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Joseph Stephenson 🇺🇦 @joestephenson.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

It was my honor to meet actor, director, and military hero Akhtem Seitablayev--a Crimean Tatar--at the Viaduk Art and Theatre Festival in Ivano-Frankivsk last week. His Veteran's Theatre adaptation of The Aeneid = 💯 Take heart, Crimean Tatars! Crimea is being liberated!

The Crimean Tatar flag--blue with a yellow symbol top left.

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Joseph Stephenson 🇺🇦 @joestephenson.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

In this, though I cannot be said to be a flattering honest man, it must not be denied but I am a plain-dealing villain. #ShakespeareSunday

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Keanu Reeves Says Goodbye

Alt: Keanu Reeves as Don John in Much Ado About Nothing

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Joseph Stephenson 🇺🇦 @joestephenson.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

This looks like a really great way to spend early July next year. Who is going to join me?

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Sarah Bendall @sarahabendall.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

As someone who has published books with 100+ images, here are my tips for finding free #earlymodern images (and tips for discounts when you have to pay for them!) 🗃️ sarahabendall.com/2020/03/11/e...

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Devin Nunes' Alt-Mom @nunesalt.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Be highly suspicious of accounts trying to sow division in the Crockett/Talarico US Senate primary contest.

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Joseph Stephenson 🇺🇦 @joestephenson.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

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

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Dr. Benjamin Broadribb @benbroadribb.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

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

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Joseph Stephenson 🇺🇦 @joestephenson.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

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.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

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...?

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Universities teaching literature students how to cope with long novels

Critics blame GCSE English for deterring teenagers from the subject, describing the literature syllabus as boring and repetitive

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Joseph Stephenson 🇺🇦 @joestephenson.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

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

A man’s hand touches a small book, Renaissance or Restoration period, bound in green leather.

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

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

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Joseph Stephenson 🇺🇦 @joestephenson.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

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

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Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

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...

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Joseph Stephenson 🇺🇦 @joestephenson.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

#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 . . . .

A water conveyance with people rowing and riding on it.
from Wikimedia Commons.

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Joseph Stephenson 🇺🇦 @joestephenson.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

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?

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

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.

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Joseph Stephenson 🇺🇦 @joestephenson.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

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

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Joseph Stephenson 🇺🇦 @joestephenson.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

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

Painting depicting the circumcision in Renaissance Italian style

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Joseph Stephenson 🇺🇦 @joestephenson.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

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

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Joseph Stephenson 🇺🇦 @joestephenson.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

#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?

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a man in a red robe stands in front of a table with the words will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest below him

ALT: a man in a red robe stands in front of a table with the words will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest below him

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Joseph Stephenson 🇺🇦 @joestephenson.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

#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....

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a bird is perched on a branch with red berries

ALT: a bird is perched on a branch with red berries

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Joseph Stephenson 🇺🇦 @joestephenson.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

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

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