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Will Tosh

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⭕️Director of Education at Shakespeare’s Globe 📖Author of STRAIGHT ACTING, and rep’d by Eleanor Birne at RCW 👨🏼‍❤️‍👨🏻 Hitched to @pierstorday.bsky.social 🔗 linktr.ee/willtosh3 🔗 lnk.to/StraightActing-HB

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Will Tosh @willtosh.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
It was such fun Marissa!
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Marissa Nicosia @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
A little thread about fun upcoming book events! Next Monday I’ll be speaking to @willtosh.bsky.social & answering all your questions at this virtual event hosted by @srsrensoc.bsky.social (& @racheljwillie.bsky.social) @routledgelit.bsky.social www.crowdcast.io/c/shax-kitchen
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Dr Elizabeth Norton @enortonhistory.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
It’s Food Season at the British Library. I attended a fascinating panel today on Much Ado About Cooking, looking at food in Shakespeare’s plays, chaired by @willtosh.bsky.social with Sam Bilton, Sheila Cavanagh and Simon Russell Beale. @britishlibrary.bsky.social #muchadoaboutcooking
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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Book Launch: join @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social, in conversation with @willtosh.bsky.social, in the Kitchen with Shakespeare at Brunch, Lunch, Tea & Suppertime!* 22 June 2026, 9:00PDT/12:00EDT/17:00BST *other [meal]time zones available rensoc.org.uk/announcement... #SRSlyGood #EarlyModernEvents
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Shakespeare in the Kitchen [italicised]

Join the author, Marissa Nicosia, 
in conversatio with Will Tosh
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22 June 2026
9.00PDT/12:00EDT/17:00BST/18CEST [slightly smaller font]
Register: https://www.crowdcast.io/c/shax-kitchen

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Waterstones Gower Street @gowerst-books.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Coming up on Monday 23rd March the Why Shakespeare? Podcast with guest @willtosh.bsky.social will be recorded live in store. To be in the audience check out the details here waterstones.com/events/search/… #shakespeare
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Will Tosh @willtosh.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
This is fantastic! 👏🏼👏🏼
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Will Tosh @willtosh.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Brideshead it ain’t.
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Literary Review @litreview.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Out now! Literary Review's September 2025 issue, featuring @willtosh.bsky.social on Christopher Marlowe @claireharman.bsky.social on Muriel Spark Seamus Perry on Tennyson Lucy Hughes-Hallett on the stiff upper lip Patrick Wilcken on Easter Island and much, much more: literaryreview.co.uk
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Literary Review - For People Who Devour Books
In the Current Issue: Will Tosh on Christopher Marlowe * John Banville on Christopher Clarke * Claire Harman on Muriel Spark * Seamus Perry on Tennyson * Lucy Hughes-Hallett on the stiff upper lip * L...
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Will Tosh @willtosh.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Thanks so much Mark - sorry to miss you.
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Will Tosh @willtosh.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
This will be FAB 🧚🏻‍♂️
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The Spectator @thespectator1828.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
From apprentice to master playwright: Shakespeare learns his craft. ✍️ Will Tosh
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From apprentice to master playwright: Shakespeare learns his craft
Pub quiz masters with a taste for William Shakespeare are spoiled for choice when it comes to red letter years. The playwright’s birth and death, the building and burning down of the Globe, and the...
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Folger Shakespeare Library @folger.edu · 12/06/2025
In an excerpt from "Straight Acting," @willtosh.bsky.social tells the story of Richard Barnfield's meteoric rise in literary London in the 1590s and how his groundbreaking poetry influenced Shakespeare's sonnets. Read the full excerpt: www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...
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Shakespeare's queer inspiration | 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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Will Tosh @willtosh.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Glad you’re enjoying!
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Will Tosh @willtosh.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Sounds like a plan! (Also sounds like very typical academic timescales)
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Will Tosh @willtosh.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
A terrific appointment!
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Will Tosh @willtosh.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Thank you Liza!
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Will Tosh @willtosh.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Thank you so much!
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Will Tosh @willtosh.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Absolutely chuffed and very grateful that STRAIGHT ACTING has been shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize 2024 - it’s made my week! www.str.org.uk/grants-prize...
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Will Tosh @willtosh.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
It was an unbelievable privilege to be your first guest! You both do incredible work xx
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Will Tosh @willtosh.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Grazie mille to Fabio and Sonia Massai and all at Sapienza Università di Roma for having me!
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Will Tosh @willtosh.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
I’ve not ruled it out.
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Will Tosh @willtosh.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
I can’t promise this will be brilliant but I can certainly promise to have a brilliant time delivering it IN ROME. 🥳 indeed!
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Will Tosh @willtosh.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Looks fantastic!
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Will Tosh @willtosh.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Absolutely delighted that #StraightActing is out in paperback (that’s like quarto, for all you early modern drama fans) today!
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Will Tosh @willtosh.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
I think that was Gareth’s recommendation! But will happily second. Thank you so much for having us!
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Will Tosh @willtosh.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Oh I’m so pleased - thank you for telling me!
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Will Tosh @willtosh.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Congratulations Lily!
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If It Ain't Baroque... @ifitaintbaroquepod.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Everybody knows #Shakespeare. Beneath the surface, much of Shakespeare’s work surrounds ideas of gender and queerness. Welcome, @willtosh.bsky.social as we discuss his book 'The Hidden Queer Lives of William Shakespeare' @sceptrebooks.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/0aYb... #shelfie
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Straight Acting: The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare with Will Tosh
If It Ain't Baroque... · Episode
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Will Tosh @willtosh.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Well I will definitely find you today!
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Will Tosh @willtosh.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Very glad to have had the chance to review Simon Goldhill’s queer history of King’s for @thetls.bsky.social t.co/CCdCXZNPtU
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https://www.the-tls.co.uk/politics-society/social-cultural-studies/queer-cambridge-simon-goldhill-book-review-will-tosh?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1742401293
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Will Tosh @willtosh.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
👋🏼 (SAA although I’ll drift RSA-wards when needed)
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Will Tosh @willtosh.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Hope you enjoy - and thank you @davidjones.nyc for the recommendation!
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Will Tosh @willtosh.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Thanks so much for listening!
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Will Tosh @willtosh.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Enjoyed chatting to @mrnicklevine.bsky.social for this fun piece on Edward II www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...
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Edward II: Did a gay love affair spark a 14th-Century royal crisis?
A new revival of Christopher Marlowe's pioneering play about the 14th-Century King of England puts the spotlight back on his relationship with his male "favourite" Piers Gaveston.
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Will Tosh @willtosh.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
What fun to go to the movies with Jason and get AWFULLY nitpicky about Shakespeare in Love - a film which I still adore, despite everything.
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Will Tosh @willtosh.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Seriously miffed.
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Will Tosh @willtosh.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Hurry hurry! It’s a month or so till STRAIGHT ACTING: THE MANY QUEER LIVES OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE comes out in paperback, but order it from @waterstones.bsky.social today or tomorrow and get 25% off! #WPreorders #StraightActing www.waterstones.com/book/straigh...
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Straight Acting by Will Tosh | Waterstones
Buy Straight Acting by Will Tosh from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.
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Will Tosh @willtosh.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Goodness - that’s a lovely thing to say. Thank you.
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Will Tosh @willtosh.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
This is the most dazzlingly written piece of criticism, and I’m not just saying that because Cheney very shrewdly reads Straight Acting alongside Marjorie Garber’s Shakespeare in Bloomsbury: read to the end for a powerful articulation of the consolations of literature in terrible times.
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Will Tosh @willtosh.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Thank you so much for this brilliant analysis - and alongside Marjorie Garber too. Week made.
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Will Tosh @willtosh.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Wonderful - the whole film is available to watch via a link in the article. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
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‘He was unforgettable’: the mesmerising star of cult documentary Andy the Furniture Maker
He used to fish for oysters but he fled to the hedonism of London, where he was taken under the wing of Derek Jarman. But Andy Marshall was also a creator of dazzling furniture – and the star of a pio...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 28/01/2025
Are we at a turning point in world history? | David Motadel
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Are we at a turning point in world history? | David Motadel
Political leaders increasingly caution that we are facing a historical ‘inflection point’. Are we? In 1919, at the height of a global crisis that resulted from the turmoil of the Russian Revolution, the devastation of the first world war, and the…
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Will Tosh @willtosh.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
This is a spectacular essay - thank you.
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Will Tosh @willtosh.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
We don’t talk enough about how utterly repellent the food looks on #TheTraitors
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Will Tosh @willtosh.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Fantastic! Many many congratulations!
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Will Tosh @willtosh.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
You poor thing! Sending sympathy and virtual lemsip.
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Will Tosh @willtosh.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Honoured to be in this company!
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Will Tosh @willtosh.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Thank you so much! That’s the best review a writer could hope for!
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