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...