Apparently the late Baron Montague was a huge Oxfordian 🫩

Also, not pictured: A panel explaining how Shakespeare "likely" joined Elizabeth on her progress in 1591...

Oh come on Beaulieu Abbey I'm on holiday let's not start a fight 🤦‍♂️

Made it to the White Bear in Kennington 😎 The Bakerloo line remains boiling. No idea how Londoners manage.

Looking forward to showtime with @beyondshakes.bsky.social as we celebrate Anthony Munday's play of Sir Thomas More.

(Rare bathroom mirror selfie)

On my way! And currently enjoying a bizarrely empty train 😎

Thanks Claire! Hope all is well with you 🙂

Thanks so much Darren!

And (continuing beyond the 250-character-limit) @beyondshakes.bsky.social, @tracelarkhall.bsky.social, @danielyabut.bsky.social (definitely needed your contribution to our Middleton collection to make sense of Chapter 5), and all the staff at my partner museums 🤗

@drwillsharpe.bsky.social, @freeburian.bsky.social, @alhegland.bsky.social, #SamJermyIsTooCoolForBluesky, @claireturner.bsky.social, and everyone else who is too cool for Bluesky. Also thanks to the @srsrensoc.bsky.social, within whose series at @routledgebooks.bsky.social this will be published! 😄

Obviously can't reproduce my acknowledgements here, but thanks to all who supported this project in any way, whether that be through PhD supervision, discussions, Middleton fanaticism, or even offering support through the challenging personal time that arose in the final weeks (!) of writing.

Excellent news to wake up to - my book has officially been sent to press! 😄 Now just to wait less than two months for publication day. I'm so excited to finally hold it in my hands.

There will be a book launch event - news forthcoming 😎

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Lecture: From Mystery Plays to Travelling Players: Renaissance Coventry and the Story of Shakespeare Date: 3 May 2026 Location: St. Mary's Guildhall, Bayley Lane, Coventry Price: £15 Visit website → https://stmarysguildhall-tickets.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/1173676070 Join us for a fascinating talk by historian Dr. Will Green about theatre in Coventry during the English Renaissance. This hour long talk in the Dame Ellen Terry room includes admission to St Mary’s Guildhall. Afterwards, you can explore the building.

Lecture by @drwillgreen.bsky.social: 'From Mystery Plays to Travelling Players: Renaissance Coventry and the Story of Shakespeare'

Date: 3 May 2026

Location: St. Mary's Guildhall, Bayley Lane, Coventry

Price: £15

#Skystorians #EarlyModernEvents

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Yes, I have it 🙋‍♂️ Will email it over after this meeting.

Actually aghast that, a few months after signing up "just in case" (because how many people actually read my work, surely?), I received a surprise royalties payment from @alcs.co.uk yesterday 😯

Hey, maybe I can make a go of this public history lark.

I'm in History Today again, with a review of Indira Ghose's new book 🤗

Ah shite forgot to switch to my alt account.

Ah sweet, honestly I love anything featuring Will Green.

Black background with photos down the right hand side, next to text about The Book of Sir Thomas More - Panelists Tracey Hill - Professor Emerita of Early Modern Literature and Culture at Bath Spa University. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Specialist in the pageantry and entertainments of the sixteenth and seventeenth-century City of London. Will Green - is a historian focused on the intersection between drama and the experience of public life in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. He received his PhD from the University of Birmingham's Shakespeare Institute in 2021, and has held positions at the universities of Birmingham, Warwick, and Nottingham. His first monograph, Thomas Middleton's Theatre of War: The King's Men and Political Performance in the Public Sphere, 1620-1624 will be published by Routledge in summer 2026. Daniel Yabut - is an actor, teaching artist at ENSAD and at Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry, and CNRS Research Associate. He recently authored chapters in Early Modern Performance Beyond the Public Stage (Bloomsbury Arden) and The Theatrical Legacy of Thomas Middleton (Routledge). He is currently completing his monograph, The Punctuation of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries in Manuscript and Print: A History and Guide (Bloomsbury Arden). He is Managing Editor of Cahiers Élisabéthains. Tiffany Stern is Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama at The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. Her books are Rehearsal from Shakespeare to Sheridan (2000), Making Shakespeare (2004), Shakespeare in Parts (with Simon Palfrey, 2007), Documents of Performance in Early Modern England (2009), Shakespeare, Malone and the Problems of Chronology (2023), and Ballad Business (2026). Previously general editor of New Mermaids and the Norton Anthology of English Literature: Sixteenth Century, she is currently general editor of Arden Shakespeare: Fourth Series. In 2019 she was elected Fellow of the British Academy. beyondshakespeare.org

🚨The Book of Sir Thomas More: Piece by Piece will be an epic deep dive into the play by Anthony Munday and friends. Joining us across the day will be our wonderful panelists, Tracey Hill, Will Green, Daniel Yabut and Tiffany Stern! Other guests may be added!
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Taking a bit of a break from working on this index to start prepping for my first professional public lecture 🤗 Coming to St. Mary's Guildhall Coventry on Sunday 3rd May!

@TheChiefNerd SAM ALTMAN: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

i don’t know how this is supposed to work in terms of intelligence but whatever these guys do is taking stuff that is not theirs to take and then sell it for the highest possible price

electricity water clean air knowledge

you name it

they should be treated like the common thieves they are

Tickets are selling nicely - 8 weeks to go if you're able to get to Coventry on the 3rd May for my first public history lecture! 🙂

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Tickets are selling nicely - 8 weeks to go if you're able to get to Coventry on the 3rd May for my first public history lecture! 🙂

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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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Authorship Attributions in Middleton’s Canon: Collaboration, Revision, and Shakespeare Ascriptions Thomas Middleton collaborated with Shakespeare on Timon of Athens, and there have been arguments for his revising hand in Macbeth, Measure for Measure, and, more recently, All’s Well that Ends Well...

This follows the first article, by @freeburian.bsky.social, which received online publication late last year: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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....

From Mystery Plays to Travelling Players: Renaissance Coventry and the Story of Shakespeare - LECTURE - RHS Join us for a fascinating talk by historian Dr. Will Green about theatre in Coventry during the English Renaissance. This hour long talk in the Dame Ellen Terry room includes admission to St Mary's Gu...

Thabk you to the Royal Historical Society, of which I am an associate fellow, for advertising my forthcoming public history lecture 😊 I'll be bringing my work on travelling players to Coventry on Sunday 3rd May 😀

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An image of the actor Keith Hill, wearing glasses and a jumper to the right of frame, fading into black across the left. Text over the image The Book of Sir Thomas More: Piece by Piece - 12 April 2026. An All Day Event, taking apart and performing the full text of The Book of Sir Thomas More by Anthony Munday and other hands. As well as a live script in hand audio recording of the play (in all its contradictions) we are hosting panel discussions and a deep dive into the play-within-a-play. Sponsored by The Malone Society - the permanent utility of original texts Beyond Shakespeare Company podcast, top right beyondshakespeare.org, bottom middle White Bear Theatre logo, bottom right

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Sunday 12th April 2026 from 1pm at the White Bear Theatre, Kennington
An All Day Event, taking apart and performing the full text of the play by Anthony Munday etc #drama #theatre #history
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I'm delighted to share that I'll be giving a public lecture at St. Mary's Guildhall Coventry on 3rd May! I'll be speaking about Coventry's theatrical history, from the mystery plays to touring theatre in the age of Shakespeare 🙂 On sale now.

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I'm delighted to share that I'll be giving a public lecture at St. Mary's Guildhall Coventry on 3rd May! I'll be speaking about Coventry's theatrical history, from the mystery plays to touring theatre in the age of Shakespeare 🙂 On sale now.

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Now has a cover 😍