Yerked myself from Shakespeare Association of America hangover with a hike in the hills around Portland. #Shax2024 🇺🇸

Hurrah! Epistolary Courtiership is now available to pre-order (edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-epistolar…). Use the code NEW30 for 30% discount. Edinburgh University Press

Day 3 of Shakespeare Association of America: looking forward to panels and seminars about Shakespeare and race, “textual failure”, and “trans philology”, plus the Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series The Arden Shakespeare drinks reception. And hoping to catch the Multnomah Library’s folio exhibition. #Shax2024

Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock
Photo by Chester Sheard

Semiotics from the annual Shakespeare Association of America gay bar expedition. #Portland #Shax2024 🏳️‍🌈

After Pascale Aebischer's awesome seminar about 'pandemic Macbeths,' Erin Sullivan from Shakespeare Institute will take us to the world of live broadcast on Thursday 18th. ⚠️Save the date⚠️ of this year's last seminar and join us on Zoom: uniroma1.zoom.us/j/84848702700

Day 2 of Shakespeare Association of America: looking forward to talks about ‘The Tempest’, a seminar on Shakespeare’s poems, the annual luncheon, and the annual trip to a scuzzy local gay bar, but devastated a scheduling clash means I can’t attend the seminar on ‘Renaissance Dick Jokes’. #Shax2024

Today's picture: Shelley's baby rattle, part of the collection at Bodleian Libraries

Right, Day 1 of Shakespeare Association of America for me: registration, a couple of meetings, the New Variorum Shakespeare lunch, listening to some of Don Rodrigues seminar about Shakespeare and AI, and then collapsing into a wine glass at the annual reception. Here we go. #Shax2024

Always a delight to walk along this lovely street in central Cambridge. Two hundred years ago ago the whole area was a market garden, the Garden of Eden, supplying the colleges. Extraordinary street names - Elm Street, Eden Street, Orchard Street, and (best) Adam and Eve Street.

A soothing afternoon in Washington Park before the hurly-burly of Shakespeare Association of America begins tomorrow morning. #Portland #Shax2024 🇺🇸

And he could be very funny — if nasty. When his friend Randolph Churchill had an op for a tumour which turned out to be benign, Waugh said it was typical of the pointlessness of modern science that it would operate on RC and extract the only benign thing about him.

Karesansui in the American Northwest. At Portland’s Japanese Garden (in Washington Park) this afternoon. Shakespeare Association of America #Shax2024 🇺🇸

Words that everyone in politics uses incorrectly.

1. “Fulsome” - if you say someone has given a “fulsome apology”, you are suggesting it was so over the top as to be insincere.
2. It’s not a podium, it’s a lectern, unless the Prime Minister has won an Olympic medal.

✈️ Heading to Portland, Oregon for the Shakespeare Association of America Shakespeare Association of America annual conference — look forward to seeing many of you there! #SAA2024 🇺🇸

Our Deputy Director Dr. Abigail Rokison-Woodall will be in conversation with our Hon. Fellow Sir Simon Russell Beale Shakespeare’s Globe on 23 May, talking about ‘King Lear’. Book your place below! ⬇️

If you haven't yet read the new issue of The #Spenser Review, on 'Spenser and Bad Poetry,' check it out today! Guest eds. Richard Danson Brown, Andrew Hadfield, & Andrew Wadoski offer a trove of essays on minor epics, bad words, wanton toys, and more! spenserreview.org/issue/6/info/

Just finished Robert Stagg's 'Shakespeare's Blank Verse: An Alternative History.' Learned a lot from it. Great read!