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 !

3 weeks left. Get those abstracts in!

_Shakespeare_. Out on Wednesday. Has some stuff in about Shoreditch that, if it were true, might connect to your interests.

Latest issue of Shakespeare now online, with articles by @callanjd.bsky.social @drsheeha.bsky.social and many more #earlymodern folks! www.tandfonline.com/toc/rshk20/c...

A reminder that next year there will be a special issue of Marlowe Studies on Ecocritical Marlowe, edited by Chloe Preedy. The deadline for submissions is 2 May. Details here: journals.shu.ac.uk/index.php/Ma...

If you're curious as to what I made of the SWP _All's Well_, here's where to find out: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/GFF4W...

It's publication day for the paperback edition of my Revels Plays edition of THE FALSE ONE! @manchesterup.bsky.social manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526184221/ Order a copy to celebrate Fletcher in the 400th year since his death!

NEW BOOK! I am so excited to introduce The Winter’s Tale: A Critical Reader to the world. Feat. new essays on the play’s implications for border politics, critical race studies, ecocriticism, pedagogy and childhood studies, as well as surveys of the play’s critical and theatrical history.

The latest Arden Critical Reader has just arrived, with our longstanding cover design suitably augmented by snowflakes:

Discover how a young, recently orphaned John Fletcher may have crossed paths with a rising Shakespeare in 1596 (long before they collaborated) in my latest article: 'Giles, John, and Will: The Fletchers and Shakespeare in Bishopsgate Street, London, 1596' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Now out in paperback (just received my copy):

It's an extremely interesting play.

*Out now* 'Atrocity and Early Modern Drama' edited by Sarah E. Johnson & Georgina Lucas is the first sustained and wide-ranging account of late 16th- and early 17th-century conceptualizations of atrocity in English drama. Find out more: bit.ly/4gGzcA0

Web link to CFP here: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/01/...

Help please: I'm sure I remember an online seminar, I think from the Rose and perhaps three or four years ago, which showed a VR model of the dragon in Doctor Faustus flying. Have I gone mad and imagined this? If not can anyone point me to details?

Very pleased to have received my copies of the newest volume of Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama (details of the whole series available at www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/ar...:

I'm pleased to announce that I've been invited to guest edit a special issue of "Shakespeare" to mark the 400th anniversary of Thomas Middleton's death! Please check out my call for papers, and do get in touch if you have any questions 🙂

Pleased to have had this accepted in Bill Angus's new series: anthempress.com/anthem-studi...

Forgot to add the URL! Eep! #Shakespeare #earlymodern www.tandfonline.com/toc/rshk20/2...

We're very pleased to have this book as part of the Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama series (www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/ar... )

Really delighted to share my and Maria Shmygol's special issue of Shakespeare on 'Shakespeare in Action' with outstanding contributions from our authors. Hope that you enjoy! www.tandfonline.com/toc/rshk20/2...

Dr Chloe Preedy invites submissions on the subject of Ecocritical Marlowe for a special edition of "The Journal of Marlowe Studies", an international, peer-reviewed online journal. Deadline for submissions May 2, 2025 rensoc.org.uk/event/specia... #skystorians #DeptfordRewilding #earlymodern

Very pleased to see that this edited collection is now available for pre-order edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-eco.... In the darkest days of lockdown we all read our papers to each other at an online meeting and felt human connection again.

There's a new call for papers for a special issue of Journal of Marlowe Studies on Ecocritical Marlowe at journals.shu.ac.uk/index.php/Ma... . Guest editor is Chloe Preedy and deadline for submissions is 2 May 2025. Please consider submitting.

A reminder that our first online lecture is coming up this Saturday.

I've a new book out today! I've tried to do justice to the excellent work already out there but also to say interesting things about Shakespeare and the cosmos, matter, the body, and maths: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

We are delighted to announce the first in our new series of online lectures open to all members: Dr Jennifer Linhart Wood, ‘Musical Diplomacy on the Global Stage: Dallam’s Organ and Lymond’s Spinet’, Saturday 28 September 2024 at 3pm UK time. For the Zoom link please contact [email protected].

Very pleased to have an essay in this collection: textsandstudies.skeneproject.it/index.php/TS...

Dorothy Dunnett (1923–2001) was born #OTD, 25 Aug, in Dunfermline. She is best known as a writer of #HistoricalFiction – in particular the six-part LYMOND CHRONICLES that begin with those fateful words: “Lymond is back.” A 🎂 🧵 … 1/5 booksfromscotland.com/2019/06/redi...

Reading the River in Shakespeare's Britain is now out and we have celebrated by going to see the confluence of the Humber, Ouse and Trent at Alkborough Flats.