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Matthew Steggle

@matthewsteggle.bsky.social
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Prof of Early Modern Eng Lit at @bristoluni.bsky.social. Working on Shakespeare biography and other C16-17 stuff. The rest is silence, mostly. Views own.

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Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social · 22h
The first chapter of #LisaFest is by the excellent (and fellow Antipodean) @billangus.bsky.social. Coming up with the order for chapters can be tricky, but I always knew I wanted Bill's to open the collection. In addition to the pleasingly perfect alliteration of its title, Bill's chapter covers...
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Politicians, Projectors, and Parasites: Lurkers at the Margins of Inner Performance

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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is going to be a thread to watch…
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Medieval Institute Publications @mip-medpub.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Coming soon from the Late Tudor and Stuart Drama Series: "The Edges of Early Modern English Drama: History, Performance, and the Scholarship of Lisa Hopkins" edited by Aidan Norrie and Matthew Steggle. Look for it this fall, or preorder your copy now! wmich.edu/medievalpubl...
Cover of "The Edges of Early Modern English Drama."Text reading: "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 output of the period...

This collection examines works by a range of dramatists—including Beaumont, Dekker, Fletcher, Heywood, Jonson, Lyly, Marlowe, Massinger, Middleton, Sampson, and Shakespeare—and demonstrates that paying close attention to the edges of these dramatic works reveals much about the conditions in which these texts were conceived, produced, and received."
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
In excellent company in this issue. My article tells the frankly loopy story of Shakespeare’s secret Catholic will (1/3) borrowers-ojs-azsu.tdl.org/borrowers/is...
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Vol. 18 No. 1 (2026): Fall 2026 | Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
New publication - a v short note picking out a detail in a little-read Jacobean play. Features cakes and cream. academic.oup.com/nq/advance-a...
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Brett Greatley-Hirsch @notwithoutmustard.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Latest issue of Shakespeare now available! www.tandfonline.com/toc/rshk20/c... Shakespeare's marriage, #earlymodern centaurs, 'brown matters', eco-imaginaries, Turkish miniseries, and reviews!
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Shakespeare
Volume 22, Issue 3 of Shakespeare
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Brandi K. Adams @bkadams.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I wrote about AI from 1588 for the @folger.edu Collation Blog! www.folger.edu/blogs/collat...
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Artificial Intelligence, 1588 | Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Saw a rare bird, a performance of Aphra Behn’s The City Heiress as part of Canterbury Shakespeare Festival. Really interesting, esp for The Rover.
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Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Great to see that this book is now published! Situated Readings of Spenser, Shakespeare, and Donne: Essays in Honor of Judith H. Anderson Edited by Tamara A. Goeglein and Jennifer C. Vaught Medieval Institute Publications, 2026 wmich.edu/medievalpubl...
A mostly black-and-white front cover of a book, with some blocks of translucent gold. The featured image is “White Squares,” by Lee Krasner.
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Eoin Price @eoinprice.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
A long time in the making, Reprints & Revivals of Renaissance Drama, which I edited with Harry Newman (a long time friend), is now out! It's a collection about forms of renewal in print & performance & their importance to the production & reception of early modern drama.
Front cover of a book, Reprints and Revivals of Renaissance DramaBack cover of a book, Reprints and Revivals of Renaissance Drama.First contents pageSecond contents page
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I've had some dealings with Exeter this week. In spite of the intended job cuts, academics were working into the evenings trying to put out some of the fires that the announcement had started. They deserve better.
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Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 25/06/2026
Petition against redundancies at Exeter. Humanities and Social Sciences staff are hardest hit, with 25% of posts in subjects including History, English, Modern Languages and Politics slated to be cut.
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Sign the Petition
Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Have read this cover to cover again for proofing, and it’s really good. (I mean, I would say that, but it just is). Inventive, committed essays all pursuing edges and angles opened up by the work of @lisahopkins.bsky.social.
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Bad news! Some more marking has come in. Good news! There’s quite a generous deadline.
A deadline set to midnight, 1st January, 3000 AD.
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
I have a note out! It offers some new life-records of this unlovely man. academic.oup.com/nq/advance-a...
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Dr. Will Green @drwillgreen.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Guess who's book is published today 🥳 www.routledge.com/Thomas-Middl...
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I got this book club scam email. It’s quite polished, except that the book in question is only nine pages long, so I hope the 1,320 entrepreneurs in Colorado aren’t too disappointed when they settle down to read it. Mind you, being fictitious should cushion the blow a bit.
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Brett Greatley-Hirsch @notwithoutmustard.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
#earlymodern peeps! The good folks at UVic HCMC have created a static version of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson Online, so this major work of scholarship remains ACCESSIBLE AND FREE. We're also working to remediate the editions themselves into the @lemdo-uvic.bsky.social ecosystem.
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Do read @lucycmunro.bsky.social’s wonderful article and thread. Also fwiw some quick superficial comments -
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Lucy Munro @lucycmunro.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Found a Shakespeare thing; wrote about it in @thetls.bsky.social: www.the-tls.com/regular-feat....
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A man of property
Just outside the City of London, in the secluded streets once occupied by the monastic precinct of the Black Friars, is an unassuming warehouse building
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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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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Congratulations to the presenters, to @lisahopkins.bsky.social and Deborah Cartmell, and to @bsashakespeare.bsky.social on the “AI and Shakespeare” conference. Much to chew on. (1/3)
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Hello @victorianlondon.bsky.social - look what I bumped into on the reference shelves of the National Archives!
A shelf of books including Lee Jackson’s Dirty Old London
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Henry Wotton, “On the sudden restraint of the Earl of Somerset”: Dazzled thus with height of place, Whilst our hopes our wits beguile, No man marks the narrow space 'Twixt a prison and a smile.
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Really enjoyed this, in which @oldfortunatus.bsky.social, @lucycmunro.bsky.social, and my esteemed colleague Laurence Publicover, all wearing lightly their massive learning, talk about how much fun the Henry IV plays are. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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In Our Time - Henry IV Part 1 - BBC Sounds
Shakespeare's powerful exploration of power and succession with Hotspur, Hal and Falstaff.
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Prospect magazine have suspended their paywall for this weekend - so if you want to read their review of Hamnet, or indeed anything else, it’s free till Feb 2. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/the-...
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How ‘Hamnet’ sidelines Anne Hathaway
Historical records suggest that Shakespeare’s wife was central to his career and life. So why does this film reduce her to a woman of the woods?
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Very pleased that the Mrs Shakspaire letter is mentioned in the Sunday Times today!
Front page of today’s Sunday Times, with a panel for an article inside, “how accurate is Hamnet?”
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I loved Hamnet, which was beautiful throughout, and very joyful (by the standards of films about the plague). (1/3)
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
he new issue of SQ is devoted to an epic bit of detective work by the late Carl T. Berkhout: wide-ranging, technically brilliant, and really alarming. Brief contributions from Gail Kern Paster, Zachary Lesser, Heather Wolfe, and me, start picking up the pieces. (1/5) academic.oup.com/sq/issue/76/4
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Volume 76 Issue 4 | Shakespeare Quarterly | Oxford Academic
Shakespeare Quarterly (SQ) is a leading journal in Shakespeare studies, publishing highly original, rigorously researched essays, notes, and book reviews.
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Jay Moschella @jaymoschella.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Last BPL new acquisition of the year is a copy of the very rare gradual printed by Johann Emerich for Lucantonio Giunta in Venice in 1499. This is the largest book (by dimensions) printed during the 15th century and it required a custom-manufactured paper stock to print. 1/8
A sample page of red and black printed music on four-line red staves, woodcut initial, and type; on the right, an image of the blind tooled pigskin binding
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
John Carey was a brilliant scholar and public intellectual, but he was also a model professional academic, and personally kind. In the 90s he ended up supervising my D Phil when no one else much fancied it, and for that I am eternally grateful.
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
I mean, it’s there in black and white on the internet, but I still have some doubts…
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Thanks to Aberystwyth Bibliographical Group for hosting me for a zoom talk the other week on Mrs Shakespeare and binding waste! They also recorded the talk, which was kind: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9PK...
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In the Company of Mrs Shakespeare
YouTube video by David Stoker
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Laura Estill @lauraestill.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Out now! The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Constance Crompton, @raysiemens.bsky.social , Richard J. Lane, and myself And better yet? It's #openaccess! www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi... Order hard copies here: www.routledge.com/The-Companio... Thanks to all contributors! 🎉
a handsome book cover: The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities in Practice ; blue at top and bottom and with ethereal  black and white and rainbow edged dots evoking information transfer (shaped like a long fish's tail, perhaps). Edited by Constance Crompton, Laura Estill, Richard J. Lane, and Ray Siemens
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Chapter 6 is a bit iffy, but the rest of this collection is really very good.
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Fabulous new discoveries from @kscheil.bsky.social!
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Just seen this - a find with all sorts of elegant implications for Nashe. Bravo, Joseph Black. Lovely to see TN, who projects an air of brilliant improv, rechecking sources and writing corrections in his neatest handwriting. www.folger.edu/blogs/collat...
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Thomas Nashe's Almond for a Parrat (1590), corrected by the author | Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...
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Helen Smith @wordsmith.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
A plethora of new ODNB entries on early modern women stationers! Entries from Heidi Craig, Andrea Silva, Kirk Melnikoff, @mgyarn.bsky.social, Andreas P. Bassett, @tarallyons.bsky.social and @georginaemw.bsky.social, me, and of course from @valeriewayne.bsky.social who cooked up the whole cluster.
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/... With customary precision and elegance (how does he make it look so bloody easy?) Charles Nicholl writes about Mrs Shakspaire for the New York Review of Books.
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Who Is Mrs. Shakspaire? What Is She? | Charles Nicholl
On a summer’s day in 1978, Frederick Charles Morgan was at work as usual in the ancient library of Hereford Cathedral. He was a hundred years old but
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
I bought this book about 1992, probably from the 50p box of some charity bookshop. It was long before you could read anything you wanted on a phone, and I was trying to build up a library of Renaissance texts, one spectacularly dog-eared book at a time. It was very Jude the Obscure. (1/11)
Cover of Arber's edition of Ascham's Toxophilus (1868)Cover of Arber's edition of Ascham's Toxophilus (1868)
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Andrew McRae @mcraeandrew.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Here’s one for early modernists: what is Norwich holding in this 1622 map (from Drayton’s ‘Poly-Olbion’)? Yes, Norwich had a big cathedral spire, but not two (and these maps usually indicate spires in the figure’s headdress). I’ve been tossing this about, and asking experts, for months. Stuck!
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Had a lot of fun talking to Cassidy Cash www.cassidycash.com mainly about Mrs Shakspaire, with an excursion to a desert island at the end. Apologies in advance to the seagulls.
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
I have two things in the new Ben Jonson Journal! A short piece on the early reception of Marston’s Malcontent, and a review, open access, of Tom Harrison’s great new(ish) book on Jonson and the classics. www.euppublishing.com/toc/bjj/32/1
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Edinburgh University Press Journals - Table of Contents - bjj: Vol 32, No 1
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
A long shot, but can anyone make anything out in this bit of binding waste found in a book printed in England in 1608? I can’t even tell what language it’s in.
A bit of grubby manuscript with what might be letters on
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Stunned from prolonged exposure to ideas at #RenSoc25 today. Chairing panel 5.7 tomorrow at 9 on Adaptation and Reception: specifically Bengal, Mexico, and the inside of Thomas de Quincey’s head.
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Thanks to @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social for having me on the Not Just The Tudors podcast on Shakespeare’s Women: podfollow.com/not-just-the...
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Not Just the Tudors
<p>Professor Suzannah Lipscomb talks about everything from the Aztecs to witches, Velázquez to Shakespeare, Mughal India to the Mayflower. Not, in other words, just the Tudors, but most definite...
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David McInnis @dnmcinnis.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
📣 CFP: Shakespeare Quarterly special issue Shakespeare’s Twenty-First Century / The Twenty-First Century’s Shakespeare This will be Vanessa I. Corredera, Arthur L. Little, Jr. and my first issue as Editors! Please submit your finest! More info: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
Photo (by David McInnis) of Australian artist Jimmy C’s famous mural of Shakespeare in Clink Street near the Globe. It depicts Shakespeare as known via the Chandos portrait, holding a skull like Hamlet does, and a quill, in front of a psychedelic swirl of colour.
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Fabulous stuff!
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Just to give a plug for this talk I'm giving, in Hereford Cathedral, on 27 June! www.herefordcathedral.org/Event/in-the...
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In the company of Good Mrs Shakspaire - 27/06/2025 19:00:00
A talk by Dr Matthew Steggle Thursday 27 June
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
theworld.org/segments/202... Thoughtful, connected reporting from @sbirnbaum.bsky.social for @prx.org. With contributions from @kscheil.bsky.social, me, and some chap called Stephen Greenblatt.
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Maybe William Shakespeare had a happy marriage after all? - The World from PRX
For centuries, experts have believed William Shakespeare’s marriage to Anne Hathaway wasn’t a particularly close one. But a new piece of evidence is throwing that assumption into question. The World’s...
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