International Conference within the PRIN 2022 Project Monsters, Sorcerers, and Witches of Northwestern Europe: The Medieval and Early Modern Construction of Otherness in Literature for Popular Audiences University of Siena (Italy) Arezzo campus 9-11 July 2025 Stay tuned 😊!

Join us in #Verona or on Zoom on 23 January for Massimo Fusillo’s talk on the #strategies of #MusicalAdaptation ➡️ 23 January 2024 - 🇮🇹 ➡️ Università di Verona - Aula Daneloni & Zoom ➡️ Zoom link: 📧 to [email protected]

X friends, have a look at the CfP for a conference on (pseudo) #silence in #earlymoderntheatre organised by my friends Beatrice Righetti (Dipartimento Lingue Letterature Straniere – UniVr) and Aoife B (Università di Napoli L'Orientale) 🍀 ➡️ 16-17 June 2025 ➡️ Naples ➡️ Deadline for proposals: 28 Feb 2025 ‼️

Discover how a young, recently orphaned John Fletcher may have crossed paths with a rising Shakespeare in 1596 (long before they collaborated) in my latest article: 'Giles, John, and Will: The Fletchers and Shakespeare in Bishopsgate Street, London, 1596' tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Dear friends, We are happy to share the following CfP: “Creative Text for Musical Performance” to showcase a brand-new work for a premiere at the World Shakespeare Congress 2026 (#wsc2026) in Verona. Please circulate this call and let ppl know about this unmissable chance! 🍀

Thrilled to have written this short piece for Royal Museums Greenwich for the unveiling of a portrait of the Duke of Buckingham rmg.co.uk/stories/topics…

Join us in #Verona or on Zoom on 12 March for Marco Duranti’s talk on #life as #comedy or #tragedy in #classicalantiquity ➡️ 12 March 2025, 5:20pm - 🇮🇹 Room 1.5 and Zoom ➡️ Zoom link: 📧 to [email protected]

*Out now* SHAKESPEARE'S COMPASSION by Anne Sophie Refskou brings Shakespeare’s classical literary heritage into conversation with key contemporary social & political debates on race, gender, sexuality & the relationship between humans and animals. bit.ly/3CY6FXZ

Join us in #Verona or on Zoom on 16 April for Francesco Lupi (Unive Ca' Foscari)’s talk on #Attic #tragedy and #fragments in the #earlymodern age ➡️ 16 April 2025, 5:20pm - 🇮🇹 Room 1.5 (Polo Zanotto) and Zoom ➡️ Zoom link: 📧 to [email protected]

Spread the word! #theatre #philosophy #conference #cfp

Come to Verona next week for 2 unmissable events dedicated to #Shakespeare & #Beckett ➡️ 22-23 May 2025 ➡️ Polo Santa Marta SMT07-04 & on Zoom ➡️ International Symposium on Late Beckett ➡️ Third Serpieri Lecture with Claudia Olk (Universität München) For link: [email protected]

‼️Exciting news about 2026 World Shakespeare Congress ‼️[1/2] Pre-registration to Seminars and Workshops is now **OPEN**: wsc2026.org/seminars-works… ➡️ First-come, First-served ➡️ From 25 May 2025 to 15 September 2025 Don’t waste time & come join us in Verona next year! 🍀

Please RT, World Shakespeare Congress alert! #WSC2026 If you want to sign up for a seminar/workshop, do it asap! It's on a first-come, first-served basis. Looking forward to seeing you in Verona!

Join us in #Verona or on Zoom tomorrow 12 June for a seminar on #alexanderthegreat by Francesco Dall’Olio ➡️ 12 June 2025, 12:00pm - 🇮🇹 ➡️ Aula T10 (Palazzo di Lingue) and Zoom ➡️ Zoom link: 📧 to [email protected]

It's been an utter pleasure to guest-edit this monographic section. Interested in Ophelia? Please have a look!

Great to see the abstracts for World Shakespeare Congress panel papers online. Here’s mine (as part of a panel about ‘Cosmopolitan Shakespeare’ with Margaret Tudeau-Clayton and Goran Stanivukovic). Looking forward to being back in Verona next summer.

CFP! Skenè.JTDS, 12.1 Issue (June 2026​) Please RT! Call for special issues. We welcome proposals for a monographic section on any topic related to our journal's areas of interest.  skenejournal.skeneproject.it/index.php/JTDS… Proposal deadline: 1 Dec. 2025 Article submission deadline: 1 Jan. 2026

Are you curious about the potential for archives to construct emotion; why there are letters in the Elizabethan State Papers labelled 'mad'; or how culture & politics shape the historical experience of distress? Find out here! doi.org/10.1017/S00804… #earlymodern #twitterstorians

Skenè.JTDS has joined “the sky app” as well. If you’re over there, our handle is @skenejournal.bsky.social. Looking forward to staying in touch!

Congratulations to Prof. Marvin Hunt, one of our ‘Hamlet’ editors, on the publication of Volume 2 of ‘Hamlet: The Critical Tradition’! ⁦The Arden Shakespeare⁩ bloomsbury.com/us/hamlet-9781…