Out in paperback today:

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...

Google's response on Terence Hawkes, heroically failing to accept that there might be more than one place called Birmingham in the world

GET EXCITED! Our biennial conference is happening in THAT LONDON in 2027! It's our 💎 Diamond 💎 Jubilee, so get ready for a party. The #Renaissance Beyond Borders Warburg, 30 June-3 July 2027 Deadline for proposals: 25 September 2026 all info: rensoc.org.uk/cfp/12th-bie... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

Please sign this. What's happening at Hertfordshire is unconscionable. c.org/jVWPyJDnZz

I can't believe I'm writing a gloss on this

Two great @sheffieldcems.bsky.social events coming up in the next fortnight, see scems.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/events (1/3):

As an adopted Sheffielder I'm pleased to see the word 'nesh' appearing in a 16th-century text: Philip Stubbes complains, 'be sure this pampering of our bodies, makes them weker, tenderer, and nesher, than otherwyse they would be if they were vsed to hardnesse'.

Not, like, low level teasing

Does our @labouruk.bsky.social government think that young people should have the opportunity to study the humanities at university? Judging by their total indifference to what's happening in UK HE, the answer is no.

Absolute mic drop here:

When you appreciate that The Alchemist is basically 'comedy in which the landlord wins' it gets much easier to elicit atudents' views about the ending

I can't be the first one to play this game with the latest @lrb.co.uk

From the latest issue of The Onion. This is just brilliant writing.

For some reason it is very difficult to get students to accept that the angels in Doctor Faustus might be actual angels and for some reason this Bothers Me

We're going to get dragged into the Iran war, aren't we? (See headline.) www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

AI - revolutionising scholarship...

Just when you think you're completely immune to clickbait

Please repost: Can you recommend a piece of writing (by you or anyone else) that sets out to make the writer's research in early modern lit/culture accessible to a general readership? I mean Conversation-type stuff but not necessarily The Conversation.

Can't tell you how thrilled I am to see my PhD student Mary Bellman's first article published! 🥳 'The Demetrius Dilemma: The Implications of Induced Love in A Midsummer Night’s Dream' in the British Shakespeare Association's journal, *Shakespeare*: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

PGT scholarships in English at Sheffield

The second article from the forthcoming special issue I am guest editing on Shakespeare and Middleton has now been published open access. Thanks to Shaun Nowicki for this piece 🙂 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This follows the first article, by @freeburian.bsky.social, which received online publication late last year: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Nice to be able to use this picture of a rolwagen (roll-wagon) in my _Country Wife_ seminar

Unsolicited google translation

_The Revenger's Tragedy_ bites deep right now. Wonder what my students will make of it next week.

Forthcoming PG colloquium at the University of Sheffield -- please repost! pgrcolloquiumsheffield2026-ximez.wordpress.com/call-for-pap...

Third Marvell seminar of the week, so that's three times I've quoted Bertie Ahern allegedly describing Cromwell as a 'murdering bastard' on encountering a portrait of him in Robin Cook's office

Oooh! So pleased to see Ellie Collins’ book out in our series!! Such wonderful repertory work! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9780719090868/ CC @shakesinstitute.bsky.social

Nice bit of editorial bitchiness from Lewis Theobald here

Descending further into a parody version of myself as I suggest that students might watch a video of The Mountain Goats' 'Romans 10: 9' before the _Doctor Faustus_ seminar

Well, he has been in the news I guess

Bill Angus and I are very pleased that our edited collection on Reading the River in Shakespeare's Britain (published by Edinburgh University Press) will soon be out in paperback:

Early modern hive mind: somewhere Andrew Gurr argues that the speech about surveying in 2 Henry IV is a rueful reflection on the Burbages' failed first attempt to open a theatre in Blackfriars. I can't find this anywhere (you'd think it'd be in _The Shakespeare Company_ but no). Anyone?

🚨🇮🇪 A single Dublin data centre found to consume as much power as 200000 homes. Uncovered by @lnbdublin.bsky.social Reported by Jack Horgan Jones @irishtimes.com

My workflow planning model is getting increasingly sophisticated.

monarch sounding more left wing than our current Labour government rn

Best thing I've seen all day.

Funded PhD opportunities at the University of Sheffield: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I have a new book out:

Calling it: the 'Nesquik tax'

Special issue, "Adapting Shakespearean Romance in Indian Cinema" (guest-edited by @thea987.bsky.social and Rosa Garcia-Periago) out now! www.tandfonline.com/toc/rshk20/2... #Shakespeare #earlymodern

Finally got round to leaving the Labour party, so don't say I didn't get anything done on a strike day 😢

it's on presale in two days, sign up for the link: laylo.com/mountaingoat...

'legegs'