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Dr. Will Green

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Academic and heritage professional • Currently working on a travelling players project with museums in the West Midlands • Early modern drama, politics, religion specialist • PhD • FHEA • Views own etc.

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Voices of the Past: Queer Influence and Poetic Salvage in Shakespeare’s Pericles, Prince of Tyre and Thomas Middleton’s Hengist, King of Kent Shakespeare and Wilkins’ Pericles and Middleton’s Hengist share a unique feature: a mediaeval author as choric figure. Choric figures are typically embodied plot devices rather than dramatic charac...

The second article from the forthcoming special issue I am guest editing on Shakespeare and Middleton has now been published open access.

Thanks to Shaun Nowicki for this piece 🙂

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

04.03.2026 16:27 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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Authorship Attributions in Middleton’s Canon: Collaboration, Revision, and Shakespeare Ascriptions Thomas Middleton collaborated with Shakespeare on Timon of Athens, and there have been arguments for his revising hand in Macbeth, Measure for Measure, and, more recently, All’s Well that Ends Well...

This follows the first article, by @freeburian.bsky.social, which received online publication late last year: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

04.03.2026 16:30 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Voices of the Past: Queer Influence and Poetic Salvage in Shakespeare’s Pericles, Prince of Tyre and Thomas Middleton’s Hengist, King of Kent Shakespeare and Wilkins’ Pericles and Middleton’s Hengist share a unique feature: a mediaeval author as choric figure. Choric figures are typically embodied plot devices rather than dramatic charac...

The second article from the forthcoming special issue I am guest editing on Shakespeare and Middleton has now been published open access.

Thanks to Shaun Nowicki for this piece 🙂

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

04.03.2026 16:27 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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From Mystery Plays to Travelling Players: Renaissance Coventry and the Story of Shakespeare - LECTURE - RHS Join us for a fascinating talk by historian Dr. Will Green about theatre in Coventry during the English Renaissance. This hour long talk in the Dame Ellen Terry room includes admission to St Mary's Gu...

Thabk you to the Royal Historical Society, of which I am an associate fellow, for advertising my forthcoming public history lecture 😊 I'll be bringing my work on travelling players to Coventry on Sunday 3rd May 😀

royalhistsoc.org/calendar/fro...

03.03.2026 15:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Book of Sir Thomas More: Piece by Piece - 12 April 2026.
An All Day Event, taking apart and performing the full text of The Book of Sir Thomas More by Anthony Munday and other hands.
As well as a live script in hand audio recording of the play (in all its contradictions) we are hosting panel discussions and a deep dive into the play-within-a-play.
Sponsored by The Malone Society - the permanent utility of original texts
Beyond Shakespeare Company podcast, top right
beyondshakespeare.org, bottom middle
White Bear Theatre logo, bottom right

An image of the actor Keith Hill, wearing glasses and a jumper to the right of frame, fading into black across the left. Text over the image The Book of Sir Thomas More: Piece by Piece - 12 April 2026. An All Day Event, taking apart and performing the full text of The Book of Sir Thomas More by Anthony Munday and other hands. As well as a live script in hand audio recording of the play (in all its contradictions) we are hosting panel discussions and a deep dive into the play-within-a-play. Sponsored by The Malone Society - the permanent utility of original texts Beyond Shakespeare Company podcast, top right beyondshakespeare.org, bottom middle White Bear Theatre logo, bottom right

🚨Tickets on sale now!🚨
The Book of Sir Thomas More: Piece by Piece
Sunday 12th April 2026 from 1pm at the White Bear Theatre, Kennington
An All Day Event, taking apart and performing the full text of the play by Anthony Munday etc #drama #theatre #history
www.ticketsource.co.uk/beyondshakes...

23.02.2026 12:43 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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I'm delighted to share that I'll be giving a public lecture at St. Mary's Guildhall Coventry on 3rd May! I'll be speaking about Coventry's theatrical history, from the mystery plays to touring theatre in the age of Shakespeare 🙂 On sale now.

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13.02.2026 15:11 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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I'm delighted to share that I'll be giving a public lecture at St. Mary's Guildhall Coventry on 3rd May! I'll be speaking about Coventry's theatrical history, from the mystery plays to touring theatre in the age of Shakespeare 🙂 On sale now.

stmarysguildhall-tickets.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

13.02.2026 15:11 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Now has a cover 😍

24.01.2026 14:11 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks 😄

24.01.2026 11:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks buddy 😄 Can't wait to actually hold a copy in my hands.

23.01.2026 19:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Thomas Middleton’s Theatre of War: The King’s Men and Political Performance in the Public Sphere, 1620-1624 This book examines the plays Thomas Middleton wrote for the King’s Men between 1620 and 1624, arguing that they constitute one of the most sustained and ambitious engagements with contemporary politic...

My first monograph, Thomas Middleton's Theatre of War, will be published on 22nd July in the @srsrensoc.bsky.social book series! 🥳

www.routledge.com/Thomas-Middl...

23.01.2026 13:06 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 1

In 1970 the UK and Norway were roughly equal, almost no debt, and owned all their Public Services.

Now the UK owns nothing and has £3tn of debt.

While Norway still owns everything and has the equivalent of £10tn.

That's how privatisation 'works'.

19.12.2025 17:59 👍 564 🔁 242 💬 18 📌 11
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Loving this blazon for the Ghost of Lucrece by Thomas Middleton. "death that shrimpe of spirits" 🦐 , "Her haire which in Arachnes finest loome, / Was kist with siluer shickles [shuttles?]" 🕷️"Her eies the curious fabricke of her world" 🌍

18.12.2025 14:25 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

IF they remember to apply the discount at the till.

16.12.2025 18:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Mate, it's been like a year! Don't disappear forever and then reappear on my route today with no explanation. Where have you been? 😭

08.12.2025 17:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Don't yell at librarians when they cannot provide you with materials LLMs told you existed but don't exist.
Come on folks.

08.12.2025 17:37 👍 27 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

Well 2 years is a long time, in which a lot can happen, so it would always be nice to at least leave the option open 🥴

08.12.2025 10:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

While I have no siblings this is uncannily like at my friend's wedding from a couple of years ago 😬

I mean... she was right but still.

07.12.2025 18:44 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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drwillgreen.co.uk 🙂

I've had a varied year in 2025 so I'm now rolling out my independent research and heritage consultancy site.

If you have any teaching or speaking needs, whether in an academic or museums setting, I may be your guy: get in touch at WDGreen.Research@gmail.com 🙂

(Please share!)

05.12.2025 13:57 👍 2 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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drwillgreen.co.uk 🙂

I've had a varied year in 2025 so I'm now rolling out my independent research and heritage consultancy site.

If you have any teaching or speaking needs, whether in an academic or museums setting, I may be your guy: get in touch at WDGreen.Research@gmail.com 🙂

(Please share!)

05.12.2025 13:57 👍 2 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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All the world’s a stage – including Stratford’s Guildhall A new exhibition curated by Nottingham University research fellow Dr Will Green details how the upstairs of the Grade I listed building in Church Street was used as an early modern theatre venue.

Turns out the Stratford Observer also ran a piece on the new interpretation 😍

stratfordobserver.co.uk/news/all-the...

27.11.2025 09:12 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Well they could hardly sack me for not doing so 😂

22.11.2025 21:06 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Every so often I still think how weird it was that in my last redundancy process HR sent me a questionnaire that included asking me what job I was moving to, with the note that "Unknown is not an allowed answer" 🙃

22.11.2025 12:01 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

My thanks to the brilliant @drwillgreen.bsky.social for having me form part of his exciting special issue on Shakespeare and Middleton, and for his superb editorial work.

13.11.2025 15:33 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

This piece by @freeburian.bsky.social is the first article from the forthcoming special issue on Shakespeare and Middleton, which I am guest editing. So pleased to see it live 🙂

13.11.2025 14:45 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Having to get past drunken far right protesters tonight in Solihull just to get home after work.

Cue "how do you know they're far right? 🤬"

Mate, no one else goes out in torrential rain and hangs England flags on the church.

10.11.2025 18:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Heron right outside the patio 😳

09.11.2025 12:51 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Further adventures in freelance life: I've been asked to review this for History Today 😄

05.11.2025 14:14 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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🚨Latest pod drop - it's King's Gambit, a look at the immediate aftermath of A Game at Chess by Thomas Middleton. With readings of letters and official accounts, plus expert panellists: @danielyabut.bsky.social @tracelarkhall.bsky.social @drwillgreen.bsky.social audioboom.com/posts/879774...

31.10.2025 09:13 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 2

Hey it's me 👇

31.10.2025 09:15 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0