Really heartening feedback from the great Christopher Luscombe.

Watch last night's live discussion with the Tudor Network here. amymcelroy.substack.com/p/live-with-...

I had such a great time going live with The Tudor Notebook and discussing Shakespeare and history last night. The full recording is now available. You can watch it here. substack.com/@amymcelroy/...

Tonight! amymcelroy.substack.com/p/going-live...

Juggling several exciting writing projects currently and have enjoyed the opportunity to turn attention towards structuring this piece for another future book collection. 👻 💀

Dustin Meyer applauds Darren Freebury Jones's “impressive” work in attribution studies in his review of Shakespeare’s Borrowed Feathers (@manchesterup). buff.ly/RxfalLw #Shakespeare #EarlyTheatre

Join me live on Friday 19.30pm UK time on Substack as I endeavour to answer Shakespeare-related questions with The Tudor Notebook. Going Live with Darren Freebury-Jones - by Amy McElroy share.google/eoVNfacKmntJ...

Hit our first 100 YouTube subscribers for SHAKESPEARE AND FRIENDS podcast. 🥳 🍾 Thanks to those who have been watching and listening. youtube.com/@shakespeare...

Learn more about Shakespeare’s “rich engagement with the language of his contemporaries” in Dustin Meyer’s forthcoming review of Shakespeare’s Borrowed Feathers (@manchesterup).

It's a summer of #Shakespeare at MUP! 🎭 We're celebrating the International Shakespeare Conference @shakesinstitute.bsky.social and the World Shakespeare Congress this month! Plus, our #ShakespeareStudies titles are *50% off* in our Summer Sale, manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/06...

Hit our first 100 YouTube subscribers for SHAKESPEARE AND FRIENDS podcast. 🥳 🍾 Thanks to those who have been watching and listening. youtube.com/@shakespeare...

Our next guest over on Substack is the incredible Shakespeare scholar @freeburian.bsky.social Darren will be joining us live on 17 July 7:30pm to discuss all things Shakespeare. We hope you can join us! Comment here if you'd like us to ask a question. amymcelroy.substack.com/p/going-live...

New episode alert! 👹 "What Makes a Monster in Shakespeare?" From mythical creatures to Caliban, we explore the monsters stalking Shakespeare's imagination in the latest episode of SHAKESPEARE AND FRIENDS podcast. 🎧 Listen and subscribe here. youtu.be/dyYCwydQqWA?...

Begun drafting something for an exciting new project.

New episode alert! 👹 "What Makes a Monster in Shakespeare?" From mythical creatures to Caliban, we explore the monsters stalking Shakespeare's imagination in the latest episode of SHAKESPEARE AND FRIENDS podcast. 🎧 Listen and subscribe here. youtu.be/dyYCwydQqWA?...

Lovely review of SHAKESPEARE'S BORROWED FEATHERS in Early Theatre journal. 'full of meaningful insights and observations which are made all the more digestible by Freebury-Jones’s charismatic prose ... a valuable model for future scholarship.' earlytheatre.org/article/view...

Recording a monstrous episode of SHAKESPEARE AND FRIENDS podcast this evening. 🎧 Listen and subscribe here: youtube.com/@shakespeare...

Does anyone have access to the following PDF? If so I would be very grateful if you could email it to [email protected] earlytheatre.org/article/view...

My latest book project, with the working title SHAKESPEARE & PANTO!, now has a full first 80,000+ word draft! 🥳 I have so enjoyed the escapism this topic has offered and look forward to developing further.

In this brand new episode of SHAKESPEARE & FRIENDS, Rachel and I ask: 'Did Shakespeare travel?' Topics include the location of the island on The Tempest; the degree to which Shakespeare reflects London in faraway locations versus anglo-centric bias. 🌶 youtu.be/2xN63-0c4LY?...

Recording the latest episode of SHAKESPEARE AND FRIENDS this evening. Do consider subscribing to our #YouTube channel youtube.com/@shakespeare... or wherever you get your podcasts.

Looking forward to...travelling...to the next topic for SHAKESPEARE & FRIENDS series, recording next week. The latest episode, 'Was Shakespeare a Royalist?', is available on #YouTube and wherever you lend your ears. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nsc0...

Ask your local brick and mortar bookshop if you want to pre-order. And if there isn't one near you, more details here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/this-litt...

Looking forward to...travelling...to the next topic for SHAKESPEARE & FRIENDS series, recording next week. The latest episode, 'Was Shakespeare a Royalist?', is available on #YouTube and wherever you lend your ears. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nsc0...

🎤 I’m asking for a little bit of help with freelance life. Do you know anyone who runs a festival or one off events eg in book shops who needs a professional interviewer? Or anyone who might benefit from an audio podcast, with professional interviewing, production & editing?

Georgie Lucas isn't on Bluesky so it falls to me to advertise her first book, Massacres in Early Modern Drama, published by Manchester University Press in the Revels Companion Library series. You can read more (and buy it!) here: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526147301/

Hot off the press! 📰 If you are interested in early modern Anglo-Italian exchanges or the intellectual world of John Fletcher, my new piece is out now in The Ben Jonson Journal. 👇 doi.org/10.3366/bjj....

Very much looking forward to giving talks for this exciting new online series headed by Natalie Grueninger, in the company of fabulous historians. 365 Days in Elizabethan England – Natalie Grueninger share.google/pbNU8T2Tqf8R...

In every academic book there is a secret second book hiding in the footnotes. Sometimes it is the first draft that had migrated there to escape the revisions. Sometimes it is the author's tortured secret rebuttal of their own claims, and sometimes it is the incipient form of the their next book.

ICYMI: here is my podcast interview for THE SCHOLAR'S ARMCHAIR on Shakespeare's collaborators and influences. youtu.be/Y32y3p31-GA?...

The latest episode of SHAKESPEARE AND FRIENDS poses the question: 'Was Shakespeare a Royalist?' youtu.be/Nsc0zjR-VPM?...

Brand new podcast episode alert! What a joy to return to Jo Durrant's Beautiful Universe podcast to discuss theatre history and original performance conditions in Shakespeare's England. Listen here. jodurrantsbeautifuluniverse.libsyn.com/ep-280-dr-da...

A fabulous session this afternoon with Year 13s discussing King Lear. To discuss outreach sessions email [email protected] 👑 🪶

Had a tremendous time giving a talk at Tunbridge Wells Literary Festival. Wonderful hosts and audience members and great to sign so many copies of SHAKESPEARE'S BORROWED FEATHERS.

🎧 Ep 280 of Jo Durrant’s Beautiful Universe podcast is out Weds: 🤩 @freeburian.bsky.social returns with a new series, history of theatre, starting in Shakespeare’s time 🌱 Faith Douglas has A-Z of plants & S is a herb 📲 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/j... 💻 jodurrantsbeautifuluniverse.libsyn.com

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

On Monday, I will be speaking about my book 'Shakespeare’s Borrowed Feathers' at Tunbridge Wells Literary Festival. Grab your tickets here – share.google/3KcehDaRLJPJ...

The latest episode of SHAKESPEARE AND FRIENDS poses the question: 'Was Shakespeare a Royalist?' youtu.be/Nsc0zjR-VPM?...

On Monday, I will be speaking about my book 'Shakespeare’s Borrowed Feathers' at Tunbridge Wells Literary Festival. Grab your tickets here – share.google/3KcehDaRLJPJ...