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Professional association for teachers, researchers, practitioners & writers interested in Shakespeare. Registration open for AI and Shakespeare: A British Shakespeare Association Virtual Conference, 26-27 Feb, 12-5pm GMT
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The BSA Small Grants Fund is back! BSA members can apply by 30 March for up to £500 to support Shakespeare related events or research. We especially encourage proposals from doctoral researchers, ECRs, teachers and creative practitioners! Find out more at:
www.britishshakespeare.ws/bsa-small-gr...
BSA Small Grants Fund - British Shakespeare Association
Purpose: The purpose of the BSA’s Small Grants Fund is to offer financial support to members of the BSA who wish to organize a Shakespeare-related event or conduct Shakespeare-related research. We esp...
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Our Director Dr. Robert Stagg will be talking about ‘Shakespeare’s Asiatic Style’ at the Renaissance Society of America conference in San Francisco today — 2:30pm, Union Square 21.
February 19, 2026 at 3:51 PM
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Out today!

'Shakespeare in the Theatre: Reduced Shakespeare Company' by Ronan Hatfull is the first dedicated historical study of the Reduced Shakespeare Company @reduced.bsky.social, exploring the troupe’s four major Shakespearean works over the past four decades.

https://bit.ly/4rs1wLU
February 19, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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Finally, if you want to celebrate #WorldRadioDay with an audio play, search Drama on 3 on BBC Sounds and you’ll find a wealth of great productions ranging from Shakespeare to Churchill – and a wide range of original and adapted drama in between.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
Enjoy! (3/3)
BBC Radio 3 - Drama on 3 - Available now
Available episodes of Drama on 3
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February 13, 2026 at 2:47 PM
bsashakespeare.bsky.social
The BSA Small Grants Fund is back! BSA members can apply by 30 March for up to £500 to support Shakespeare related events or research. We especially encourage proposals from doctoral researchers, ECRs, teachers and creative practitioners! Find out more at:
www.britishshakespeare.ws/bsa-small-gr...
BSA Small Grants Fund - British Shakespeare Association
Purpose: The purpose of the BSA’s Small Grants Fund is to offer financial support to members of the BSA who wish to organize a Shakespeare-related event or conduct Shakespeare-related research. We esp...
www.britishshakespeare.ws
February 12, 2026 at 10:27 AM
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Puck: I am NAUGHTY, I say BUM! look out fairy, here comes Oberon #MoonMad #SlowShakespeare
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Richard McCabe as a punky Puck (school tie, tutu, pointy ears, fairy wings) in the 1989 @the-rsc.bsky.social Dream, dir. John Caird
A photograph of a character in a play. Black and white, a young man wearing a short jacket over a white shirt and messy school tie, with shorts and a short white tutu; he has fairy wings and is smiling in a manic way.
February 12, 2026 at 10:04 AM
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New monograph alert:

W.R. Streitberger, Shakespeare's Censor: Edmund Tilney's Intelligence Manual (2026)

It's the fourth book published in the Studies in Early Modern Authorship series. Interested in proposing a book for the series? See details here: www.routledge.com/Routledge-St...
Book cover for Shakespeare's Censor
February 9, 2026 at 2:59 PM
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Friends the Playlist for LOVE: A #RaceB4Race Symposium is up on YouTube!!! Check out the 🔥🔥!! #ShakeRace #earlymodern #BlackSky #historysky
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RaceB4Race Love - YouTube
Recordings from the January 2026 Love: A RaceB4Race Symposium.This symposium explored the concept of love in the broadest sense. How does race inform the way...
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February 10, 2026 at 7:37 PM
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#Shakespeare wasn’t always “Shakespeare.” Stephen Orgel explores how the bard's plays became global classics in his new book with @ardenpublisher.bsky.social.

🎭 https://bit.ly/4jy3Hu8

#TheatreSky
February 7, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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Bottom: but what BEARD for Pyramus? 🧔🧔‍♂️Quince: ??!! #MoonMad #SlowShakespeare
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Part of the joke is that, if Will Kempe (R) is playing Bottom, he already has a beard... This is still often the case: here's Kevin Kline in the 1999 film.
A woodcut illustration. On the left, a man in a hat is playing a drum and pipe. He's looking over his shoulder at another man, with a beard, wearing breeches and doublet, with bells below his knees and scarves on his arms; he has a hat with a feather in it, and he's dancing. A still from a film. A man with messy brown hair and a neat beard and moustache is gesturing with his right hand and holding a soft-bound script in his right hand. His mouth is open. He wears a smart white linen jacket and a bowtie.
February 5, 2026 at 10:31 AM
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audioandrea.bsky.social
If you're coming along, you might like to listen to this in advance: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
But no prior knowledge of #RomeoAndJuliet required. You don't even need to like #Shakespeare 🎭
See you Saturday!
#WolseyWriters #Ipswich #Suffolk
#ShakespeareOnTheRadio 💀🎧
#RadioDrama #AudioDrama
February 3, 2026 at 4:19 PM
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"the plays this season were born out of a world in chaos whether that was the chaos of Shakespeare’s 1599 or Brecht’s 1939. The questions these plays ask are an attempt to make sense of that world: what is love? What is evil? What is power? What is life?"
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Imagine Together Summer 2026 | Shakespeare's Globe
A world-renowned theatre, education centre, and cultural landmark, located on the bank of the River Thames in London, UK.
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February 3, 2026 at 9:06 AM
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On the new episode of @thatshakespeare.bsky.social, Carol Chillington Rutter, author of Lying abroad, explores the extraordinary life of the man King James I called his “honest dissembler”, Henry Wotton.

Listen to the episode on all podcast platforms:
www.cassidycash.com/henry-wotton... #booksky
Henry Wotton and the Invention of Diplomacy - Cassidy Cash
Explore the life of Sir Henry Wotton to reveal how diplomacy, danger, & performance shaped the political world that surrounded Shakespeare.
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February 3, 2026 at 10:11 AM
bsashakespeare.bsky.social
Have you renewed your BSA membership for 2026 yet? Register or renew new for free or discounted entry to BSA events, including our upcoming virtual conference on AI and Shakespeare! Concessions available for teachers, practitioners and students
www.britishshakespeare.ws/join-the-bsa...
Join the BSA - British Shakespeare Association
Join the BSA The British Shakespeare Association is a charitable organisation. We depend on our membership and we welcome members from all over the world and from all walks of life. Our members includ...
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February 3, 2026 at 3:36 PM
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"Horatio in Pieces: Or, How to Deal with Ghosts," Shakespeare (2024)
Horatio in Pieces: Or, How to Deal with Ghosts
From the early moments in Hamlet when he offers a ‘piece’ (1.1.18) of himself to his readiness to consider a range of folkloric narratives, Horatio’s approach to the supernatural is one marked by f...
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January 1, 2026 at 2:54 AM
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Bill Angus and I are very pleased that our edited collection on Reading the River in Shakespeare's Britain (published by Edinburgh University Press) will soon be out in paperback:
Cover of Reading the River in Shakespeare's Britain.
January 21, 2026 at 10:28 AM
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Registration is now open for AI and Shakespeare: A BSA Virtual Conference! True to theme, events will run online 26-27 Feb, including sessions on editing, pedagogy, and a keynote by Jonathan Bate, 'Love's Labour's Won: An Intelligent Artifice?' Register now at: www.britishshakespeare.ws/conference/
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BSA Conference AI and Shakespeare: A British Shakespeare Association Virtual Conference A virtual BSA conference 26th and 27th February 2026 In the interests of economy and inclusivity, the BSA will b...
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January 29, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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Delighted to see (and hear) that this episode on the Folger podcast is now up with Rob Eastaway.

www.folger.edu/podcasts/sha...

Rob and I have some exciting collaborative and cross-curricular public speaking events in store, so watch this space!
Shakespeare and Mathematics | 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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January 29, 2026 at 3:39 PM
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nvshakespeare.bsky.social
Here’s the schedule for our two-day conference about ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ and ‘The Winter’s Tale’ next month!

Full details, including a Zoom link for those who want to follow remotely, will be available on our website by the end of this week:

newvariorumshakespeare.org/news
January 27, 2026 at 1:08 PM
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TOMORROW: Prof. Nataliya Torkut, Director of the Ukrainian Shakespeare Centre, will be talking about the history of Shakespeare in Ukraine for our first NVS Seminar of the semester, live from Ukraine.

Thurs 29 Jan, 12 noon CT

Zoom link here: newvariorumshakespeare.org/news
January 28, 2026 at 12:37 PM
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🎵✨ Discover the magic where Shakespeare meets the lyra-viol!

Step into a world of contemporary music inspired by the timeless poetry of Shakespeare, performed on the delicate and haunting lyra-viol 🎻📜.

Listen here 👉 open.spotify.com/playlist/25a...
🎶💫
William Corkine: Lessons and Ayres for the Lyra Viol – Complete Works
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January 18, 2026 at 9:25 AM
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Coming soon!

"Collaboration, Technologies, and the History of Shakespearean Bibliography" a minigraph from the Cambridge Elements Shakespeare and Text series (ed @roaringgirle.bsky.social and @loughnrv.bsky.social ) by me, Heidi Craig, Kris L. May, and Dorothy Todd

ANNNNND it will be open access!
Book cover with a row of old books about Shakespeare at the bottom Black background and white text: Cambridge Elements Shakespeare and Text Collaboration, Technologies, and the History of Shakespearean Bibliography Heidi Craig, Laura Estill, Kris L. May, and Dorothy Todd
January 14, 2026 at 9:07 PM
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nvshakespeare.bsky.social
Next month we are hosting a two-day conference about ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ and ‘The Winter’s Tale’, the two texts we recently published in variorum format on our website.

What a great group of speakers we’ll be hearing from!
January 14, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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🎭
To chat, or not to chat?
#Shakespeare 📚
December 30, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Just over two weeks left to submit abstracts for #BSA2026 online conference on 'AI and Shakespeare', where we'll be exploring the opportunities and threats, briefs and griefs posed by AI to Shakespeare communities. Abstracts due by 12 Janary 2026!
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AI and Shakespeare: A British Shakespeare Association Virtual Conference In the interests of economy and inclusivity, the BSA will be meeting in 2026 virtually over two half days (26 – 27 February, 1....
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December 30, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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audioandrea.bsky.social
2025 has been a busy year, not least for spreading the word about #AudioDrama. As well as a couple of articles for @thestage.co.uk I did quite a few pieces for #radio and podcasts, including an introduction to #Hamlet on #BBCRadio3
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#ShakespeareOnTheRadio 💀🎧
#Shakespeare
December 29, 2025 at 8:29 AM