Next month we are hosting a two-day conference about ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ and ‘The Winter’s Tale’, the two texts we recently published in variorum format on our website. What a great group of speakers we’ll be hearing from!

We have been remiss, absent, and not here, but, for your belated consideration: Our last issue of 2025 was a special issue guest edited by @laurakolb.bsky.social and Jessica Rosenberg entitled "Comic Epistemologies." Go read! (And see TOC in next posts). www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/elr/curr...

I'm looking for a paper or two to round out a panel on Time and Money ( #earlymodern economic cultures) for @rsaorg.bsky.social's 2026 conference in S.F: papers exploring the values, meanings, understandings of eco. exchange. Send me your proposal asap! See: www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe... for details.

CONFERENCE: Medieval & Early Modern Students Association (MEMSA) Conference 2025 #earlymodern #earlymodernevents #medieval #durhamcastle #natureinfocus memorients.com/events/confe...

This is tomorrow! Join us at Guildhall Library and Archive to hear Lydia discussing the amazing new research she's doing on identity in Civic Performance!

We are very excited to share the CFP for the Margaret Cavendish Society Conference which will be held at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada, 17-19 June 2026!

We’ve acquired a remarkable group of rare medieval manuscripts that reveal new insights into life in Britain & Ireland during the Middle Ages – from religious dialogue to daily urban life. Items include…

Happy Friday! you can now register for our @cemskcl.bsky.social colloquium on Early Modern War Narratives! June 6th in person and online! Keynote by Andrew Hopper and Ismini Pells, funded by KCL, CEMS, & @srsrensoc.bsky.social. Register here (and pls repost!) — www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...

I wrote a thing about a book owned by Bathsua Reginald Makin that I found in @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social whilst working on their early records. earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/05/07/h... Thanks to @martinevanelk.bsky.social and @tarallyons.bsky.social for hosting #herbook

The joy of archive research #Livorno 🇮🇹 #earlymodern

Read "Hal, Not Henry: Self-Determination as Aesthetic Negativity in Shakespeare’s Henriad" from Renaissance Drama and learn more about Hal's modes of self-determination and how he interacts with them as aesthetic objects. Find it here: ow.ly/Qvvw50VLyTr

Nicole Rice examines poems inscribed on a cabinet door, melding material, social, and literary histories.

Really enjoyed this discussion of the Shakspaire story, not least for its headline: www.shakespearenews.com/p/shakespear...

Next month in Lausanne: Renaissance Discernment, a one-day symposium to wrap up our four-year research project "Theater and Judgment in Early Modern England" (time truly flies!)

🥳New Podcast Episode!🥳 With Prof Liz Oakley-Brown! @earlymodlancs.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/11o6...

Cambridge people! I’m going to be giving a talk on TJ Wise, detritus, stolen leaves, and made-up books on Thursday at 5pm. Do come along! www.english.cam.ac.uk/cmt/?cat=6

I’m so excited to reveal the cover of Galileo’s Fame! The @upittpress.bsky.social has done an amazing job with the design, showcasing a stunning seventeenth-century depiction of the goddess Fama. I can’t wait to hold the book in my hands in just a few months.

📢 Please join Han Lamers & me for the first online session of the Early Modern Hellenism Colloquia! ✨ Simon Smets (KU Leuven) 'Between the Library and David’s Lyre', exploring learned aspects of New Ancient Greek psalm rewritings, Byzantine influences & their Latin literary context.

Delighted to say that my article, "The Shakspaires of Trinity Lane: A Possible Shakespeare Life-Record" is now fully published and open-access! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

So I've got this article which should be coming out in the journal _Shakespeare_ any moment now, but in the meantime - Briefly, it's about a C17 letter preserved in the binding waste of a book now in Hereford Cathedral.

How come we can't buy desks like this any more (1512)

Congratulations to WSG Member, Peter Radford, for this wonderful review of his book "They Run with Surprising Swiftness". Reviewed by @devoney.bsky.social for @emwjournal.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

My new book, co-authored with Michelle Dowd, is now out from Oxford University Press in the UK. US publication to follow shortly. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Tell me about good work you have read that you like - bonus points if it is about early modern drama

Joseph Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises, a 17thC treatise on the printing press, is a delight. A printing-house was customarily called a ‘chapel’. Workers who committed faults in the chapel—swearing, fighting, being drunk, leaving a candle burning at night, etc.—had to pay a fine called a ‘solace’.

It’s the final day to get abstracts in for our June colloquium on early modern war narratives! CFP linked here. Please repost and send your abstracts!

This year's @ihr.bsky.social #Medieval and #Tudor #London seminar has an astonishingly good line up! If you're around in London on 3rd July, please consider joining us to hear a bit about my latest project and to celebrate the seminar's 50th birthday! 🎂 www.history.ac.uk/seminars/med...

James Stokes's new Records of Early English Drama collection for the whole county of Suffolk is now LIVE and up on the REED site: ereed.org/collections/... What East Anglian riches await... #theatrehistory

"Boys Abducted" by Abdulhamit Arvas @a-arvas.bsky.social is one of our amazing new April titles! #LiteraryTheory #QueerTheory buff.ly/NbdnfYi

It could be an April Fool but, apparently, it’s publication day for this wee book. Thanks to all at @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social for bringing it into the world!

Though we are but a journal's bluesky account, we had an excellent time learning from you all at #Shax2025 and #RenSA25, even during short chats in glass tunnels. Send us your expanded papers! Already looking forward to San Francisco and Denver...

My glasses are brand new - all compliments will be gratefully received!

I'm receiving word that @alanstewart50.bsky.social does not "love to chat," but would nonetheless enjoy discussing possible article ideas with you.

AS ALWAYS - there will be many many members of the ELR editorial community wandering the halls of Boston this weekend. AS ALWAYS - do not hesitate to stop us, chat, compliment our glasses... and pitch article ideas. (Glasses compliments optional.) Who are we? See a few names in the next post.

Heh #Shax2025 #RSA2025 #RenSa2025 do you want to get rich quick, be a cosmopolitan gentleman, and succeed at a renaissance court? Then come along today to my paper about a 1609 pamphlet which uses a courtesan’s life story to teach all this and more!

Between me, @ehxlibris.bsky.social, and @undomielise.bsky.social, we have created our own #RSA2025 and #Shax2025 bingo after discussing it during dinner. Download and enjoy! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

At #RSA2025 and looking for a fun morning session? Try our workshop on ubiquitous music-making in #earlymodern England. No musical experience necessary. Ballads, rounds, psalms, theatre songs, instrumental variations...

Lucky me - I get to launch Shakespeare Unlearned in conversation with one of the smartest scholars I know, Joseph Gamble, April 4th at the @umassamherst.bsky.social Kinney Renaissance Center. Come spend a Friday afternoon with us, and check for green sprouts in the Center's gardens.

Call for Papers for our Annual CEMS Colloquium! This year's theme is early modern war narratives. Organised by @emilyrowe1.bsky.social. We're looking for 15-minute papers. Deadline for abstracts is 11 April. Full details below. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/lamen... @kingsartshums.bsky.social

Lent at court 1617: annual sermon series of bps on Sun., deans and DD's on Weds. & Fri., kicked off on Ash Weds. by Dean of the Chapel (Montagu, bp of Winchester). An unusual year: no Donne; and Andrewes on Easter Sunday was at Holyrood with K. James (which <sarcasm> went down really well).

For anyone interested in the early Bodleian Library or early modern book owners, the Shaping Scholarship project at CELL, UCL has made the project data available: ebdo.org.uk/data/ It details every officially recorded donation made c. 1600-1620, plus some extras, which is around 10,000 items.

Wow, @kimgilchrist.bsky.social! A ‘fragment of a longer cue-script produced for amateur performance’ of *Mucedorus*! Great stuff! academic.oup.com/nq/advance-a...

I had such a great class today on THE MAID'S TRAGEDY. I wish that Arden would publish an edition because the Revels is expensive for my students. But man, we had a great discussion of 4.1 and 5.1 and Evadne taking herself back. #EarlyModern #AcademicSky

If you will be attending RSA in Boston and are interested in processes of cultural, linguistic, and legal translation in the Spanish empire, please join us for an engaging discussion. The panel is made up by wonderful scholars such as Christina Lee, Laura Leon, and Catherine Infante. See you there!

#shax2025 PSA: flying United? Ralph Fiennes as Macbeth is on the in air entertainment. 😱 Please watch. And then find me in Boston so we can break it down with the kind of exhausting granularity only a couple of Shakes-nerds would enjoy.

I love love love doing the posters every year for EMo Trans! A very small number from the edition will only be available for sale at the conference to non-presenting attendees. Glasses included. (Risograph and Letterpress printed by @meanwhilelttrpress.bsky.social )

Our #BoxOfficeBears article on touring entertainers and travelling bears in early modern England is published today: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... One for any #SHAX2025 and #RenSA25 delegates interested in GIS/digital mapping or #Shakespeare touring troupes @archaeobears.bsky.social

Oh hai: it me!

Excited to run the annual @cemskcl.bsky.social colloquium on early modern war narratives in June! Check out the CFP below, please share widely, and submit an abstract!

Lots of Shakespeare merchandise around, but nice to see some William Henry Ireland merch for a change.