Adam Zucker Again
@adamzucker.bsky.social
As Stated - The Professor one at UMass Amherst. Shakespeare, Jonson, et al. Journal co-editor, English Literary Renaissance. Author: "Shakespeare Unlearned" (OUP 2024). Music: Outro; The Young Old; The Father Figures; Bring It To Bear.
I was told by my children to never use this, but what do they know about tapping into the energy of youth culture?? Locals - consider a Sunday evening music event? I wrote new songs. There is a boggle subtext to many of them. And Peter Mulvey - that guy is good.
November 11, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I was told by my children to never use this, but what do they know about tapping into the energy of youth culture?? Locals - consider a Sunday evening music event? I wrote new songs. There is a boggle subtext to many of them. And Peter Mulvey - that guy is good.
I generally endorse poetry bumper stickers, but no. Exactly the opposite.
October 7, 2025 at 2:03 AM
I generally endorse poetry bumper stickers, but no. Exactly the opposite.
It's my band! With a glowing mushroom that was the stage property of a different band. We're playing our first show in 18 months in Easthampton, MA at The Marigold, and Peter Mulvey be there, too. I for one am using this as motivation to stay on track until mid-November. No promises after that.
September 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM
It's my band! With a glowing mushroom that was the stage property of a different band. We're playing our first show in 18 months in Easthampton, MA at The Marigold, and Peter Mulvey be there, too. I for one am using this as motivation to stay on track until mid-November. No promises after that.
300 rhymed lines into a 900 line scene at the end of Love's Labour's Lost, the author briefly cracks:
July 19, 2025 at 9:05 PM
300 rhymed lines into a 900 line scene at the end of Love's Labour's Lost, the author briefly cracks:
Lisbon's wall culture: top notch.
July 6, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Lisbon's wall culture: top notch.
Someone's translation software is finding deep truths buried within the ticket-buyer's soul.
July 5, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Someone's translation software is finding deep truths buried within the ticket-buyer's soul.
I tend to roll my eyes at NYT editorial decisions and forgive them their inanities owing to the 50 years of engagement I've had with them but the 'omg they are so mad at each other' teenager tone they're using for the palace intrigue story is driving me batty.
June 6, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I tend to roll my eyes at NYT editorial decisions and forgive them their inanities owing to the 50 years of engagement I've had with them but the 'omg they are so mad at each other' teenager tone they're using for the palace intrigue story is driving me batty.
From the department of Dangling Modifiers In The New York Times, I bring you... small Augustinians.
May 13, 2025 at 6:11 PM
From the department of Dangling Modifiers In The New York Times, I bring you... small Augustinians.
About to grace the Iron Horse stage to raise money for the Northampton High School PTO. Locals - come out for a matinee of bands composed entirely of NHS parents. Which @remhq.bsky.social song are we covering? You will have to appear to find out. (Hint: not Shiny Happy People.)
May 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
About to grace the Iron Horse stage to raise money for the Northampton High School PTO. Locals - come out for a matinee of bands composed entirely of NHS parents. Which @remhq.bsky.social song are we covering? You will have to appear to find out. (Hint: not Shiny Happy People.)
Next Friday, 3:30 - Shakespeare Unlearned will be locally launched! Lucky for me, Joey Gamble joins me in conversation at the @umassamherst.bsky.social Kinney Center. Topics: difficult words, pedagogy, and the communal, equitable pleasures offered by obscurity in early modern drama and poetry.
March 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Next Friday, 3:30 - Shakespeare Unlearned will be locally launched! Lucky for me, Joey Gamble joins me in conversation at the @umassamherst.bsky.social Kinney Center. Topics: difficult words, pedagogy, and the communal, equitable pleasures offered by obscurity in early modern drama and poetry.
Surprised to learn via Google Scholar that the first chapter of my book was written by Jacque Rancière in 1996 for the Texas Journal of Literature and Language.
March 19, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Surprised to learn via Google Scholar that the first chapter of my book was written by Jacque Rancière in 1996 for the Texas Journal of Literature and Language.
Lucky me - I get to launch Shakespeare Unlearned in conversation with one of the smartest scholars I know, Joseph Gamble, April 4th at the @umassamherst.bsky.social Kinney Renaissance Center. Come spend a Friday afternoon with us, and check for green sprouts in the Center's gardens.
March 18, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Lucky me - I get to launch Shakespeare Unlearned in conversation with one of the smartest scholars I know, Joseph Gamble, April 4th at the @umassamherst.bsky.social Kinney Renaissance Center. Come spend a Friday afternoon with us, and check for green sprouts in the Center's gardens.
I am being told by OUP that the US warehouse has sold all their copies of Shakespeare Unlearned, and they have asked me to bring an author copy or two to SAA so that they can sell it there... friends, can I ask you to bring YOUR copy in so they can sell it back to you?
March 15, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I am being told by OUP that the US warehouse has sold all their copies of Shakespeare Unlearned, and they have asked me to bring an author copy or two to SAA so that they can sell it there... friends, can I ask you to bring YOUR copy in so they can sell it back to you?
Amherst salamanders MIGHT be on the move tonight.
March 6, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Amherst salamanders MIGHT be on the move tonight.
UMass provides a ludicrously detailed location map letting you know where people are when they access your scholarship which is how I found out there is a duck in the reservoir who is into Ben Jonson.
March 3, 2025 at 8:28 PM
UMass provides a ludicrously detailed location map letting you know where people are when they access your scholarship which is how I found out there is a duck in the reservoir who is into Ben Jonson.
Me when I read basically anything about the world right now:
February 23, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Me when I read basically anything about the world right now:
Amazon's "how big is this object" service seems a bit like it's showing the world how to use The Places of Wit to block incoming projectiles.
February 22, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Amazon's "how big is this object" service seems a bit like it's showing the world how to use The Places of Wit to block incoming projectiles.
In 1598 AND in 1623, people printing Love's Labour's Lost saw the word "Concolinel" sitting there by itself and were totally fine with it. Now editors get to guess why. In 2027 or so, you can find out what my guess is!
February 15, 2025 at 8:15 PM
In 1598 AND in 1623, people printing Love's Labour's Lost saw the word "Concolinel" sitting there by itself and were totally fine with it. Now editors get to guess why. In 2027 or so, you can find out what my guess is!
I am not at #mla2025 but some words I arranged definitely are…. Go say hi to them for me. And while you’re at it, get a sandwich at Turkey and the Wolf for me!
January 11, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I am not at #mla2025 but some words I arranged definitely are…. Go say hi to them for me. And while you’re at it, get a sandwich at Turkey and the Wolf for me!
decent news from their instagram account... 17 mins ago
January 8, 2025 at 1:56 AM
decent news from their instagram account... 17 mins ago
The people clamor for more Shakespeare Unlearned content, and who am I to deny them? In Chapter 3, "Stage Pedants and Magisterial Nonsense", I report on a few secret messages Shakespeare encoded in everyone's favorite extremely long word: honorificabilitudinitatibus.
January 2, 2025 at 2:10 PM
The people clamor for more Shakespeare Unlearned content, and who am I to deny them? In Chapter 3, "Stage Pedants and Magisterial Nonsense", I report on a few secret messages Shakespeare encoded in everyone's favorite extremely long word: honorificabilitudinitatibus.
It's Day Two of the official celebration of the US publication of Shakespeare Unlearned. It's not all anecdotes! But here's the beginning of Chapter One, "Twelfth Night and the Broken Jest." It opens with a story about me making a big mistake in front of an audience. Read on, below...
December 30, 2024 at 10:38 PM
It's Day Two of the official celebration of the US publication of Shakespeare Unlearned. It's not all anecdotes! But here's the beginning of Chapter One, "Twelfth Night and the Broken Jest." It opens with a story about me making a big mistake in front of an audience. Read on, below...
Hello, friends. Dec 26th - Boxing Day? Yes. My wife and my father's shared birthday? Yes! But also: the US publication date for Shakespeare Unlearned. To celebrate, I'll post parts of it here. We'll start at the beginning: the cover, and the first bit of the Prologue. I hope you'll read.
December 29, 2024 at 10:14 PM
Hello, friends. Dec 26th - Boxing Day? Yes. My wife and my father's shared birthday? Yes! But also: the US publication date for Shakespeare Unlearned. To celebrate, I'll post parts of it here. We'll start at the beginning: the cover, and the first bit of the Prologue. I hope you'll read.