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Dr. Will Green @drwillgreen.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Ahead of launching the actual CFP, thought I'd give a little preview of a thing I'm doing 🫢

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The Arden Shakespeare @ardenpublisher.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Beds, perfumes, doublets, torches, lutes, clocks, handkerchiefs… Who owned these objects in early modern England? How were they used? @profcatheriner.bsky.social's 'Shakespeare's Objects' explores 33 significant objects in full colour illustration. Out today! bit.ly/4f7YOaM

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reedproject.bsky.social @reedproject.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The Records of Early English Drama is delighted to announce the open access publication of the tenth digital edition in the REED series. The dramatic records for the Swan Playhouse, edited by Sally-Beth MacLean, are now available on REED Online (ereed.org/collections/...).

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Laura Estill @lauraestill.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Look what just arrived! Reprints and Revivals of Renaissance Drama ed. @eoinprice.bsky.social and Harry Newman Thanks to Eoin and Harry for all of their work putting together this great collection and their fantastic formative feedback. DM me if you want a copy of my chapter! 📖📚

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Text: Reprints and Revivals of Renaissance Drama
edited by @eoinprice.bsky.social and Harry Newman

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Chapter 12
Frames without Pictures
Shirley's Prologues and Epilogues in Poems &c (1646)
Laura Estill

"What do you call a dramatic paratexts without a play?" asks Helen Smith her review of Thomas L. Berger and Sonia Massai's important reference work, Paratexts in English Printed Drama to 1642. [text continues]

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Kate Ozment @grubstreetwomen.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

It's going to take me about a year to input all 2300 ESTC records for London publisher Mary Cooper, imagining 10 a day during lunch every workday (lol 🥲). Cataloguing and data entry calm anxiety, so I dont mind a midday reset BUT the monotony does get to me. Sooo stats thread!

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Theatre History Podcast @theatrehistory.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Sarah Siddons (born #otd 1755) as Lady Macbeth. Siddons' Lady M was perhaps the definitive interpretation of the role during her era. Print by Robert Cooper via @folger.edu: digitalcollections.folger.edu/img28940

Siddons stands in a white dress, head covered, wringing her hands in the darkness.

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John Ladd @jrladd.com · 08/07/2026

I made some exciting updates to the EarlyPrint Lab's tools over the past few weeks. You can search and explore printed books from 1500–1700 in new and more flexible ways! The Ngram Browser, Bibliographia, and Phrase Search tools have all been updated on earlyprint.org. Thread 👇

A screenshot of the EarlyPrint Ngram browser, a line plot with two lines represent the words "love" and "loue" showing that v replaces u around 1630. Also includes a bar plot showing the overall frequence of "love" is much higher than "loue".

A screenshot of the EarlyPrint Bibliographia, an interactive scatter plot of more than 50,000 texts, with texts labeled as "Sermons, English", "Ballads", and "Controversial Literature" highlighted in blue, yellow, and purple respectively. On the left is a panel that allows the user to adjust the date range and selected subject headings. The 1667 edition of Paradise Lost is selected on the plot, and its metadata is shown in the box on the right.

A screenshot of part of EarlyPrint's Phrase Search interface, showing results for the phrase "for whom the bell tolls." The image shows the content results, which search for keywords in the phrase in any order, and the form results, which look for similar part-of-speech sequences. Each set of results has buttons to run the same searches in Corpus Search and the Ngram Browser.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Somewhere between Orwell’s “Politics & the English language” & Twitter relatability* discourse the distinction between complexity and obfuscation got erased. This was politically opportune for reactionary anti-intellectuals, allowing them to claim a seemingly progressive position as their own.

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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Our 2026 Supplement (#18) "Medicine, Race, and Slavery in the Transatlantic World, 1600–1850" Edited by @hsmurphy.bsky.social (@kingshistory.bsky.social @cemskcl.bsky.social) Has now been published by @academic.oup.com academic.oup.com/past/issue/2...

Cover of the 18th Past & Present history journal suppment "Medicine, Race and Slavery in the Transatlantic World, 1600-1850" edited by Hannah Murphy. It is in the journal's standard colours of red and grey with text providing key bibliographic information in white. Most of the lower half of the cover is taken up by a historical pen drawing likely from a medical handbook of various surgical and other medical instruments

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Elise A. Mitchell @bydreamphd.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I am so delighted and honored to be a part of this Past & Present Supplement, “Medicine, Race, and Slavery in the Transatlantic World, 1600–1850.” It was a pleasure and so enriching to work with @hsmurphy.bsky.social and the editors at @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/past...

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Medicine, Race, and Slavery in the Transatlantic World, 1600–1850

As the title suggests, the provocation of this Supplement is simple: that the histories of medicine, transatlantic slavery, and race cannot, and should not

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The Japan Society @thejapansociety.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Join us on Monday 20 July for a fascinating lecture with Nandini Das, who will examine the uneasy meeting between John Saris, Captain of the first English vessel to reach Japan, The Clove, and William Adams, the 'English Samurai' 🇬🇧🇯🇵 Find out more and book 👉 loom.ly/KiL0wAY

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Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

GRWM, 17th-c make up and empire version!🤣 Such a clever and fascinating piece - so teachable! [From the ongoing short treats from Chris and @brettrushforth.bsky.social's endlessl interesting new book] frenchatlantic.substack.com/p/get-ready-...

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Get Ready With Me!

Makeup tutorials and other Atlantic phenomena in Louis XIV's France

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Meryl Faiers @merylf.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

My latest post for the Kings Women follows the archival traces of two women in the 1580s who ran their own businesses and took on apprentices, Anne Collins and Annabell Baye, paid up members of the Grocers Company. www.kingswomen.org/post/the-sis... #earlymodern #womenshistory #londonhistory

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The Sisterhood of Grocers

by Meryl Faiers, 9 June 2026My most recent post (20 April 2026) offered a reconstruction of the life of Rebecca Heminges, the wife of a grocer (and actor - John Heminges). Now I'm looking at two of th...

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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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Iman Sheeha (she/her) @drsheeha.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

So looking forward to discussing *Arden* with Professor Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social. There might be mention of murder and mayhem 😉 👀 Come join us! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/english-fa...

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English Faculty/OWC Shakespeare Webinar: Arden of Faversham

In this free webinar, Professor Emma Smith will be discussing the new edition of Arden of Faversham from Oxford World's Classics.

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The Arden Shakespeare @ardenpublisher.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

What theatrical forms existed beyond the stage in Shakespeare's England? In this interview and excerpt from Early Modern Performance Beyond the Public Stage, Amrita Sen and Jennifer Linhart Wood explore court masques, puppetry, and performing monkeys! @folger.edu bit.ly/4tvkYZa

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Interview and excerpt: Amrita Sen and Jennifer Linhart Wood on 'Early Modern Performance Beyond the Public Stage' | 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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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Mon 27 April @ 6.30pm online Join Professor Tiffany Stern to discover why theatrical broadsheet ballads were sold outside The Rose, who wrote them, printed them & sung them, and why & how they were connected with the plays performed there £5 / £8 More info & book: www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on

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Researching The Rose
Monday evening online talks.
Professor Tiffany Stern,
Ballads as Theatre 'Merch' in Shakespeare's London.
6.30pm (BST) online,
Monday 27 April.

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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

New and FREE to read online—'What Country Friends, Is This?' Shakespeare and the Staging of Exile. In their intro, editors Stephanie E. Chamberlain, Vanessa I. Corredera, and James M. Sutton address our contemporary age of exile and what Shakespeare has to do with it. ow.ly/ykO250YLfTr

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‘What Country, Friends, Is This?’: Shakespeare and the Staging of Exile

An exploration of displacement and exile in Shakespeare’s plays and our world today.

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Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I am happy that this book is now published (in the series Connected Histories in the Early Modern World)! Performing India in Early Modern England 1575-1642 Commerce, Spectacle, and the Formation of the East India Company By Amrita Sen www.routledge.com/Performing-I...

Front cover of a book - the image in the top half appears to be an embroidery of 6 human figures in an outdoor scene at night, with trees.

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Can we take a moment to salute Beverly Cleary, who was born on this day? From Henry Huggins on (first book) through Beezus and Ramona and so many others, she shaped laughter, wisdom, and a love of reading in so many children, some of them becoming adults with … a love of reading. A blessed memory.

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Callan Davies @callanjd.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Today’s new post is a quick read on Tudor “stand up” routines, celebrity clowning, and husband and wife duos: open.substack.com/pub/shakespe...

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One of the First Comedy Double Acts?

Meet Richard Tarlton, Elizabethan England's biggest celebrity, and his wife Kate in their stand-up venue...

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 06/04/2026

This is Milka. She'll get around to chasing her tail eventually. But for now she is just getting to know it. 12/10 (TT: milka_collie5)

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Dr Anna Hegland @alhegland.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Matthew Walsh has given me a GREAT new phrase for Snug in his #NextGenPlen paper at #Shax2026. (Snug is both tolerated lodger and beloved pet, captive and companion.)

Image of an early modern cat on a presentation screen. End ID.

Image of a fluffy gray cat sitting with cross front legs on a blue and gray blanket. End ID.

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Yunah Kae @yunahkae.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

jealous af of everyone at #Shax2026 enjoying the amazing panels & seminars and obsessively refreshing my bluesky feed for conference tidbits

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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

We are thrilled to announce “What Country, Friends, Is This?”: Shakespeare and the Staging of Exile—a new edited collection exploring how Shakespeare’s works engage with exile, edited by Stephanie E. Chamberlain, Vanessa I. Corredera, and James M. Sutton. Read free online: ow.ly/XIIO50YBpZT

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gabriel b @gyzyby.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

so delighted -- as I wing my way toward #shax2026 -- to see that LITERARY FORM AFTER MATTER is now published and available open access!!! all hail the brilliant Dianne Mitchell and Katharine Hunt!! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-literar...

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Literary Form After Matter 1550–1700

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center: If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.

The organizer, introducing the bear on stage

A tardy speaker, trying to fend off the bear as he/she leans forward patiently.

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Callan Davies @callanjd.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Meet Thomas the carter… New post follows Tudors moving around London, on the back of some recent research. What did Shakespeare’s commute look like and who invented the one-way street? open.substack.com/pub/shakespe...

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A Shakespearean History of Traffic

Could Shakespeare ride a horse? How did Tudor wine orders get delivered? Did playhouses cause congestion? and other questions

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English Literary Renaissance @elrjournal.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

We have been remiss, absent, and not here, but, for your belated consideration: Our last issue of 2025 was a special issue guest edited by @laurakolb.bsky.social and Jessica Rosenberg entitled "Comic Epistemologies." Go read! (And see TOC in next posts). www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/elr/curr...

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English Literary Renaissance | Vol 55, No 3

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Barnabe Rich wasn't the first to say that books and cheese are alike in that no specific example suits everyone's tastes: John Heywood included this among a hundred epigrams in 1562: www.jstor.org/stable/41723...

" Of bookes and cheese.
"No two thinges in all thinges can seeme onely one:
Because two things so, must be one thing alone.
How be it readyng of bookes and eatyng of cheese,
No two things for some things, more like one then theese.
The talent of one cheese in mouthes of ten men,
Hath ten different tasts in iudgement most times when.
He saith tis to salt, he saith tis to freshe,
He saith, tis to hard, he saith tis to neshe.
It is to strong of the rennet, saith hee.
It is saith he, not strong enough for mee.
It is saith an other, well as can bee.
No two of any ten in one can agree.
And as they iudge of cheese, so iudge they of bookes.
On lookers on whiche, who that narowly lookes.
Maie looke for this: Seith he, that booke is to long.
Tis to short saith he, Nay, saith he, ye say wrong,
Tis of meete length, and for fine phrase or faire stile:
The like that booke was not made a good whyle;
And in touchyng the truth inuincibly wrought,
Tis all lies, saith a nother, the booke is nought.
No booke, no cheese, be it good, be it bad.
But prayse and dispraise it hath, and hath had."

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The Arden Shakespeare @ardenpublisher.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Explore the ways Shakespeare presents the transformation of the early modern natural world through the exploitation of natural resources in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. 'Shakespeare’s Ecology of Natural Resources' by Sophie Chiari, out now: bit.ly/4hGTqea

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-literar... I see the book has a tentative page. Will be so worth reading, & hopefully very useful for teaching with

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Literary Form After Matter 1550–1700

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The Arden Shakespeare @ardenpublisher.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

*New research* 'Closet Drama in Early Modern England' edited by Aurélie Griffin & Sophie Lemercier-Goddard looks at plays that were performed in private non-playhouse settings between 1560-1670, covering textual history, women's writing & contemporary staging. Find out more: bit.ly/4qsQ16D

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Rob Townsend @rbtownsend.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe

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"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees

This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Sir Anthony Weldon, A Cat May Look Upon a King (printed for William Roybould, at the Unicorn in Pauls Church-yard, 1652)

Frontispiece of a book with a portrait of James I of England and opposit, a sleepy looking cat

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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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Karl Steel @karlsteel.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

h/t to Susie Nakely for putting Arendt and the Clerk's tale side by side opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu/clt1/

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The Clerk’s Tale – The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales

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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

finally figured out what this larry summers crap reminded me of: @laurakolb.bsky.social's essay on anger and Shakespeare's women. She points out the doubleness of such revelations: a rhetoric of discovery, yet what is discovered is what we knew. essay here: electricliterature.com/the-very-mod...

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The Very Modern Anger of Shakespeare’s Women - Electric Literature

What “Measure for Measure” means to us in 2019

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

I just heard Walter Benjamin referred to as "the original aura farmer" and now I need to lie down

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Folger Shakespeare Library @folger.edu · 10/11/2025

On the blog, @austintichenor.bsky.social shares threes takes on "Macbeth" that focus on the human struggle within the tragedy in new and unexpected ways, including a production at the @the-rsc.bsky.social, a novel about Lady Macbeth, and a film for streaming. www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...

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"I'm Lovin' It": Variations on Macbeth | Folger Shakespeare Library

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Iman Sheeha (she/her) @drsheeha.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Thrilled to see this Review Essay nearing publication in postmedieval. In 'Whiteness made visible: Recent Work in Premodern Critical Race Studies', I review four fascinating books on whiteness in art history, fiction, and drama, ranging from the medieval period to the twenty-first century.

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The Arden Shakespeare @ardenpublisher.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Encompassing a wide range of genres, media & art forms across a broad historical scope, 'Shakespeare and Seriality' identifies central strategies of serialization in Shakespeare's plays & their adaptations. Available to read open access on Bloomsbury Collections: bit.ly/3IYOMLU #OAWeek

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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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Naomi Baker @drnaomibaker.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

One of the most daring theological works of the C17th, published by Elizabeth Avery in 1647. It reconsiders every mainstream Protestant teaching about the apocalypse, and caused her to be denounced as a heretic, including by her own brother. I tell Avery’s story in Voices of Thunder #earlymodern

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