Explore the ways Shakespeare presents the transformation of the early modern natural world through the exploitation of natural resources in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. 'Shakespeare’s Ecology of Natural Resources' by Sophie Chiari, out now: https://bit.ly/4hGTqea

edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-literar... I see the book has a tentative page. Will be so worth reading, & hopefully very useful for teaching with

*New research* 'Closet Drama in Early Modern England' edited by Aurélie Griffin & Sophie Lemercier-Goddard looks at plays that were performed in private non-playhouse settings between 1560-1670, covering textual history, women's writing & contemporary staging. Find out more: https://bit.ly/4qsQ16D

"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe

Sir Anthony Weldon, A Cat May Look Upon a King (printed for William Roybould, at the Unicorn in Pauls Church-yard, 1652)

seeking pointers to texts (academic or otherwise; primary or secondary; early modern or not) that discuss/theorize 'failure'? bonus points if it specifically addresses _textual_ 'failure'. here's an impression of fallen type for your troubles👇

today in my lecture on King Lear I am going to talk about my favorite Renaissance engraving, Brueghel's "Big Fish Eat Little Fish". I use it as a gloss on Albany's horrible prediction: "it will come / humanity must perforce prey on itself / Like monsters of the deep."

h/t to Susie Nakely for putting Arendt and the Clerk's tale side by side opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu/clt1/

finally figured out what this larry summers crap reminded me of: @laurakolb.bsky.social's essay on anger and Shakespeare's women. She points out the doubleness of such revelations: a rhetoric of discovery, yet what is discovered is what we knew. essay here: electricliterature.com/the-very-mod...

I just heard Walter Benjamin referred to as "the original aura farmer" and now I need to lie down

On the blog, @austintichenor.bsky.social shares threes takes on "Macbeth" that focus on the human struggle within the tragedy in new and unexpected ways, including a production at the @the-rsc.bsky.social, a novel about Lady Macbeth, and a film for streaming. www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...

Thrilled to see this Review Essay nearing publication in postmedieval. In 'Whiteness made visible: Recent Work in Premodern Critical Race Studies', I review four fascinating books on whiteness in art history, fiction, and drama, ranging from the medieval period to the twenty-first century.

Encompassing a wide range of genres, media & art forms across a broad historical scope, 'Shakespeare and Seriality' identifies central strategies of serialization in Shakespeare's plays & their adaptations. Available to read open access on Bloomsbury Collections: https://bit.ly/3IYOMLU #OAWeek

a tiny bit of good news is that we have secured funding to digitize john milton's copy of holinshed's CHRONICLES (1587). the images will form part of MILTON'S LIBRARY, an open-access site featuring the 10 books positively identified as milton's w/ transcriptions/translations of his marginal notes.

really nice piece on this btw from @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...

One of the most daring theological works of the C17th, published by Elizabeth Avery in 1647. It reconsiders every mainstream Protestant teaching about the apocalypse, and caused her to be denounced as a heretic, including by her own brother. I tell Avery’s story in Voices of Thunder #earlymodern

Congratulations to Prof. Marvin Hunt, one of our NVS ‘Hamlet’ editors, on the publication of Volume 2 of ‘Hamlet: The Critical Tradition’! @ardenpublisher.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/us/hamlet-97...

An excellent true thing is that I gave unequivocally anti-“AI” talks at Wesleyan and Tufts this month where the computer scientists and engineers in attendance have no interest in allowing this industry to hijack education and asked me “how can we get our students to take your classes?”

Time to take this out for another spin. sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...

Up next at #Globe4Globe 2025: Animal Justice! Karen Raber - Resisting Tyranny: Shakespeare’s Animals Gigi Pinwill - Shakespeare’s Animals: An Actor Prepares Barbara Taylor - They Howled All Together: Imagining Predators with Shakespeare #G4G2025

What is an 'Afghan Tartar'? Guest contributor Timur Khan attempts to find the answer in today's MEMOries blog post. memorients.com/articles/wha...

Prepping for my first one-shot digital humanities workshop 💪 Intro to Data for Humanists that is the most gentle walkthrough for folks who aren't used to thinking about their work in these terms. Working with data from my two fav projects: @ccp-org.bsky.social and the Womens Print History Project

The new season of REP play-readings kicks off with 1 Henry IV at 7.30 p.m. on 24 September, and will feature the King’s Men repertory of 1612-14, including The Duchess of Malfi, Valentinian and several Shakespearean revivals. - see the full autumn schedule here: www.readingearlyplays.com

The #AI fairy stories of today's tech bros parallel those they told about nanotechnology 20 years ago. In both cases, the tech echo-chamber demanded the rest of us accept a nightmarish future for the sake of *their* egos, magical thinking, and wealth. @philipcball.bsky.social writes: 🧪 🗃

Check out our wonderful Dr Simon Smith's recent blog post about the history of Twelfth Night in indoor and outdoor spaces. Available on the @folger.edu blog here: www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes... #twelfthnight #folger #Shakespeare #theatre

I've updated #EarlyModern Resources earlymodernweb.org/resources/ Quite a few new links but also a big overhaul of the site to be more usable + a visual refresh. (If you can't see a change, you may need to clear your browser cache and refresh hard. 😬)

Our first event of the semester will be a book launch for Dr. Whitney Sperrazza’s ‘Anatomical Forms’ (UPenn Press, 2025). Thurs 11 Sept, 12:30pm CT, in person and streamed on Zoom. For more details and Zoom link: newvariorumshakespeare.org/news/

If you are in or near Baltimore you should know that the Walters Art Museum (which is free!) has a small but wonderful exhibit about cats in medieval manuscripts

New special issue, "Shakespeare in Asian Currents" now available, with criticism, performance, and a roundtable on future directions! #earlymodern #shakespeare www.tandfonline.com/toc/rshk20/c...

Just discovering this database of books as symbols in Renaissance art--a wonderful resource #EarlyModern #HerBook basiraproject.org

An updated Dictionary of AI to help cut through the obfuscating buzzwords. sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/... *with thanks to Joseph Potts and @petertarras.bsky.social for their contributions

Loudly tooting this CFP, please retweet: sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

new essay just out in ELR, "How to Know the Witch: Trivial Domestication, Tragicomedy, and Race in The Witch of Edmonton"🤩 Go check it out if you dig weird EM plays www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

A six-episode podcast drops you inside "Hamlet" from the prince's POV. Now on *our* pod, director Jeremy McCarter of Make-Believe Association explains how 21st-century technology unlocked a fresh take on Shakespeare's tragedy. 🎧 at bit.ly/4m5TyFI

This wonderful 1805 book exposes the reality behind various tricks and illusions of the day, beginning with arguably the most enigmatic of the tricks listed, that of the “Learned Pig”, or as the excellent frontispiece refers to it “The Pig of Knowledge”: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...

playbill.com/article/pbs-... PBS to Broadcast Twelfth Night Starring Peter Dinklage, Lupita Nyong'o, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Sandra Oh

I’ve posted about #poltergeists 👻 today so it’s probably a good moment to post my latest #witchcraft 🧹 blog. This story is big & complicated but here it is blog sized. www.louiserylandepton.co.uk/blog/the-fir...

“Wound Man” is an illustration which first appeared in European surgical texts during the Middle Ages. It laid out schematically the various wounds a person might suffer in battle or in accidents, with accompanying text stating treatments. It's Friday! Tag yourself as a wound.

“with an abundance of critical firepower and editorial momentum balanced on either side, the stage is set for a wearyingly inconclusive contention between rival scholarly dynasties." loll why is this sentence so hilarious

Look what I got today: @wsperrazza.bsky.social 's magnificent new time, fresh off the presses!

For those who missed it: The English Short Titles Catalogue (ESTC) has finally been relaunched with the help of the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL) following the cyber-attack on the @britishlibrary.bsky.social. Find it here: datb.cerl.org/estc/

@bambrooklyn.bsky.social is hosting a Macbeth festival that looks demonically good: www.bam.org/film/2025/ma...

Next Friday, 3:30 - Shakespeare Unlearned will be locally launched! Lucky for me, Joey Gamble joins me in conversation at the @umassamherst.bsky.social Kinney Center. Topics: difficult words, pedagogy, and the communal, equitable pleasures offered by obscurity in early modern drama and poetry.

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...