Today is the OFFICIAL publication day for TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE! Please indulge me: I want to say a little (perhaps rather a lot) about it and share my acknowledgements - and a discount code! Appropriately,🧵1/10

Today’s updates: 1. The RSC’s “I, Cinna (The Poet)” under Julius Caesar. This inaugurates the new “Retellings” feature I hope to expand. 2. A link to a feedback form at the bottom of every page.

Somewhat astonishingly, here it is, a book, a thing in the world... More, including acknowledgements, soon❤️

The full video of Julie Taymor’s adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is available via PBS: www.pbs.org/video/a-mids...

It’s Monday morning, so I don’t feel entirely terrible I had to use Google Books to see what I argued about something years ago….

For the #ShakespeareSunday crowd…

New updates: Richard II (costuming), Sonnets (Alan Rickman reading 130), Lear (Olivier), and others.

Hands down one of the funniest & most effective uses of intonation to breathe new life into a line. (Ben Whishaw as Richard II in The Hollow Crown, 2012)

Tonight! Hope to see you there, #Raleigh folks!

Continue preparing this talk or now just watch The Hollow Crown for the rest of the day?

Tried creating an infographic of John Rawls’ “veil of ignorance” for this talk. It’s troubling just how terrible A.I. is at visually representing “poverty.”

@page158books.bsky.social Hi Sue & Dave! Please feel free to share with your amazing network of fellow book-loving folks, if interested!

Happy to share I’ll be speaking on Shakespeare & communitarian ethics at Wolfe & Porter bar in #Raleigh. October 13, 7-9pm. Hope any #Durham folks here can make it as well! Event info here: www.lecturelounge.org/events/shake... #Shakespeare

For anyone teaching Shakespeare this semester: Here’s the hub of Shakespearean performances & other videos I’ve been developing over the last couple of years for teaching. Feel free to use & share it widely! sites.google.com/ncsu.edu/the...

The case study in captioning I went with: This butchered version of an interview with Paul Robeson about Othello.

The problem this talk aims to solve: Captioning videos that you don’t host yourself. So crucial for accessibility when using the wealth of Shakespearean material out there.

Continuing my work on communal ethics today. Subtitle of the week: “The Habit of Humility…Fetched out of the Wardrobe of Saint Paul!”

Working on a talk on captioning Shakespeare to improve accessibility. Grateful to NCSU’s Delta Faculty Fellows program for providing the support to pursue this!

For anyone teaching Shakespeare this semester: Here’s the hub of Shakespearean performances & other videos I’ve been developing over the last couple of years for teaching. Feel free to use & share it widely! sites.google.com/ncsu.edu/the...

For those of you going to Denver’s SAA, please consider joining @roaringgirle.bsky.social and me to talk about the importance of public libraries, Shakespeare, and other early modern literature. There’s so much to consider in our current political climate:

Just did some prep work with Anita for this today. Do come join us! We hope for a friendly, robust conversation in Denver this spring.

Just did some prep work with Anita for this today. Do come join us! We hope for a friendly, robust conversation in Denver this spring.

It’s been brought to my attention that I’ve been enjoying Jeffrey Knapp’s *Shakespeare’s Tribe* too much. I regret the error.

Admittedly a weird way to pass a beautiful summer day, but I’ve enjoyed wandering around Aristotle’s Ethics yet again…

Early modern religious history folks, I seek recommendations!  I'm writing a short bit in my book about the idea one may kneel in front of an icon if one’s intent isn’t idolatrous, or is just to keep peace w/ one’s neighbor. What criticism have you found helpful in this ballpark?

Working with Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age for the chapter I’m working on & deeply enjoy/envy the sense of casual brilliance on display here.

My (long!) article on ‘Shakespeare and War’ for Oxford Bibliographies has just been published! It covers Shakespeare’s time through centuries of reception history & I hope is useful for research on this multifaceted, diverse & (alas) timely topic www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/docu...

Going to #Shax2026? Come chat about ethics & the early modern theater with Anita Sherman and me!

Going to #Shax2026? Come chat about ethics & the early modern theater with Anita Sherman and me!

If anyone has clips of early modern performances not included here & that have worked well in the classroom, please let me know! I hope to add a few new ones over the summer as I can.

If anyone has clips of early modern performances not included here & that have worked well in the classroom, please let me know! I hope to add a few new ones over the summer as I can.

Well that’s super cool: Researchers were able to decipher a scroll from Herculaneum. It seems to be Philodemus’s work On Vices and Their Opposite Virtues. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...

5 days of hiking in the Outer Banks. Grateful for the respite and for all those who’ve worked to preserve our natural, wild spaces. (4 of my favorite shots across the days)

Desk copy day! All Folger editions this cycle. Teaching a class for future teachers of Shakespeare in the Fall. Especially excited to try out the Folger Method book on Macbeth.

And had the pleasure today of watching another student play Hamlet in a cool little record shop here in Raleigh. Grateful yet again!

Had the pleasure of watching a former student play Romeo today in a grassy, public amphitheater here in Raleigh. A reminder of the good & pleasant this life has to offer.

Tonight at 6pm for any of my locals!

Bought an old printer’s tray today. Zero regrets.

Bought an old printer’s tray today. Zero regrets.

Page 158 Books is thrilled to welcome back author Valerie Nieman to celebrate the release of Upon the Corner of the Moon. For details visit https://www.page158books.com/event/author-event-valerie-nieman

For my #Raleigh & #WakeForest folks: I’ll be in conversation w/ Valerie Nieman at @page158books.bsky.social Wed. April 9th at 6pm. We’ll be discussing her new book Upon the Corner of the Moon, which tells a pre-history of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. We’d love to see you there! Her flyer for the event👇

Just updated the Cymbeline page of my Shakespeare Media Archive. Looking forward to teaching the play tomorrow! sites.google.com/ncsu.edu/the... #Shakespeare

My review of Simon Godwin’s production of The Comedy of Errors at The Shakespeare Theatre Company (Washington DC) is now available via Cahiers Elisabethains. Details here: doi.org/10.1177/0184...

Benjamin West’s *King Lear* (1788) from Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. (And many thanks to the organizers for a superb #Shax2025 & #RenSa2025)

Tonight at 4:30! Come talk with Julia Lupton, Donovan Sherman, Patrick Gray, Douglas Clark, and me about Intentionality in Shakespeare & early modern life. Would love to see you there! #RenSA2025 #RSA2025 #Shax2025

If you're at #Shax2025 #RenSA2025 and interested in writing a Performance Review for @shaxbull.bsky.social, please feel free to come and find me over the next few days and say hello. Really happy to work with both experienced and first-time reviewers at any stage of their academic career ✍️🎭🙂

For any of the #Shax2025 & #RSA2025 folks who might find this useful, here’s the hub of Shakespearean performances & other videos I’ve been developing over the last couple of years for teaching. Feel free to use & share it widely! sites.google.com/ncsu.edu/the...

For anyone teaching Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy, I found a clip of the bower scene that’s useful in class. Slim pickings out there for Kyd videos! www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEgK...

Anyone have suggestions for good performances, actor interviews, or other nice visual media for The Spanish Tragedy, The Revenger’s Tragedy, The Duchess of Malfi, or Seneca’s Thyestes and Medea? Teaching a revenge tragedy course & eager to expand my library into new territory!

Anyone have suggestions for good performances, actor interviews, or other nice visual media for The Spanish Tragedy, The Revenger’s Tragedy, The Duchess of Malfi, or Seneca’s Thyestes and Medea? Teaching a revenge tragedy course & eager to expand my library into new territory!