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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 14d

Had not seen that! Thank you!

Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 15d

John Carey was a brilliant scholar and public intellectual, but he was also a model professional academic, and personally kind. In the 90s he ended up supervising my D Phil when no one else much fancied it, and for that I am eternally grateful.

Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 20d

I mean, it’s there in black and white on the internet, but I still have some doubts…

Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 27d

Thanks to Aberystwyth Bibliographical Group for hosting me for a zoom talk the other week on Mrs Shakespeare and binding waste! They also recorded the talk, which was kind: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9PK...

In the Company of Mrs Shakespeare

YouTube video by David Stoker

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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · Nov 26

Did not know that! Will check it out! Also, fun trivia - it features in an episode of Peep Show where Mark is watching a performance of it.

Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · Nov 26

I’m sorry to hear that. The Satanic Epic is one of my favourite Milton books.

Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · Nov 26

Bowers’s in works of Thomas Dekker, with commentary in a separate volume by Cyrus Hoy. Great choice of play!

Laura Estill @lauraestill.bsky.social · Nov 19

Out now!

The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Constance Crompton, @raysiemens.bsky.social , Richard J. Lane, and myself

And better yet? It's #openaccess!
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

Order hard copies here: www.routledge.com/The-Companio...

Thanks to all contributors! 🎉

a handsome book cover: The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities in Practice ; blue at top and bottom and with ethereal black and white and rainbow edged dots evoking information transfer (shaped like a long fish's tail, perhaps). Edited by Constance Crompton, Laura Estill, Richard J. Lane, and Ray Siemens

Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · Nov 17

Congratulations on the D Phil!

Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · Nov 10

Thank you so much for sharing this!!

Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · Nov 4

Yes, I think so too - lots of early allusions and imitations.

Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · Oct 27

Number 27 made me laugh. It may not have made a novel but it is now a highly successful piece of microfiction.

Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · Oct 24

For older Brits, that it devalues their own old degrees, for sure. Also that grades do create a social hierarchy, but the wrong one - their constant complaint is that degree results don’t just reproduce a level results (in which posher kids have always had an edge) and are hence meaningless.

Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · Oct 24

Yes indeed! And it’s a mysterious one! The title looks like it should be “gettable” - someone someday is going to work out exactly what it was about - but no-one has yet. lostplays.folger.edu/Spanish_Maze...

Spanish Maze, The - Lost Plays Database

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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · Oct 24

Chapter 6 is a bit iffy, but the rest of this collection is really very good.

The Arden Shakespeare @ardenpublisher.bsky.social · Oct 24

*Available open access*

'Rethinking Theatrical Documents in Shakespeare’s England' (ed. Tiffany Stern) brings together 15 scholars to analyse & theorise the documents, lost and found, that produced a play at the time.

Read online this #OAWeek https://bit.ly/4qqB1qc

The Arden Shakespeare @ardenpublisher.bsky.social · Oct 24

*Available open access*

'Rethinking Theatrical Documents in Shakespeare’s England' (ed. Tiffany Stern) brings together 15 scholars to analyse & theorise the documents, lost and found, that produced a play at the time.

Read online this #OAWeek https://bit.ly/4qqB1qc

Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · Oct 16

Go, and return an old Franciscan frier?

Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · Oct 16

Special mention for Matt Woodcock’s book on Fairy in The Faerie Queene, with its sublime subtitle, Renaissance Elf-Fashioning.

Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · Sep 25

Wow! That work sounds amazing! Will check out the paper you mention.

Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · Sep 24

Not a scooby! But there’s a book in the BL that’s of interest to me that presents the same problem. Is there a non-invasive way of getting at these if one were really minded? Can one x-ray them or similar?

Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · Sep 9

Fabulous new discoveries from @kscheil.bsky.social!

That Shakespeare Life @thatshakespeare.bsky.social · Sep 9

Did you know Anne Hathaway’s epitaph is the only one in the Shakespeare family plot written on a brass plaque? Everyone else—Shakespeare, his daughter, and son-in-law—has stone slabs. We explore what that might mean on this week’s episode. www.cassidycash.com/ep386

That Shakespeare Life @thatshakespeare.bsky.social · Sep 9

Did you know Anne Hathaway’s epitaph is the only one in the Shakespeare family plot written on a brass plaque? Everyone else—Shakespeare, his daughter, and son-in-law—has stone slabs. We explore what that might mean on this week’s episode. www.cassidycash.com/ep386

Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · Aug 23

Just seen this - a find with all sorts of elegant implications for Nashe. Bravo, Joseph Black. Lovely to see TN, who projects an air of brilliant improv, rechecking sources and writing corrections in his neatest handwriting.

www.folger.edu/blogs/collat...

Thomas Nashe's Almond for a Parrat (1590), corrected by the author | Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...

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Helen Smith @wordsmith.bsky.social · Aug 15

A plethora of new ODNB entries on early modern women stationers! Entries from Heidi Craig, Andrea Silva, Kirk Melnikoff, @mgyarn.bsky.social, Andreas P. Bassett, @tarallyons.bsky.social and @georginaemw.bsky.social, me, and of course from @valeriewayne.bsky.social who cooked up the whole cluster.

Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · Aug 6

www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

With customary precision and elegance (how does he make it look so bloody easy?) Charles Nicholl writes about Mrs Shakspaire for the New York Review of Books.

Who Is Mrs. Shakspaire? What Is She? | Charles Nicholl

On a summer’s day in 1978, Frederick Charles Morgan was at work as usual in the ancient library of Hereford Cathedral. He was a hundred years old but

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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · Jul 31

But I love even more the image of him in a frock coat, sat on the sideines at the Royal Toxophilite Society, turning the pages of this book while arrows hiss and thwack into the targets.

Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · Jul 31

I love that this thing, after thirty years, can suddenly take you somewhere completely unexpected, to the worlds of Charles Dickens and Buffalo Bill. It’s great that you can read some of Zouch Troughton’s writing and hear some of his voice.

Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · Jul 31

What’s more – this obit explains precisely why Haines gave him the book that’s now on my shelf.

Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · Jul 31

The key is another obituary from 1889, this one from The Archer’s Register:

Fred T. Follett, ed., The Archer’s Register for 1889-1890 (London: Horace Cox, 1890), 78.

Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · Jul 31

But then – double plot twist – the obituary is wrong. Gosse says he didn’t know Zouch at all, only his work, but has seen a death notice for him. Actually the notice was for Zouch’s grandfather, also called Zouch. I am more relieved by this than I should be.

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