It doesn't fix everything but poetry can help us stay human in these crazy times.

Another Open Access issue, 43.2 features brilliant reviews from @pascaleexeter.bsky.social, Lucy J S Clarke, Adib Faiz, Laurie Maguire, @cheflory.bsky.social, @rachel-l-spence.bsky.social, @frarke.bsky.social Zola P Feasel and @joestephenson.bsky.social, @terribourus.bsky.social, Bernard Krumm, 1/2

Very happy for my review of an innovative production of Shakespeare's /Taming of the Shrew/ to appear in @shaxbull.bsky.social's most recent issue (dir. Jude Christian at Shax's Globe). It was the second production my students and I saw during summer 2024, and we couldn't stop talking about it.

I think we’re really going to have to do a lot more of this. A massive deprogramming so that people can read more than ten words at a time without anxiety. www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?

O, that record could with a backward look, Even of five hundred courses of the sun, Show me your image in some antique book, Since mind at first in character was done! #ShakespeareSunday

I do not want AI in Slack. I do not want AI in Google. I do not want AI on Facebook. I do not want AI in documents or spreadsheets. I do not want AI in Adobe Acrobat. I do not want AI in Zoom. I do not want AI on news sites. I do not want AI in the patient portal for my doctor's office. I do not wan

You have said, but whether wisely or no, let the forest judge. #ShakespeareSunday

Your turn big public universities! A lot of us are now looking at you Ohio State, Michigan, Texas & Texas A&M, Arizona State, Virginia, Illinois, Minnesota, Michigan State, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Penn State, and on and on and on... www.harvard.edu/research-fun...

#ShakespeareSunday Somebody's got to post it: The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burned on the water: the poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were lovesick with them; the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke . . . .

I sent my accomplishments! Wouldn't it be great if Elmo's inbox was flooded with 25 million emails that they had to sort through?

Lots of reporting suggested that, this time around, Trump and his lawyers would avoid the sloppy legal work that plagued his first administration so they’d fare better in the courts. I see no evidence of that in this round of executive orders. This is poor, slipshod work obviously assisted by AI.

What would you have done in Germany in the 1930s? In other words, what are you doing now?

but O ere long Huge pangs and strong Will pierce more near his heart. Giovanni Bellini, Circumcision of Christ (circa 1500)

@pariglas.bsky.social Hey, there! Does your expertise stretch back to 17th-century Venetian glass and English glass? I have . . . questions.

#ShakespeareSunday Since today is the feast of Thomas Becket, I will share this line spoken by Exton in R2 5.4, seemingly inspired by Henry 2's similar question re: Becket: Didst thou not mark the King, what words he spake, “Have I no friend will rid me of this living fear?” Was it not so?

From the excellent Good Tickle Brain:

#ShakespeareSunday When all aloud the wind doth blow And coughing drowns the parson's saw And birds sit brooding in the snow And Marian's nose looks red and raw....

Looking forward to #BSA2025! @oelj.bsky.social is going to put together a great conference.

Hello, anyone here? Let me throw some hashtags out and see what happens: #shakespeare #earlymoderndrama #restorationdrama #renaissanceliterature #englishliterature