& they’re in! COMING IN THE NEW YEAR: 📖 Paul Salzman on facsimiles & editing; 📖 @literasyme on attribution studies & theatre history; & 📖 tiffany stern on shakespearean chronology/ies

is my essay better? or have i just changed the font to Times New Roman?

The judges for the Booker Prize 2023 are revealed. Esi Edugyan will chair the panel and will be joined by Adjoa Andoh, Mary Jean Chan, James Shapiro and Robert Webb Find out more about each of the judges here thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-lib…

Another nepo baby (her dad is Edgar Allan).

Just saw #HenryV at Shakespeare’s Globe today - an incredibly thought provoking and deliberate production, especially its use of metatheatricality. And as usual, brilliant performances all around 👏

Shakespeare scholars, the Weston Library are celebrating 400 years of Shakespeare's First Folio! They're hosting a day of talks featuring @OldFortunatus and Nicole Gilroy. You can even try your hand at printing and writing with quills 🪶 Details: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/mar23/fi…

Witchcraft paintings. One of the more interesting 17thC depictions of witchcraft. No hag-like witches. Two respectable Dutch women learning witchcraft from books. David Teniers the Younger, "Witches’ Initiation." Oil on wood. 1647-1649. Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien.

Am so, so excited for this - get it while it's free to download!

Does anyone have reading recommendations to do with early modern texts as expressions of agency by the printer? I'm looking at the printer as a co-creator alongside author and publisher, and am hoping to find anything on formes, mise-en-page, etc!

Nice bit of biscuit based printing technique revision at Scholars' Coffee this morning 🍪

Had a great day at the 'Shakespeare the Irishman' symposium hosted by Murphx at Trinity Long Room Hub and TCD School of English - many fantastic talks from scholars all around Ireland and Britain!

Come join us Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway @MooreInst for a symposium on 'The Local and the Global in Early Modern English Writing', 1-2 September! ✨Keynotes by Jane Hwang Degenhardt and @JGrogan10✨Get those abstracts in by 23rd June!

Really excited to be presenting at a conference filled with fascinating talks and speakers!

Had a wonderful time presenting my paper 'Edmond "Ó Moeloins" Malone: The importance of Malone's Anglo-Irish Identity in eighteenth-century editing' at #britgrad2023 . Everyone has been so welcoming and fascinating to talk to - a great weekend so far!

How do race, gender & queerness intersect with textual editing? What editorial decisions add or change meaning to words & phrases? Join us to explore the complex, exciting challenges of editing Shakespeare today. 📅 15 Nov @ 5-6pm UTC 💻 online 🎟️ free bit.ly/45NPZuy

To celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's #FirstFolio, we have added new copies to our open-access resource #FirstFoliosCompared, including a well-loved copy from Trinity College Dublin, which is heavily annotated and contains plenty of distinguishing marks, including a paw print!

This is the best kind of #bookpost - please allow me to introduce a collection I’m so proud of #Shakespeare #Biofiction on the Contemporary Stage & Screen The Arden Shakespeare, co-edited with Dr Ronan Hatfull, which began life as an Shakespeare Association of America seminar in the tough times of 2021!