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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

philly friends! i would love to see you next month for this free talk @freelibrary.bsky.social! more info: libwww.freelibrary.org/calendar/eve...

an advertisement for an upcoming lecture featuring a close-up of a torn printed page with marginalia. the following information is typed out:

‘UNVALUED’: THE LIFE AND AFTERLIFE OF MILTON’S SHAKESPEARE

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28 @ 3 PM
RARE BOOK DEPARTMENT
FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA

A LECTURE TO MARK THE 175TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PHILADELPHIA SHAKSPERE SOCIETY

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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

do you have work-in-progress on early modern “texts” and “place” (both terms broadly conceived!)? then i’d love to have your voice in this room ⬇️ next march @saaupdates.bsky.social! enroll today! deadline for seminar enrollments is 09.15! more info: shakespeareassociation.org/annual-meeti...

41. Shakespeare, Text, and Place
Claire M. L. Bourne
(Pennsylvania State University)
This session invites papers on any aspect of how "text" and "place" intersect across early modern textual cultures and in Shakespeare studies, including mise-en-page; annotations and marginalia; sites of textual production and print culture; circulation; provenance and collections; libraries and archives; theatres and sites of performance; catalogues and classification; the formal and informal sites of textual research; digital platforms and interfaces; access restrictions and research travel; and the global book trade.

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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

now in press! 📖 the contributions to this collection are brilliant and a little bit weird (compliment!) & i can’t wait for it to be out in the world. forthcoming 2027… ✨

the table of contents of a collections called SHAKESPEARE AND TEXTUAL FAILURE printed on white computer paper. full text here: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/utntr2lzaby23fzfjqhlo/TOC-shakespeare-and-textual-failure.pdf?rlkey=cog3pis71494adnioh3o0h6el&st=m5axwkxt&dl=0

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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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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

if you would like a copy, it is now relatively affordable: global.oup.com/academic/pro... & here are some nice things that some very nice people have said about it.

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Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

A great book at a great price!

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Sarah Werner @wynkenhimself.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Finally being released in paperback at a great price! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

thanks for posting the link! 🙏🏼

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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

this key part of the MILTON’S LIBRARY project would not have been possible without funding from @pennstateuniv.bsky.social COLLEGE OF THE LIBERAL ARTS. liberal arts. 🙏🏼 cc: @aarontpratt.bsky.social @jes1003.bsky.social

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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

COMING SOON! imaging of john milton’s copy of holinshed’s CHRONICLES (1587) is complete! thanks to the staff @ransomcenter.bsky.social for doing the work & to our friends at the phoenix public library for transporting the book. 📷: natasha zoghlin, digital imaging technician with the book

A sixteenth-century book in folio format open and ready to be photographed. A person only partially in frame gently holds it open.

A sixteenth-century book in folio format open and ready to be photographed. A person with blonde hair and wearing a green sweatshirt and orange pants prepares the book under the photography equipment.

A detail of a page from Holinshed’s CHRONICLES (1587) where some of the text is crossed out with a single diagonal line and a cropped handwritten note in the margin reads: “an unbecom[…] / tale for a hist[…] / and as pedlerl[…] / expresst.”

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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

your reminder on shakespeare’s (birth/)death day that a young john milton hand wrote the missing R&J prologue in his copy of the first folio, titling it “The prologue to Juliet and Romeo” ✨ to explore milton’s copy of the book: libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/feat...

A detail of a page from the Shakespeare First Folio (1623) showing a printed ornamental tailpiece and the prologue to Romeo and Juliet written in the blank space by hand.

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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

this is exactly why SM and GM wrote this starter guide! we definitely need more how-to scholarship around textual editing.

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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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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

The Bibliographical Society is delighted to announce the launch of a redesigned version of the London Book Trades Database, details of which are in this month’s Council’s Choice: bibsoc.org.uk/councils-cho...

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Council’s Choice for April 2026 - Bibliographical Society

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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

it has been a big month for the series! 🎉 ⬇️

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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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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

it is! with a stellar team of contributors. i can’t wait to share the TOC. soon!

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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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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 · 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”

Black background and mostly white text with a row of old book spines along the bottom of the image

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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

get ready to download this one! it’s excellent! ✨

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Elizabeth Kolkovich @ezkolkovich.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Attention #EarlyModern and #Shakespeare friends: join me on this Giving Tuesday in donating to an Open Access fund for Meghan C. Andrews’s book. Cancer took Meghan from us in 2023, but her legacy can live on. Share widely!

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Donate to Help Publish Meghan's Shakespeare Monograph, organized by Sarah Neville

Shakespeare scholar Meghan C Andrews passed away in 2023, after a valiant… Sarah Neville needs your support for Help Publish Meghan's Shakespeare Monograph

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Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Come and apply to be the Professor of Bibliography & Modern Book History @engfacoutreach.bsky.social & @jesusoxford.bsky.social (and work closely with us @bodleian.ox.ac.uk). Following a long line of great scholars: Don McKenzie, Kathryn Sutherland, & Dirk van Hulle ... my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

i knew this issue was in the works but didn't realize that it was out already. thank you for the important heads-up!

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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

seeking pointers to texts (academic or otherwise; primary or secondary; early modern or not) that discuss/theorize 'failure'? bonus points if it specifically addresses _textual_ 'failure'. here's an impression of fallen type for your troubles👇

A close-up image of a printed playtext on a page in _Comedies & Tragedies_ (1647) where the inked impression of a piece of fallen type is visible. You can see the rectangular body of the typesort and make out that the letter on top of it is probably a lower-case 'r'.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

What, exactly, does this string of words mean? Why does everyone who stands to profit from selling "AI" love to repeat it? And what's the value of slogans that masquerade as history? sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...

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"The Printing Press Democratized Knowledge": When Slogans Masquerade as History — Sonja Drimmer

The phrase is said so frequently it seems, like the mechanism it celebrates, to mechanically replicate itself.  It's become a favorite catchphrase among tech boosters of any sort (see my post on...

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g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

✍ Introducing ✍ Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeography gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/ AKA What I Did Over Reading Week. #skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing. Love g 🗃️

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Sharpie

Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for apprentice Early Modern palaeographers

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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

it works brilliantly as a standalone play in performance. and on the page (says she who is editing it right now).

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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

i’m talking more about john milton and ‘books read promiscuously’ on monday at penn state. if you’re in central PA and want to learn about what we are learning about milton’s reading from what he wrote in his books, i’d love to see you! 📚♾️

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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

now we have to find milton's spenser/s: a view _and_ FQ

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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

a tiny bit of good news is that we have secured funding to digitize john milton's copy of holinshed's CHRONICLES (1587). the images will form part of MILTON'S LIBRARY, an open-access site featuring the 10 books positively identified as milton's w/ transcriptions/translations of his marginal notes.

A close-up image of a handwritten note in a sixteenth-century book. The note reads: 'Spenser repor / teth otherwise / [o]f this Knight / [D]ialogue of Ire- / [la]nd / [p]. 76.

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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

always the best day of the semester! thanks for sharing! 📖♥️

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Emily Rowe @emilyrowe1.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Lots of fun getting students to collate, fold, and stab-stitch Hamlet Q1 today (adapted from @roaringgirle.bsky.social’s class!). And now have a little interactive quarto for my office door 📖

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Tamara Atkin @tamarajatkin.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Realise there’s. It much to go on here, but what do we think about this vellum wrapper? Recycled indenture?

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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

no, there’s not. this book focuses primarily on printed plays (with some treatment of MSS antecedents).

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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

we welcome papers about public libraries, public records offices, or any other public institution that stewards or interacts with shakespeare and early modern texts. what can we be doing—as early modernists, book historians, & shakespeareans—to defend our public libraries? think capaciously!

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