On Howard Staunton’s photozincographic facsimile of Shakespeare’s First Folio

A collaborative exploration into how performance can illuminate and reshape the way we edit Shakespeare, live from our Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.

Location Emmanuel College, Room 119 75 Queen’s Park Cres E, Toronto, ON M5S 1K5 September 19–20, 2026University of Toronto Applying REED to Reality: Pedagogy, Performance and Data Futures The internat...

A collaborative exploration into how performance can illuminate and reshape the way we edit Shakespeare, live from our Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.

Purpose: The purpose of the BSA’s Small Grants Fund is to offer financial support to members of the BSA who wish to organize a Shakespeare-related event or conduct Shakespeare-related research. We especially encourage proposals from doctoral and early career researchers, teachers and educators, and creative practitioners.  Examples of eligible costs include: We welcome applications for […]

Reading Early Plays is a group that meets regularly online to explore drama written before the closure of the London theatres in 1642. We are interested in tracing the connections within groups of pla...

From a re-imagining of The Tempest set in a Houston school gymnasium to Macbeth's Weird Sisters practicing brujería, the three-volume anthology The Bard in the Borderlands compiles fantastic transform...

A collaborative exploration into how performance can illuminate and reshape the way we edit Shakespeare, live from our Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.

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A collaborative exploration into how performance can illuminate and reshape the way we edit Shakespeare, live from our Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.

How the description of a fictional island has fascinated readers for centuries.

Bio Alan Galey is a Professor in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto, cross-appointed to the Department of English, and former director of the collaborative program in Book History...

A collaborative exploration into how performance can illuminate and reshape the way we edit Shakespeare, live from our Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.

YouTube video by Bloomsbury Academic

Promoting the study of the Renaissance since 1967

The Heresy of Vector Embeddings: Early Modern Manuscript Verse and LLMs between Meaning, Form, and History

Editorial: Literature, the arts and social sciences must not be sacrificed as higher education funding is squeezed

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

Mysterious portrait contains clues to Shakespeare’s support of one of the most controversial political figures in Elizabeth I’s court.

A collaborative exploration into how performance can illuminate and reshape the way we edit Shakespeare, live from our Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.

Guilt and pleasure are often codependent addictions, but for early modern authors the two were inextricable. The pedant...

Vol. 7, No. 6 of Reviews in Digital Humanities, a peer-reviewed journal that facilitates scholarly evaluation of digital humanities work and its outputs, edited by Jennifer Guiliano (Indiana Universit...