Looking forward to reading @rhetorician.bsky.social article in this!

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Thank you for having me! Love @thoetp.bsky.social podcast ❤️

Helen(a) in All's Well that Ends Well. A woman who knows her own mind, gets the king to do her bidding, goes after what she wants. Good stuff.

I’ve had written a review of this year’s audio #Shakespeare offering on the BBC - King Lear, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June: doi.org/10.1080/1745... #ShakespeareOnTheRadio💀🎧 #AudioDrama #RadioDrama

We’re excited for #Shax2026 in Denver, but have you considered submitting a proposal for #Shax2027 in Atlanta? The deadline to submit proposals to the #Shax2027 program committee is February 15! Have questions? Check out our website: linktr.ee/saaupdates

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

#Caturday 🐱: Min Zhen 閔貞 (China, 1730–after 1791) Black #Cat (n.d.; Qing dynasty, 18th c.) Hanging scroll; ink on paper Painting: 78.5 x 38.5 cm. (30 7/8 x 15 3/16 in.) Princeton University Art Museum y1947-65 artmuseum.princeton.edu/art/collecti... #CatsInArt #ChineseArt

Two years ago, the BBC celebrated the start of #RadioDrama - but didn't get their facts quite right (see video below). Today #JusticeForTwigg at last. Finally Phyllis Twigg is recognised for her roll in establishing #AudioDrama. Tune into #BBCRadio4 at 2.15pm today 📻🎧🎙️🎭 See next post for corrections

Richard Hughes, credited as the originator of #RadioDrama with his play Danger, did so in 1924 (not 1923 as per the voiceover) However... In 1923 Cathleen Nesbitt adapted the first full length play - #TwelfthNight And... The first play - Phyllis Twigg's The Truth About Father Christmas - was in 1922

Coming soon in Early Theatre: Laura Deluca (@lauradeluca.bsky.social) theorizes representations of Carthaginian noblewoman Sophonisba in plays by Marston (c. 1606), Nabbes (1637), and Lee (1704) as an idealized white woman. #EarlyModern #Drama

🎄❄️ Greetings, Bluesky! The release of our forthcoming edition (28.2) is just around the corner this December! Eager to know what’s inside? Keep an eye on our Skeets in the coming days. This edition will be completely open access! #EarlyTheatre #Drama

Undiscipline, Decolonise, Repair invites you to the last session of 2025. Paris, 18th December, 5.30 pm. Professor Sebastian Sobeki (U Toronto) will discuss The Cambridge Guide to Global Medieval Travel Writing (2025). undisciplinedecoloniserepair.wordpress.com/next-event/ Everyone welcome. Details👇🏽

In January, I start teaching a grad seminar on disability justice. I'd welcome word of any favorite pieces/books you might have! [image of a stack of books in disability studies--books I'm thinking with, though not necessarily teaching]

Looking forward to this conference. Urgent and necessary. www.shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/dis...

Congratulations to the wonderful Medieval and Early Modern Orients @memorients.bsky.social team for a hugely successful inaugural conference and especially for making it accessible and fully hybrid. So grateful and humbled ❤️❤️

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Ready for Day 3 @memorients.bsky.social ❤️

Be sure to stop by our book/journal table to visit some works written by MEMOs scholars! #MEMOsConf2025

Loved speaking this morning! Thank you for having me @memorients.bsky.social ❤️

So delighted to see my first book up online with @oxfordunipress.bsky.social! Huge thanks to @anzamems.bsky.social @memorients.bsky.social @earlymoderncircle.bsky.social. DM or email me for a review copy request form, and ask your uni librarian to buy the book!! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Conferencing online...😊 @memorients.bsky.social

I have a new book out:

Ooh can't wait to devour it! 😍

What an excellent start to the conference!

Taking a detour from my latest book chapter draft, which follows two domestic servants on holiday in 1611, to meander through some assorted Christmas entertainment history… open.substack.com/pub/shakespe...

Let's make Meghan's life's work Open Access! Chip in if you can... gofund.me/08aa0ed6b

My cat*

I doubt it will feel real until I'm holding it, but this is for my teenaged self, who used these editions in high school and would never have dreamed she'd write the introduction to one. #Shakespeare #HenryVI

Out in April 2026 and on a shelf in a bookshop near you 🔥

Friends, if you want to learn a bit more abt The Sweet Taste of Empire, watch this INCREDIBLE conversation with @triciamatthew.bsky.social w.bsky.social, Debapriya Sarkar, Jennifer Morgan, @kwazana.bsky.social & Tapiwa Gambura! www.youtube.com/live/a-Npxq-... Then you can buy it at 40% discount.

*New research* 'Closet Drama in Early Modern England' edited by Aurélie Griffin & Sophie Lemercier-Goddard looks at plays that were performed in private non-playhouse settings between 1560-1670, covering textual history, women's writing & contemporary staging. Find out more: https://bit.ly/4qsQ16D

Geraldine Heng’s The Invention of Race in European Middle Ages is one of the most illuminating works on race. Ignore it at your peril. It’s the missing piece for construction of racialised imaginary wrt the Irish, Welsh, Jews & Muslims in Europe. And instructs us that race precedes eurocolonialism.

Saffron in the big box with her wise mentor stare like: 
“Listen, Hexa… the secret to box life is simple. Sit. Commit. And never let anyone tell you you’re too floofy for this.” Meanwhile Hexa be like, “Sis, this box is… roomy?” #cats #BlueskyCats #gato #CatsOfBluesky

New blog post up, in which I give up all the gory details on my devilish novel-in-progress, and give some extremely depressing statistics that demonstrate how little the experience of being a sexual assault survivor has changed in the past 400 years. #booksky #earlymodern #histfic

{New book} This invaluable reference work addresses sex, gender, & sexuality in medieval Europe and North Africa, providing an important update previous handbooks from the 1990s. Save 25% with ARC25 www.arc-humanities.org/978164189224...

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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A Monday morning question: which book(s) did you spend your weekend with?

Whike I was on social media sabbatical, the hard copies of "Translating Shakespeare: Access and Mediation" arrived. | SpringerLink share.google/hkBEzs2r770c... Many to thank ...

Special issue, "Adapting Shakespearean Romance in Indian Cinema" (guest-edited by @thea987.bsky.social and Rosa Garcia-Periago) out now! www.tandfonline.com/toc/rshk20/2... #Shakespeare #earlymodern

Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door. This is who it was:

Now only **FIVE DAYS** until the deadline for @fairbanc.bsky.social and @emjlynajsh.bsky.social's conference on EM practical texts that will take place in Sheffield next April! sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

CFP: Yale graduate student conference "Ephemera & Place in the Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Worlds," April 17, 2026. This event will investigate how pre-modern art and architecture shaped and was shaped by ephemeral activities. Deadline Jan 9.

slightly obsessed about the end of this lady's effigy tomb with the voluminous folds of her dress and petite heeled shoes

Workshop CFP: Feelings of Safety and Security in the Early Modern World #medieval #earlymodern www.anzamems.org/?p=...

Alas! Someone was actually taking notes!