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Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Mine & @matthewsteggle.bsky.social's festschrift for the incomparable @lisahopkins.bsky.social is due for publication on 19 October. Each day until then, I'm going to give an overview of the chapters to get you excited for the volume's early moderny goodness. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...

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The Edges of Early Modern English Drama

Thanks to the pioneering work of Professor Lisa Hopkins, the field of early modern English drama is now much more attuned to the various edges, spaces, and intersections that characterise the dramatic...

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Rory Loughnane @loughnrv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

2 outstanding reviews of The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Authorship! @academic.oup.com Grateful to Will Sharpe & all the contributors! 🎆 Peter Holland in Shakespeare: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 🎆 Alexander Thom in The 17th Century: www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

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The Oxford handbook of Shakespeare and early modern authorship: The Seventeenth Century: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A revelatory portrait of Shakespeare’s life before he achieved fame. @loughnrv.bsky.social's Shakespeare at Thirty publishes 20 October. Enter to win 1 of 10 free copies at Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho... #Shakespeare #Literature

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Rory Loughnane @loughnrv.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

One month to go! Shakespeare at Thirty will be published by @princetonupress.bsky.social on 20 October. A book about Shakespeare before he became Shakespeare: the first thirty years, the experiments, the failures, and the conditions that made a writing life possible. shorturl.at/robu1

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Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

📢Here's a fully funded 4-year PhD position at Leiden within the ERC project LangPro led by Dr Alisa van de Haar, and co-supervised by yours truly, on professional opportunities for women in the early modern language sector: careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/PhD-Posi... Apply by 15 Oct 2026

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PhD Position Women in the Early Modern Language Sector

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The Oxford Marlowe Project @marloweproject.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The Marlowe Project is represented at an AHRC Impact event @britishlibrary.bsky.social today! See poster for details about the ongoing 'Making of Marlowe' exhibition at the Beaney Museum, Canterbury, and tie-in with Foundry Brewpub

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Really enjoyed the exhibition on that most gifted of Elizabethan poets, Christopher Marlowe, as a son of Canterbury at the city's Beaney Museum. Congratulations to @memsunikent.bsky.social's @loughnrv.bsky.social and the team on a stimulating show.

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The Oxford Marlowe Project @marloweproject.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

A sneak peak of The Making of Marlowe exhibition, featuring the new Doctor Faustus Ale by @foundrybrewpub . Following the exhibition's launch yesterday evening at @the_beaney, it opens to the public tomorrow (Saturday 25th July) and runs until Sunday 22nd November. Logo credit: Lorna May Wadsworth

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The Oxford Marlowe Project @marloweproject.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Poet, Playwright, Provocateur... The Making of Marlowe opens in one week’s time at The Beaney. From his birth in Canterbury to his notorious murder - Join us to explore the life of the city's most famous poet and playwright.

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Rory Loughnane @loughnrv.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

🎆Now published and open access: Textual Genealogies and Shakespeare's History Plays Gary Taylor & John V. Nance Book 10 in the 'Shakespeare and Text' Cambridge UP Elements series (w/ @roaringgirle.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org) www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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Textual Genealogies and Shakespeare's History Plays

Cambridge Core - Renaissance and Early Modern Literature - Textual Genealogies and Shakespeare's History Plays

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The Oxford Marlowe Project @marloweproject.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Hello, this is the social media account for The Oxford Marlowe editorial project (Oxford UP). Please find out more about the edition and its related DH projects here: research.kent.ac.uk/marlowe-works/ This account will provide updates about our research activities and upcoming events.

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Oxford Marlowe project - Research at Kent

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Greg Walker @gregmw4.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

The news of brutal cuts to the Arts and Humanities at Exeter and elsewhere highlights the self-destructive nature of the ´strategies’ being pursued across UK HE. Exeter’s English Dept was rated the best research unit in English in the country in RAE 2008. 1/4

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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

📖✨material texts!✨📖 the three most recent titles in the @universitypress.cambridge.org ELEMENTS IN SHAKESPEARE & TEXT series. if you have an idea for an element (25K-30K words) on shakespeare & text (broadly conceived) contact me & @loughnrv.bsky.social! ℹ️: www.cambridge.org/core/publica...

An image of three paperbacks, all with black background and a photo of book spines along the bottom. The titles of the books (left to right) are:

Editing an Early Modern Play by Suzanne Gossett and Gordon McMullan

Collaboration, Technologies, and the History of Shakespearean Bibliography by Heidi Craig, Laura Estill, Kris L. May, and Dorothy Todd

Anne Shakespeare’s Epitaph by Katherine West Scheil

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Rory Loughnane @loughnrv.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Three exciting new books in the 'Shakespeare and Text' Cambridge Elements series: 🎆 Editing an Early Modern Play 🎆 Collaboration, Technologies, and the History of Shakespearean Bibliography 🎆 Anne Shakespeare's Epitaph More details: www.cambridge.org/core/publica... @roaringgirle.bsky.social

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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

✨JUST PUBLISHED✨ EDITING AN EARLY MODERN PLAY by Suzanne Gossett & Gordon McMullan a long overdue new introduction to the pleasures and challenges of editing early modern drama free to download until 04.10: www.cambridge.org/core/element... cc @loughnrv.bsky.social

The cover of a book with a black background and a row of different colored and sized book spines along the bottom. The text reads: “Cambridge / Elements / Shakespeare and Text / Editing an Early Modern Play” / Suzanne Gossett and Gordon McMullan”

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New Variorum Shakespeare @nvshakespeare.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Congratulations to NVS team members Heidi Craig, Kris May, Dorothy Todd, and our friend and former TAMU colleague @lauraestill.bsky.social on the online publication of their new Cambridge Element! — and it’s open access:

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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I read this in draft, and it’s wonderful. (1/3)

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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

an exemplary piece of collaborative scholarship about collaborative scholarship!

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Laura Estill @lauraestill.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

++ thanks to @roaringgirle.bsky.social and @loughnrv.bsky.social , series editors for "Shakespeare and Text" at @universitypress.cambridge.org for their fantastic support, feedback, and guidance

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Laura Estill @lauraestill.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

It's out! 🎉🎉🎉 "Collaboration, Technologies, and the History of Shakespearean Bibliography" Open access (just click "save pdf" for a formatted version) It was a joy working with Heidi Craig, Kris May, and Dorothy Todd on this Element www.cambridge.org/core/element... ++

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Collaboration, Technologies, and the History of Shakespearean Bibliography

Cambridge Core - Renaissance and Early Modern Literature - Collaboration, Technologies, and the History of Shakespearean Bibliography

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Adrian Streete @profastreete.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I’m pleased to say that we’re advertising for a permanent lectureship in early modern English Literature (grade 7). I’m happy to answer any questions via email. Please circulate. www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

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Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature (R&T)

College of Arts & HumanitiesSchool of Critical Studies Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature (R&T)Vacancy Ref: 195373Salary, Grade 7, £41,064 - £46,049 per annum The School of Critica...

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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

✨OUT NOW!✨ ANNE SHAKESPEARE’S EPITAPH by @kscheil.bsky.social an original study of anne’s epitaph in holy trinity church (stratford) as a female-authored shakespearean text. free to download until MARCH 24: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

The cover of a book which reads: “Cambridge / Elements / Shakespeare and Text / Anne Shakespeare’s / Epitaph / Katherine West Scheil”

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Matteo Pangallo @pangallo.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Delighted to share that a bit of research from my new book project about medieval and early modern immigrant and transnationally itinerant actors, musicians, dancers, and other performers has now been published in the journal "Renaissance Studies". onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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‘There Has Been a Scandal’: Cultural Performers and the Strangers’ Churches of London

Despite what one might assume to have been a rigid line between London's refugee community—with its strict brand of Protestantism—and the city's performance cultures—often the target of strict Protes...

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Dr Rachel White @renaissancerach.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

I was very pleased to find that my copy of The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Authorship had arrived when I got home today! I find myself in very good company, and I'm looking forward to reading more. @loughnrv.bsky.social and Will Sharpe were great editors to work with 😊

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Rory Loughnane @loughnrv.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

New monograph alert: W.R. Streitberger, Shakespeare's Censor: Edmund Tilney's Intelligence Manual (2026) It's the fourth book published in the Studies in Early Modern Authorship series. Interested in proposing a book for the series? See details here: www.routledge.com/Routledge-St...

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Laura Estill @lauraestill.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Coming soon! "Collaboration, Technologies, and the History of Shakespearean Bibliography" a minigraph from the Cambridge Elements Shakespeare and Text series (ed @roaringgirle.bsky.social and @loughnrv.bsky.social ) by me, Heidi Craig, Kris L. May, and Dorothy Todd ANNNNND it will be open access!

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Black background and white text: Cambridge Elements Shakespeare and Text
Collaboration, Technologies, and the History of Shakespearean Bibliography
Heidi Craig, Laura Estill, Kris L. May, and Dorothy Todd

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New Variorum Shakespeare @nvshakespeare.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Next month we are hosting a two-day conference about ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ and ‘The Winter’s Tale’, the two texts we recently published in variorum format on our website. What a great group of speakers we’ll be hearing from!

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Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Today the Sunday Times discusses the decline in students studying A-level and beyond. I believe this is reversible. I believe it is necessary. And I’m glad to have some of my words on the importance of the discipline and the vibrancy of our degrees in English at York in the article.

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Tamara Atkin @tamarajatkin.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Just brilliant to see this in the wild. Big congrats @loughnrv.bsky.social and Will Sharpe

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New Variorum Shakespeare @nvshakespeare.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

We are happy to announce the list of speakers at our two-day conference next year about ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ and ‘The Winter’s Tale’. What a starry cast! newvariorumshakespeare.org

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Kristen A Bennett @earlymodconv.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Exciting news! My Element, Teaching Shakespeare's Theatre of the World, has been released in a digital edition (paperback coming soon!) by Cambridge UP. Even better, it's FREE to download until 15 December 2025! So many thanks to all who helped along the way! <3 www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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Teaching Shakespeare’s Theatre of the World

Cambridge Core - English Literature: General Interest - Teaching Shakespeare’s Theatre of the World

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Amy Lidster @amylidster.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

📢 Excited to announce this Call for Papers for ‘Clio Reframed’, a conference at Oxford on 18-19 June 2026 exploring early modern women as writers of history. @engfac.bsky.social @oxfordcems.bsky.social Abstracts due by 28 Feb! clioreframed.hcommons.org/call-for-pap...

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Call for Papers

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Prof Laurie Johnson @lostplayhouse.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

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!

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Adrian Streete @profastreete.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Pleased to have a chapter in this great chunk of a book. Congratulations to @loughnrv.bsky.social and Will Sharpe on a job well done.

Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Authorship.

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Cristina León Alfar, PhD 🐈🎭📚🌻💃🏻🐈‍⬛ @cristinalalfar.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

I am very pleased to announce the publication of my essay, “Feminist Shakespeare Studies,” in *The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare & Early Modern Authorship Studies*, edited by Rory Loughnane and Will Sharpe. Please ask your libraries to order it! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Picture of the book, on a desk. The cover shows a candle in the right hand foreground on a raised desk and an author in the background, out of focus. The title of the book reads, *The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare & Early Modern Authorship Studies." The editors' names are in the upper right corner, Rory Loughnane and Will Sharpe.

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Robert Gallagher @hwaetspur.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Really grateful to @leverhulme.ac.uk for funding @francescatinti.bsky.social’s and my upcoming project on letter-writing in early medieval Britain. You can read about it in the current Leverhulme newsletter www.flipsnack.com/leverhulmetr... Info on postdoc positions coming soon 🙂

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Leverhulme Trust Newsletter – September 2025

Flipsnack is a digital catalog maker that makes it easy to create, publish and share html5 flipbooks. Upload a PDF or design from scratch flyers, magazines, books and more.

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Rory Loughnane @loughnrv.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

🌟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...

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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

add one+ of these titles in the ELEMENTS IN SHAKESPEARE & TEXT series to your summer reading list. they're short! look out for more titles soon—& please get in touch with me or @loughnrv.bsky.social if you have your own idea for an element! we'd love to chat. ℹ️: www.cambridge.org/core/publica...

The title pages of six books in the Elements in Shakespeare and Text series. Titles and authors are as follows:

Tiffany Stern, Shakespeare, Malone, and the Problems of Chronology
Holger Schott Syme, Theatre History, Attribution Studies, and the Question of Evidence
Paul Salzman, Facsimiles and the History of Shakespeare Editing
Rory Loughnane and Willy Maley, Editing Archipelagic Shakespeare
Beth Sharrock, Shakespeare Broadcasts and the Question of Value
Anupam Basu, Shakespeare and Scale

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Rory Loughnane @loughnrv.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

I'm in Rome for this exciting event about the understanding and treatment of stranger populations in early modern Europe--see below. I'll be discussing 'Mapping Marlowe', a new DH activity related to the Oxford Marlowe Project

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Rory Loughnane @loughnrv.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Reminder: Anupam Basu's excellent new Element Shakespeare and Scale is available to download for free until April 15th www.cambridge.org/core/element... @roaringgirle.bsky.social

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Shakespeare and Scale

Cambridge Core - Renaissance and Early Modern Literature - Shakespeare and Scale

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Rory Loughnane @loughnrv.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Excited to be in Montréal for the first time and contributing to the 'New Perspectives on Critical Editions' colloquium at Université de Montréal. I'll be discussing 'Re-Editing Marlowe' + the digital suite for the Oxford Marlowe research.kent.ac.uk/marlowe-works/ crihn.openum.ca/nouvelles/20...

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Anupam Basu @abasu.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

I'll see if I can unpack some of my thinking behind the book later, but for now I'm just excited to have this out. Thanks @roaringgirle.bsky.social and @loughnrv.bsky.social. Also: @cambridgeup.bsky.social

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Rory Loughnane @loughnrv.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Congratulations, Anupam! It's so great to see this excellent study published!

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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

✨📖OUT NOW!📖✨ This new Element by Anupam Basu discusses and demonstrates computational techniques for studying the corpus of early English print at scale. DOWNLOAD NOW* FOR FREE: doi.org/10.1017/9781... *until 04.15.25 cc @loughnrv.bsky.social

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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

re-upping this now that most are in situ in boston at #shax2025 and #RenSA2025— please get in touch if you would like to discuss an idea for the ELEMENTS IN SHAKESPEARE & TEXT series with me & @loughnrv.bsky.social! we'd love to talk to you.

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Rory Loughnane @loughnrv.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Have an idea for a new monograph/collection about a topic related to early modern authorship? Come 'meet the editors' to discuss @saaupdates.bsky.social in Boston: Friday 21 March, 5-6pm Routledge stand in the Book Exhibits

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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

have an idea for a too-long-for-article & too-short-for-monograph piece exploring “shakespeare” & “text” (both broadly conceived)? @loughnrv.bsky.social & i would love to talk to you about CUP ELEMENTS IN SHAKESPEARE & TEXT. we’ll be at SAA/RSA next week. msg me to set up a meeting! series info ⬇️

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Rory Loughnane @loughnrv.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Editing Archipelagic Shakespeare is now officially launched! Huge thanks to @roaringgirle.bsky.social, Lorna Hutson, and John Kerrigan for the lively discussion about archipelagic and editorial futures. @cambridgeup.bsky.social For more details, see: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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