Coming soon in Early Theatre 28.2: Molly Ziegler explores how Aaron’s melancholy in Titus Andronicus becomes a tool, shaping early modern ideas of race. Though mentioned only once, "melancholy" helps the play define whiteness, showing how Black bodies were commodified to secure a white Roman legacy.

I am so excited for this article to come out, and so grateful to Early Theatre for publishing it. This has been a long journey, but a testament to the fact that scholarship can be a slow process and that the archives still have so much to tell us.

Up next in December 2025: Issues in Review contributing editor @swittek.bsky.social introduces a brace of short, cutting edge essays tackling how early modern English drama represented conversion -- a complex process shaped, this IR shows, by by race, gender, politics, and performance. #EarlyDrama

What counts as lawful, as opposed to criminal, conversion? And what are the stakes of each? This depends on which genre of early modern English drama is taking up such questions, according to Sheila Coursey. Read more in ET's upcoming Dec 2025 issue. #EarlyTheatre #EarlyModern @swittek.bsky.social

Bess Bridges in Fair Maid of the West, analyzed by way of Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski’s theory of moral exemplarity: learn more from Jordan Zajac SJ's forthcoming essay, out soon in ET's Dec 2025 'Drama and Conversion' Issues in Review organized and edited by @swittek.bksy.social. #EarlyModern

What happens to faithful wives in early modern English plays where prodigal sons give way to prodigal husbands? Hannah Korrell explores how "Griselda Fights Back," along the way changing trajectories of gender in conversion narratives. Forthcoming in 28.2's Issues in Review. @swittek.bsky.social

What's in a name -- Romeo's name? And what's conversion (not just love) got to do with it? Read more in @hollypickett.bsky.social's essay on Romeo's transformation 'from renegade to martyr': forthcoming in our upcoming Issues in Review, ET 28.2 (Dec 2025). @swittek.bsky.social

Emily Parise highlights the paradox in Marlowe's Jew of Malta: while early modern religious conversion suggests an internal change, the need for outward performance can lead to insincerity. Learn more in our Dec 2025 Issues in Review on Drama and Conversion organized by @swittek.bsky.social

In our upcoming December issue: Kirsten Mendoza critiques the white/right ways of (reading) Shakespeare. Don't miss her essay reviewing books by David Sterling Brown; Miles Grier; Farah Karim-Cooper; Arthur L. Little, Jr; and Ian Smith. @universitypress.cambridge.org @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

🎄❄️ Greetings, Bluesky! The release of our forthcoming edition (28.2) is just around the corner this December! Eager to know what’s inside? Keep an eye on our Skeets in the coming days. This edition will be completely open access! #EarlyTheatre #Drama

Coming soon to Early Theatre 28.2: Mayra Cortes asks us to look again at - or rather listen to - the play-within-a-play of A Midsummer Night's Dream. #Shakespeare #MND

Coming soon in Early Theatre: Laura Deluca (@lauradeluca.bsky.social) theorizes representations of Carthaginian noblewoman Sophonisba in plays by Marston (c. 1606), Nabbes (1637), and Lee (1704) as an idealized white woman. #EarlyModern #Drama

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🎭 Join Shakespeare Centre London on 12 December for the launch of Engendering the Stage in the Age of Shakespeare and Beyond, a new book revealing the deeper complexities of gendered performance on stage today and within the records of theatre history. 🔗 Register ⬇️

Exciting to be among this rich collection just published, edited by Peter Cockett & @melindajgough.bsky.social . It brings together some lively thinking and conversations between actors, scholars, & makers arising from a residency at Stratford Festival: utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....

Our newest edition is out now! ✏️ (4/4) Building on our earlier conversation, this concluding thread reveals what more you can find in our latest issue (28.1)! #StayInformed #ExcitingNews

Our newest issue is out!!! 🎙️ (2/4) muse.jhu.edu/issue/55088 Following the last thread, here's what more you can find in our latest issue (28.1)! #StayTuned #ExcitingNews

🎭 Hello, Bluesky! (1/4) We're excited to share that Early Theatre 28.1 is now live! buff.ly/tFadeCz This issue is fully open access and free to read via Project Muse’s Subscribe to Open Access. Curious what’s inside? Follow this post and the threads that follow for highlights, links, and more!!

We can’t wait to share ET's upcoming Issues in Review section on Queer and Trans Issues in Medieval Drama edited by @jeffgstoyanoff.bsky.social. Look for this work in issue 27.2 of Early Theatre by the end of the year!

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Historicizing the Embodied Imagination in Early Modern English Literature (Palgrave, 2024) will be released in the coming weeks. Many thanks to my wonderful co-editor, Grant Williams, and our terrific contributors who have produced amazing chapters. More info here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Nearly 300 @Yale faculty condemn the criminalization of @Yale students engaged in acts of peaceful protest. @Yale must drop all charges, take no disciplinary action against those arrested, and respect peaceable speech and assembly on campus. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

What a fun afternoon session today with fellow editor @jamieparis.bsky.social discussing the ins and outs of editors’ first read throughs and next steps for new submissions to @earlytheatre.bsky.social !

If you work in #earlymodern drama, particularly in the methodologies Bill did so much to support through his scholarship, teaching, and mentoring, please consider submitting to the collection! Email abstract & bio to [email protected] before August 30, 2024.

Little more on this deposition and other accounts of that day, with prime prop of the broomstick, here: beforeshakespeare.com/2018/12/10/e...

Don’t forget about these upcoming SAA deadlines: - voting for officers closes Feb 15 - program proposals for #Shax2025 are due Feb 15 - discounted registration for #Shax2024 ends March 10 Find details at linktr.ee/saaupdates

Can’t quite believe ‘What is a Playhouse?’ is generously listed (in some distinguished company) as one of the 2023 Books of the Year in History Today www.historytoday.com/archive/revi...

You can hear from Nandini Das - winner of the @britishacademy.bsky.social Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding at our first event of 2024. Monday 15 Jan at 6pm online and in person. Free - book your place here www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/in-co...

As you share your 2023 reading wrap-ups and begin to compile your 2024 reading lists, here’s my plug for ‘The Theatrical Legacy of Thomas Middleton, 1624-2024’, coming in April 2024! #EarlyModern

MSA isn't on #earlymodern Bluesky yet: SAVE THE DATE! The Marlowe Society of America's 9th International Conference will be held in London, 9-12 July 2024. Further details including the Call for Papers are forthcoming -- see www.marlowesocietyofamerica.org for updates.