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

@kvmfinn.bsky.social looking forward to this!

Join us on 4 May at 6pm for our next OWC #Shakespeare webinar on Henry VI Part II. Prof Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social will be joined by Dr Kavita Mudan Finn to discuss the play followed by a Q&A. All welcome! Free but booking required. shakespeare-webinar-henryvi-partii.eventbrite.co.uk

April is Shakespeare's birthday month and we're celebrating with a ton of free activities on Saturday, April 18! 🥳 Join us for stage combat, dancing, trivia, salons with Folger Fellows and, of course, cupcakes! 🧁 Details at folger.edu/birthday

Here are the dates for my UK publicity tour for "The Traveller. The Revolutionary Life of George Forster and his Search for Humanity". Can't wait to tell you all about this man who tried to find what connects us rather than what sets us apart. And he was Humboldt's mentor. Please come!

Hermia: Lysander would NEVER leave me, you have clearly KILLED him! #MoonMad #SlowShakespeare www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Hermia (Matti Houghton) in the 2011 @the-rsc.bsky.social Dream, dir. Nancy Meckler, dir. Katrina Lindsay

I’m lucky enough to be at the @folger.edu next week and have a bit of capacity to take some pics - so let me know if you need anything.

Puck: I enchanted the ordinary working man (with thespian aspirations)! #MoonMad www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Puck (Sergo Vares, particularly sinister) with Titania (Hedydd Dylan) asleep in her 'bower' (on top of the piano) in Headlong's wintry production in the Wanamaker, winter 2025-6.

Delighted to announce that Volume 15 of the Journal of Early Modern Studies is now available online! oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bs...

Last chance to register for this evening's live #Shakespeare webinar with Emma Smith and Amy Lidster. They will be discussing Henry VI, Part I, followed by a Q&A. 6 April 2026 6 - 7.15pm Online via Zoom All welcome! Free but registration required. #HenryVI #ShakespeareSky

Excited to receive my author copies of Henry VI Part 1 out later this month! Hear @oldfortunatus.bsky.social and me discussing the play and my introduction today at 6pm BST @engfac.bsky.social english.web.ox.ac.uk/event/englis...

Titania: FAIRIES! Fairies: READY! #MoonMad www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Dream @the-rsc.bsky.social 1994, dir. Adrian Noble. Titania (Stella Gonet) and her fairies in her umbrella-bower, Bottom the great Desmond Barrit, later a glorious Falstaff (inter alia); he died last month❤️

I have seen firsthand the scale of displacement and the intensity of airstrikes in Lebanon. Civilians are paying high price. We need de-escalation and support in responding. My interview on Al Jazeera👇 mediaview.aljazeera.com/video/OR5uhE...

Meanwhile, on the moon...

It never fully sinks in until you're holding the copy in your hands... Thank you to @oldfortunatus.bsky.social for trusting me with the introduction! I’m quite proud of how it turned out. 😄🍾📖 #Shakespeare #EarlyModern

Breaking news: we've just signed a once-in-a-lifetime loan agreement to bring rural England's most iconic artwork home for the first time in 1,000 years. Introducing our 2027 major exhibition - Bayewe Tapestry: the Fight to Wool England.

Bottom: are they making an ASS of me?🫏🤔 #MoonMad #SlowShakespeare www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Brilliant, adorable Hammed Animashaun as Bottom in the 2019 @bridgetheatre.bsky.social Dream, dir. Nick Hytner. This production swapped Oberon & Titania, so that it was Oberon who fell for Bottom❤️

It’s a wonderful introduction. Brava, Iman!

I’m leading this London Rare Book School course on the history of collecting. Ideal for anyone interested in studying the history of libraries and how and why books have survived. We’ll be looking at why special collections are special. 22-26 June. #bookHistory👇📚📖 ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...

Please do spread the word about the @srsrensoc.bsky.social Scholars of Colour MA Scholarship Awards -- two pots of £4,000 each, and an optional mentoring opportunity. I've very much enjoyed being a mentor to a fantastic scholar through this scheme!

Wow

Pyramus: your breath smells like flowers! Thisbe: is it my turn? #MoonMad #SlowShakespeare www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Puck (Hiran Abeysekera) watches the rehearsal begin in the 2016 BBC version by Russell T. Davies - mischief is brewing...

Prof Kate McLoughlin has written for The Guardian about #silence and how it has 'inspired, daunted, comforted and terrified writers throughout the long course of English literature'.

Delighted to have had the opportunity to contribute to the Teaching Shakespeare Magazine @bsashakespeare.bsky.social Special thanks to Dr Richard Stacey @uofglasgow.bsky.social who guest edited this special issue on school to university transition www.britishshakespeare.ws/education/te...

Some new Latin poetry by women (or possibly one woman using two names). Hot off the press!

Crisis in Middle East, diplomacy in NY, Geneva, Europe and Hormuz, momentum for our ambitious 2026 campaign, and some intentions - more hope than expectation - for Spring. A fresh Humanifesto 👇. www.linkedin.com/pulse/humani...

You love books. Your house is full of them and you would *never* shelve them in that back-to-front way that is periodically fashionable but never forgiveable. Allow me to direct you to the UK's *only* books TV show: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... #booksky

On Friday evening I'll be leading a Curator's Roundtable about my exhibition Tudor Contemporary @heong-gallery.bsky.social at Downing College, Cambridge. Tickets and more information here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tudor-cont...

Latest issue of @shaxbull.bsky.social is out: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56610 Delighted to join the editorial board of a journal I've long admired. We publish in all areas of Shakespearea performance including early modern & not-Shakespearean stuff so please consider sending us your work & spread the word!

So pleased to have received a small grant from the fantastic @obs1922.bsky.social to carry out research on Oxford collections this summer for my book project! 🤗📖🎉

If you can, join us in DC on 18 April at the Folger for Shakespeare’s birthday lecture: www.folger.edu/whats-on/sha...

In Illyria, a shipwreck tears two siblings apart and sets off a chain of mistaken identities and confused desires. Edited by @oldfortunatus.bsky.social, this edition foregrounds Twelfth Night’s queer potential and explores madness, mourning and migration. Coming this winter: https://bit.ly/4bKgSoi

#OTD 1603, Elizabeth I passed away at Richmond Palace, at 69 years old. The daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth is arguably the most famous monarch in English history.

Snout/Starveling: what about SCARY LION?🦁 #MoonMad #SlowShakespeare www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Bottom (Marc Wootton), here in the 2011 @the-rsc.bsky.social Dream, dir. Nancy Meckler, has a solution for everything, even a SCARY LION! be not afeard, laydeez, this is #notalion. Sorted.

Our next live #Shakespeare webinar takes place on 6 April at 6pm. We'll be discussing the new Oxford World's Classics edition of HENRY VI PART I with Prof Emma Smith & Dr Amy Lidster. The discussion will be followed by a Q&A. All welcome! #HenryVI

Really looking forward to talking with @oldfortunatus.bsky.social @engfac.bsky.social on 6 April about my introduction for the new Henry VI Part 1 (out 9 April). Register for free here: english.web.ox.ac.uk/event/englis...

Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social contending with the human cost of valuable books. #booksky #history #shakespeare www.throughlines.org/suite-conten...

If you believe in the value of English as a humane, creative and essential subject, joining NATE is one of the best ways to support its future so we can ensure that English remains rich, dynamic, and meaningful — for teachers and students. www.nate.org.uk/2025/03/05/w...

Lysander: Hermia makes me SICK! #MoonMad #SlowShakespeare www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Lysander (Fergus O'Donnell) protests his love to Helena (Hermione Gulliford) in the 1999 Dream @the-rsc.bsky.social dir. Michael Boyd des. Tom Piper.

And thanks to Stephen Graham in his best actor acceptance speech for sharing Melvyn’s impact on him (along with Bill Nighy) and stressing value of bringing culture to widest audiences 👏👏

I’m pleased to say that we’re advertising for a permanent lectureship in early modern English Literature (grade 7). I’m happy to answer any questions via email. Please circulate. www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

We're getting there, everyone. Hopefully the site will be back up next week for some testing, and then live for the world the following week. Thanks for your patience. If any publisher out there wants to print a version of the Census (as of 2026), let me know. Books > websites for durability.

From a library that dares to ask, what if we told people about the reference services we offer? I present -- our new Ask A Librarian page! www.folger.edu/research/ask... I am open to feedback and suggestions, but only if you say something really nice about it first.

Our next #Shakespeare webinar will take place on 6 April at 6pm. This time we'll be exploring HENRY VI, PART 1 with Emma Smith and Amy Lidster. They will discuss the play & how we might approach it in the 21st century, followed by a Q&A. All welcome! #HenryVI #BookSky

Lysander: we're lost! we can snuggle together! Hermia: I do NOT think so #MoonMad #SlowShakespeare www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Hermia (Sinead Keenan) & Lysander (Trystan Gravelle) watched by the production's ever-present fairies @the-rsc.bsky.social Dream 2005, dir Greg Doran. NB luggage

We have mobilised full humanitarian response across region and will meet this moment.

But humanitarians are being asked to do too much with too little, while politicians pour oil on fire and boast of spending billions on war while aid budgets are slashed.

Wanted to share this poem by Rumi, a Persian poet from the 13th century CE. His short yet profound works have shaped Iranian/Islamic culture and influenced poetry around the world to this day. 🇮🇷

Calling Hertford College alums: today is our giving day for our new library appeal. Do contribute if you’re able #hertfordgivingday hertford.givingday.co.uk

Absolutely thrilled to share that the book launch for #PROPHECY will be on 21 April in New York City, at 92Y, with none other than the amazing Tim Wu @superwuster.bsky.social ! Join us, either in person, or via streaming. And help me spread the word? #books #authors www.92ny.org/event/cariss...

Helena: I am your SPANIEL Demetrius! 🙄 #MoonMad #SlowShakespeare www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Invisible Oberon (Andrew Richardson) & Helena (Boadicea Ricketts) @the-rsc.bsky.social Dream 2024, dir. Eleanor Rhode. (I propose that all S's young lovers would feel better if they packed snacks.)