A very exciting line-up as well as a few familiar faces!

I am in Oxford on Monday evening giving a talk about SHAKESPEARE'S BORROWED FEATHERS, looking at Elizabethan education; Shakespeare’s role as an actor-playwright; and intersections between his works and those of Christopher Marlowe. Tickets here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/oxford-shake....

Come to the annual conference of the Polish Shakespeare Association in Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre, Poland: hybrid mode, sessions in Polish and English (and the conference fee is not a typo.) towarzystwoszekspirowskie.org.pl/konferencje/... @bsashakespeare.bsky.social @saaupdates.bsky.social

Congratulations to the presenters, to @lisahopkins.bsky.social and Deborah Cartmell, and to @bsashakespeare.bsky.social on the “AI and Shakespeare” conference. Much to chew on. (1/3)

It struck me while listening to all the brilliant critical discussions @bsashakespeare.bsky.social conference on 'AI & Shakespeare' that AI is by definition man-made (gendering intentional). It isn't machines we're battling but human beings. The planetary and other ethical impacts are by design.

*Out now* 'Shakespeare and Trauma Theory' by Kelsey Ridge provides a thorough overview of how we can use trauma theory to understand Shakespeare through its intellectual and practical application. Find out more: https://bit.ly/4rASzzV

Free online talk: Transform Your Teaching with The Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series Explore new ways of teaching Shakespeare using contemporary glosses, accessible text design & recent performance history. 📆19 March 💻Online 🕓4-5pm GMT / 11am-12pm EST https://bit.ly/4rAz6zj

*New research* 'Shakespeare and Ballet: Gender, Sexuality, Race and Politics on Stage' by David Fuller is the first comprehensive study of Shakespearean ballets and their unique interpretive possibilities. Find out more: https://bit.ly/4qGlX6v

*Out now* 'Festival Shakespeares: Networking Performance Across Europe' by Rowena Hawkins is the first study of the European Shakespeare Festivals Network (ESFN) during a 5-year period of rising nationalism, Brexit & the coronavirus pandemic. Read more: https://bit.ly/3MjUKst

Hurrah! This plopped through the letterbox this morning. Not only is it always a thrill to see my work in print (Chapter 10), but I'm really looking forward to reading the rest of the book. Many thanks to Duncan Lees and Liz Oakley-Brown for all their help and support. #Shakespeare #RadioDrama

Today and tomorrow 👇 Huge number of people have signed up - it's going to be a busy one #Shakespeare #BSA2026 #AI

We are looking forward to welcoming you online tomorrow for AI and Shakespeare! Join us from noon for an exciting programme of live sessions exploring the opportunities, threats and implications of AI for research, education and practitioner communities www.britishshakespeare.ws/conference/

Our Director Dr. Robert Stagg will be talking about ‘Shakespeare’s Asiatic Style’ at the Renaissance Society of America conference in San Francisco today — 2:30pm, Union Square 21.

Out today! 'Shakespeare in the Theatre: Reduced Shakespeare Company' by Ronan Hatfull is the first dedicated historical study of the Reduced Shakespeare Company @reduced.bsky.social, exploring the troupe’s four major Shakespearean works over the past four decades. https://bit.ly/4rs1wLU

Finally, if you want to celebrate #WorldRadioDay with an audio play, search Drama on 3 on BBC Sounds and you’ll find a wealth of great productions ranging from Shakespeare to Churchill – and a wide range of original and adapted drama in between. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b... Enjoy! (3/3)

The BSA Small Grants Fund is back! BSA members can apply by 30 March for up to £500 to support Shakespeare related events or research. We especially encourage proposals from doctoral researchers, ECRs, teachers and creative practitioners! Find out more at: www.britishshakespeare.ws/bsa-small-gr...

Puck: I am NAUGHTY, I say BUM! look out fairy, here comes Oberon #MoonMad #SlowShakespeare www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Richard McCabe as a punky Puck (school tie, tutu, pointy ears, fairy wings) in the 1989 @the-rsc.bsky.social Dream, dir. John Caird

New monograph alert: W.R. Streitberger, Shakespeare's Censor: Edmund Tilney's Intelligence Manual (2026) It's the fourth book published in the Studies in Early Modern Authorship series. Interested in proposing a book for the series? See details here: www.routledge.com/Routledge-St...

Friends the Playlist for LOVE: A #RaceB4Race Symposium is up on YouTube!!! Check out the 🔥🔥!! #ShakeRace #earlymodern #BlackSky #historysky youtube.com/playlist?lis...

#Shakespeare wasn’t always “Shakespeare.” Stephen Orgel explores how the bard's plays became global classics in his new book with @ardenpublisher.bsky.social#Shakespeare 🎭 https://bit.ly/4jy3Hu8 #TheatreSky

Bottom: but what BEARD for Pyramus? 🧔🧔‍♂️Quince: ??!! #MoonMad #SlowShakespeare www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Part of the joke is that, if Will Kempe (R) is playing Bottom, he already has a beard... This is still often the case: here's Kevin Kline in the 1999 film.

If you're coming along, you might like to listen to this in advance: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... But no prior knowledge of #RomeoAndJuliet required. You don't even need to like #Shakespeare 🎭 See you Saturday! #WolseyWriters #Ipswich #Suffolk #ShakespeareOnTheRadio 💀🎧 #RadioDrama #AudioDrama

"the plays this season were born out of a world in chaos whether that was the chaos of Shakespeare’s 1599 or Brecht’s 1939. The questions these plays ask are an attempt to make sense of that world: what is love? What is evil? What is power? What is life?" www.shakespearesglobe.com/discover/blo...

On the new episode of @thatshakespeare.bsky.social, Carol Chillington Rutter, author of Lying abroad, explores the extraordinary life of the man King James I called his “honest dissembler”, Henry Wotton. Listen to the episode on all podcast platforms: www.cassidycash.com/henry-wotton... #booksky

Have you renewed your BSA membership for 2026 yet? Register or renew new for free or discounted entry to BSA events, including our upcoming virtual conference on AI and Shakespeare! Concessions available for teachers, practitioners and students www.britishshakespeare.ws/join-the-bsa...

"Horatio in Pieces: Or, How to Deal with Ghosts," Shakespeare (2024)

Bill Angus and I are very pleased that our edited collection on Reading the River in Shakespeare's Britain (published by Edinburgh University Press) will soon be out in paperback:

Registration is now open for AI and Shakespeare: A BSA Virtual Conference! True to theme, events will run online 26-27 Feb, including sessions on editing, pedagogy, and a keynote by Jonathan Bate, 'Love's Labour's Won: An Intelligent Artifice?' Register now at: www.britishshakespeare.ws/conference/

Delighted to see (and hear) that this episode on the Folger podcast is now up with Rob Eastaway. www.folger.edu/podcasts/sha... Rob and I have some exciting collaborative and cross-curricular public speaking events in store, so watch this space!

Here’s the schedule for our two-day conference about ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ and ‘The Winter’s Tale’ next month! Full details, including a Zoom link for those who want to follow remotely, will be available on our website by the end of this week: newvariorumshakespeare.org/news

TOMORROW: Prof. Nataliya Torkut, Director of the Ukrainian Shakespeare Centre, will be talking about the history of Shakespeare in Ukraine for our first NVS Seminar of the semester, live from Ukraine. Thurs 29 Jan, 12 noon CT Zoom link here: newvariorumshakespeare.org/news

🎵✨ Discover the magic where Shakespeare meets the lyra-viol! Step into a world of contemporary music inspired by the timeless poetry of Shakespeare, performed on the delicate and haunting lyra-viol 🎻📜. Listen here 👉 open.spotify.com/playlist/25a... 🎶💫

Coming soon! "Collaboration, Technologies, and the History of Shakespearean Bibliography" a minigraph from the Cambridge Elements Shakespeare and Text series (ed @roaringgirle.bsky.social and @loughnrv.bsky.social ) by me, Heidi Craig, Kris L. May, and Dorothy Todd ANNNNND it will be open access!

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!

🎭 To chat, or not to chat? #Shakespeare 📚

Just over two weeks left to submit abstracts for #BSA2026 online conference on 'AI and Shakespeare', where we'll be exploring the opportunities and threats, briefs and griefs posed by AI to Shakespeare communities. Abstracts due by 12 Janary 2026!

2025 has been a busy year, not least for spreading the word about #AudioDrama. As well as a couple of articles for @thestage.co.uk I did quite a few pieces for #radio and podcasts, including an introduction to #Hamlet on #BBCRadio3 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... #ShakespeareOnTheRadio 💀🎧 #Shakespeare

It is with great sadness that we pay tribute to actor and former BSA Trustee, Andrew Jarvis. We are deeply indebted to Andrew for his boundlessly enthusiastic and imaginative work as Trustee and Chair of the Honorary Fellowships Committee. The full tribute is available on our website.

Happy to announce the publication of research arising from our workshop at Stratford Festival, in 2018! 😀😀🎉 Our book centres feminist, queer, and trans scholars and artists exploring complexities of gendered performance on stage today and within archival history. utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....

We love to see the members of our Board in the wild - especially among such grand company!

Today is the OFFICIAL publication day for TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE! Please indulge me: I want to say a little (perhaps rather a lot) about it and share my acknowledgements - and a discount code! Appropriately,🧵1/10

Lovely to end the week with the arrival of this beautiful collection. Thank you to @drdeelittle.bsky.social and Rebecca for including my work

New to our Arden Performance Companions series, 'Shakespeare and Brecht: A Practical Guide for Actors, Directors, Students and Teachers' by @stephenunwin.bsky.social is the first guide connecting the two playwrights, expanding staging & performing possibilities. https://bit.ly/4pMQjoH

Recording the second episode of our new #YouTube series 'Shakespeare & Friends' this weekend, discussing a...tasty...topic. 🥧 🍰 🍺 The first episode, 'Did Shakespeare's audiences believe in ghosts?', is available here: youtu.be/Br4N4RA0j_s?...

One week to go until our next NVS Seminar! Prof. Eric Rasmussen (Nevada), ‘The Fifth Folio: Shakespeare Without Rules’ Tue 18 Nov, 1pm (CT) at @tamu.bsky.social LAAH 453 and streamed online Zoom link and further details here: newvariorumshakespeare.org/news/

The deadlines keep coming and they don't stop coming! Make sure your application is in by *December 1* for the - Innovative Article Award - Shakespeare Publics Award - Barbara Hodgdon Performance Award More details at shakespeareassociation.org/awards-prizes/

Out now: "Digital Text Analysis and Early Shakespeare Bibliography: Using Voyant Tools with Bad OCR" www.digitalstudies.org/article/id/1...

One of the treasures from our early modern and Shakespearean collections @tamu.bsky.social Cushing Library: a copy of Shakespeare’s Second Folio (1632) once owned by the great 19thC American actor Edwin Forrest. He has added his name to ‘The Names of the Principall Actors’.

CFP: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns Confirmed keynote speaker: @jddavies66.bsky.social Deadline: 20 December 2025 Conference: 22 May 2026, European University Institute, Florence all info: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/gender... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

CFP: Tolerance and Dissent Deadline for abstracts 15 January 2026 Conference: 24-26 June 2026, University of Fribourg Travel grants available for graduate students #EarlyModern #SkyStorians all info: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/tolera...