Join my friends and I tomorrow to raise spirits and funds. We’re supporting @translifeline.org with a live reading of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. www.youtube.com/live/ssjTHXs...

Event on funding in medieval and early modern studies, organised by QMUL! Featuring panels on UKRI, the ERC, and the Leverhulme Trust. Tuesday 23rd June, 15:00. Full details below. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gaining-ex...

Shakespeare & @radiohead.wastehq.social collide in Hamlet Hail To The Thief, a mesmerising live experience that fuses theatre, music and movement. Our co-production lands @barbican.bsky.social following its sold-out run in Stratford-upon-Avon for a limited time from 31 Oct👉 hamlethailtothethief.com

CFP: Mid-career workshop for early modern British historians at USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Instutute Jan 2027. Applications due 31 July 2026.

Our first recommendation for Pride Month is: "New Directions in Early Modern and English Drama: Edges, Spaces, Intersections" edited by Aidan Norrie and Mark Houlahan!

Shakespeare and Interwar British Philosophy (1918-1939) – 27 June 2026, Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, Hampton, UK - tickets available now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shakespear...

Shakespeare fam, what are your favourite trans+ Shakespeares? we're talking productions, adaptations, media interpretations or examples of trans+ casting. I wanna hear about everything from fringe stages to the RSC!

Margaret of Anjou provides insight into Shakespeare’s understanding of gender and sexuality. In "Shakespeare's Margaret: The Dramatic Life of a Warrior Queen, @charlesomalley.bsky.social and @scottwstern.bsky.social track the evolution of her portrayal. Excerpt here: www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...

We're thrilled to see Folger Artist Fellow Missy Dunaway and her beautiful "The Birds of Shakespeare" project featured in @smithsonianmag.bsky.social! Dunaway's work depicts all 65 birds mentioned in Shakespeare and was on view at the Folger this winter. www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-...

Oberon: wakey-wakey! Titania: WEIRDEST dreams, babe #MoonMad www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Titania (Gwendoline Christie) wakes Oberon (Oliver Chris) Dream 2019 @bridgetheatre.bsky.social (roles reversed). And the music played: 'I can see clearly now...' Bottom (Hammed Animashaun) slumbers on

The 2027 @saaupdates.bsky.social conference bulletin is here! One of our General Editors Prof. Paul Werstine will be on a panel about ‘Shakespearean Cruxes’ and our Director Dr. Robert Stagg will be part of a grad student organised roundtable about ‘Translating Your Shakespeare Research Into A Job’.

Christopher #Marlowe’s devastating #queer historical tragedy is now out in a new @ardenpublisher.bsky.social edition. Amply illustrated, w/ an intro to its historical meanings, sexual politics, early readers, & extensive performance/adaptation history. Sneak peek at link mailchi.mp/bloomsbury/e...

The General Editors of the @ardenpublisher.bsky.social Fourth Series have managed to make these new editions more accessible while maintaining the same level of scholarship. The expanded "How to use this edition" section is particularly helpful. Quite an achievement. #Shakespeare

It’s #Midsummer month& *AMidsummerNight’sDream* is on preorder tinyurl.com/mre4rwtu. Intro by me+text ed. Terri Bourus. Emma Smith gave me this #Dream project. Celebrating by sharing productions I cite until Midsummer Night #MidsummerCountdown. Today’s joy: giant flowers on the cover by Sarah Young.

And a couple more #Shakespeare plays - a sensitive, thoughtful #Macbeth starring Neil Dudgeon & Emma Fielding www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b... And #TwelfthNight with David Tennant as Malvolio www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b... Check out "Drama on 3" on #BBCSounds now (4/4) #DramaOn3 #RadioDrama #AudioDrama

🚨🚨Join our virtual seminar June 3 & 4! What do the next 10 years hold? 🚨🚨 💃🏿 📖 🤔🫦⁉️ #PCRS #ShakeRace #RaceB4Race Registration at the link! folgerpedia.folger.edu/Celebrating_...

Our SHAPE Involve and Engage 2027-28 programme is now open for applications, offering an exciting opportunity for humanities and social sciences researchers to engage with the public. Apply now: https://bit.ly/43JR4oA

The current Globe Dream dir. Emily Lim is sweet, funny, joyous; the cast had the audience eating out of their hands from the pre-set (& singing, linking arms etc). Terrific ensemble (2 covers reading in) & Michael Grady-Hall's Puck should be available on the NHS for the general gaiety of the nation

Tickets available on the door for Inner Temple's 'Shakespeare Cup' tonight, 6.30pm GMT! Join Middle Temple and The Inner Temple as they each share an hour of Shakespeare, with a winner declared by a panel of celebrity judges.

So looking forward to discussing *Arden* with Professor Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social. There might be mention of murder and mayhem 😉 👀 Come join us! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/english-fa...

We have some cool resources to go with our #openaccess minigraph on Shakespearean Bibliography from @universitypress.cambridge.org Elements! Link to #OA book: doi.org/10.1017/9781... Link to two classroom activities and a meta-bibliography: www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

I'm delighted to announce that I have joined the team behind @ardenpublisher.bsky.social's fantastic 'Shakespeare in the Theatre' books as a series editor. Do you have a book to write about a Shakespearean practitioner or company? We would love to hear from you! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/sh...

Join @profjoubin.bsky.social at 11 am US eastern / 4 pm UK time to theorize performances of Shakespeare across cultures. Zoom: mit.zoom.us/j/93777456836 More about the event: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/sca...

Read our latest blog post from #BSASmallGrant recipients Esme Miskimmin and Katie Knowles on their youth theatre project Act Your Age with Imaginarium and Shakespeare North, and Karina Aviva and Victoria Gartner's research into Shakespeare’s emotional sound. www.britishshakespeare.ws/bsa-small-gr...

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: