/Thomas-Middl...

I got this book club scam email. It’s quite polished, except that the book in question is only nine pages long, so I hope the 1,320 entrepreneurs in Colorado aren’t too disappointed when they settle down to read it. Mind you, being fictitious should cushion the blow a bit.

#earlymodern peeps! The good folks at UVic HCMC have created a static version of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson Online, so this major work of scholarship remains ACCESSIBLE AND FREE. We're also working to remediate the editions themselves into the @lemdo-uvic.bsky.social ecosystem.

Do read @lucycmunro.bsky.social’s wonderful article and thread. Also fwiw some quick superficial comments -

Lucy Munro@lucycmunro.bsky.social · 4mo ago

As a supplement to the piece in The Times Literary Supplement (@thetls.bsky.social), www.the-tls.com/regular-feat..., here’s a (rather long!) thread on Shakespeare’s house in the Blackfriars, what we knew, and what we now know, with some links to key documents. (1/20)

Found a Shakespeare thing; wrote about it in @thetls.bsky.social: www.the-tls.com/regular-feat....

A man of property

Just outside the City of London, in the secluded streets once occupied by the monastic precinct of the Black Friars, is an unassuming warehouse building

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I read this in draft, and it’s wonderful. (1/3)

claire m. l. bourne@roaringgirle.bsky.social · 5mo ago

✨OUT NOW!✨ ANNE SHAKESPEARE’S EPITAPH by @kscheil.bsky.social an original study of anne’s epitaph in holy trinity church (stratford) as a female-authored shakespearean text. free to download until MARCH 24: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Congratulations to the presenters, to @lisahopkins.bsky.social and Deborah Cartmell, and to @bsashakespeare.bsky.social on the “AI and Shakespeare” conference. Much to chew on. (1/3)

Hello @victorianlondon.bsky.social - look what I bumped into on the reference shelves of the National Archives!

Henry Wotton, “On the sudden restraint of the Earl of Somerset”: Dazzled thus with height of place, Whilst our hopes our wits beguile, No man marks the narrow space 'Twixt a prison and a smile.

Really enjoyed this, in which @oldfortunatus.bsky.social, @lucycmunro.bsky.social, and my esteemed colleague Laurence Publicover, all wearing lightly their massive learning, talk about how much fun the Henry IV plays are. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

In Our Time - Henry IV Part 1 - BBC Sounds

Shakespeare's powerful exploration of power and succession with Hotspur, Hal and Falstaff.

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Prospect magazine have suspended their paywall for this weekend - so if you want to read their review of Hamnet, or indeed anything else, it’s free till Feb 2. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/the-...

How ‘Hamnet’ sidelines Anne Hathaway

Historical records suggest that Shakespeare’s wife was central to his career and life. So why does this film reduce her to a woman of the woods?

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Very pleased that the Mrs Shakspaire letter is mentioned in the Sunday Times today!

I loved Hamnet, which was beautiful throughout, and very joyful (by the standards of films about the plague). (1/3)

he new issue of SQ is devoted to an epic bit of detective work by the late Carl T. Berkhout: wide-ranging, technically brilliant, and really alarming. Brief contributions from Gail Kern Paster, Zachary Lesser, Heather Wolfe, and me, start picking up the pieces. (1/5) academic.oup.com/sq/issue/76/4

Volume 76 Issue 4 | Shakespeare Quarterly | Oxford Academic

Shakespeare Quarterly (SQ) is a leading journal in Shakespeare studies, publishing highly original, rigorously researched essays, notes, and book reviews.

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Last BPL new acquisition of the year is a copy of the very rare gradual printed by Johann Emerich for Lucantonio Giunta in Venice in 1499. This is the largest book (by dimensions) printed during the 15th century and it required a custom-manufactured paper stock to print. 1/8

John Carey was a brilliant scholar and public intellectual, but he was also a model professional academic, and personally kind. In the 90s he ended up supervising my D Phil when no one else much fancied it, and for that I am eternally grateful.

I mean, it’s there in black and white on the internet, but I still have some doubts…

Thanks to Aberystwyth Bibliographical Group for hosting me for a zoom talk the other week on Mrs Shakespeare and binding waste! They also recorded the talk, which was kind: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9PK...

In the Company of Mrs Shakespeare

YouTube video by David Stoker

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Out now! The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Constance Crompton, @raysiemens.bsky.social , Richard J. Lane, and myself And better yet? It's #openaccess! www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi... Order hard copies here: www.routledge.com/The-Companio... Thanks to all contributors! 🎉

Chapter 6 is a bit iffy, but the rest of this collection is really very good.

The Arden Shakespeare@ardenpublisher.bsky.social · 10mo ago

*Available open access* 'Rethinking Theatrical Documents in Shakespeare’s England' (ed. Tiffany Stern) brings together 15 scholars to analyse & theorise the documents, lost and found, that produced a play at the time. Read online this #OAWeek https://bit.ly/4qqB1qc

Fabulous new discoveries from @kscheil.bsky.social!

That Shakespeare Life@thatshakespeare.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Did you know Anne Hathaway’s epitaph is the only one in the Shakespeare family plot written on a brass plaque? Everyone else—Shakespeare, his daughter, and son-in-law—has stone slabs. We explore what that might mean on this week’s episode. www.cassidycash.com/ep386

Just seen this - a find with all sorts of elegant implications for Nashe. Bravo, Joseph Black. Lovely to see TN, who projects an air of brilliant improv, rechecking sources and writing corrections in his neatest handwriting. www.folger.edu/blogs/collat...

Thomas Nashe's Almond for a Parrat (1590), corrected by the author | 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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A plethora of new ODNB entries on early modern women stationers! Entries from Heidi Craig, Andrea Silva, Kirk Melnikoff, @mgyarn.bsky.social, Andreas P. Bassett, @tarallyons.bsky.social and @georginaemw.bsky.social, me, and of course from @valeriewayne.bsky.social who cooked up the whole cluster.