'This glamorous Life writing began early. Weeks before Marlowe’s untimely and violent death, a shady intelligencer called Richard Baines had drafted the outline of the playwright’s afterlife' Emma Smith: Our ideas of Christopher Marlowe

We're hiring! It's a job that asks *a lot* of you, I won't lie. But it's a department with solid, brilliant , resilient colleagues who try to fight the good fights. And we're unionized (APSCUF). West Chester University, Tenure-Track Asst Prof Brit Lit, Early Modern thru 18th Century

Women have been speaking out about abuse for centuries! I wrote about Anne Wentworth, a 17th-century survivor of domestic abuse, for @theconversation.com #earlymodern

If you're interested in learning more about Richard Burbage's impact on Shakespeare, you might enjoy the piece I've just written for The Conversation @uk.theconversation.com - theconversation.com/richard-burb...

Today’s movie viewing was “Shakes versus Shav”, an Irish-made short film where #Shakespeare & #GBShaw, in puppet-form, square up to one another to debate the quality of their art and their legacies! #biofiction

Feel extremely lucky to work with the class act, poetic genius, and all round legend that is @lizquirke.bsky.social. Read her new essay in @stingingfly.bsky.social, it's amazing!! stingingfly.org/2025/09/09/t...

Enjoying my #biofiction research by seeing @the-rsc.bsky.social Born With Teeth with @ncutigatwa.bsky.social as #Marlowe and Edward Bluemel as #Shakespeare in London. @lizduffyadams.bsky.social

GRUMPYE TEENAGE SHAKESPEARE: "Thys ys just a stage, son." "ALL THE WORLDE YS A STAGE, DAD!!!! UGH!'

In 2026, Gemma Allred @gemmaallred.bsky.social Edel Semple @edelsemple.bsky.social and I are co-organising two seminars: one at SAA @saaupdates.bsky.social in Denver, CO, convened both in-person and virtually; and another at the World Shakespeare Congress in Verona, Italy. #Shax2026 #WSC2026

Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo+Juliet turns thirty in 2026 - celebrate by joining our seminar on the influence, legacy, and reception of this iconic film @saaupdates.bsky.social conference! Register for the seminar on the #shax2026 website by 15 September. #romeoandjuliet #shakespeare

An old hawthorn, absolutely dripping with epiphytic lungwort and other lichens, polypody, mosses. This is rainforest.

#Caturday - Here’s Anita demonstrating one use for her tail: eye mask during a nap

The Freddy Mercury hoovering display team were also a particular highlight...

The 2026 World #Shakespeare Congress takes place in Verona, & @gemmaallred.bsky.social @benbroadribb.bsky.social & I are organising a seminar on Shakespeare's Tragedies and their 21st-Century Reverberations - come join us! #WSC2026 Register at www.wsc2026.org

Research this week includes the film that launched a thousand #biofiction imitators - #Shakespeare In Love (1998). So impressed by the beautiful (Oscar-winning) costumes.

#Caturday - some toe beans on show today

Bee, caterpillar, and butterfly enjoying the nasturtiums and other flowers today #SpeirGorm #photography #garden

The World Shakespeare Congress is heading to Verona in July 2026, and @gemmaallred.bsky.social @edelsemple.bsky.social and I are organising a seminar on Shakespeare's Tragedies and their Twenty-First-Century Reverberations - and we'd love to have you join us! #WSC2026

Reading #Shakespeare #biofiction plays this weekend for research and recalling some great productions like Dead Centre’s #Hamnet in 2017 #annehathaway #williamshakespeare

#Hedgehog will pose for a photo, but no autographs please! #SpeirGorm #wildlife

Croatian cats for #caturday

Romeo+Juliet turns thirty in 2026 - come celebrate the influence, legacy, and reception of this iconic film by joining our #shax2026 seminar @saaupdates.bsky.social conference! @benbroadribb.bsky.social @gemmaallred.bsky.social #romeoandjuliet1996 #shakespeare #romeo+juliet

Bee en route to borage and a butterfly on common marigold in the sunshine #SpeirGorm #photography #insects #bees #flowers #garden

Me too Book, me too 🫖 #Bookish #BookishSeries

Saying this again because 'Bookish" celebrates everything that's wonderful about reading and the compassionate communities books foster 👇

Lucky me - today’s #biofiction research is the 1978 series Will #Shakespeare starring the incomparable Tim Curry

Shorte filme concept: Post-credits scenes for everye Shakespeare playe

Clematis and oxeye daisies in the evening gloom #SpeirGorm #photography #flowers

Tortoiseshell butterfly on rudbeckia in the sunshine #SpeirGorm #photography #insects

Absolutely adore the Mark Gatiss detective series Bookish - four episodes in and can’t wait to see more!

I feel like talking about the female gaze today is a bit premature. It's gonna peak next week when Pedro Pascal hits screens playing a nerdy wife guy who maintains healthy male friendships and wears a cardigan.

“Sweet moon, I thank thee for thy sunny beams.” Had a wonderful time @bridgetheatre.bsky.social #AMidsummerNightsDream, such a joyous production! #BridgeTheatre

Listening to a @benaaronovitch.bsky.social #RiversOfLondon book so I’m glad to see the Thames in the #London sunshine today #photography #BookSky 📚 💙

Ooh Mr @markgatissjp.bsky.social your #Bookish is wonderful! 5 mins in and loving it #Books #Writing #Bookshops

Three pigeons, and a jackdaw, stopped by for lunch #pigeonsky #birds #photography

Had a wee visitor to the garden last night #hedgehog

Arrived into the office to find the best of parcels - book post! 📚 💙 “Shakespearean Biofiction on the Contemporary Stage and Screen” is now in paperback and priced to move! 😉 @ardenpublisher.bsky.social #Shakespeare #biofiction

#Caturday snap of Anita sunbathing/shading in the garden #photography

*Out now in paperback* 'Shakespearean Biofiction on the Contemporary Stage and Screen' edited by @edelsemple.bsky.social &‬ Ronan Hatfull is the first edited collection to explore Shakespeare's life as depicted on the modern stage and screen. bit.ly/3ZcDet2

Word of the day is ‘forwallowed’ (15th century): extremely weary from tossing and turning all night.

Relistening to this #Shakespeare & #Marlowe biofiction so I can discuss it with friends, including THE Shakespeare on the radio expert @audioandrea.bsky.social who LITERALLY wrote the book on the subject! @edinburghup.bsky.social 📚 💙

Pollinators were visiting lots of #flowers in the garden today #SpeirGorm #photography

Actual life goal: “Cultivate a teaching style so inspiring that you will be played by Jeff Bridges, Viola Davis, Mahershala Ali, or Saoirse Ronan in a prestige movie”

Happy Pride everyone

My mum went to see Hamlet for the first time. Her review: "That man is a lot!"

Paddy the pigeon, and friend, called in for lunch #pigeonsky #birds #photography

Leafcutter bee on knapweed (I think) in the wildflower patch today. #SpeirGorm #photography

UK folks, #TravFest, and Edinburgh Fringe - I highly recommend seeing Lost Lear, a superb appropriation of #KingLear #Shakespeare 🎭

Dept Q @netflix.com is great. And I adore the aesthetic - the Dept itself, but also Moira’s office, Carl’s house, and of course Edinburgh’s streets - chef’s kiss!

For #Caturday here’s an absolute unit I met who laid claim to the wall, the ground, my legs, and anything else he could rub his furry self on! #CatsofBluesky