A picture book with a dark blue-green cover and iridescent text reading “Allthe world’s your stage: Shakespeare for Today,” by Farah Karin-Cooper. Illustrations from left to right: (1) a young man and woman wearing masks and dancing (Romeo & Juliet); a dark-skinned young man in Renaissance clothing holding a skull (Hamlet); a man with the head of a donkey (Midsummer Night’s Dream).

Found this last week at my local library and it's just delightful. Can confirm both my 7yo child and my 73yo mother enjoyed reading it. #Shakespeare

Mine was about how various Romantics and Victorians turned characters from Shakespeare and Marlowe into Byronic heroes.

Watch how swiftly fake quotes get attributed to “S. Drimmer” now.

Thing is, this is exactly what ChatGPT was designed to do. Namely, jackhammer the grounds of truth beneath our feet. Whether the product is “good” or not is irrelevant. Its purpose is to remove people from acts of discernment.

PETITION: Don't Let the Federal Government Regulate Your Reading Not one country's freedom and liberty has ever been increased by banning books.

Imagine asking Washington D.C. for permission to read a book.

Hard pass.

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"The rise of extreme wealth is one of the clearest signs of this imbalance. In 1987, billionaires held wealth equal to 3% of global GDP. Today this tiny elite, just 0.0001% of the world population, owns the equivalent of *16%* of world GDP in wealth."

@kvmfinn.bsky.social looking forward to this!

It's a wonderful feeling and, at least for me, it never fades. Even now, 15+ years away from my PhD, I still get a rush when I learn that people assign my books or articles.

Thank you, state attorney generals.

They really do sit at this fascinating nexus of print and textile, don’t they? 🤩

#fanstudies crowd, new collection just dropped with an excellent group of contributors. #academicsky #mediastudies #fanfiction

I wonder if it's because they fall under "medievalism" rather than "medieval" and that makes them harder to classify and/or justify?

If we released the Epstein Files, Putin will no longer have control over the US.

The victims deserve justice.

Oh, THAT is the source of the Jack quote!! I have not read any Pynchon but in my (mild) defense, you usually find me 500 years earlier.

Good luck! I have a similar travel day on Friday.

In a country that took the humanities seriously, way more of the medievalists you’re seeking out to explain Avignon would have actual academic jobs.

It is a weirdly comforting genre in its own way.

Paperback copy of the new Oxford World’s Classics edition of Shakespeare’s Henry VI, Part 2 sitting on a bookcase. Cover has a red heraldic rose, an unhappy-looking king, and possible witch, and a soldier on horseback, all surrounded by a wash of bloody red.

Back cover of a paperback edition od the new Oxford World’s Classics edition of Henry VI, Part 2.

It never fully sinks in until you're holding the copy in your hands...

Thank you to @oldfortunatus.bsky.social for trusting me with the introduction! I’m quite proud of how it turned out. 😄🍾📖 #Shakespeare #EarlyModern

My misreading: I saw “intersection of medieval studies and dog history”…

Especially if Bisclavret's wife gets a rebuttal.

Bisclavret: Good boi or goodest boi?

People of Twin Cities awarded JFK Profile in Courage Award over resistance to ICE surge The people of Minneapolis-St. Paul are being honored with a John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for their response to the federal immigration enforcement operation this winter, the JFK Library Fo...

You all saw this, right?

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Lawmakers respond after reported ICE agents detain woman at SFO in front of daughter Mayor Daniel Lurie and local lawmakers are sounding off after video circulating on social media shows reported ICE agents in plain clothes detaining a woman at SFO on Sunday night in front of her cryi...

It took less than 24 hours before ICE agents at airports violently brutalized a woman in front of her daughter.

Republicans need to fund TSA and other essential functions and get ICE out of our communities. We must abolish ICE and dismantle DHS.

Tell your representative to oppose H.R. 7661. The House Committee on Education and Workforce has advanced H.R. 7661. This bill threatens to block funding promised to schools in order to give politicians the power to censor school materials based on ideology. Unite Against Book Bans.

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My kids tried to convince me their friends were getting $20 per tooth. No way!!

I recall getting into a full-on argument at a family gathering because someone made the mistake of saying the Dorne storyline in A Feast For Crows was boring and GoT S5 was better.

I realize this will probably reduce my credibility in a variety of ways, but this was about "favourite" plays, not which ones we necessarily think are the best-written. 😜

I love Richard II, truly I do, but the first tetralogy will have my heart in a stranglehold for life. 🏵️🌹🗡️

* Cecily duchess of York would have you know she was queen by right even if she was never actually crowned.