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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...

ANNOUNCING #BSA2026 VIRTUAL CONFERENCE! AI and Shakespeare: CfP The BSA will meet virtually in 2026, 26–27 Feb, 1–5pm GMT to reflect and take stock on the explosive impact of AI on Shakespeare research, performance and education communities, considering opportunities and threats, briefs and griefs

Very pleased to learn at the end of last week that my article for Shakespeare Survey 78, "The BBC's Television Adaptations of Henry VI and Britain's National Identity Crises," has now been published online. If you'd like to read it, here's the link: www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

🔊Early access release for our wonderful patrons - it's a chat with @audioandrea.bsky.social about pre-modern drama on the radio, the challenges and freedoms that the medium allow. Our patrons get early access to pod releases every Wednesday! #drama #AudioDrama #Radio www.patreon.com/posts/discus...

Are you an early career researcher, based in the UK, looking to get published? The Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship, in partnership with @writersandartists.bsky.social, may be for you. Applications now open until 1st October 👉 https://bit.ly/4nd2sBp

It's #WorldSuicidePreventionDay; it was really important to me when I wrote a new introduction to the New Cambridge Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet that I included a page of 'Advice and Support', which I hope might be useful for students, teachers, actors, readers... Here it is

It's that time of year 🎓 🍂 Stock up on all the books you need for class at 30% off in our sale until 5th October. Shop The Arden Shakespeare https://bit.ly/47KN7mO

Three weeks today I'll be talking about #ShakespeareOnTheRadio 💀🎧 at the #IpswichBookFestival with my friend and University of Suffolk colleague, Dr Jenny Amos. Can't wait! #Shakespeare #RadioDrama #AudioDrama #BookSky #BookCommunity www.wolseytheatre.co.uk/events/andre...

Term is well and truly underway and that can mean only one thing - BSA's Online Teacher Day is coming up! Join us on Sat 27 Sept, 11am-4pm GMT for talks, discussions and resources to support and inspire your classroom practice. Register for FREE at the link below

Wow - so many people already signed up for our Wills Project Transcribathon later this month! 🙏 If you drop by you can transcribe some lines & help make 25,000 English wills more accessible for all. In person & online, join us here: willstranscribathon.eventbrite.com #EarlyModern 🗃️ #Palaeography

And it was also lovely to see my book #ShakespeareOnTheRadio 💀🎧 on the @edinburghup.bsky.social. Thank you to everyone involved - what a great event! (2/2) #BSA2025 @bsashakespeare.bsky.social #Shakespeare #RadioDrama #AudioDrama

Last day of #BSA2025 😢 Fab conference full of fascinating discussions and generous people sharing their knowledge, including Abigail Rokison-Woodall from the Shakespeare Institute talking at the moment about #Shakespeare and #Lecoq @bsashakespeare.bsky.social

It was a treat to be part of all this—including final night hanging out w/ Jennifer, Miranda, Virginia, Ben & more!

Today is the last day for signing up to our #multidisciplinary #Greensleeves #conference, either in person or online. Recordings will be available if you can't be there for the livestream. www.sal.org.uk/event/greens... @antiquaries.bsky.social

Our third #BSA2025 keynote @emmawhipday.bsky.social takes us on an five-act exploration of the dramaturgy of single motherhood in early modern England, including autobiographical insights into the influence of early modern stigmas in the present day

Our third #BSA2025 keynote @emmawhipday.bsky.social takes us on an five-act exploration of the dramaturgy of single motherhood in early modern England, including autobiographical insights into the influence of early modern stigmas in the present day

Thanks for coming along @shakescenery.bsky.social and for a great seminar on Paratexts and Documents of Performance!

It was great fun workshopping scenes from Hamlet with @thepantaloons.bsky.social today at the @bsashakespeare.bsky.social conference on the beautiful University of York campus!

Calling all @bsashakespeare.bsky.social #bsa2025 attendees: last chance to grab display copies of @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social’s latest publications for an absolute steal. Some great titles have already gone and I leave at 12.😭BUT conference discount on ordered books runs until July 28th!

"My voice is in my sword" - SIGNED in performance. It gave me goosebumps in the telling of it let alone the performing. BRAVO!

Do pop by for a chat and to grab a deal on our amazing collection of books and journals! @bsashakespeare.bsky.social

We're at #BSA2025 @bsashakespeare.bsky.social and enjoying catching up with authors and meeting new prospective authors, while showcasing recent publications. If there's a project you'd like to discuss just come and say hello 👋

#BSA2025 attendees are brilliant! So game for creating sound effects for #Macbeth using some of the items pictured here. Still time to sign up for one of this afternoon's workshops. @bsashakespeare.bsky.social #ShakespeareOnTheRadio 💀🎧 #Shakespeare #RadioDrama #AudioDrama

Back for day two of #BSA2025 and a plenary with director Amy Leach in conversation with Mark Love-Smith, talking about socio-political Shakespeares, intergenerational dialogues, and the impacts of integrated audio description and BSL in theatre

EUP are at BSA 2025: ‘Practising Shakespeare: new collaborations, expanding horizons’ 🎉 #BSA2025 @bsashakespeare.bsky.social Senior Commissioning Editor for Literary Studies, Emily Sharp, is at the EUP table! Head there to chat to Emily, browse our books & journals and pick up a conference deal 📚

Kicking off #BSA2025 with a screening of Sam Crane & Pinny Grylls' feature documentary 'Grand Theft Hamlet' shot entirely in-game in Grand Theft Auto during lockdown

In celebrarion of BSA conference the opening chapter of my book SHAKESPEARE'S BORROWED FEATHERS is free to read from Manchester UP here. #BSA2025 www.manchesterhive.com/page/shakesp...

We can't wait to welcome you all to the @uniofyork School of Arts and Creative Technologies at for #BSA2025!

So looking forward to this talk from @foremanwrites.bsky.social!

Excited to welcome @justjenerally.bsky.social and all of you to @york.ac.uk later this week for #BSA2025! And for this 'Shakespeare in Theory, Theory in Practice' seminar chaired by @alex-thom.bsky.social Let us know where you're travelling from and what you're looking forward to... 👀

Will we see you at the British Shakespeare Association Conference? 👋 @bsashakespeare.bsky.social EUP are attending BSA 2025: ‘Practising Shakespeare: new collaborations, expanding horizons’. Senior Commissioning Editor for Literary Studies, Emily Sharp will be there! #BSA2025 👉 edin.ac/4mt0ZXY

Do our hearts really 'break'? Shakespeare thought so. Our own @claireghansen.bsky.social has published an article with Brid Phillips on Takotsubo Syndrome in Antony and Cleopatra and King Lear in the journal Shakespeare! Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Last day to register for #BSA2025! Join us at the University of York, 25-28 June to explore 'Practising Shakespeare: new collaborations, expanding horizons' 🎉

English teachers! Don’t miss our free online CPD session on Macbeth, this25 June. Join Professor Emma Smith and author Michael Donkor for fresh insights, tips, and resources on themes of agency and blame. Book your place: bit.ly/BLCPDMacbeth...