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New Variorum Shakespeare @nvshakespeare.bsky.social · 14h

Our Director Dr. Robert Stagg will be taking part in a roundtable event about ‘Non-Anglophone Shakespeare’ at Waseda University in Tokyo today:

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Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social · 17h

I am looking for recommendations for recent scholarship about the English Civil War from a literary historical perspective, what have you got? Realizing that both my knowledge and confidence in that knowledge crater c. 1640.

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New Variorum Shakespeare @nvshakespeare.bsky.social · 1d

We are very happy to be sponsoring a lunch reception at the Shakespeare Society of Japan annual conference today, and look forward to talking with our Japanese Shakespearean colleagues about the New Variorum Shakespeare and its use in teaching and research. 🇯🇵

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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · 2d

Monday Nov 10 @ 7.30pm

PUB CRAWLING WITH PLAYHOUSES

Join Professor Laurie Johnson @lostplayhouse.bsky.social, President of the Marlowe Society of America, for a ramble around the inns & taverns of early modern London, exploring their role in playhouse culture.

More info & book: bit.ly/4nUquBN

Infographic for the talk, with the time and date, and a photo of Laurie Johnson.

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New Variorum Shakespeare @nvshakespeare.bsky.social · 3d

🇯🇵 Our Director Dr. Robert Stagg will be giving a talk titled ‘Shakespeare’s Worldly Style’ as the plenary lecture at the Shakespeare Society of Japan conference in Tokyo this weekend. This will be followed by a NVS-sponsored reception. We are delighted to support the SSJ. 🇯🇵

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Folger Shakespeare Library @folger.edu · 3d

Shakespeare's plays are filled with unforgettable women—but too often, their voices are cut short. On the podcast, acclaimed actor Dame Harriet Walter talks about her book, "She Speaks! What Shakespeare’s Women Might Have Said": www.folger.edu/podcasts/sha...

Harriet Walter: New Words for Shakespeare's Women | Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...

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Points Like A Man @pointslikeaman.bsky.social · 3d

In this batch of records were our first breeches performances in Othello. In February 1863, an actress by the name of Miss Miller played a page in Othello at the Chestnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia. While other tragedies have often seen breeches performances, Othello almost never has.

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Points Like A Man @pointslikeaman.bsky.social · 3d

Today, 88 records were added for performances of Coriolanus, Henry IV Part I, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, Richard III, and The Taming of the Shrew in Philadelphia from 1863-1865 to bring the record total to 8,172. ✨🎩

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The Arden Shakespeare @ardenpublisher.bsky.social · 3d

Turn over a new leaf this autumn with the latest Drama and Performance Studies books 📖🍂

Browse our October-December 2025 catalogue: https://bit.ly/4gVmoXA

Methuen Drama/The Arden Shakespeare banner for the new October-December 2025 catalogue.

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New Variorum Shakespeare @nvshakespeare.bsky.social · 4d

Our Director Dr. Robert Stagg will be giving a lecture at Waseda University in Tokyo today about the Ottoman associations of “bombast” in early modern England and Shakespeare’s work in particular.

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 4d

The Conference Gate, also known as the Tuileries gate, in Paris Joannes de Ram after Adam Perelle, 1670-1695 (British Museum)

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New Variorum Shakespeare @nvshakespeare.bsky.social · 5d

Congratulations to Prof. Marvin Hunt, one of our NVS ‘Hamlet’ editors, on the publication of Volume 2 of ‘Hamlet: The Critical Tradition’! @ardenpublisher.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/us/hamlet-97...

Hamlet

A companion to volume 1, Hamlet: Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition, Volume 2 presents key critical accounts of Hamlet from 1885-1964. The volume offers, in s…

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Shakespeare Association of America @saaupdates.bsky.social · 5d

Applications for #digital exhibits at #Shax2026 are now open! Showcase your work on early modern projects — find more information and apply at shakespeareassociation.org/annual-meeti...

Image of the Chandos portrait of William Shakespeare, overlaid with translucent green text of computer code and strings of binary code. Along the right side of the image, dark text reads "Propose a Digital Exhibit". End ID.

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New Variorum Shakespeare @nvshakespeare.bsky.social · 6d

We are thrilled to be the cover story in the Texas A&M English Department’s student-designed and student-written newsletter:

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Olivia Smith @oliviasmith.bsky.social · 6d

I've lost track of how many people over the past years I've told to watch for Elizabeth Scott-Baumann's next book coming out, and now it's here. Proper good ideas: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Sex and Style

A new literary history that places women writers at the center of poetic theory and practice in English literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

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UCL Digital Humanities @ucldh.bsky.social · 6d

UCLDH at 15: Highlights, Milestones & What’s Next
Thoughts from our new Co-Directors, Adam Crymble and Jin Gao.
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/dh/2025/09/3...

UCLDH at 15: Highlights, Milestones & What’s Next

We are delighted to write to you as the new co-directors of the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities. As we step into this role together, we want to take a moment to reflect on the past year, celebrate o...

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Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH) @aadh.bsky.social · 7d

🐣 Early Bird registrations for DHA2025 - "Digital Archipelagos" are closing soon!

🌏Join us at the Australian National University and be part of a growing Digital Humanities community in our region.

👉Check out our program and register before Oct 10 at a discounted rate:
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DHA2025: Registration Open

Registration is open for DHA25. Please click through to the registration site at the Australian National University to purchase your tickets.

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Points Like A Man @pointslikeaman.bsky.social · 7d

Check it out! Our project director, @aelagrand.bsky.social won the @honeyandwaxbks.bsky.social Book Collecting Prize for her collection of materials related to Shakespearean breeches actresses! ✨🎩 Points Like A Man even gets a shout-out!

Fine Books & Collections @finebooks.bsky.social · 16d

Alexandra E. LaGrand Wins 2025 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize
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Alexandra E. LaGrand Wins 2025 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize

Alexandra E. LaGrand has won the 2025 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize for her archive documenting Shakespearean breeches actresses over the long 19th century.The annual prize, which rewards American...

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New Variorum Shakespeare @nvshakespeare.bsky.social · 8d

Our Director Dr. Robert Stagg has written a foreword to ‘Richard Barnfield’s Poetics: Early Modern English Poetry Beyond Shakespeare’, ed. Camilla Caporicci, Fabio Ciambella and Cristiano Ragni. @ardenpublisher.bsky.social

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 8d

This week the Society also launched the call for its First Book and Early Career Article Prizes, 2026.

Eligible titles, published in 2025, should be submitted by the author before the closing date of 15 December. Further details and how to apply: bit.ly/3KnR47v

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Royal Historical Society Book and Article Prizes, 2026: submissions now invited - RHS

The Royal Historical Society invites applications for its First Book Prize, 2026 and Early Career Article Prize, 2026. The call for submissions opens on Monday 29 September 2025 and runs to Monday 15 ...

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New Variorum Shakespeare @nvshakespeare.bsky.social · 13d

We are saddened to report the recent deaths of two of our New Variorum Shakespeare editors, Prof. Jay Halio and Prof. Susan May. A tribute to their extraordinary commitment to the Variorum can now be found on our website, here: newvariorumshakespeare.org/news/

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · 15d

How can AI and other computational approaches help us to understand the distant past? @jrladd.com will share work from two cultural analytics projects that address these challenges by combining analog research methods and machine learning to study the print culture of the 16th and 17th centuries.

Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · 27d

Sep 29: "Human and Machine Intelligence in Networks of Early Modern Print" with John Ladd (@jrladd.com), Assistant Professor in Computing and Information Studies at Washington & Jefferson College. Info/RSVP:

Human and Machine Intelligence in Networks of Early Modern Print

cdh.princeton.edu

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STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse @stemma.bsky.social · 17d

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New Variorum Shakespeare @nvshakespeare.bsky.social · 19d

New Variorum Shakespeare @nvshakespeare.bsky.social · 22d

Our Director Dr. Robert Stagg will be in Tokyo next month to: deliver a plenary lecture to the Shakespeare Society of Japan, host a NVS reception at the SSJ, join a roundtable about ‘non-Anglophone Shakespeare’ at Waseda University, and begin NVS collaborations with the Tsubouchi Theatre Museum. 🇯🇵

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