Today’s new post is a quick read on Tudor “stand up” routines, celebrity clowning, and husband and wife duos: open.substack.com/pub/shakespe...

She doesn't look impressed...

My author copies are here! I first came across Arden in 2008 when I wrote my MA dissertation on its performance history. I fell in love immediately. 18 years later, I feel emotional holding the Oxford World’s Classics edition of this remarkable play in my hands, with an Introduction by myself.

Three exciting new books in the 'Shakespeare and Text' Cambridge Elements series: 🎆 Editing an Early Modern Play 🎆 Collaboration, Technologies, and the History of Shakespearean Bibliography 🎆 Anne Shakespeare's Epitaph More details: www.cambridge.org/core/publica... @roaringgirle.bsky.social

We're delighted to report we've recently signed a contract with @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social for the edited collection of essays that is the centrepiece of the project publications: 'Wills and Material Culture in #EarlyModern England', eds Laura Sangha & Emily Vine [@emilymayvine.bsky.social].

Witches were not young lovely herbalist midwives worshipping a goddess in the woods.

Most women in Shakespeare's time did not marry as young as Juliet.

Deadline next week! We're looking for abstracts from PGRs/ECRs for our upcoming colloquium. This year's theme is 'Periodising the Early/Modern'. Deadline: 7th April kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/cfp-p...

We're back! Building on the success of our inaugural conference last year, we are delighted to announce its return with the new theme: Beyond the Battlefield🗡️ The conference will take place at the University of Exeter on 2-3 September. Deadline for abstracts is 22 May. Please circulate widely!

I never thought I’d see an early modern woodcut of women prophets on a ‘girls’ night out’ card.

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-...

Society for the Study of Early Modern Women & Gender welcomes award nominations for the 2026 Book Awards, Editions Award(s) & Collaborative Project Award For more info &/or to nominate a work, see docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Deadline: May 25, 2026

A family outing at Brunel University of London today 🦆

What a generous, thoughtful, and kind review by the excellent Dr Emma Whipday of my book! So honoured! ❤️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

Beyond excited to be reviewing this beauty 🔥

Look what just arrived 😍

Coming up on Monday 23rd March the Why Shakespeare? Podcast with guest @willtosh.bsky.social will be recorded live in store. To be in the audience check out the details here waterstones.com/events/search/…#shakespearere

Our next Royal Historical Society Lecture takes place at the University of Warwick on Friday 1 May: 'The Haunting at the Rectory: Ghost Stories and Women’s Lives in Early Modern England' with Prof Sasha Handley (Manchester). Booking for in-person attendance is now available bit.ly/47rn2Z6 1/2

Happy to announce the publication of the latest issue of the HLQ. Access now through Project MUSE. muse.jhu.edu/issue/56420

Slow morning ❤️

For those of you #earlymodern folks playing Arden4 bingo at home, time to mark your sheets! After years of secrecy, @ardenpublisher.bsky.social reveals the full lineup: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...

👀 Over the last few months, I’ve been working with the terrific triumvirate @spparkle.bsky.social, @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social & Hannah Yip to set up “Sonance: A Journal of Early Modern Sound Studies”, a diamond open access journal dedicated to historic sounds in all their wondrous & eclectic forms.

Hurrah! This plopped through the letterbox this morning. Not only is it always a thrill to see my work in print (Chapter 10), but I'm really looking forward to reading the rest of the book. Many thanks to Duncan Lees and Liz Oakley-Brown for all their help and support. #Shakespeare #RadioDrama

Our English Faculty / Oxford World's Classics #Shakespeare webinars continue! On Monday, 2 March, Prof Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social will be joined by Dr Kim Gilchrist @kimgilchrist.bsky.social to discuss #CYMBELINE followed by Q&A. All welcome! Free, but booking required. #booksky

It’s officially pub day for this incredible work! Thank you to Oscar de la Torre for making this possible!! And thank you to CUNY DSI for research consults and permission to use your images in my work!! www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978088...

As someone who has published books with 100+ images, here are my tips for finding free #earlymodern images (and tips for discounts when you have to pay for them!) 🗃️ sarahabendall.com/2020/03/11/e...

Our second seminar of the semester is coming up! Scholarly exiles in Mecca – approaching a political practice of the Mughal court Speaker: Christopher Bahl, Durham University 📅 Wednesday 25 February 🕛 5:00-7:00pm 📍 Yarbrugh Room, HG/15 & Zoom 🌐 www.york.ac.uk/crems/events...

Question for #EarlyModern #Skystorians please! 🗃️ What are your favourite online places to search for public domain images? (free to use, out of copyright, cleared by copyright owner for public use etc)? Example: Public Domain Image Archive pdimagearchive.org

Look what just got published on the excellent @memorients.bsky.social blog! 👀

@naomipullin.bsky.social?

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...