Our final NVS Seminar of the semester will feature Prof. Steven Urkowitz (CUNY) in conversation with our General Editor Prof. Eric Rasmussen (Nevada) about the textual status of ‘King Lear’. Thurs 4 Dec, 2:30pm (CT) @tamu.bsky.social LAAH 453 Zoom link here: newvariorumshakespeare.org/news

📣 Really proud to announce the publication of Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship, an #OpenAccess collection of essays co-edited with @amsichani.bsky.social and published by @uolpress.bsky.social that examines the role of failure in #DH and research more broadly @sas-news.bsky.social

Save the dates! Our seminar series is back, starting on November 26th with some Barnfield…

New, and very interesting, #OpenAccess article on Early English Books Online: Opening the black box of EEBO academic.oup.com/dsh/advance-... #History 🗃️

Reminder: TODAY (11/19) is the deadline to apply for RBS's Andrew W. Mellow Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB) Junior Fellows Program! Details at rarebookschool.org/admissions-awards/fellowships/sofcb/

TODAY! Prof. Eric Rasmussen (Nevada) ‘The Fifth Folio: Shakespeare Without Rules’ 1pm @tamu.bsky.social LAAH 453 and streamed online More details including Zoom: newvariorumshakespeare.org/news

Must be the season -- another beautiful object arrived today, this one with my chapter on authorship and cognitive studies. Huge thanks to @loughnrv.bsky.social and @drwillsharpe.bsky.social for nudging this mammoth volume into reality!

TOMORROW! Prof. Eric Rasmussen (Nevada) ‘The Fifth Folio: Shakespeare Without Rules’ 1pm (CT) @tamu.bsky.social LAAH 453 and streamed online More details including Zoom link: newvariorumshakespeare.org/news

The #Shakespeare #Academy 2026 is inviting applications for their upcoming #Bochum academy on #Shakespeare and #Truth. Find all details below 👇🏼

One week to go until our next NVS Seminar! Prof. Eric Rasmussen (Nevada), ‘The Fifth Folio: Shakespeare Without Rules’ Tue 18 Nov, 1pm (CT) at @tamu.bsky.social LAAH 453 and streamed online Zoom link and further details here: newvariorumshakespeare.org/news/

Mon 24 Nov @ 6.30pm online JOAN ALLEYN – NO MOUSE Join Calista Lucy, former Keeper of the Archive at Dulwich College, as she pieces together the biography of Joan Alleyn, step-daughter of The Rose's owner, Philip Henslowe, & wife of Edward Alleyn, its star actor. www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on

Glad to see our colleague Dr. Whitney Sperrazza’s new book ‘Anatomical Forms’ featured in this month’s issue of the @tamu.bsky.social English Dpt student newspaper. We were proud to help launch the book at the start of the semester.

Nov 8, 1623: William Shakespeare's First Folio is entered into the Stationer's Register in London. #OTD #Shakespeare bit.ly/38Ai8JY

We are offering three *paid* intern positions for English majors @tamu.bsky.social to work on the New Variorum Shakespeare next semester. Apply below:

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: Conference on "Early Modern Asexualities," in person at Victoria College at the University of Toronto (and streamed online), January 5-7, 2026. Get previews of chapters in the collection edited by myself, @catherineclifford.bsky.social, and @omaraphd.bsky.social. 💜🤍🌪️🖤 1/

Applications are open for Folger Library short-term fellowships! Deadline January 15, 2026. www.folger.edu/research/the...

SAA invests in our members through grants, prizes, & member-driven initiatives — but we need your help. Consider donating to the Annual Fund to continue building robust support for all members. Any gift, no matter how small, makes a difference. Linktr.ee/saaupdates

Two weeks to go until our next NVS Seminar! Prof. Eric Rasmussen (University of Nevada at Reno) will be talking about ‘The Fifth Folio: Shakespeare Without Rules’, Tue 18 Nov, 1pm CT, in person + online. More details, including Zoom link: newvariorumshakespeare.org/news/

Stars and Statues Made Human, Olympian Knights, Princes of Virginia! This Wednesday in REP we read three masques for the Lady Elizabeth’s Wedding in 1613. - written by Chapman & Beaumont, designs by Inigo Jones, music by Johnson, Coprario & Confesse No Farthingales May Be Worn

One of the treasures from our early modern and Shakespearean collections @tamu.bsky.social Cushing Library: a copy of Shakespeare’s Second Folio (1632) once owned by the great 19thC American actor Edwin Forrest. He has added his name to ‘The Names of the Principall Actors’.

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

🎃 Happy Halloween from the New Variorum Shakespeare! 🎃 Our Project Manager Dr. Katayoun Torabi has another hat on tonight: she’ll be leading a ghost walk through Downtown Bryan, TX… 👻

Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies: Language, Sense & Proof 12 Nov 2:30-4pm This new @ucl-ias.bsky.social reading group explores how early-modern writers connected linguistic encounters with sensory encounters in the production of evidence. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Thanks to one of our undergraduate interns Jennifer Jacobson for making this poster to advertise Prof. Eric Rasmussen’s NVS Seminar next month. More details of the talk, including a Zoom link: newvariorumshakespeare.org/news/

On this day in 1611 — days before the first recorded performance of Shakespeare’s Tempest — the inauguration of a new Lord Mayor of London involved an elaborate pageant featuring English subjects dressed up as Indigenous Americans ‘from the rich and Golden Indian mines’. #goldenworld

Folger Institute Short-Term Fellowships #medieval #earlymodern www.anzamems.org/?p=...

He does, and it's superb. He reads Eric Griffiths reading only, as the skeet sez, the very first lines of Hamlet, and the whole thing proves extremely instructional w/r/t the power of asking simple questions and following where they take you. Like Isaac Chotiner for literature.

Our Director Dr. Robert Stagg has an essay about close reading drama (which focuses on the opening lines of ‘Hamlet’) in the new volume ‘Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century’, published by Princeton University Press.

The Shakespeare Institute Players are currently in China, touring English-translated extracts from The Peony Pavilion, a great classic written by #TangXianzu, #Shakespeare's Chinese contemporary! What an experience.

In the midst of a long-overdue update to Stanford Text Technologies. If you want to get a sense of what the project does, head over to texttechnologies.stanford.edu

Today on the blog: a magnificent find by @franceswolfreston.bsky.social of a book that the poet Katherine Philips gave to Mary Jeffreys; a discussion with important scholarly implications for the study of Philips earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/h... #EarlyModern #HerBook

Latest lovely volume by Patrick Cheney is now out in the Early Modern Literary Geographies series with Oxford University Press that I am very proud to co edit with Garrett A Sullivan Jr …

A reminder to current Texas A&M English Dpt graduate students that the deadline for the William Barzak Memorial Scholarship, for those specializing in early modern literature, is tomorrow (Oct 27). @tamu.bsky.social

New updates: Richard II (costuming), Sonnets (Alan Rickman reading 130), Lear (Olivier), and others.

In February we will be hosting a major international symposium about the two plays we have recently published in variorum format online, ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ and ‘The Winter’s Tale’. More details coming soon! newvariorumshakespeare.org

'Tragedy as a Travelling Form' covers a broad historical spectrum from Greek Antiquity to the 21st century, asking how tragedy's formal features have impacted its travels, and how these travels have shaped its forms. Read open access today: https://bit.ly/43sVz7i #OAWeek

Our next NVS Seminar will be given by Prof. Eric Rasmussen on 18 Nov. More details, including Zoom link for remote attendees, available here: newvariorumshakespeare.org/news/

Oct 20, 1597: Richard III is entered into the Stationer's Register in London. #OTD bit.ly/3nLsyNt

🇯🇵 A report on our website about our recent reception at the Shakespeare Society of Japan: newvariorumshakespeare.org/news/

I've been talking about this for a full year and it's finally happeningggggggg

Join us for this term's Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group @ucl-ias.bsky.social ! Newcomers very welcome, just email me to sign up! For more info: tinyurl.com/y7kue3ek.

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.

Our Director Dr. Robert Stagg will be taking part in a roundtable event about ‘Non-Anglophone Shakespeare’ at Waseda University in Tokyo today:

I am looking for recommendations for recent scholarship about the English Civil War from a literary historical perspective, what have you got? Realizing that both my knowledge and confidence in that knowledge crater c. 1640.

We are very happy to be sponsoring a lunch reception at the Shakespeare Society of Japan annual conference today, and look forward to talking with our Japanese Shakespearean colleagues about the New Variorum Shakespeare and its use in teaching and research. 🇯🇵 newvariorumshakespeare.org

🇯🇵 Our Director Dr. Robert Stagg will be giving a talk titled ‘Shakespeare’s Worldly Style’ as the plenary lecture at the Shakespeare Society of Japan conference in Tokyo this weekend. This will be followed by a NVS-sponsored reception. We are delighted to support the SSJ. 🇯🇵

Shakespeare's plays are filled with unforgettable women—but too often, their voices are cut short. On the podcast, acclaimed actor Dame Harriet Walter talks about her book, "She Speaks! What Shakespeare’s Women Might Have Said": www.folger.edu/podcasts/sha...

In this batch of records were our first breeches performances in Othello. In February 1863, an actress by the name of Miss Miller played a page in Othello at the Chestnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia. While other tragedies have often seen breeches performances, Othello almost never has.

Today, 88 records were added for performances of Coriolanus, Henry IV Part I, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, Richard III, and The Taming of the Shrew in Philadelphia from 1863-1865 to bring the record total to 8,172. ✨🎩