In our upcoming December issue: Kirsten Mendoza critiques the white/right ways of (reading) Shakespeare. Don't miss her essay reviewing books by David Sterling Brown; Miles Grier; Farah Karim-Cooper; Arthur L. Little, Jr; and Ian Smith. @universitypress.cambridge.org @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

Emily Parise highlights the paradox in Marlowe's Jew of Malta: while early modern religious conversion suggests an internal change, the need for outward performance can lead to insincerity. Learn more in our Dec 2025 Issues in Review on Drama and Conversion organized by @swittek.bsky.social

What's in a name -- Romeo's name? And what's conversion (not just love) got to do with it? Read more in @hollypickett.bsky.social's essay on Romeo's transformation 'from renegade to martyr': forthcoming in our upcoming Issues in Review, ET 28.2 (Dec 2025). @swittek.bsky.social

What happens to faithful wives in early modern English plays where prodigal sons give way to prodigal husbands? Hannah Korrell explores how "Griselda Fights Back," along the way changing trajectories of gender in conversion narratives. Forthcoming in 28.2's Issues in Review. @swittek.bsky.social

Bess Bridges in Fair Maid of the West, analyzed by way of Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski’s theory of moral exemplarity: learn more from Jordan Zajac SJ's forthcoming essay, out soon in ET's Dec 2025 'Drama and Conversion' Issues in Review organized and edited by @swittek.bksy.social. #EarlyModern

What counts as lawful, as opposed to criminal, conversion? And what are the stakes of each? This depends on which genre of early modern English drama is taking up such questions, according to Sheila Coursey. Read more in ET's upcoming Dec 2025 issue. #EarlyTheatre #EarlyModern @swittek.bsky.social

Up next in December 2025: Issues in Review contributing editor @swittek.bsky.social introduces a brace of short, cutting edge essays tackling how early modern English drama represented conversion -- a complex process shaped, this IR shows, by by race, gender, politics, and performance. #EarlyDrama

Coming soon in Early Theatre 28.2: @ebryan.bsky.social analyzes the connections between the conscription of boys by early modern English choirs and theatre companies and how the Virginia Company prompted authorities to take Powhatan children to populate Henerico College. #EarlyModern #Drama

Coming soon in Early Theatre 28.2: Molly Ziegler explores how Aaron’s melancholy in Titus Andronicus becomes a tool, shaping early modern ideas of race. Though mentioned only once, "melancholy" helps the play define whiteness, showing how Black bodies were commodified to secure a white Roman legacy.

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

Coming soon to Early Theatre 28.2: Mayra Cortes asks us to look again at - or rather listen to - the play-within-a-play of A Midsummer Night's Dream. #Shakespeare #MND

🎄❄️ 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

Our newest edition is out now! ✏️ (4/4) Building on our earlier conversation, this concluding thread reveals what more you can find in our latest issue (28.1)! #StayInformed #ExcitingNews

Our latest edition has been released! 📖 🤓 (3/4) muse.jhu.edu/issue/55088 Following up on the previous discussion, here's what else awaits you in our newest issue (28.1)! #StayAlert #ThrillingUpdates

Our newest issue is out!!! 🎙️ (2/4) muse.jhu.edu/issue/55088 Following the last thread, here's what more you can find in our latest issue (28.1)! #StayTuned #ExcitingNews

🎭 Hello, Bluesky! (1/4) We're excited to share that Early Theatre 28.1 is now live! buff.ly/tFadeCz This issue is fully open access and free to read via Project Muse’s Subscribe to Open Access. Curious what’s inside? Follow this post and the threads that follow for highlights, links, and more!!

We can’t wait to share ET's upcoming Issues in Review section on Queer and Trans Issues in Medieval Drama edited by @jeffgstoyanoff.bsky.social. Look for this work in issue 27.2 of Early Theatre by the end of the year!

Upcoming this December 2024: Look for issue 27.2 of Early Theatre. We’re featuring two Issues in Review sections comprised of exciting new research, one on queer and trans issues in medieval drama and one on dramatic works by George Gascoigne

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The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Race is here! There are so many brilliant chapters for you to read including one I wrote entitled Editing Shakespeare and Race. academic.oup.com/edited-volum...