Tomorrow 😱 www.routledge.com/Thomas-Middl...

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

Titania: music? nibbles? #MoonMad www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Excellent Sirine Saba 25 years apart: as Peaseblossom with Bottom (Daniel Ryan) & Titania (Josette Simon) (dir. Michael Boyd 1999) & as Titania with Mathew Baynton as Bottom (dir. Eleanor Rhode 2024) both @the-rsc.bsky.social

About to see Ensemble '84's production of Hamlet, following the First Quarto. www.ensemble84.com #Hamlet #Shakespeare #Drama

Bottom: oh yes SCRATCH my EARS #MoonMad www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Bottom (that's David Troughton under the ass's head) and Titania (Clare Higgins) @the-rsc.bsky.social 1989

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.

There's still time to register for our upcoming live #Shakespeare webinar on 1 June. This time Prof Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social will be exploring ARDEN OF FAVERSHAM with guest Dr Iman Sheeha. 🗓️1 June 2026 at 6pm 📍Online via Zoom All welcome! Free but registration required.

It's publication day! This Little World begins with a sixteenth-century refugee writing from Norwich to his wife abroad. It ends in the aftermath of civil war and revolution, asking what belonging and identity might mean in a world shaped by migration, empire and violence. (1/4)

Happy publication day to @rentravailer.bsky.social's new book, This Little World: A New History of Tudor and Stuart England. See below for a little thread on the book, including - if you can believe it - surprising English food.

My interview with @oldfortunatus.bsky.social is on YouTube! Featuring: Ragging on Suffolk, inevitable #ASongofIceandFire #GameofThrones references, Margaret is the best, Jack Cade made some good points even if he went too far, and why it would actually be a bad idea to kill all the lawyers.

Amazing thread- worth reading

Congratulations from all @hertfordcollege.bsky.social, Rhys!

Link to register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/english-fa...

*Arden* is such a rich play often reduced to the authorship question and unfairly dismissed. Join me and @oldfortunatus.bsky.social as we explore not only its resonances with Shakespeare's work, but also questions of domesticity, true crime narratives (then and now), gender, race-making, and more.

In the past 2 years 9 EMC Associate Teachers have contributed to EMC courses, conferences + blogs. We've been lucky to get to know them + to benefit from their work. Applications for 26/27 are currently open. Please apply all you talented English teachers! englishandmedia.co.uk/projects/emc...

Puck: *more taunting and distraction* #MoonMad #SlowShakespeare www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Distracted fighting lovers: Jack Holden as Lysander, Chris Nayak as Demetrius (in the foreground); Puck (Lucy Ellinson) behind @the-rsc.bsky.social 2016 dir. Erica Whyman des. @tompiper.bsky.social

Every trans-supporting cis person in the UK needs to make peace with becoming more annoying, persistent, and pedantic than they ever thought possible. EHRC guidance is full of contradictions - they're relying on transphobic compliance out of fear. DON'T GIVE IT TO THEM

🚨Unexpected Fulgens and Lucrece in the bagging area!🚨 www.tickettailor.com/events/sthil...

Tonight! 📖 personally I can’t imagine what else you’d like to do with your beautiful warm evening in Oxford.

COMING SOON! imaging of john milton’s copy of holinshed’s CHRONICLES (1587) is complete! thanks to the staff @ransomcenter.bsky.social for doing the work & to our friends at the phoenix public library for transporting the book. 📷: natasha zoghlin, digital imaging technician with the book

So looking forward to discussing *Arden* with Professor Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social. There might be mention of murder and mayhem 😉 👀 Come join us! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/english-fa...

I did a(nother) thing about #RomeoAndJuliet...

Oberon: antidote time! #MoonMad #SlowShakespeare www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Oberon (Jo Stone-Fewings) in the 2011 @the-rsc.bsky.social Dream, dir. Nancy Meckler. This may not be the right flower, of course...

As the History of Literature Podcast Tour comes to an end in Bath, we're reposting a past episode in which @jackewilson.bsky.social considers Austen's Persuasion, a novel of missed opportunities and second chances. #books #literature #janeausten #literarytour

I'm delighted to announce that I have joined the team behind @ardenpublisher.bsky.social's fantastic 'Shakespeare in the Theatre' books as a series editor. Do you have a book to write about a Shakespearean practitioner or company? We would love to hear from you! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/sh...

👀 over the last few months, I’ve been working on a project with that terrific triumvirate of scholarly erudition @bkadams.bsky.social, @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social & @cazzert.bsky.social, and we’re almost ready to lure y’all to Liverpool in July 2027 to be part of it…

*Out now!* This new edition of Edward II edited by @jmasten.bsky.social distils its importance for the history of queer sexuality, historical drama and modern performance alike. Get your copy here: https://bit.ly/4sSjOGh

Spots are still available for my CalRBS online summer course on feminist bibliography! Spread the word and come explore with me! 📜 📚

Next up in our #Shakespeare webinar series is the new OWC edition of ARDEN OF FAVERSHAM on 1 June at 6pm. Prof Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social will be joined by the writer of the intro, Dr Iman Sheeha (Brunel University London). All welcome! Free but booking required.

A later owner tried to wash out a scribble on the title page of this Byzantine novel, but still the ownership inscription remains. A good thing too, as it tells us the book belonged to poet & playwright Ben Jonson.

I think the touring English Shakespeare Company histories at Bradford Alhambra were my teenage lightbulb moment. Thank you.

Fellow northern-hemisphere academics, as you anticipate a summer in which you catch up on your book stack, shouldn't you invest in this nifty device from 1892? Patented as The Holloway Restful Reading Stand, it promises nearly hands-free reading.

Why does it look like Rachel Reeves is officiating a wedding between Keir Starmer and Gordon Brown

🗣️ We have just signed a new volume for our 'Critical Texts' series! 'George Psalmanazar, An Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa', edited by Alice Wickenden (@awickenden.bsky.social). 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

Shakespeare in the Kitchen is officially published today @routledgebooks.bsky.social !!!! Thank you to everyone how has supported my work / my Cooking in the Archives project & made this book possible. 📸 of the Pear Pie recipe from my chapter on The Winter's Tale by @gaypanek.bsky.social

NE Canadian/US assistance please. My sister has a VAST trove of Frank L. Baum Oz books, ditto Elinor Brent-Dyer Chalet School books plus a few others, all hardback. She's finding no one wants to take them. Secondhand dealers/library suggestions/other thoughts? Please RT.

This is very exciting news -

Grateful 4 this review in @financialtimes.com "One of the central messages of #Prophecy, Oxford philosopher Véliz’s ingenious, scathing and often profound assault on our contemporary obsession with predictive algorithms: “To be resilient, prepare, don’t predict.”" giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Second edition in the Arden 4 has arrived! Titus Andronicus, expertly edited by @curtisperry.bsky.social and Ayanna Thompson! This will be a groundbreaking edition, I predict, just as Bate’s for Arden3 was. Looks great next to @authorajhartley.bsky.social‘s superb JC for @ardenpublisher.bsky.social

During her week-long Director's Residency at the Folger, Adjoa Andoh MBE spoke with @theguardian.com about Shakespeare, the importance of representation in storytelling, and what the arts (and Leeds football) mean to her: www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/a...

Does anyone know what might be a realistic weekly rent in London in c1602? I’m thinking Shakespeare with the Mountjoys. Thank you for any leads on this.

The paperback of Much Ado About Numbers is published in the USA today, Shakespeare's birthday. Fun fact: Chapter 9 reveals that Shakespeare probably used an early pencil - but it was not "2B", it was probably a "9B" on the graphite scale. @folger.edu bookshop.org/p/books/much...

"My job as an artist who trades in play is to bring as much joy and as much connection... into the lives that I touch as I possibly can." The incomparable Adjoa Andoh, MBE joined us for the Inaugural Director's Residency last week and spoke to @npr.org: www.npr.org/2026/04/24/n...

Explore Henry VI, Part II with Prof Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social & Dr Kavita Mudan Finn @kvmfinn.bsky.social in our next OWC #Shakespeare webinar! Shakespeare webinar on Henry VI, Part II 🗓️4 May 🕐6-7.15pm 📍Online via Zoom All welcome! #HenryVI #ShakespeareSky #Theatre #Booksky

My lunchtime rummagings seem (maybe) to have turned up an unknown book from the library of the antiquary William Lambarde (1536-1601). In a work by Livy printed at Lyons in 1548. Part of the library of John Moore, Bishop of Ely (d. 1714), gifted to @theulspeccoll.bsky.social by King George I. Q.6.44

@wynkenhimself.bsky.social saw your request for an article but can’t find the post again - just checking you got it already

Amazing vibe today’s Open House @oxhumanities.bsky.social #SchwarzmanCentre. Music, talks, drama, all there to explore. And @bodhumslib.bsky.social is there of course. Join a free tour! And say hello to Tom. 👍😃

Meant to post this for the bard’s birthday! I highly recommend A TWIST OF ROTTEN SILK by Shakespeare Okuni @i-shakespeare.bsky.social. These amazing poems are woven out of the bard’s own words, an intertextual collage that creates a unique & generative voice. Afterword by @oldfortunatus.bsky.social

Happy Shakespeare’s birthday everyone! In VERY exciting news, I’ve been asked to adapt The Tempest for a 60-minute performance on The Golden Hinde, a floating museum moored on the Thames. If you’re in London this September, come and see a (shortened) Shakespeare play on an actual ship!