Hello dearies, I've made available online my syllabus for the course titled,
Bodies and Sexualities: Transnational/Queer Feminisms
It's a reading-heavy course (3hours each week, 8 weeks in all) for MA Year 2 students with a guest lecture. You can consult it here: doi.org/10.13140/RG....
An AI generated portrait of Shakespeare, where his image appears made of brightly coloured computer code
ANNOUNCING #BSA2026 VIRTUAL CONFERENCE!
AI and Shakespeare: CfP
The BSA will meet virtually in 2026, 26–27 Feb, 1–5pm GMT to reflect and take stock on the explosive impact of AI on Shakespeare research, performance and education communities, considering opportunities and threats, briefs and griefs
*Out now*
Siobhan Keenan's 'Richard Burbage and the Shakespearean Stage' is the first in-depth study of the ‘star’ actor and theatrical impresario's career & his contribution to the development of professional theatre in Shakespearean London.
bit.ly/3H0viFr
🚨🚨So excited that the Barnard Center for Research on Women is hosting the virtual launch for *Sweet Taste of Empire,* published by @pennpress.bsky.social. We have an incredible lineup!!!!!! #RaceB4Race #ShakeRace
10.30.2025 | 6:30pm EST| register here!
bcrw.barnard.edu/event/the-sw...
This week's episode features @lostplayhouse.bsky.social discussing his research into Leicester's Men and the other playing troupes of the Elizabethan period. Out now #theatre #theatrehistory #podcast #earlymodern #shakespeare #leicestersmen
A humanlike figure viewed from behind wears a skin and looks over his shoulder. The caption, in an angular, jazz-age-like font, reads, “Caliban Shakespeare Tercentenary Celebration.”
Time for another 🧵 on #monsters in British history and culture! And if you’re anywhere near #Edinburgh, come over to the #EdBookFest on Friday 15 Aug, 1:30-2:30pm, to chat with me and @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social! 1/🧵
Today: an eg of #Shakespeare’s #monsters
#earlymodern #politics #HAMH 💙📚 🗃
Cover of the book 'Maya Blue: unlocking the mysteries of an ancient pigment' by Dean E. Arnold, reviewed in the New Book Chronicle.
📕 How important was Mesoamerica's iconic blue pigment 'Maya Blue'? Unique in the ancient world, it symbolises the rain god Chaak and was able to withstand extreme weather 🏺#Archaeology
Find out more in our #NewBookChronicle on the 'Scientific search for a colourful past' 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
‘Seas are repetitive creatures, working in cycles of tides, migration and climate change, which is normally to say the waxing and waning of the Ice Age. It is the coast that creates the past. The ancients knew this.’
@josephinequinn.bsky.social on the ancient coast: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
How did a seventeenth-century South American trading post become the blueprint for the prison system in the present-day United States?
Read "The Color of Commerce: Racial Identity and Corporate Logic in Behn’s Oroonoko"
by Brandon Taylor on The Sundial
medium.com/the-sundial-...
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Delighted that the print copies of my first book 'Birth, Death, and Domestic Religion in early modern London', just published with @universitypress.cambridge.org, have arrived! 📚📚📚
This is actually happening! 😊 The Predatory Sea featured alongside some great titles, like Jordan Smith's The Invention of Rum. Thank you, @pennpress.bsky.social! 🗃️
I really needed this today.
Ayanna Thompson sent me a link to this jaw-dropping thing they built with a Mellon grant at @acmrs.bsky.social
You can get lost in it.
A spectacular reminder that digital resources don't have to be about surveillance, coercion, & disciplining the labor force.
You can also use this ressource as teaching material and play with your students! A funny way to introduce them to morality plays. Great job @beyondshakes.bsky.social and thank you for sharing freely.
You can play along at home with our Tudor Interlude Bingo card for this and most moral plays of the period. A free downloadable black and white version is available on our website. #Morality #Interlude #Tudor
beyondshakespeare.org/morality-pla...
Studying, researching or teaching in the histories of the British Empire or Commonwealth ? Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH), it contains 650,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today! Find out how to use BBIH
Yes, we do 😊
A photograph of the archaeological remains of The Rose Playhouse, currently preserved underwater in a very wide and tall basement underneath an office block, looking from the south to the north, with illuminated rope lights in red outlining the position of the inner and outer walls of the seating galleries that ring the yard, with two ropes of blue lights on the north side of the yard, marking the front of the stage in 1587, then pushed back a few feet when The Rose was expanded in 1592/3. The modern day raised viewing platform is just visible at the top right of the photograph. Light from the viewing platform is reflected on the surface of the water.
A photograph of the archaeological remains of The Rose Playhouse, currently preserved underwater in a very wide and tall basement underneath an office block, looking down from the modern day viewing platform across the flooded space east to west. Illuminated rope lights in red just underneath the surface of the water outline the position of the inner and outer walls of the seating galleries that ring the yard. Immediately in front of the viewer are two nearly-parallel ropes of blue lights marking the front of the trapezoid-shaped stage in 1587, when the playhouse was first built, and then pushed back a few feet when The Rose was expanded in 1592/3.
We've replaced the rope-lights outlining The Rose's archaeological remains, currently preserved underwater.
The red lights mark the inner & outer walls of the seating galleries.
The blue lights show the front of the stage in 1587, and then pushed back in 1592/3.
Looking south-north, & east-west.
In case you haven't seen it, here's our call for the upcoming Forum in Early Modern Women. Consider submitting a short piece on the theme of migrancy! #EarlyModern
Download free copies of BSA’s Teaching Shakespeare magazine.
#drama #literature #pedagogy #school #Shakespeare
www.britishshakespeare.ws/education/te...
Delightful new Chaucerian discovery by the nicest man in medieval history, @sebfalk.com! (and James Wade who I believe is very nice too) share.google/TIyActPEZIvl...
What an awesome idea! We have the family version of 4. very often at home before going to sleep. 2. is a rule. We do 5. and 10. alternately. We LOVE 3. Will definitely try 11. and 12.
Thank you so much for sharing, @aktange.bsky.social
There's a discount code for pre-orders!
If you've always wanted to read about sixteenth- and seventeenth-century smuggling, piracy, and human trafficking in the Caribbean AND you love a good deal, use:
PENN-CSCHMITT30 for 30% off. 🗃️
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I absolutely loved discussing my recent research with Cassidy. It was my pleasure to contribute to her fabulous podcast!
Ok, Shakespeare and general #earlymodern scholars ... if I see 'Shakespear's Plays' listed in a 1729 library catalogue in Fort St George, what's the likely edition? There's no description otherwise in (e.g. in octavo, quarto, etc.)
Food history friends - does anyone have any recommendations of recent(ish) papers on atole and its culinary and social uses in early modern New Spain? Thanks!
Couldn’t make it but will definitely watch the recording!!! Congrats, Alex dearest!
For anyone interested who couldn’t make it to my inaugural ‘Time Frames: Marking the Early Modern’ here’s a recording: mediacentral.ucl.ac.uk/Play/124439
Excited to share a draft of the cover for the paperback version of SHAKESPEARE'S BORROWED FEATHERS.
I have been delighted at the public and scholarly engagement with this book and look forward to reaching new readers in paperback form!
share.google/LnS2iT9Bf348...
There's a section called
'Snail: Finding Our Place'
in
*Shakespeare on the Ecological Surface* (2024)
[currently on sale for £21.59 in @routledgelit.bsky.social Summer Sale)
🐌🐌🐌
www.routledge.com/Shakespeare-...
Cover image of Kathryn Vomero Santos's Shakespeare in Tongues featuring a colorful collage by Fausto Fernandez.
A graphic with text that reads: “Shakespeare in Tongues is a sharp, ingenious, and urgent exploration of the reach and limits of Shakespeare’s linguistic legacy. With impressive breadth and deftness, this book shows us how issues of race, land, and language are deeply intertwined, and how they influence imaginings of Shakespeare’s purchase today.” Ruben Espinosa, Director of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Arizona State University
A graphic with text that reads: “A must-read for those interested in how Indigenous and Latine artists repurpose Shakespeare’s works to resist the colonial and racist ideologies underpinning U.S. education. Rather than equating Shakespeare with English, Shakespeare in Tongues opens up space for more multicultural, polylingual, and liberating engagements with his works.” Carla Mazzio, author of The Inarticulate Renaissance: Language Trouble in an Age of Eloquence
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Happy pub day to Shakespeare in Tongues!
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#ShakeRace #RaceB4Race #Shakespeare
