Excited and only slightly terrified to have this accepted manuscript available. The Heresy of Vector Embeddings: Early Modern Manuscript Verse and LLMs between Meaning, Form, and History | Computational Humanities Research | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The Heresy of Vector Embeddings: Early Modern Manuscript Verse and LLMs between Meaning, Form, and History | Computational Humanities Research | Cambridge Core

The Heresy of Vector Embeddings: Early Modern Manuscript Verse and LLMs between Meaning, Form, and History

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Last day to send me your book history proposals for RSA 2027 in Philly!

Marissa Nicosia@nicosiamarissa.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I'm excited to circulate this CFP as the Discipline Representative for book history for the Renaissance Society of America! I'm putting together multiple guaranteed sessions for the annual meeting in Philadelphia in 2027. www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...

Thanks to everyone who came along to our panel about the New Variorum Shakespeare at the World Shakespeare Congress in Verona! @wsc2026verona.bsky.social #WSC2026

❤️felt thanks to @wsc2026verona.bsky.social, the #ShakespeareBirthplaceTrust, the #InternationalShakespeareAssociation & the local organizers for a splendid week in 'fair Verona'! What a fantastic congress it has been, bringing together global networks of scholars, artists & enthusiasts. A true joy!🎉

If you’re at #WSC2026 @wsc2026verona.bsky.social come along to the Museum of Natural History at 11:15am on Thursday to hear more about the New Variorum Shakespeare! Our speakers include Prof. Sonia Massai, Dr. Robert Stagg, Dr. Dorothy Todd and Prof. Paul Werstine.

Great to see the Guardian champion the SHAPE (Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences) subjects, but this piece gives impression that they are expensive, whereas many are 'cheap to teach' subjects subsidising more expensive subjects, mainly in STEM and medicine. The crisis demands better understanding.

The Guardian view on humanities cuts in universities: academic departments are more than cost centres | Editorial

Editorial: Literature, the arts and social sciences must not be sacrificed as higher education funding is squeezed

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It’s a busy summer for the New Variorum Shakespeare. Our General Editor Prof. Paul Werstine, our Director Dr. Robert Stagg, and some of our ‘Twelfth Night’ editorial team (Prof. Catherine Lisak, Dr. Maria Mendes) were at #ISC2026 — and now we’re onto #WSC2026 @wsc2026verona.bsky.social!

Open Access: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Textual Genealogies and Shakespeare's History Plays

Cambridge Core - Renaissance and Early Modern Literature - Textual Genealogies and Shakespeare's History Plays

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Painting reveals Bard’s provocative political allegiances - University of Birmingham

Mysterious portrait contains clues to Shakespeare’s support of one of the most controversial political figures in Elizabeth I’s court.

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The Arden Shakespeare@ardenpublisher.bsky.social · 2mo ago

*New release* 'Women and Cultures of Portraiture in the British Literary Renaissance' (edited by Yasmin Arshad & Chris Laoutaris) explores the representation of female identity, creativity & power across literature, drama & visual culture. Out now in the UK (US: August): https://bit.ly/438HKdJ

Snug: I am #NotALion and I am ADORABLE ❤️🦁🚫 #MoonMad www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Jamal Franklin as Snug as a particularly adorable (cowardly) Lion in the current Globe Dream, with an audience volunteer (oh yes) as Starveling as the Moon. (Also as Snug & the sweetest Cobweb.) GO.

Our Director Robert Stagg is co-author (with Urvashi Chakravarty, @bkadams.bsky.social and Katherine Schaap Williams) of a piece about ‘Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Critical Futures’ in a special issue of ‘Shakespeare Quarterly’ (edited by @loughnrv.bsky.social) to be published later this year.

I made some exciting updates to the EarlyPrint Lab's tools over the past few weeks. You can search and explore printed books from 1500–1700 in new and more flexible ways! The Ngram Browser, Bibliographia, and Phrase Search tools have all been updated on earlyprint.org. Thread 👇

Join us at Shakespeare’s Globe in September when we’ll be thinking through how scholarly editing and Shakespearean performance interact by bringing together NVS editors and Globe actors. Tickets available now: www.shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/ria...

Research in Action: Editing in Action - The New Variorum Shakespeare | What's On

A collaborative exploration into how performance can illuminate and reshape the way we edit Shakespeare, live from our Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.

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‘1598 was the year of the pedant. Shakespeare’s play included a walk-on part for the schoolmaster and turbo-pedant Holofernes. He is right down in Sidney’s groove, so get your plumbeous cerebrosities (leaden brains) in gear.’ Colin Burrow on a history of pedantry. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Colin Burrow · Dictionary Men: Pedantry

Guilt and pleasure are often codependent addictions, but for early modern authors the two were inextricable. The pedant...

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We’re looking forward to being at the World Shakespeare Congress in Verona next month.

Don't miss the June issue of Reviews in Digital Humanities, brought to you by World Cup superfans @jenguiliano.bsky.social & me ! ⚽️ #ReviewsInDH reviewsindh.pubpub.org/v7-n6

Vol. 7, No. 6: June 2026 · Reviews in Digital Humanities

Vol. 7, No. 6 of Reviews in Digital Humanities, a peer-reviewed journal that facilitates scholarly evaluation of digital humanities work and its outputs, edited by Jennifer Guiliano (Indiana Universit...

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"Hiring of college grads is down across the board. But certain majors are able to access opportunities in a wider array of industries, new LinkedIn data shows." ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH 69% VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS 68% www.forbes.com/sites/courtn...

In September we’ll be working with actors at Shakespeare’s Globe to think through the final scene of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ and the relationship between textual variants, scholarly editing, and performance. Tickets: www.shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/ria...

Research in Action: Editing in Action - The New Variorum Shakespeare | What's On

A collaborative exploration into how performance can illuminate and reshape the way we edit Shakespeare, live from our Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.

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There's still time to propose a session for #MLA27 in Los Angeles! If you've got an idea for a session about something that happened after our 1 April submission deadline, you can post a call for papers for a just-in-time session until 26 July. mla.org/Just-in-Time

Proposing a Just-in-Time Session

What Is a Just-in-Time Session?Most sessions at the MLA convention have to be completed and submitted by 1 April. This works well for many topics, but sometimes an organizer wishes to create a…

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In September we’ll be working with actors at Shakespeare’s Globe to think about how textual variants and editorial emendations can influence performance plus how Shakespearean performance can influence editing. Tickets available now: www.shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/ria...

Research in Action: Editing in Action - The New Variorum Shakespeare | What's On

A collaborative exploration into how performance can illuminate and reshape the way we edit Shakespeare, live from our Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.

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Unsettling Shakespeare - our call for papers is open. Come join us! conference.anzsa.org

Eggplant, insects & butterflies, early C16th, by #ShinSaimdang (Korean, 1504-1551), who died #otd, June 20. Held at the National Museum of Korea; source, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sh... #womenartists #artherstory

Join us at Shakespeare’s Globe in September as we test how performance can illuminate and reshape how we edit Shakespeare: www.shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/ria...

Research in Action: Editing in Action - The New Variorum Shakespeare | What's On

A collaborative exploration into how performance can illuminate and reshape the way we edit Shakespeare, live from our Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.

shakespearesglobe.com

The archive of the Casa Buonarroti in Florence, Italy, is a treasure room of early modern Italian poetry—including the famed poems of Renaissance artist Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564). Take a look at a sonnet by an unidentified poet in this story by Dr. Daniel K. Gullo: https://bit.ly/49WaFFN

Postscript -- Fortune's Wheel in 17th-Century Florence

“The archive of the Casa Buonarroti in Florence, Italy, is a veritable treasure room of early modern Italian poetry...”

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Please consider submitting an abstract for these sponsored panels about ‘Global Literary and Intellectual History in the Renaissance World’ at next year’s @rsaorg.bsky.social conference in Philadelphia, co-organised by Dr. Rhema Hokama (Washington) and our Director Dr. Robert Stagg.

Today’s featured production from my new #Introduction for #OWC #MidsummerNightsDream is San Simske Noci /Midwinter Night’s Dream by Goran Paskaljevic. It's set in Serbia & foregrounds the compromised world that the younger generation has inherited. Preorder here: tinyurl.com/mre4rwtu

More information about our ‘Editing in Action’ event at Shakespeare’s Globe in September can now be found on our website, here: newvariorumshakespeare.org/news

A 17thC woman’s ownership stamp in a copy of Richard Allestree’s ‘The Ladies Calling’ (Oxford, 1673). Not a separate label as usual but a whole extra leaf of paper bound at the front. Her initials are also on both boards. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Adams.7.67.10. #herbook (1/2)

Our @tamu.bsky.social colleague Dr. Curry Kennedy is the discipline representative for rhetoric @rsaorg.bsky.social — check out this call for papers and panels about early modern rhetoric (deadline 10 July):

Join us on 19 June, 16:00-16:45 CET for an online discussion of Hamnet! All details, including the registration link, can be found on our website: shakespeare-gesellschaft.de