The inaugural Cambridge Amplify Grant will support early-career scholars in History and Area Studies in publishing their first book, providing financial and editorial support over 12 months. ⏰ The closing date for submissions is 13 April 2026. Find out more 🔗 https://cup.org/3NJAd1a

Today’s Extra Credit focuses on Peter Kirwan’s interview with Aidan O'Reilly and Vanessa Morosco about Aidan's experience of being the first blind director to work at the American Shakespeare Center. Check out these open-access resources! 📰: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

*Long weekend watching* Catch up on our 'Transform Your Teaching with The Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series' event from a few weeks ago & discover new ways of thinking about your teaching. Watch now: https://bit.ly/3PVxTof

#ProfessorJerzyLimonScholarship available to academics and artists undertaking a project focusing on Shakespeare and/or Limon’s own academic and artistic work. Deadline: 10 May 2026 @saaupdates.bsky.social @bsashakespeare.bsky.social @shaxbull.bsky.social @britgrad.bsky.social

Discover my open access textbook, which received an honorable mention of this year's @saaupdates.bsky.social Publics Award. screenshakespeare.org At the conference in Denver I will demo it at the digital exhibit. #shax2026 #openaccess #shakespeare

🔊Meanwhile, early access release for our wonderful £3+ tier patrons is this discussion about Cue Scripting with Lizzie Conrad Hughes. This will drop for everyone later in the year but you can hear it now & support our work in making productions happen by joining us! www.patreon.com/posts/discus...

Our brilliant Dr Chris Laoutaris will be interviewing Sir Gregory Doran, former artistic director of @the-rsc.bsky.social about his new book, 'Walking Shadow' at @stationerscomms.bsky.social on 23 April from 6:15pm What a way to celebrate Shakespeare's birthday😍 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/love-loss-...

Early modernists! I just want to check the truth of horses being banned from the playhouse stage as per Lawrence (1927), Levin (1946), Watson (1983)... Any revisions to this history? @callanjd.bsky.social, @andykesson.bsky.social eg?

Rehearsal begins - places, everyone! - but Puck is preparing for MISCHIEF... #MoonMad #SlowShakespeare www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... A particularly anarchic Puck, complete with banana and water-pistol: Katy Owen in the 2016 Globe Dream, dir. Emma Rice.

My next public talk is on SHAKESPEARE AND KINGSHIP at the 1620s House and Garden in Leicester on April 12th 2026. Tickets below: 1620shouse.org.uk/events/shake... fb.me/e/71f9rcRRb

First publication of the year – a review of #TwelfthNight at the Cambridge Arts Theatre by the Marlowe Society. You can find it here: doi.org/10.1080/1745... Or if you don’t have a login, this link will take you to an open access version: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/5TCUJ... #Shakespeare 🎭

Excitement! Another of my PhD students, Rose Albiston, has also just had her first article published, also in the @bsashakespeare.bsky.social journal, *Shakespeare*!! 🥳 ‘Though she be but little, she is fierce’: Popular Feminism and A Midsummer Night’s Dream www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Excited to hear that the 2nd edition of "Queer Shakespeare" edited by Goran Stanivukovic is forthcoming on 11 June 2026 This edition contains 5 new essays incl: Lee Hansen 'Queer/Crip Ovidian (dis)inheritances in "Venus and Adonis"' [posted with permission] www.bloomsbury.com/uk/queer-sha...

Delighted to have had the opportunity to contribute to the Teaching Shakespeare Magazine @bsashakespeare.bsky.social Special thanks to Dr Richard Stacey @uofglasgow.bsky.social who guest edited this special issue on school to university transition www.britishshakespeare.ws/education/te...

Coming up on 27 April, Dr Daniel Gosling examines the property dispute over New Place between Edward and Elizabeth Nash and Suzanna Hall, utilising original records now held at The National Archives. Follow the link below for more details and to book! www.britishshakespeare.ws/a-battle-of-...

It's out! 🎉🎉🎉 "Collaboration, Technologies, and the History of Shakespearean Bibliography" Open access (just click "save pdf" for a formatted version) It was a joy working with Heidi Craig, Kris May, and Dorothy Todd on this Element www.cambridge.org/core/element... ++

Prof. Lena Orlin, Chair of the NVS Board, is part of the line-up at this year’s Shakespeare’s Birthday Lecture in Stratford-upon-Avon. www.shakespeare.org.uk/visit/whats-...

The British Academy ECR Network supports Early Career Researchers to connect, learn and grow. Charlotte says: “As a result of being part of this network, I’ve had opportunities and experiences that otherwise I would not have had.” Join an Opportunity Session to learn more. https://bit.ly/4dHUX3I

How do we know Shakespeare was Shakespeare? Historian @sdamussen.bsky.social shows how we can be certain that the glover’s son was the author behind Hamlet, King Lear and The Tempest? Join us at @toppingsbath.bsky.social on Tuesday 24th: www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/bath/... #Bath #booksky

Ahead of the #BSASmallGrants Fund window closing on 30 March, we've been sharing reflections from previous recipients on our blog. Read all about the Revels Office conference and Shakespeare and the Politics of Subtitling to inspire your own proposals! www.britishshakespeare.ws/bsa-small-gr...

Index cards used by 20thC editors of the New Variorum Shakespeare in the production of commentary and textual notes, now on display in our exhibition about the history of the NVS at the Cushing Library @tamu.bsky.social

Puck: magic juice successfully applied to Athenian eyes ✅enter Helena & Demetrius, exit Demetrius👀 #MoonMad #SlowShakespeare www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Rosie Sheehy as Puck in the spectacular @the-rsc.bsky.social Dream 2024, dir. Eleanor Rhode, des. Lucy Osborne, lighting Matt Daw

✨OUT NOW!✨ ANNE SHAKESPEARE’S EPITAPH by @kscheil.bsky.social an original study of anne’s epitaph in holy trinity church (stratford) as a female-authored shakespearean text. free to download until MARCH 24: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

*Book launch* Join Annie Tyson & @stephenunwin.bsky.social for the launch of their Arden Performance Companions on Shakespeare & Stanislavsky, and Shakespeare & Brecht. 📍Royal Central School of Speech & Drama 📆 Thu 19 March, 7–8:30pm Reserve your (free!) place: https://bit.ly/4lmMVPB

Thanks to everyone who joined us for a fascinating few days of experiments, debates and reflections on AI and Shakespeare! Extra special thanks to organisers Deborah Cartmell and Lisa Hopkins and to the presenters for a lively programme considering the loses, gains and urgent actions posed by AI 🤖

Out today and open access, a very welcome addition to the Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama series which I co-edit with Doug Bruster:

The second article from the forthcoming special issue I am guest editing on Shakespeare and Middleton has now been published open access. Thanks to Shaun Nowicki for this piece 🙂 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Transform Your Teaching with The Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series Hear from the Arden Shakespeare Fellows about teaching Shakespeare to non‑native English speakers & in global, inclusive contexts. 📆19 March @ 4-5pm GMT/11am-12pm EST 💻Online 🎟️ Free https://bit.ly/4rAz6zj

Can't tell you how thrilled I am to see my PhD student Mary Bellman's first article published! 🥳 'The Demetrius Dilemma: The Implications of Induced Love in A Midsummer Night’s Dream' in the British Shakespeare Association's journal, *Shakespeare*: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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.