Bloomsbury are having a sale at the moment and there's one day left to get my book, Shakespeare's Body Language, at 30-40% off! @ardenpublisher.bsky.social If you've ever wondered why Romeo and Juliet starts with a thumb bite - and what it means - I got ya. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/shakespea...

Sneak peek at my next blog piece for @memorients.bsky.social 👀

Good to see thatLancaster University’s Prof. Naomi Tadmor is delivering the keynote 👇

Meet Thomas the carter… New post follows Tudors moving around London, on the back of some recent research.  What did Shakespeare’s commute look like and who invented the one-way street? open.substack.com/pub/shakespe...

She's not impressed...

In today's new blog, Dr. Murat Öğütcü offers exciting insights into how William Shakespeare uses the scimitar as a marker of Eastern otherness and the anxieties associated with it across time and space. Check it out here: memorients.com/articles/of-...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Next Monday at 17:00GMT, we'll be joined by Dr. Patricia Akhimie (@folger.edu) who will discuss her work on an upcoming exhibition on Black women and Shakespeare. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...

On 20th April Dr. @hassanamoosa.bsky.social (University of Capetown) will deliver a WIP on slave-slurs in EM English drama kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...

Delighted to announce our seminar - 'Race and the Early Modern' - now has a full schedule of events. We'll be convening monthly to discuss research on race, racemaking, and racialisation across #earlymodern studies. @kingsartshums.bsky.social @folger.edu kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...

Early modern friends - what’s your favourite, oddest, or most obscure onstage animal or creature? Play, pageant, masque, etc. Thinking of Cymbeline’s eagle, Dog in Witch of Edmonton, crocodile and snake in Locrine, Henslowe’s animal props, snakes in St Patrick, swans in 7 Champions, all the bears…

NEW ISSUE KLAXON: Shakespeare Bulletin 43.3 is now published via Project Muse! This open access issue features articles on Margaret's presentation in Much Ado; an analysis of bushido in Kurosawa's Ran; and a pedagogy-oriented exploration of a Globe app for actor-training. 📰: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56353

How did plays from the popular theatre, written by an author better known as a poet, become the greatest literary monument in English? Stephen Orgel's 'The Texts of Shakespeare: The Transformation of Popular Theatre to Printed Book' is out now: https://bit.ly/4jy3Hu8

Working on a first journal article? We're hosting our annual first article workshop in May. A great opportunity to receive and understand the peer review process. Apply by Feb 27th. Full details below! kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/cfp-f...

Working on postdoc apps? We're hosting a workshop with assessors and successful applicants on Feb 12th. Submit a draft application for feedback by Feb 4th. Full details below! kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/apply...

A 🧵 of CEMS events and opportunities this term! Next Tuesday at 14:00 we'll be hosting a workshop on doing a PhD. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/doing...

Promo time. My book 'At home with the poor' is now available in paperback! Plus all books on MUP are 40% off at the mo so you can get it for £15... manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526194749/

Our January meeting will take place on Monday 26th and will be a 'Bring A Problem' session! Come and have a chat about anything that's bothering you - a tricky critical framework, an issue with a supervisor, a dead end research path, a worry about workload - we're here to support you🫶

I'm pleased to share that my review essay, 'Whiteness made visible: Recent Work in Premodern Critical Race Studies', has now been published in @postmedieval.bsky.social 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The only thing better than having your publication date moved up? Having your publication date moved up to your birthday! Claiming Land, Claiming Water is now due out on March 17th, and the kind folks at @pennpress.bsky.social have gifted us this discount code at www.pennpress.org/978151282925...

Dr Nat Cutter examines early modern Morocco leather-bound books in today's MEMOries post. memorients.com/articles/mor...

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cut it, am running out of patience with overly didactic dramaturgy, dialogue, and sound. Hoping films in 2026 treat their audiences as grown-ups and leave them more space to reach their own conclusions.

But it turned out there was more to Jim's arrival than we had initially assumed. He had actually been invited over to our house by our cat Charles, to work full-time as a personal valet for Charles.

Edel Semple reviews Reduced Shakespeare Company’s 2025 production of The Comedy of Hamlet! (a prequel), written and directed by Austin Tichenor and Reed Martin 🎭: www.reducedshakespeare.com/productions/... 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/974952 📷: Meg Moore

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We have been remiss, absent, and not here, but, for your belated consideration: Our last issue of 2025 was a special issue guest edited by @laurakolb.bsky.social and Jessica Rosenberg entitled "Comic Epistemologies." Go read! (And see TOC in next posts). www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/elr/curr...

Delighted the new year brings (at last!) vol. 53 of Shakespeare Studies to the world, in all its purple-edged glory: Marlowe stars in the Forum, & the NGP, Articles & Reviews all full of wit & wisdom. Congratulations to Jim Siemon for 11 years of leadership, w/ huge gratitude for our collaboration!

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