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Ph.D. Scholar-Practitioner of Medieval & Early Modern Drama @ UCalgary, Treaty 7 🍁 ⚔️ 🎭
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Shakespeare Bulletin
19 days ago
NEW ISSUE KLAXON: Shakespeare Bulletin 43.2 is now published via Project Muse! In this open-access issue, scholars and practitioners engage in conversations across time, media, and geographic distance. 📰:
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55948
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix
about 1 month ago
Please read this: Discord BY BEN BLYTH
www.heliotropejournal.net/helio/discord
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Discord — HELIOTROPE
By Ben Blyth Ben Blyth’s “Discord” can be found in pdf format at the link above in order to preserve the poetry’s original formatting
https://www.heliotropejournal.net/helio/discord
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix
about 1 month ago
This is the making of
@benblyth.bsky.social
— please read and follow…
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Beyond Shakespeare
5 months ago
😈Doctor John Faustus continues with chapter 19 - oh dear, a rout of Devils appear unto him, threatening him sharply. Very sharply. Literal pitchforks people, devils with pitchforks.
#demon
#devil
#DoctorFaustus
audioboom.com/posts/874511...
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Doctor John Faustus (Chapter 19)
Whereupon the rout of Devils appeared unto him, threatening him sharply...
https://audioboom.com/posts/8745119-doctor-john-faustus-chapter-19
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The British Academy
5 months ago
Applications are now open for the International Writing Workshops. The scheme is designed to help early-career researchers enhance their writing skills and increase the uptake of their research in academic publications. Learn more:
buff.ly/OdmgXOf
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Matthew Roberts
6 months ago
"My voice is in my sword" - SIGNED in performance. It gave me goosebumps in the telling of it let alone the performing. BRAVO!
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The Arden Shakespeare
6 months ago
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 👋
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Shakespeare Bulletin
8 months ago
Erin Julian reviews Crow’s Theatre’s 2024 production of The Land Acknowledgement or As You Like It, created by Cliff Cardinal. 🎭:
www.mirvish.com/shows/the-la...
📰:
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/956906
📷: Dahlia Katz
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Steve Purcell
8 months ago
One of the things I love about the discovery reported in today’s Guardian is that it puts paid to the prejudice you see in a lot of biofiction that Anne Shakespeare/Hathaway would have been illiterate. Nope!
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
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Shakespeare did not leave his wife Anne in Stratford, letter fragment suggests
Professor says text shows Hathaway lived with playwright in London, upending the established idea of an unhappy marriage
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/apr/23/shakespeare-did-not-leave-his-wife-anne-in-stratford-letter-fragment-suggests
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British Shakespeare Association
8 months ago
Check out our latest blog post on 'Dark Arcadia and the wider Shakespeare Republic universe' by
@sallymclean.bsky.social
! We were proud to support 'Dark Arcadia' with
#BSASmallGrants
in 2024 and excited to see more
#Shakespeare
adaptation on screen. Follow the the link in our bio to read more!
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Derek Beaulieu
8 months ago
It's
#nationalpoetrymonth
-- here's my poetry on a billboard on Calgary's Deerfoot Trail, courtesy
@wordfest.com
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British Shakespeare Association
8 months ago
Hello Bluesky! We are excited to be here and even more excited to announce that registration for
#BSA2025
Conference 'Practising Shakespeare' is open now! 25-28 June, University of York, School of Arts & Creative Technologies Follow the link in our bio to register and view the provisional programme
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Ben Blyth
Shakespeare Bulletin
8 months ago
NEW ISSUE KLAXON: Shakespeare Bulletin 42.4 features Claire Kimball's essay on visual dramaturgy, Jennifer Birkett's essay on the 50/50 Shakespeare project, and a special reviews section on the Ukrainian Shakespeare Festival. 📰:
muse.jhu.edu/issue/53960
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Harry R. McCarthy (offline)
8 months ago
I do! Looking forward to discussing Titus Andronicus with
@oldfortunatus.bsky.social
in this free webinar next month.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/english-fa...
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Huge congratulations to this year’s ENGL401 cohort at
#STMUCalgary
for their fantastic capstone conference today! Brilliant papers on subjects from Katherena Vermette to Medieval Monsters! Not truly the end, just a new beginning. The future is bright. So proud of you all! 👏
8 months ago
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Lucy Holehouse
8 months ago
Lecture series!👩🏫 'Performing (in) the Early Modern City': join myself, Dr Lydia Valentine, and Prof. Clare McManus Thursdays 29th May-12th June to hear about secret performance, sky-high performance, and the influence of civic performance on race-making in early modern London. 🧵more info below!
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Massive crowd in
#yyc
tonight for eventful
@mark-carney.bsky.social
rally. Security tight with 1000+ outside. These are difficult times, but in the words of great Tsuu T’ina leader Travis Meguinis: “it’s a good sign when the sun and the moon are together in the sky!”
#cdnpoli
#abpoli
#elbowsup
🇨🇦
8 months ago
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Callan Davies
8 months ago
James Stokes's new Records of Early English Drama collection for the whole county of Suffolk is now LIVE and up on the REED site:
ereed.org/collections/...
What East Anglian riches await...
#theatrehistory
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REED Online: Collection: Suffolk
https://ereed.org/collections/suffk/
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Ben Blyth
Digital Renaissance Editions
8 months ago
Two new
#earlymodern
designs, and just in time for Spring!
www.zazzle.com/store/dredit...
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Wise words from Fletcher and Massinger’s “Rollo” that hit a little different on a Monday morning 🍻
9 months ago
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Brett Greatley-Hirsch
9 months ago
Latest issue of Shakespeare now online, with articles by
@callanjd.bsky.social
@drsheeha.bsky.social
and many more
#earlymodern
folks!
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rshk20/c...
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Shakespeare
Volume 21, Issue 1 of Shakespeare
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rshk20/current
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Callan Davies
9 months ago
A brilliant reflection on and advocacy for humanities research, teaching, and engagement in these trying but urgent times for SHAPE academia, with a forceful intro from Regenia Gagnier and including
@jennyrichards.bsky.social
on English and
@englishassociation.bsky.social
work.
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Congratulations to
#RSA2025
&
@saaupdates.bsky.social
for a jam-packed joint conference in Boston, from we three musketeers (w. Jade Elizabeth Standing & Nate Szymanski)!
9 months ago
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Shakespeare Association of America
9 months ago
This week truly was Super Renaissance Conference Week. Thanks for joining us for
#Shax2025
and
#RenSA25
and we’ll see you next year in Denver for
#Shax2026
! ✈️
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Callan Davies
9 months ago
Here at
#RSA2025
#SHAX2025
digital exhibit showcasing the work-in-progress Shakespeare’s Theaterscape project. Watch this space!
shakespearestheaterscape.org
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Shakespeare Association of America
9 months ago
The
#Shax2025
#NextGenPlen
was brilliant! Thank you to our early career scholars for sharing their exciting research.
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It’s the final day of
#Shax2025
&
#RSA2025
alas, but we’re rounding off the week in style with our swashbuckling panel on swordplay and competition. 2.30pm near the books! Tap tap my friends, and see you there! ⚔️
9 months ago
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Congrats to the wonderful Jade Standing for winning the 2025
@saaupdates.bsky.social
Huntington Fellowship! Rollo rises again ⚔️
9 months ago
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If It Ain't Baroque...
9 months ago
Everybody knows
#Shakespeare
. Beneath the surface, much of Shakespeare’s work surrounds ideas of gender and queerness. Welcome,
@willtosh.bsky.social
as we discuss his book 'The Hidden Queer Lives of William Shakespeare'
@sceptrebooks.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/0aYb...
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Straight Acting: The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare with Will Tosh
If It Ain't Baroque... · Episode
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0aYb9OhAKmYkuTn23Ge90v
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The Arden Shakespeare
9 months ago
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? This World Poetry Day, explore Shakespeare's sonnets and poems as well as critical studies of wider Elizabethan narrative poetry.
bit.ly/4kFxWzD
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claire m. l. bourne
9 months ago
re-upping this now that most are in situ in boston at
#shax2025
and
#RenSA2025
— please get in touch if you would like to discuss an idea for the ELEMENTS IN SHAKESPEARE & TEXT series with me &
@loughnrv.bsky.social
! we'd love to talk to you.
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Authority, power, society, futurity - fabulous discussion on the future of performance studies guided by the ever-brilliant Bill Worthen
#Shax2025
#RSA2025
@saaupdates.bsky.social
9 months ago
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Shakespeare Association of America
9 months ago
Two lively roundtables this afternoon! Thank you to our panelists and chairs for thought-provoking papers on performance as research and theatrical labor.
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Finishing up day one with a fantastic seminar that asked big questions for the future of theatre history- the brilliant “Matter in Time”
#Shax2025
#RSA2025
@saaupdates.bsky.social
9 months ago
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Shakespeare Association of America
9 months ago
Our first day of
#Shax2025
seminars and workshops has come to a close — now it's time to socialize! Don't miss these evening events: 📚 Book Launch (5:30 PM) ☕
#ShaxGrads
Coffee Hour (5:30 PM) 🥂 Annual Reception (8:00 PM) - bring your SAA badge (or purchase a guest pass) to attend
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Next up
#RSA2025
&
#Shax2025
— a lively and engaging session on PAR to a pleasingly full house! Bring on the collabs!
9 months ago
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So it begins! All the fun of the fair at
#RSA2025
&
#Shax2025
9 months ago
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Rob Myles
9 months ago
Smallsword Professional Certification Intensive at RCS, April 7&12. BOOK YOUR PLACE:
www.rcs.ac.uk/courses/stag...
With the BASSC, the longest running and most rigorous accrediting body in the UK.
#stagecombat
#actors
#skills
#swords
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John Scalzi
11 months ago
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David McInnis
11 months ago
CFP is live! Submit a proposal for ‘Shakespeare in spirit’ (whether adaptive, religious, or ghostly, to name just a few possibilities), the 2025 ANZSA conference in Brisbane, 2-4 July. Featuring keynotes from Dennis Austin Britton (British Columbia) & Brandon Chua (Hong Kong)
conference.anzsa.org
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This year’s
#BSA2025
in York is shaping up to be a fantastic conference for lovers of all things
#shakespeare
&
#performance
. Click to join the conversation here:
www.britishshakespeare.ws/call-for-par...
then we can all go hit up the snickelways in June!
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Call for Participation, second round: - British Shakespeare Association
Practising Shakespeare: new collaborations, expanding horizons British Shakespeare Association Conference Wednesday 25 – Saturday 28 June 2025 School of Arts and Creative Technologies, University of Y...
https://www.britishshakespeare.ws/call-for-participation-first-round/
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