A man of property Just outside the City of London, in the secluded streets once occupied by the monastic precinct of the Black Friars, is an unassuming warehouse building

Found a Shakespeare thing; wrote about it in @thetls.bsky.social: www.the-tls.com/regular-feat....

Absorbing knowledge ❤️

One of the First Comedy Double Acts? Meet Richard Tarlton, Elizabethan England's biggest celebrity, and his wife Kate in their stand-up venue...

Today’s new post is a quick read on Tudor “stand up” routines, celebrity clowning, and husband and wife duos:

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Feline inspection in progress:

I am so grateful for Professor @oldfortunatus.bsky.social for trusting me with introducing this edition, the General Editors who did a wonderful job with the text, and the excellent production team at Oxford University Press for their support and professionalism.

My author copies are here! I first came across Arden in 2008 when I wrote my MA dissertation on its performance history. I fell in love immediately. 18 years later, I feel emotional holding the Oxford World’s Classics edition of this remarkable play in my hands, with an Introduction by myself.

Three exciting new books in the 'Shakespeare and Text' Cambridge Elements series:

🎆 Editing an Early Modern Play

🎆 Collaboration, Technologies, and the History of Shakespearean Bibliography

🎆 Anne Shakespeare's Epitaph

More details: www.cambridge.org/core/publica...

@roaringgirle.bsky.social

We're delighted to report we've recently signed a contract with @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social for the edited collection of essays that is the centrepiece of the project publications:

'Wills and Material Culture in #EarlyModern England', eds Laura Sangha & Emily Vine [@emilymayvine.bsky.social].

Witches were not young lovely herbalist midwives worshipping a goddess in the woods.

Most women in Shakespeare's time did not marry as young as Juliet.

Deadline next week! We're looking for abstracts from PGRs/ECRs for our upcoming colloquium. This year's theme is 'Periodising the Early/Modern'.

Deadline: 7th April

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We're back! Building on the success of our inaugural conference last year, we are delighted to announce its return with the new theme: Beyond the Battlefield🗡️

The conference will take place at the University of Exeter on 2-3 September. Deadline for abstracts is 22 May.

Please circulate widely!

I never thought I’d see an early modern woodcut of women prophets on a ‘girls’ night out’ card.

Yes, Bernard Capp in When Gossips Meet writes about increasing gendering as opposed to earlier use applied to men and women.

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-...

Society or the Study of Early Modern Women & Gender 2026 Awards Nominations The Society seeks nominations for awards for English-language scholarly work on women and gender in the early modern period (ca. 1450-1750) published/completed between June 2023 and May 2026. Items pr...

Society for the Study of Early Modern Women & Gender welcomes award nominations for the 2026 Book Awards, Editions Award(s) & Collaborative Project Award

For more info &/or to nominate a work, see
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Deadline: May 25, 2026

A family outing at Brunel University of London today 🦆

What a generous, thoughtful, and kind review by the excellent Dr Emma Whipday of my book! So honoured! ❤️

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Beyond excited to be reviewing this beauty 🔥

Look what just arrived 😍