Recent estimates suggest that between 1567 to 1642 as many as 744 plays are identifiably lost, with hundreds more completely untraceable. Read more: go.unimelb.edu.au/ju2i #UnimelbPursuit University of Melbourne

We're delighted to mark the launch of the Premodern Performance Cultures Network (formerly the Early English Drama and Performance Network) with this two-day, online symposium on 7-8 July 2021. Please share the #CfP widely! Submissions due 14 May. #Medieval #EarlyModern docs.google.com/document/d/1y8…

We're talking about Edmund Spenser and Race! Special issue of Spenser Studies @kim_a_coles & I edited finally here: essays cover how his poetry engages & produces race through colonialism, blood, allegory, epic, whiteness, blackness, & sexuality #ShakeRace journals.uchicago.edu/toc/sps/current

Happy Saturday, everyone! Today's Omnivorous newsletter is near and dear to my heart. It's an essay I've been working on off and on for two years or so. I do hope you'll give it a read and a share, especially if it resonates with you. omnivorous.substack.com/p/rediscoverin…

SOO excited to read this!

Looking forward and looking back on #CheekbyJowl40... 👀 Read our latest newsletter here - and don't forget to hit Subscribe: bit.ly/cbj-october-up…

Now it's on my office shelf, it's real The Arden Shakespeare

Between 1821 and roughly 1960, it was extremely rare for a Black woman to perform Shakespeare onstage. On a new podcast episode, Joyce Green MacDonald tells us about four women who did. #BlackHistoryMonth bit.ly/3HniR1B

Shakespeare and Jonson, are just two of the authors who used ballads for ‘product placement’. Join Professor Tiffany Stern for her Inaugural lecture ‘Plays Inside Out’: Theatre, Marketing and Ballads 6pm 9 May Further details and register here birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/…

Celebrating the Shakespeare Association of America's 50th Anniversary youtu.be/D2KJdkLrWVE via YouTube

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Is Shakespeare still relatable? This weekend, a conference at The Huntington examines the relevance of Shakespeare's plays and poems to controversial issues of our time. Preview some of the topics of discussion in this blog post by Dympna Callaghan: bit.ly/3M8GGwd

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Guess what magnificence arrived today! bloomsbury.com/us/girl-cultur…

Interested in early modern race studies? Brinda Charry’s new novel is a must-read and a delight. simonandschuster.com/books/The-East…

Look what’s landed! Can’t wait to read this!

I just took action to oppose the elimination of the National Endowment for the Humanities! Join me and take action here: p2a.co/PFT9TPo

Just got the announcement of the publication of issue 41 of the Actes des congrès de la Société Française Shakespeare devoted to "Shakespeare and Gender". journals.openedition.org/shakespeare/

Shakespeare through Islamic Worlds ambereendadabhoy.com/2024/02/10/sha…

If you will be at SAA in Portland and have a book idea for Palgrave Shakespeare Studies, do be in touch. Also, be sure to stop by the PALGRAVE booth for a proposal form.