This was so much fun to record! An absolutely fascinating special guest episode - and spoiler: there may even be a little impromptu King Lear performance

Palmer's Farm by moonlight, adjacent to Mary Arden Shakespeare's mother's family home, in Wilmcote. One of those places & moments where historical time hangs in the air & you feel you could reach out & touch it.

CORIOLANUS By William Shakespeare Director Peter Evans 25 June – 10 August The Neilson Nutshell, Sydney and Arts Centre Melbourne

Can't wait!

Some boys dreamed of one day playing at Wembley or the Carnegie Hall; this one had an ambition to publish in Studies in Philology. And here it is! On how to read Cymbeline as a response to Philaster.

This is the first one-volume Complete Works of Shakespeare to be published in Serbian. A copy was presented to the late Queen Elizabeth, another to King Charles; now I have been commissioned to take this one back as a gift to Shakespeare Institute.

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Just in time for Christmas! Don't miss this new collection on such a timely topic. routledge.com/English-Langua…

Teaching Shakespeare's Sonnets and Taylor Swift's Midnights: long awaited article imminent! Thanks to everyone at AJEE.

I have been reviewing the Everything to Everybody Project, which shared Birmingham's democratic Shakespeare heritage with the people of the City. We did this last year & I was moved & proud of the team, our patron & our partners to revisit it.

How over-systematisation destroys teachers and education. And how subject English fights back. Open access 'SysEd and English' article out now. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

People read and computers 'read'. See Lauren Weber's new article on the nature and power of deep reading. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

See the new special issue of Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (71.1): 'Framing the Work of Literature.' The articles explore innovative strategies and enduring value in literature reading and teaching. tandfonline.com/toc/yjli20/71/1

Very excited to announce the publication of Laura Seymour's wonderful 'Shakespeare and Neurodiversity'. Grab a copy while it is free (until 10 Feb)!! cambridge.org/core/elements/…

Get your 'Shakespeare in Spirit'. (ANZSA Conference 2025) 2-4 July 2025, University of Queensland, Brisbane. Paper proposals due: 20 March. Full details: conference.anzsa.org

Huge congratulations to Coen Heijes on Transdisciplinary Shakespeare Pedagogy! If you are wondering about collaboratively teaching Shakespeare across institutional units, faculties and disciplines, this is the Element for you! Currently free to download. doi.org/10.1017/978100…