Les Liaisons Dangereuses @nationaltheatre.org.uk last night: OBVIOUSLY Lesley Manville is a goddess but also blown away by Tom Jackson Greaves's movement & Natalie Roar's costumes, brilliantly conceived & reshaped historical silhouettes/textures; extraordinary cutting & dressmaking skills on display

I'm looking forwards to hosting prizewinning US author Tayari Jones in Cambridge tomorrow to discuss her new novel Kin - Friday 5 June, 8pm at the University Arms Hotel. Cambridge Literary Festival info and tickets here www.cambridgeliteraryfestival.com/events/tayar...

✍️ Would you like focused time to write? Would you benefit from joining a writing community? If so, take part in one of our CRASSH writing weeks! 🗓️ 6 - 10 July 2026 Apply at https://bit.ly/3Qc8AOO, no proposals or references are required

How do stories shape legal responses to climate crisis, inequality, and social change? Join us for the conference 'Sustainability, Storytelling, and Law: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Polycrisis' 8 & 9 June Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP https://bit.ly/4uMXGi8

🎞️ Weirding Land short film festival An evening of films exploring eco-weird cinema, climate fiction, folk horror, experimental landscapes, deep time, and more-than-human worlds 4 June from 5.30 - 7pm Everyman Cinema Cambridge, free entry! 🎟️ https://bit.ly/4fQGRhs

Oberon: time to remove the donkey ears #MoonMad www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... The gorgeous, stage-struck Bottom (disco version) played by Adrian Richards in the current Globe Dream. A reminder that there's still art & community & sweetness in the world. And bubbles, a LOT of bubbles. GO!

The current Globe Dream dir. Emily Lim is sweet, funny, joyous; the cast had the audience eating out of their hands from the pre-set (& singing, linking arms etc). Terrific ensemble (2 covers reading in) & Michael Grady-Hall's Puck should be available on the NHS for the general gaiety of the nation

Bottom: honey, please! 😋 #MoonMad #SlowShakespeare www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... One of the loveliest / most hilarious moments from the @bridgetheatre.bsky.social Dream, here in the 2025 revival: Oberon (JJ Feild; swapped with Titania) and Bottom (Emmanuel Akwafo) having a BUBBLE-BATH.

✍️ Ever wanted to write poetry? Led by novelist Dr Yvonne Battle-Felton, Academic Director of Creative Writing at Cambridge, this fun introductory workshop is perfect for poetry beginners. 📅Sat 6 June ⏰10-11:30am 🎟️£10 I 18+ 📍Cambridge University Library https://loom.ly/zYiLe-M

Forgive me doing That Thing: I'm so grateful for & humbled by this review of Textile Shakespeare in RES from the great @profcatheriner.bsky.social whose work has been so formative for me: 'From the small detail to the large span of concept, this is a very fine book' doi.org/10.1093/res/...

BOTTOM in the BOWER #MoonMad www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... One of the most iconic images from the 1970 @the-rsc.bsky.social Dream, dir. Peter Brook: Bottom (David Waller) with Titania (Sara Kestelman) in her red feather bower (des. Sally Jacobs) as the lovers slumber above on their swings...

Hermia: I am SAD and BEDRAGGLED and also worried about Lysander #MoonMad www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Finally, all four lovers: Hermia (Mercy Ojelade), Lysander (Jack Holden), Demetrius (Chris Nayak) & Helena (Laura Riseborough), @the-rsc.bsky.social 2016, dir. Erica Whyman

I'm working on a project about interleaved bibles -- that is, with a blank page added between the printed pages, from Jonathan Edwards's Blank Bible to this NKJV being advertised on Amazon. Have you ever used a bible like this? If so, how? Can you tell me any stories?

Don't miss Part One this week!

Puck: and all shall be well... #MoonMad www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... I love this image from the 1999 @the-rsc.bsky.social Dream, dir. Michael Boyd, des. @tompiper.bsky.social (oh the flowers that appeared through the floorboards!) Puck (Aidan McArdle) tidies up as the lovers slumber on...

Puck: it's almost dawn; even the ghosts have gone to bed #MoonMad www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... One of my favourite images from the 2005 @the-rsc.bsky.social Dream, dir. Greg Doran, des. Stephen Brimson-Lewis: Oberon (Joe Dixon) & Puck (Jonathan Slinger), watching the beginnings of the dawn.

Oberon: I watch the sun rise🌞 #MoonMad www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Oberon (Patrick Stewart) @the-rsc.bsky.social 1977, dir. John Barton, Gillian Lynne, des. John Napier, looking as if he's not just up with the sun but ready for some sunbathing too... A beautiful, lyrical speech.

Well this is SO EXCITING: 2 @stcatharines.bsky.social @cam-english-fac.bsky.social alumni creating something really special together @theyardtheatre.bsky.social in the autumn👀 www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/m...

Helena: THOUGH SHE BE BUT LITTLE SHE IS FIERCE🦊 #MoonMad www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Hermia (Matti Houghton) restrained by Demetrius (Alex Hassell) and Lysander (Nathaniel Martello-White) in the 2011 @the-rsc.bsky.social Dream, dir. Nancy Meckler des. Katrina Lindsay

💎Join us for Afterlives of Fragments, an event exploring making and unmaking across anthropology, archaeology, art & architecture We will engage with fragments not just as objects but as ways of thinking, sensing, and collaborating 16 May 1.30-5.30pm Online & CRASSH CB3 9DP https://bit.ly/4dd2O7I

I love having that to show students when we think about readers and the uses of books in the @cam-english-fac.bsky.social MPhil... So tiny and beautiful!

Really pleased to see my phenomenal PhD student, Shona Whelan, winning this scholarship for her essay on moral philosophy in Wollstonecraft's fiction. Her #AHRC funded PhD on care ethics in Romantic women writers looks to be a groundbreaking work. Shona is also utterly sound and a very good feminist

Helena: might be my fault actually? #MoonMad www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... The @the-rsc.bsky.social family production of Dream, in Stratford this summer: Helena (Boni Adeliyi), Demetrius (Shahin Rezvani), Hermia (Scout Worsley), Lysander (Kaireece Denton), dir. Rachel Bagshaw, Robin Belfield

Off to do a class about performing gender (inter alia) on the early modern stage; eclectic selection of slides and readings plus 2 nice long sticks (rapiers) and a hula hoop (farthingale).

Anniversary lecture 'Afterimages: Grieving in fractured time' Prof Tina Campt (Princeton) will share an excerpt from 'Art in a Time of Sorrow' and explore how Black artists create work to express traces and afterimages of grief 21 May, 5-8.30pm Lady Mitchell Hall, CB3 9DD https://bit.ly/4u55xHq

From James Bond to the Bourne Identity ... the latest #DarknessVisible blog by Dr Edward Allen, Cambridge English Faculty, reintroduces the 2017 book published to mark the 350th anniversary of 'Paradise Lost' by #JohnMilton https://darknessvisible.christs.cam.ac.uk/paradise-lost-reloaded

Helena: Help me I'm not a fighter!🥺 Hermia: 🤬 #MoonMad www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... The muddy, brawling lovers in the 2013 Globe Dream, dir. Dominic Dromgoole: Helena (Sarah MacRae), Hermia (Olivia Ross), Lysander (Luke Thompson), Demetrius (Joshua Silver).

📝 The Research Skills Training Programme from University of Cambridge Libraries and Archives is open for bookings! 👋 Designed primarily for PhD students and researchers, the sessions are open to all Cambridge staff and students. 🔎Learn more and book: https://loom.ly/RjU6dj4

Lysander: I LOVE HELENA!😍 www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... In @the-rsc.bsky.social / DASH Arts Dream, dir. Tim Supple 2006, Puck gradually entrapped the lovers in webs of white tape. Yuki Ellias (Hermia), Shanaya Rafaat (Helena), Chandan Roy Sanyal (Lysander), Prasanna Mahagamage (Demetrius).

✍️ Poetry writing for beginners! Led by Yvonne Battle-Felton, this introductory workshop is perfect if you’re new to writing poetry. 📅Sat 6 June ⏰10-11:30am 🎟️£10 I 18+ 📍Cambridge University Library https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/whats/introduction-poetry-writing