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Shakespeare Bulletin @shaxbull.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Today’s Extra Credit focuses on Kevin Ewert’s “Playable Whiteness; or, My Week As Iago”. Check out these open-access resources to go along with this open-access article! All resources are included in the link in our bio. 📰: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
“EXTRA CREDIT WITH Kevin Ewert” overtop of a blue background with the SB logo. “If someone asks you to play the bad guy, before saying ‘how fun!’ maybe ask ‘how bad?’ and ‘bad how, exactly?’. Kevin Ewert asks himself those questions and more in the article “Playable Whiteness; or, My Week As Iago” overtop of a blue background with the SB logo.
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menloemoo02.bsky.social @menloemoo02.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Just directed the infamous ‘basket scene’ as part of Cork Shakespearean Company’s ‘Shakespeare in the Gardens’
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menloemoo02.bsky.social @menloemoo02.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
A hard but utterly brilliant weekend working with Cork Shakespearean Company on their production of ‘Shakespeare in the Gardens’ in association with Fota House and Gardens.
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menloemoo02.bsky.social @menloemoo02.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Yesterday the recording of Much Ado About Nothing by Cork Shakespearean Company was completed. Much fun was had.
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Kage🎃🐺🦇 @scotkage.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
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John Lipponen 🇫🇮 🇦🇹 @lippoenen.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
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The RSC @the-rsc.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
We are incredibly sad to hear that RSC Honorary Associate Artist Michael Pennington passed away at the age of 82 yesterday. A Shakespearean to his very bones, Michael’s long & distinguished career with us spanned an astonishing 50 years. Our thoughts go to all those who knew him.
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menloemoo02.bsky.social @menloemoo02.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Yesterday the recording of Much Ado About Nothing by Cork Shakespearean Company was completed. Much fun was had.
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That Shakespeare Life @thatshakespeare.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
NEW EPISODE: From painting your lips to bleaching your hair, find out the ingredients and methods used to chase down that Elizabethan Beauty Ideal with our guest, Sarah Jane Downing @saraj9downing www.cassidycash.com/ep421
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English Literary Renaissance @elrjournal.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Spring = Sprung, and the new issue of ELR is out. A bouquet of work by Justin Kuhn, Wendy Wall, Yaacov Bronstein, @ellierycroft.bsky.social, and Andreas Bassett. From Middleton, to Pulter, to Milton, to Walking and Masculinity, to Title Page Conventions. A truly ELR issue of ELR. Go read!
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The Stage @thestage.co.uk · 29/03/2026
The Royal Shakespeare Company’s decision to dismantle its music department should concern many more people than just the musicians whose posts are at risk, writes Irving David 👇
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Irving David on the RSC's music cutbacks
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 28/03/2026
‘Break your silence’: Jane Fonda leads rally against Trump crackdown on arts and media
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‘Break your silence’: Jane Fonda leads rally against Trump crackdown on arts and media
Actor outside Kennedy Center urges Americans to ‘stand tall against authoritarianism’ and resist free-speech threats The actor Jane Fonda joined journalists, musicians and writers outside Washington’s John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in urging US citizens to “break your silence” and “stand tall against authoritarianism”. At a damp but defiant rally hosted by Fonda’s Committee for the First Amendment on Friday, around a hundred invited guests gathered to hear speakers and singers rail against book bans, political censorship and other threats to free speech under Donald Trump. Continue reading...
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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 27/03/2026
Hi! We're an alternative to Amazon's Audible, & here are a few things that people often don't know about us: 1. We have over 600k audiobooks in our catalog! You'll pretty much find whatever you want to read, other than Audible exclusives (but that's on them, not us)
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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Words, words, words ... #English #Language
Apricity: the warmth of the sun on a cold winter day
Bedward: heading towards bed
To brabble: to argue loudly
To constellate: to cluster together
To degust: to taste carefully
To deliciate: to delight oneself
Elflock: Tangled hair as if matted by elves
To gorgonise: to have a paralysing effect on someone
To hugger-mugger: to act in a secretive manner
Illecebrous: attractive
To jargogle: to confuse
To kench: to laugh loudly
Malagrugrous: dismal
Monsterful: wonderful
Osculable: that can be kissed
Overmorrow: the day after tomorrow
Schoolman: a teacher
To twattle: to gossip
Twitter-light: twilight
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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
erm, are these two things related
Headline from the Guardian newspaper that reads: Sex garden to 'break taboos' at Chelsea flower show as gnome ban ends'.
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menloemoo02.bsky.social @menloemoo02.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/english-fa...
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English Faculty/OWC Shakespeare Webinar: Henry VI, Part I
In this free webinar, Professor Emma Smith will be discussing the new edition of Henry VI, Part I from Oxford World's Classics.
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Faculty of English, University of Oxford @engfac.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Our next #Shakespeare webinar will take place on 6 April at 6pm. This time we'll be exploring HENRY VI, PART 1 with Emma Smith and Amy Lidster. They will discuss the play & how we might approach it in the 21st century, followed by a Q&A. All welcome! #HenryVI #BookSky
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English Faculty/OWC Shakespeare Webinar: Henry VI Part 1
In this free webinar, Professor Emma Smith will be discussing the new edition of Henry VI Part 1 from Oxford World's Classics.
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That Shakespeare Life @thatshakespeare.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
If seeing the documentation we've shared this week has you interested to learn more, come inside That Shakespeare Society to see the full detailed show notes for this week's show. Click on "That Shakespeare Society" to browse primary documents, archival evidence, and more. www.cassidycash.com/ep412
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Dr. Jami Rogers @publicradionerd.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Wow wow wow!! Lost Doctor Who episodes found in 'eclectic' collection www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Lost Doctor Who and the Daleks episodes discovered in 'ramshackle' collection
The Doctor's assistant Peter Purves was invited to a screening of the episodes in Leicester.
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Dr Andrea Smith @audioandrea.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Last week, while talking #podcasts with our MBA students, we touched on attitudes to the female voice - and coincidentally this was the subject of #BBCRadio4's #FreeThinking with @shahidhabari.bsky.social It's something that's a key issue for me... (1/2) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Free Thinking - Women, language and experience - BBC Sounds
Shahidha Bari's guests include Karen McCarthy Woolf, Lauren Elkin and Sara Ahmed.
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