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Lovely ties on the fore-edge of 'Historia de la conquista de Mexico', 1771 #Binding

According to the Watson School of International and Public Affairs in Rhode Island, more journalists have been killed in Gaza than in both world wars, the Vietnam war, the wars in Yugoslavia and the war in Afghanistan combined.

On #WorldElephantDay, Bernini’s charming elefantino in Piazza della Minerva, Rome

El extraordinario marco del “Descendimiento de la Cruz” de Pedro Machuca, original del siglo XVI, se llama “de tabernáculo” o “arquitectónico” y es característico del Renacimiento. En nuestra web os ofrecemos una descripción completa y muchos detalles: museodelprado.es/coleccion/obra…

The Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series will start appearing in May next year! Having worked behind the scenes as one of the first Fourth Series Fellows, I am excited to see what readers make of these freshly edited texts.

Una delle nostre unicità rispetto al resto dei teatri nel mondo? L’ingresso via acqua: meraviglia, sì, ma anche sfida logistica, chè tutte le merci arrivando via canale aumentano i costi di trasporto. Perciò, ogni evento va programmato con grande attenzione al budget

Our NVS Board member Prof. Valerie Wayne has written an introduction to a new cluster of ODNB entries about early modern women stationers: oxforddnb.com/newsitem/906/w…

A picnic party visiting the famous cherry tree at Naruko in the city, by Kikukawa Eizan, 1807

“We are not explicitly told, as in Plutarch, that Coriolanus lost his father young; instead, Shakespeare internalises the idea to show a woman [Volumnia] who has completely elided the memory of her husband” — Julia Griffin

Vittore Carpaccio The Virgin Reading, c. 1505 (National Gallery of Art, Washington)

Early 4th century illustration of a (beardless) Christ raising Lazarus from the dead - from a tomb discovered in Plovdiv in 2012

President Stubb about the amount of Ukrainian territory Russia wants: I guess, for an American audience, and having studied in the US for many years, the best way to explain it is that if you take the relative land mass of what Russia wants right now from Ukraine, it would be a

Welcome to ⁦Texas A&M University⁩’s latest hire in Shakespeare and early modern English literature, Dr. Katie Adkison! We have appointed six new professors in this area in the last three years, with hopefully more to come. artsci.tamu.edu/english/contac…

Welcome to Dr. Adkison! Texas A&M University continues to grow its cohort of Shakespeareans.

Having children dress as characters for book week teaches them to embrace naive mimesis. They should be encouraged to personify formal categories like omniscient naration, free indirect discourse, etc

The New Variorum Shakespeare termcard of events for the Fall Semester will be published on Monday. Lots of interesting and entertaining occasions on the horizon. New Variorum Shakespeare

We will not tolerate aggressive, abusive or threatening behaviour… From the new Private Eye, out now.