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Posts by Ben Blyth

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If you are in Denver for #SAA2026 you’d be very welcome today in “Mineral F” @ 2pm ⛰️ for our hybrid seminar “Rethinking Original Practices”, with the great @oelj.bsky.social and a stacked line up of seminarians! Papers fab. Swords optional. Jigging highly encouraged. 🎭 @saaupdates.bsky.social

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And perhaps stars crossing… so down for a visit and even a touch of R&J in the Spanish summer sun?!!

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🤯 (give or take a year on Almagro construction duration…and Curtain final activities? tho also c. 450 since opening…). Stars aligning…

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Book Launch: Annie Tyson and Stephen Unwin Join the authors to discuss the books, Shakespeare and Brecht 2025, by Stephen Unwin, and Shakespeare and Stanislavsky 2024 by Annie Tyson.

*Book launch*

Join Annie Tyson & @stephenunwin.bsky.social for the launch of their Arden Performance Companions on Shakespeare & Stanislavsky, and Shakespeare & Brecht.

📍Royal Central School of Speech & Drama
📆 Thu 19 March, 7–8:30pm

Reserve your (free!) place: https://bit.ly/4lmMVPB

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Alright you lot, own up. Which one of you is responsible for this shenanigan?

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Today’s Extra Credit focuses on Benjamin Blyth’s article, “Shakespeare’s “Dramatic Style” at the Curtain: A Collaborative Model for Site-Responsive Practice-as-Research”. Check out these open-access resources to go along with this open-access article!

📰: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

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Early Career Antiquaries - Society of Antiquaries of London We welcome Post-Graduate Researchers, Early Career Researchers and those starting out in fields involving the past to join us in considering how the Society of Antiquaries could contribute to early ca...

Are you a Post-Graduate Researchers, Early Career Researchers or someone starting out in a field involving the past? Join us on 16 Jan for a free event to consider how the Society could contribute to early career support! www.sal.org.uk/event/early-...

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NEW ISSUE KLAXON: Shakespeare Bulletin 43.2 is now published via Project Muse! In this open-access issue, scholars and practitioners engage in conversations across time, media, and geographic distance.

📰: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55948

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Discord — HELIOTROPE By Ben Blyth Ben Blyth’s “Discord” can be found in pdf format at the link above in order to preserve the poetry’s original formatting

Please read this:

Discord
BY BEN BLYTH

www.heliotropejournal.net/helio/discord

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This is the making of @benblyth.bsky.social — please read and follow…

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Doctor John Faustus (Chapter 19) Whereupon the rout of Devils appeared unto him, threatening him sharply...

😈Doctor John Faustus continues with chapter 19 - oh dear, a rout of Devils appear unto him, threatening him sharply. Very sharply.
Literal pitchforks people, devils with pitchforks.
#demon #devil #DoctorFaustus
audioboom.com/posts/874511...

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White banner with a close-up image of a person's hands typing on a laptop keyboard. The words 'International Writing Workshops 2025' are written on the right-hand side.

White banner with a close-up image of a person's hands typing on a laptop keyboard. The words 'International Writing Workshops 2025' are written on the right-hand side.

Applications are now open for the International Writing Workshops. The scheme is designed to help early-career researchers enhance their writing skills and increase the uptake of their research in academic publications. Learn more: buff.ly/OdmgXOf

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"My voice is in my sword" - SIGNED in performance. It gave me goosebumps in the telling of it let alone the performing. BRAVO!

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We're at #BSA2025 @bsashakespeare.bsky.social and enjoying catching up with authors and meeting new prospective authors, while showcasing recent publications. If there's a project you'd like to discuss just come and say hello 👋

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An image of Cliff Cardinal wearing a hoodie and jacket in front of a simple curtain over a dark orange background with the SB logo and the text “Ultimately, the show invited audiences to consider just why Shakespeare is so important, while also exploiting Shakespeare’s cultural capital to make space for Indigenous voices and stories.”

An image of Cliff Cardinal wearing a hoodie and jacket in front of a simple curtain over a dark orange background with the SB logo and the text “Ultimately, the show invited audiences to consider just why Shakespeare is so important, while also exploiting Shakespeare’s cultural capital to make space for Indigenous voices and stories.”

Erin Julian reviews Crow’s Theatre’s 2024 production of The Land Acknowledgement or As You Like It, created by Cliff Cardinal.

🎭: www.mirvish.com/shows/the-la...

📰: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/956906

📷: Dahlia Katz

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Shakespeare did not leave his wife Anne in Stratford, letter fragment suggests Professor says text shows Hathaway lived with playwright in London, upending the established idea of an unhappy marriage

One of the things I love about the discovery reported in today’s Guardian is that it puts paid to the prejudice you see in a lot of biofiction that Anne Shakespeare/Hathaway would have been illiterate. Nope!
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

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A scene from Incognita Productions' Dark Arcadia shows three young women, wearing school uniforms, laughing together and surrounded by bookshelves full of books

A scene from Incognita Productions' Dark Arcadia shows three young women, wearing school uniforms, laughing together and surrounded by bookshelves full of books

Check out our latest blog post on 'Dark Arcadia and the wider Shakespeare Republic universe' by @sallymclean.bsky.social! We were proud to support 'Dark Arcadia' with #BSASmallGrants in 2024 and excited to see more #Shakespeare adaptation on screen. Follow the the link in our bio to read more!

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It's #nationalpoetrymonth -- here's my poetry on a billboard on Calgary's Deerfoot Trail, courtesy @wordfest.com

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Scene from a theatre show: two young men running an intense race while others cheer them on. The words 'registration open, BSA conference 2025' written over the top.

Scene from a theatre show: two young men running an intense race while others cheer them on. The words 'registration open, BSA conference 2025' written over the top.

Hello Bluesky! We are excited to be here and even more excited to announce that registration for #BSA2025 Conference 'Practising Shakespeare' is open now! 25-28 June, University of York, School of Arts & Creative Technologies

Follow the link in our bio to register and view the provisional programme

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NEW ISSUE KLAXON: Shakespeare Bulletin 42.4 features Claire Kimball's essay on visual dramaturgy, Jennifer Birkett's essay on the 50/50 Shakespeare project, and a special reviews section on the Ukrainian Shakespeare Festival.

📰: muse.jhu.edu/issue/53960

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I do! Looking forward to discussing Titus Andronicus with @oldfortunatus.bsky.social in this free webinar next month.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/english-fa...

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Huge congratulations to this year’s ENGL401 cohort at #STMUCalgary for their fantastic capstone conference today! Brilliant papers on subjects from Katherena Vermette to Medieval Monsters! Not truly the end, just a new beginning. The future is bright. So proud of you all! 👏

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Title image of events and exhibitions brochure for Guildhall Library and Archive events, May-August 2025, celebrating the 600th anniversary of Guildhall Library. Highlighted is 'Shakespeare on the Ropes', Thursday 12th June, 6-8pm. Below is an image of a seventeenth century female rope dancer.

Title image of events and exhibitions brochure for Guildhall Library and Archive events, May-August 2025, celebrating the 600th anniversary of Guildhall Library. Highlighted is 'Shakespeare on the Ropes', Thursday 12th June, 6-8pm. Below is an image of a seventeenth century female rope dancer.

Lecture series!👩‍🏫 'Performing (in) the Early Modern City': join myself, Dr Lydia Valentine, and Prof. Clare McManus Thursdays 29th May-12th June to hear about secret performance, sky-high performance, and the influence of civic performance on race-making in early modern London.

🧵more info below!

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Massive crowd in #yyc tonight for eventful @mark-carney.bsky.social rally. Security tight with 1000+ outside. These are difficult times, but in the words of great Tsuu T’ina leader Travis Meguinis: “it’s a good sign when the sun and the moon are together in the sky!” #cdnpoli #abpoli #elbowsup 🇨🇦

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REED Online: Collection: Suffolk

James Stokes's new Records of Early English Drama collection for the whole county of Suffolk is now LIVE and up on the REED site: ereed.org/collections/...
What East Anglian riches await...
#theatrehistory

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A demon chokes an adventurous young man.

A demon chokes an adventurous young man.

Demons keep an old man company.

Demons keep an old man company.

Two new #earlymodern designs, and just in time for Spring! www.zazzle.com/store/dredit...

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Wise words from Fletcher and Massinger’s “Rollo” that hit a little different on a Monday morning 🍻

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Shakespeare Volume 21, Issue 1 of Shakespeare

Latest issue of Shakespeare now online, with articles by @callanjd.bsky.social @drsheeha.bsky.social and many more #earlymodern folks! www.tandfonline.com/toc/rshk20/c...

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A brilliant reflection on and advocacy for humanities research, teaching, and engagement in these trying but urgent times for SHAPE academia, with a forceful intro from Regenia Gagnier and including @jennyrichards.bsky.social on English and @englishassociation.bsky.social work.

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