I'm delighted to share that my book, Instinct, Knowledge and Occult Science on the Early Modern English Stage, is now available for preorder w/ @edinburghup.bsky.social! Use code NEW30, for 30% off.🙂 Please recommend that your library purchase a copy! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-instinc...

Just in, and already half price 📚 Discover brand new paperback editions in the renowned #RevelsPlays series, now 50% off in our #SummerSale 🤩 Discount applies automatically at checkout, manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/revel... #EarlyModern @lisahopkins.bsky.social @k8ellis.bsky.social

FYI I'm part of the editorial board for this new-ish series steered by @billangus.bsky.social The first book of the series - @lisahopkins.bsky.social Bare ruined Choirs: Sacred Spaces in Four Early Modern Plays - was published in 2025 See here for further info: anthempress.com/books/series...

The very first issue of *Margaret Cavendish: A Multidisciplinary Journal* has now been published! True to its name, this issue has contributions from philosophy, literature, and history. Cavendishians, consider submitting your work! www.margaret-cavendish-journal.hass.uq.edu.au/index.php/te...

Out in paperback today:

UK folks, let's jump on this AI regulation petition the Society of Authors emailed out! It's an actual parliament one so the government HAS to respond if it reaches the signature threshold. It calls for regulations to make AI developers disclose copyrighted works trained on. Sign & repost!! ❤️

Very pleased to say that Shakespeare 22.2 is now out. It's a special issue on Shakespeare in Crisis guest-edited by Nicole Fayard and Magdalena Cieslak. www.tandfonline.com/toc/rshk20/2...

After 4 years in the making, I explore the mythology and politics of milk in Shakespeare and the early modern period—linking race, gender, and species, while centring non-human maternal bodies 🐐🍼 @wauampoznan.bsky.social #Shakespeare #EarlyModern #AnimalStudies

So excited! 🔥

New issue of Shakespeare now out: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rshk20/c...

Excitement! Another of my PhD students, Rose Albiston, has also just had her first article published, also in the @bsashakespeare.bsky.social journal, *Shakespeare*!! 🥳 ‘Though she be but little, she is fierce’: Popular Feminism and A Midsummer Night’s Dream www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Please repost: Can you recommend a piece of writing (by you or anyone else) that sets out to make the writer's research in early modern lit/culture accessible to a general readership? I mean Conversation-type stuff but not necessarily The Conversation.

Can't tell you how thrilled I am to see my PhD student Mary Bellman's first article published! 🥳 'The Demetrius Dilemma: The Implications of Induced Love in A Midsummer Night’s Dream' in the British Shakespeare Association's journal, *Shakespeare*: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The second article from the forthcoming special issue I am guest editing on Shakespeare and Middleton has now been published open access. Thanks to Shaun Nowicki for this piece 🙂 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

*New research* 'Macbeth in Modern European Culture' edited by Juan F. Cerdá & Paul Prescott is the first book to offer a pan-European analysis of Macbeth adaptations across a range of media in the long 20th century. Find out more: https://bit.ly/4tEp01L

Out today and open access, a very welcome addition to the Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama series which I co-edit with Doug Bruster:

Forthcoming PG colloquium at the University of Sheffield -- please repost! pgrcolloquiumsheffield2026-ximez.wordpress.com/call-for-pap...

Delighted to see this splendid collection now out.

Registration is now open for AI and Shakespeare: A BSA Virtual Conference! True to theme, events will run online 26-27 Feb, including sessions on editing, pedagogy, and a keynote by Jonathan Bate, 'Love's Labour's Won: An Intelligent Artifice?' Register now at: www.britishshakespeare.ws/conference/

So here is one of the most recent articles on the Walter Greenwood: Not Just Love on the Dole website: waltergreenwoodnotjustloveonthedole.com/down-and-out...

Bill Angus and I are very pleased that our edited collection on Reading the River in Shakespeare's Britain (published by Edinburgh University Press) will soon be out in paperback:

No cover yet but coming August 2026!

“Demonic Temporality in Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus,” Journal of Marlowe Studies (2021)

"Horatio in Pieces: Or, How to Deal with Ghosts," Shakespeare (2024)

Just over two weeks left to submit abstracts for #BSA2026 online conference on 'AI and Shakespeare', where we'll be exploring the opportunities and threats, briefs and griefs posed by AI to Shakespeare communities. Abstracts due by 12 Janary 2026!

I’ve had written a review of this year’s audio #Shakespeare offering on the BBC - King Lear, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June: doi.org/10.1080/1745... #ShakespeareOnTheRadio💀🎧 #AudioDrama #RadioDrama

Explore Measure for Measure's unique position in the Shakespeare canon & discover new critical thinking on the play including its sexual politics and ethics. 'Measure for Measure: A Critical Reader' edited by John Jowett & Sarah Olive is out now: https://bit.ly/4oOAjRH

Out later this week. So pleased to have it joining the series.

I have a new book out:

Very pleased to say that the new issue of Shakespeare on 'Adapting Romance in Indian Cinema' , guest-edited by Thea Buckley and Rosa Garcia-Periago, is now out at www.tandfonline.com/toc/rshk20/2...

ANNOUNCING #BSA2026 VIRTUAL CONFERENCE! AI and Shakespeare: CfP The BSA will meet virtually in 2026, 26–27 Feb, 1–5pm GMT to reflect and take stock on the explosive impact of AI on Shakespeare research, performance and education communities, considering opportunities and threats, briefs and griefs

Deborah Cartmell and I are pleased to announce a virtual conference on AI and Shakespeare which we're running on behalf of the BSA in February 2026. Details and cfp at www.britishshakespeare.ws/events/

My author copy of this has just arrived. My son is always telling me I should lift weights so it will have a practical as well as an intellectual use.

🌟Publication Day!🌟 The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Authorship, ed. Rory Loughnane and Will Sharpe For more details about the book's contents and contributors, see here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

So pleased to see this special issue come to fruition.

And I've also got a piece in the journal Shakespeare: 'Review of Shakespeare’s King Lear (Directed by Clive Brill) on BBC Radio 4 in Two Parts, 8 and 15 June 2025'. Available here: doi.org/10.1080/1745... if you have access, or free via this link: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/4XA4F... (2/2)

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

What do these have in common? From Columba to Muhammad, Mary Queen of Scots to Ivan the Terrible ... come hear where Scotland's history links into that of the world! Finding Scotland's Place in World History 18 August! @edbookfest.bsky.social #ScottishHistory #edbookfest @luathpress.bsky.social

This issue includes my review of @krheyam.bsky.social's truly excellent book, _The Reputation of Edward II, 1305–1697: A Literary Transformation of History_ (@amsterdamupress.bsky.social) journals.shu.ac.uk/index.php/Ma...

The new issue of The Journal of Marlowe Studies is now available. Over 200 pages of original Marlovian research, book reviews and performance reviews, all open access. journals.shu.ac.uk/index.php/Ma...

My review of the Richmond Shakespeare Society’s production of Arden of Faversham is now live. I'm grateful to @oldfortunatus.bsky.social for bringing it to my attention. You can read it here if interested 😊 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

CFP for next year's congress! #SFS2026

Just received my author copies of this:

Excited that my book will be published on September 30th ☺️ www.routledge.com/Neighbourly-...

Very pleased that the latest addition to the Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama series is now out: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/early-mod...

Delighted to say that my article, "The Shakspaires of Trinity Lane: A Possible Shakespeare Life-Record" is now fully published and open-access! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Fascinating and eye-opening article on Anne Hathaway Shakespeare with as an added bonus a bit about the provenance of the book, which was in a school library created by the will of Lady Margaret Hawkins #EarlyModern #SortofHerBook

_Shakespeare_ doesn't yet have a reviewer for this summer's _Hail to the Thief_ www.rsc.org.uk/hamlet-hail-.... If you sit in the Hamlet/Radiohead Venn diagram overlap, do by all means drop me a line at my institutional address (see sheffield.ac.uk/english/peop...).

So I've got this article which should be coming out in the journal _Shakespeare_ any moment now, but in the meantime - Briefly, it's about a C17 letter preserved in the binding waste of a book now in Hereford Cathedral.

www.theguardian.com/culture/2025... Congratulations on this stunning discovery, @matthewsteggle.bsky.social !