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

Please read this: Discord BY BEN BLYTH www.heliotropejournal.net/helio/discord

This is the making of @benblyth.bsky.social — please read and follow…

😈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...

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

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

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 👋

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

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...

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!

It's #nationalpoetrymonth -- here's my poetry on a billboard on Calgary's Deerfoot Trail, courtesy @wordfest.com

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

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

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...

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! 👏

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!

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 🇨🇦

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

Two new #earlymodern designs, and just in time for Spring! www.zazzle.com/store/dredit...

Wise words from Fletcher and Massinger’s “Rollo” that hit a little different on a Monday morning 🍻

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...

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.

Congratulations to #RSA2025 & @saaupdates.bsky.social for a jam-packed joint conference in Boston, from we three musketeers (w. Jade Elizabeth Standing & Nate Szymanski)!

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! ✈️

Here at #RSA2025 #SHAX2025 digital exhibit showcasing the work-in-progress Shakespeare’s Theaterscape project. Watch this space! shakespearestheaterscape.org

The #Shax2025 #NextGenPlen was brilliant! Thank you to our early career scholars for sharing their exciting research.

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! ⚔️

Congrats to the wonderful Jade Standing for winning the 2025 @saaupdates.bsky.social Huntington Fellowship! Rollo rises again ⚔️

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... #shelfie

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

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.

Authority, power, society, futurity - fabulous discussion on the future of performance studies guided by the ever-brilliant Bill Worthen #Shax2025 #RSA2025 @saaupdates.bsky.social

Two lively roundtables this afternoon! Thank you to our panelists and chairs for thought-provoking papers on performance as research and theatrical labor.

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

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

Next up #RSA2025 & #Shax2025 — a lively and engaging session on PAR to a pleasingly full house! Bring on the collabs!

So it begins! All the fun of the fair at #RSA2025 & #Shax2025

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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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

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!