An image of three paperbacks, all with black background and a photo of book spines along the bottom. The titles of the books (left to right) are: Editing an Early Modern Play by Suzanne Gossett and Gordon McMullan Collaboration, Technologies, and the History of Shakespearean Bibliography by Heidi Craig, Laura Estill, Kris L. May, and Dorothy Todd Anne Shakespeare’s Epitaph by Katherine West Scheil

📖✨material texts!✨📖

the three most recent titles in the @universitypress.cambridge.org ELEMENTS IN SHAKESPEARE & TEXT series.

if you have an idea for an element (25K-30K words) on shakespeare & text (broadly conceived) contact me & @loughnrv.bsky.social!

ℹ️: www.cambridge.org/core/publica...

quarto-making day!

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The Bibliographical Society is delighted to announce the launch of a redesigned version of the London Book Trades Database, details of which are in this month’s Council’s Choice:

bibsoc.org.uk/councils-cho...

Book Arts Weekend with Kadin Henningsen: Lecture Please join UK Libraries' King Library Press on April 17-18 for the Spring 2026 Book Arts Weekend with Kadin Henningsen, the new Head of the King Library Press. Waltzing with...

This is happening in a few weeks: libcal.uky.edu/event/16533226

it has been a big month for the series! 🎉

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The cover of a book with a black background and a row of different colored and sized book spines along the bottom. The text reads: “Cambridge / Elements / Shakespeare and Text / Editing an Early Modern Play” / Suzanne Gossett and Gordon McMullan”

✨JUST PUBLISHED✨

EDITING AN EARLY MODERN PLAY
by Suzanne Gossett & Gordon McMullan

a long overdue new introduction to the pleasures and challenges of editing early modern drama

free to download until 04.10: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

cc @loughnrv.bsky.social

it is! with a stellar team of contributors. i can’t wait to share the TOC. soon!

coming soon! 📖✨

an exemplary piece of collaborative scholarship about collaborative scholarship!

I read this in draft, and it’s wonderful. (1/3)

cc @loughnrv.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org

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...

get ready to download this one! it’s excellent! ✨

marlovian ambivalence?

Donate to Help Publish Meghan's Shakespeare Monograph, organized by Sarah Neville Shakespeare scholar Meghan C Andrews passed away in 2023, after a valiant… Sarah Neville needs your support for Help Publish Meghan's Shakespeare Monograph

Attention #EarlyModern and #Shakespeare friends: join me on this Giving Tuesday in donating to an Open Access fund for Meghan C. Andrews’s book. Cancer took Meghan from us in 2023, but her legacy can live on. Share widely!

Come and apply to be the Professor of Bibliography & Modern Book History @engfacoutreach.bsky.social & @jesusoxford.bsky.social (and work closely with us @bodleian.ox.ac.uk). Following a long line of great scholars: Don McKenzie, Kathryn Sutherland, & Dirk van Hulle ... my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

perfect timing!

i knew this issue was in the works but didn't realize that it was out already. thank you for the important heads-up!

A close-up image of a printed playtext on a page in _Comedies & Tragedies_ (1647) where the inked impression of a piece of fallen type is visible. You can see the rectangular body of the typesort and make out that the letter on top of it is probably a lower-case 'r'.

seeking pointers to texts (academic or otherwise; primary or secondary; early modern or not) that discuss/theorize 'failure'?

bonus points if it specifically addresses _textual_ 'failure'.

here's an impression of fallen type for your troubles👇

"The Printing Press Democratized Knowledge": When Slogans Masquerade as History — Sonja Drimmer The phrase is said so frequently it seems, like the mechanism it celebrates, to mechanically replicate itself.  It's become a favorite catchphrase among tech boosters of any sort (see my post on...

What, exactly, does this string of words mean? Why does everyone who stands to profit from selling "AI" love to repeat it? And what's the value of slogans that masquerade as history?

sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...

Sharpie Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for apprentice Early Modern palaeographers

✍ Introducing ✍

Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeography

gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/

AKA What I Did Over Reading Week.

#skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing.

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it works brilliantly as a standalone play in performance. and on the page (says she who is editing it right now).

same for 1H6.

i’m talking more about john milton and ‘books read promiscuously’ on monday at penn state.

if you’re in central PA and want to learn about what we are learning about milton’s reading from what he wrote in his books, i’d love to see you!

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now we have to find milton's spenser/s: a view _and_ FQ

yes!

cc @aarontpratt.bsky.social @jes1003.bsky.social

A close-up image of a handwritten note in a sixteenth-century book. The note reads: 'Spenser repor / teth otherwise / [o]f this Knight / [D]ialogue of Ire- / [la]nd / [p]. 76.

a tiny bit of good news is that we have secured funding to digitize john milton's copy of holinshed's CHRONICLES (1587).

the images will form part of MILTON'S LIBRARY, an open-access site featuring the 10 books positively identified as milton's w/ transcriptions/translations of his marginal notes.

always the best day of the semester! thanks for sharing! 📖♥️