The countdown is on! ⏰ The Marlowe Society of America conference is just one week away! Stay tuned for the official conference program, check out the #marlowe24 hashtag for updates, and leave a comment here if we’ll see you next week in Deptford!

UPDATE: MILTON'S HOLINSHED among the 100s of annotations—many of them by john milton—in Phoenix Public Library's copy of holinshed's CHRONICLES is this (left)—god blotted out. in a new post, Jason Scott-Warren offers context for whether this could be milton's doing: english.cam.ac.uk/cmt/?p=6253

Milton's God? english.cam.ac.uk/cmt/?p=6253

Lets get the 'official' hashtag in place... #Marlowe24

who is coming to The Marlowe Society of America’s 9th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE next week? i’m excited to see so many familiar & new faces in deptford starting on tuesday 💀🗡️📖🎭💫 here’s the program: marlowesocietyofamerica.org/msa-deptford-2… #marlowe24

Getting ready for the Marlowe Society conference, 2024, where the Devil is in the detail. Oh, boom! I’ve waited ages to roll that joke out. The Marlowe Society of America

this conference has been a long time in the making—& it’s finally upon us! welcome to deptford, marlovians!

And now Matthew Steggle on ‘Marlowe the flier’, featuring a British Airways plane actually named ‘Christopher Marlowe’…! #Marlowe24

Day one of MSA Deptford was a massive success! 💫 We kicked it off with a Deptford walking tour followed by some excellent panels, a stellar keynote from Ruben Espinosa, & a reception at Deptford City Hall. 📷🖼️👉marlowesocietyofamerica.org/home/2024/7/10… More to come today! #marlowe24

the first day of The Marlowe Society of America conference in deptford was a whirlwind (w/ a minor flood to boot)! thanks to our opening panelists—& to Ruben Espinosa for a provocative & pitch-perfect keynote. bookmark the MSA website for daily recaps: marlowesocietyofamerica.org/home/2024/7/10… #marlowe24

Good morning, Marlovians! ☀️ It's DAY 3 of our conference in Deptford—& we have morning panels, afternoon tours on Bankside, & a research in action workshop Shakespeare’s Globe lined up for you today. Tell us what you are enjoying most about the conference so far? #marlowe24

Patrick Durdel (Patrick Durdel) has written an excellent reflection of MSA Deptford Day 2! Read it here! marlowesocietyofamerica.org/home/2024/7/11… #marlowe24

We open the final day of #marlowe24 with the Meghan C. Andrews Memorial Lecture. As MSA vice-president David McInnis noted, this event celebrates Meghan’s important contributions to the field & her generosity as an interlocutor and friend. She is greatly missed.

a newly rediscovered book inscribed and annotated by john donne Oriel College—& a reminder about the importance of cataloguing to the work we (can) do as literary scholars and book historians. 🧑‍⚖️📖🪶

Finished stitching up the syllabuses for my upcoming CalRBS seminar in Descriptive Bibliography. They’re printed on laid, watermarked paper I ordered several years ago. Simple in appearance, they’re a bit of a bibliographical nightmare.

Y'all! Throughlines is here and here's a chance to learn from one of our collective academic heroes, Professor Kim Hall (Deranged Covid-Clinger). Hooray!

Thinking of Anne Shakespeare on the eve of her death, now 401 years ago!@Paul_Edmondson Holy Trinity Church Shakespeare B Trust Dr Chris Laoutaris

Edited collections are so often field-building and field-defining. They’re also a labor of love—and need to be counted for promotion as the contributions to the field that they so often are.

Academic authors - did you, during the halcyon days of summer, think, sure, I can index my own book during the school year, and are now experiencing a sinking feeling as reality sets in? I can help! I have openings for index jobs throughout the year. mollygyarn.com/indexing-and-e…

ghost books. | BURY-FAIR (1689), S2836, Folger.