A stack of books on a blue surface with the text: "Amplifying voices: The Cambridge Amplify Fund.

The inaugural Cambridge Amplify Grant will support early-career scholars in History and Area Studies in publishing their first book, providing financial and editorial support over 12 months.

⏰ The closing date for submissions is 13 April 2026.

Find out more 🔗 https://cup.org/3NJAd1a

Today’s Extra Credit focuses on Peter Kirwan’s interview with Aidan O'Reilly and Vanessa Morosco about Aidan's experience of being the first blind director to work at the American Shakespeare Center. Check out these open-access resources!

📰: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Transform Your Teaching with The Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series Discover what's unique about the next generation of Shakespeare's plays, poems and sonnets, and come away with new ideas for the classroom about how you can use the new play editions to teach Shakespeare in relation to race, disability, neurodiversity, ...

*Long weekend watching*

Catch up on our 'Transform Your Teaching with The Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series' event from a few weeks ago & discover new ways of thinking about your teaching.

Watch now: https://bit.ly/3PVxTof

#ProfessorJerzyLimonScholarship available to academics and artists undertaking a project focusing on Shakespeare and/or Limon’s own academic and artistic work. Deadline: 10 May 2026 @saaupdates.bsky.social @bsashakespeare.bsky.social @shaxbull.bsky.social @britgrad.bsky.social

Discover my open access textbook, which received an honorable mention of this year's @saaupdates.bsky.social Publics Award. screenshakespeare.org

At the conference in Denver I will demo it at the digital exhibit.

#shax2026 #openaccess #shakespeare

Discussing: Cue Scripts (Early Access) | Beyond Shakespeare Get more from Beyond Shakespeare on Patreon

🔊Meanwhile, early access release for our wonderful £3+ tier patrons is this discussion about Cue Scripting with Lizzie Conrad Hughes. This will drop for everyone later in the year but you can hear it now & support our work in making productions happen by joining us! www.patreon.com/posts/discus...

Love, Loss and Shakespeare: An Evening with Sir Gregory Doran The Stationers’ Company in association with The Whitefriars Club

Our brilliant Dr Chris Laoutaris will be interviewing Sir Gregory Doran, former artistic director of @the-rsc.bsky.social about his new book, 'Walking Shadow' at @stationerscomms.bsky.social on 23 April from 6:15pm
What a way to celebrate Shakespeare's birthday😍
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/love-loss-...

Early modernists! I just want to check the truth of horses being banned from the playhouse stage as per Lawrence (1927), Levin (1946), Watson (1983)... Any revisions to this history? @callanjd.bsky.social, @andykesson.bsky.social eg?

A photograph of a character in a play. A young woman wearing a green Elizabethan-style doublet with a big ruff, over matching green short shorts and fishnet tights. She's got teal eyeshadow, little horns in her hair, and a banana tucked into her belt, and she's shooting someone in the audience with an orange water pistol.

Rehearsal begins - places, everyone! - but Puck is preparing for MISCHIEF... #MoonMad #SlowShakespeare
www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo...
A particularly anarchic Puck, complete with banana and water-pistol: Katy Owen in the 2016 Globe Dream, dir. Emma Rice.

Shakespeare and Kingship - Darren Freebury-Jones Talk | 1620s House and Garden Darren Freebury-Jones grapples with the big questions Shakespeare raises in his history plays.

My next public talk is on SHAKESPEARE AND KINGSHIP at the 1620s House and Garden in Leicester on April 12th 2026.

Tickets below:

1620shouse.org.uk/events/shake...

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First publication of the year – a review of #TwelfthNight at the Cambridge Arts Theatre by the Marlowe Society.
You can find it here: doi.org/10.1080/1745...
Or if you don’t have a login, this link will take you to an open access version: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/5TCUJ...
#Shakespeare 🎭

‘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

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Queer Shakespeare The go-to resource for understanding desire, same-sex and trans eroticism in Shakespeare's texts, as well as in stage performance and in textual criticism, this…

Excited to hear that the 2nd edition of
"Queer Shakespeare" edited by Goran Stanivukovic
is forthcoming on 11 June 2026

This edition contains 5 new essays incl:

Lee Hansen
'Queer/Crip Ovidian (dis)inheritances in "Venus and Adonis"'

[posted with permission]

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/queer-sha...

Teaching Shakespeare Magazine - British Shakespeare Association Teaching Shakespeare is the BSA’s magazine aimed at educators. The editor of the BSA’s Teaching Shakespeare magazine is Myfanwy Edwards, who is a PhD student at UCL Institute of education where she is...

Delighted to have had the opportunity to contribute to the Teaching Shakespeare Magazine @bsashakespeare.bsky.social Special thanks to Dr Richard Stacey @uofglasgow.bsky.social who guest edited this special issue on school to university transition www.britishshakespeare.ws/education/te...

Coming up on 27 April, Dr Daniel Gosling examines the property dispute over New Place between Edward and Elizabeth Nash and Suzanna Hall, utilising original records now held at The National Archives. Follow the link below for more details and to book!
www.britishshakespeare.ws/a-battle-of-...

Collaboration, Technologies, and the History of Shakespearean Bibliography Cambridge Core - Renaissance and Early Modern Literature - Collaboration, Technologies, and the History of Shakespearean Bibliography

It's out! 🎉🎉🎉

"Collaboration, Technologies, and the History of Shakespearean Bibliography"

Open access (just click "save pdf" for a formatted version)

It was a joy working with Heidi Craig, Kris May, and Dorothy Todd on this Element

www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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The Shakespeare Birthday Lecture 2026

Prof. Lena Orlin, Chair of the NVS Board, is part of the line-up at this year’s Shakespeare’s Birthday Lecture in Stratford-upon-Avon. www.shakespeare.org.uk/visit/whats-...

The British Academy ECR Network supports Early Career Researchers to connect, learn and grow.

Charlotte says: “As a result of being part of this network, I’ve had opportunities and experiences that otherwise I would not have had.”
Join an Opportunity Session to learn more.
https://bit.ly/4dHUX3I

How Historians Know Shakespeare was Shakespeare with Susan Amussen at Topping & Company Booksellers of Bath A compelling tour of Shakespeare's England that makes a powerful contribution to the 'authorship question'.

How do we know Shakespeare was Shakespeare?

Historian @sdamussen.bsky.social shows how we can be certain that the glover’s son was the author behind Hamlet, King Lear and The Tempest?

Join us at @toppingsbath.bsky.social on Tuesday 24th: www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/bath/...
#Bath #booksky

BSA Small Grants Fund: Events Reports - British Shakespeare Association The BSA’s Small Grants Fund supports a wide variety of projects. Two recipients of BSA’s SGF share reports about events that were partially funded by the scheme below. Revels Office: New Voices in Ear...

Ahead of the #BSASmallGrants Fund window closing on 30 March, we've been sharing reflections from previous recipients on our blog. Read all about the Revels Office conference and Shakespeare and the Politics of Subtitling to inspire your own proposals!
www.britishshakespeare.ws/bsa-small-gr...

Index cards used by 20thC editors of the New Variorum Shakespeare in the production of commentary and textual notes, now on display in our exhibition about the history of the NVS at the Cushing Library @tamu.bsky.social

A photograph of a play in performance. A young person with blue hair, wearing blue baggy shorts with braces over a lighter shirt, with trainers, stands in the middle of the stage with their hands outstretched and lifted up, in profile. There's red lit dry ice at the back along the floor, and a spectacular arrangement of glowing lights like lanterns or glass marbles floating above in clusters and arches, mostly red with some yellow. There's a hologram-like effect over the actor's head, it looks like a dandelion only bright turquoise.

Puck: magic juice successfully applied to Athenian eyes ✅enter Helena & Demetrius, exit Demetrius👀 #MoonMad #SlowShakespeare
www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo...
Rosie Sheehy as Puck in the spectacular @the-rsc.bsky.social Dream 2024, dir. Eleanor Rhode, des. Lucy Osborne, lighting Matt Daw

The cover of a book which reads: “Cambridge / Elements / Shakespeare and Text / Anne Shakespeare’s / Epitaph / Katherine West Scheil” Black background and mostly white text with a row of old book spines along the bottom of the image

✨OUT NOW!✨

ANNE SHAKESPEARE’S EPITAPH
by @kscheil.bsky.social
an original study of anne’s epitaph in holy trinity church (stratford) as a female-authored shakespearean text.

free to download until MARCH 24: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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

An image of the BSA 2026 virtual conference programme with the BSA logo displayed at the top.

Thanks to everyone who joined us for a fascinating few days of experiments, debates and reflections on AI and Shakespeare! Extra special thanks to organisers Deborah Cartmell and Lisa Hopkins and to the presenters for a lively programme considering the loses, gains and urgent actions posed by AI 🤖

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:

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 🙂

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Transform Your Teaching with The Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series

Hear from the Arden Shakespeare Fellows about teaching Shakespeare to non‑native English speakers & in global, inclusive contexts.

📆19 March @ 4-5pm GMT/11am-12pm EST
💻Online 🎟️ Free
https://bit.ly/4rAz6zj

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*:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A very exciting line-up as well as a few familiar faces!