Shakespeare Volume 22, Issue 1 of Shakespeare

New issue of Shakespeare now out:
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‘Though she be but little, she is fierce’: Popular Feminism and A Midsummer Night’s Dream In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Helena says of Hermia: ‘Though she be but little, she is fierce’ (3.2.325). This quote, taken out of the play’s context of sexual rivalry, has found immense popularity...

Excitement! Another of my PhD students, Rose Albiston, has also just had her first article published, also in the @bsashakespeare.bsky.social journal, *Shakespeare*!! 🥳

‘Though she be but little, she is fierce’: Popular Feminism and A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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Please repost: Can you recommend a piece of writing (by you or anyone else) that sets out to make the writer's research in early modern lit/culture accessible to a general readership? I mean Conversation-type stuff but not necessarily The Conversation.

The Demetrius Dilemma: The Implications of Induced Love in A Midsummer Night’s Dream In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the use of the love-in-idleness enchantment is not confined to producing Titania’s comic union with Bottom but is also applied to Lysander and is the source of Demetri...

Can't tell you how thrilled I am to see my PhD student Mary Bellman's first article published! 🥳

'The Demetrius Dilemma: The Implications of Induced Love in A Midsummer Night’s Dream' in the British Shakespeare Association's journal, *Shakespeare*:

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Voices of the Past: Queer Influence and Poetic Salvage in Shakespeare’s Pericles, Prince of Tyre and Thomas Middleton’s Hengist, King of Kent Shakespeare and Wilkins’ Pericles and Middleton’s Hengist share a unique feature: a mediaeval author as choric figure. Choric figures are typically embodied plot devices rather than dramatic charac...

The second article from the forthcoming special issue I am guest editing on Shakespeare and Middleton has now been published open access.

Thanks to Shaun Nowicki for this piece 🙂

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*New research*

'Macbeth in Modern European Culture' edited by Juan F. Cerdá & Paul Prescott is the first book to offer a pan-European analysis of Macbeth adaptations across a range of media in the long 20th century.

Find out more: https://bit.ly/4tEp01L

Cover of Valentina Finger, Mirrors in Shakespeare and Early Modern English Drama

Out today and open access, a very welcome addition to the Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama series which I co-edit with Doug Bruster:

Call for Papers – Open Now! Constructing Identities, Postgraduate Colloquium 2026 Organisation: University of Sheffield. Deadline for Submission: Monday 30th March 2026.  Conference Date: Monday 15th June 2026. Conference Ven…

Forthcoming PG colloquium at the University of Sheffield -- please repost!

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See Terry Kilburn's book www.austinmacauley.com/book/bess-of... for an argument that her funeral was in fact only a few days after she died.

Cover image of Macbeth in Modern European Culture, edited by Juan F. Cerda and Paul Prescott.

Delighted to see this splendid collection now out.

Conference - British Shakespeare Association BSA Conference AI and Shakespeare: A British Shakespeare Association Virtual Conference A virtual BSA conference 26th and 27th February 2026 In the interests of economy and inclusivity, the BSA will b...

Registration is now open for AI and Shakespeare: A BSA Virtual Conference! True to theme, events will run online 26-27 Feb, including sessions on editing, pedagogy, and a keynote by Jonathan Bate, 'Love's Labour's Won: An Intelligent Artifice?' Register now at: www.britishshakespeare.ws/conference/

‘Down and Out’ with Orwell and Greenwood (1933;1939) * 1. Introduction While Orwell has a strong association with the ‘down and out’, Walter Greenwood does not. However, Greenwood published ‘Down and Out’ as one section among th…

So here is one of the most recent articles on the Walter Greenwood: Not Just Love on the Dole website:

waltergreenwoodnotjustloveonthedole.com/down-and-out...

My (admiring) review of this should shortly be appearing in Shakespeare (www.tandfonline.com/journals/rsh... ) - I've just done the proofs.

Cover of Reading the River in Shakespeare's Britain.

Bill Angus and I are very pleased that our edited collection on Reading the River in Shakespeare's Britain (published by Edinburgh University Press) will soon be out in paperback:

There's me.

Instinct, Knowledge and Occult Science on the Early Modern English Stage Instinct, Knowledge and Occult Science on the Early Modern English Stage

No cover yet but coming August 2026!

“Demonic Temporality in Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus,” Journal of Marlowe Studies (2021)

Horatio in Pieces: Or, How to Deal with Ghosts From the early moments in Hamlet when he offers a ‘piece’ (1.1.18) of himself to his readiness to consider a range of folkloric narratives, Horatio’s approach to the supernatural is one marked by f...

"Horatio in Pieces: Or, How to Deal with Ghosts," Shakespeare (2024)

CfP: AI and Shakespeare (BSA Virtual Conference) - British Shakespeare Association AI and Shakespeare: A British Shakespeare Association Virtual Conference In the interests of economy and inclusivity, the BSA will be meeting in 2026 virtually over two half days (26 – 27 February, 1....

Just over two weeks left to submit abstracts for #BSA2026 online conference on 'AI and Shakespeare', where we'll be exploring the opportunities and threats, briefs and griefs posed by AI to Shakespeare communities. Abstracts due by 12 Janary 2026!

I’ve had written a review of this year’s audio #Shakespeare offering on the BBC - King Lear, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June: doi.org/10.1080/1745...
#ShakespeareOnTheRadio💀🎧 #AudioDrama #RadioDrama

Explore Measure for Measure's unique position in the Shakespeare canon & discover new critical thinking on the play including its sexual politics and ethics.

'Measure for Measure: A Critical Reader' edited by John Jowett & Sarah Olive is out now: https://bit.ly/4oOAjRH

Front cover of the Arden Critical Reader on Measure for Measure, edited by John Jowett and Sarah Olive.

Out later this week. So pleased to have it joining the series.

Cover of book called Stolen Goods in British Detective Fiction, published by Palgrave.

I have a new book out:

Shakespeare Special issue on ‘Adapting Shakespearean Romance in Indian Cinema’, guest-edited by Thea Buckley and Rosa García-Periago. Volume 21, Issue 4 of Shakespeare

Very pleased to say that the new issue of Shakespeare on 'Adapting Romance in Indian Cinema' , guest-edited by Thea Buckley and Rosa Garcia-Periago, is now out at www.tandfonline.com/toc/rshk20/2...

An AI generated portrait of Shakespeare, where his image appears made of brightly coloured computer code

ANNOUNCING #BSA2026 VIRTUAL CONFERENCE!
AI and Shakespeare: CfP

The BSA will meet virtually in 2026, 26–27 Feb, 1–5pm GMT to reflect and take stock on the explosive impact of AI on Shakespeare research, performance and education communities, considering opportunities and threats, briefs and griefs

Deborah Cartmell and I are pleased to announce a virtual conference on AI and Shakespeare which we're running on behalf of the BSA in February 2026. Details and cfp at
www.britishshakespeare.ws/events/

Front cover of book

My author copy of this has just arrived. My son is always telling me I should lift weights so it will have a practical as well as an intellectual use.

🌟Publication Day!🌟

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Authorship, ed. Rory Loughnane and Will Sharpe

For more details about the book's contents and contributors, see here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

You could try the third group down at extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/r..., 'Edited modern spelling e-texts of Renaissance plays'. Most of these were MA work but one or two were third year dissertations. They're complete plays but you could use the same approach for smaller chunks.

So pleased to see this special issue come to fruition.