claire m. l. bourne
@roaringgirle.bsky.social
¶ a figure of tollerable [sic] disorder ¶ plays & typography & dirty books ¶ accidental miltonist ¶ editrix ¶ elder-cat mom ¶ she|her|hers ¶ all opinions my own ¶ https://www.ofpilcrows.com
get ready to download this one! it’s excellent! ✨
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!
"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!
January 14, 2026 at 9:33 PM
get ready to download this one! it’s excellent! ✨
marlovian ambivalence?
Just found what might be a photocopy of a Rorschach test in a used copy of Marlowe's Tamburlaine
Make of that what you will
Make of that what you will
December 18, 2025 at 9:17 PM
marlovian ambivalence?
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Attention #EarlyModern and #Shakespeare friends: join me on this Giving Tuesday in donating to an Open Access fund for Meghan C. Andrews’s book. Cancer took Meghan from us in 2023, but her legacy can live on. Share widely!
Donate to Help Publish Meghan's Shakespeare Monograph, organized by Sarah Neville
Shakespeare scholar Meghan C Andrews passed away in 2023, after a valiant… Sarah Neville needs your support for Help Publish Meghan's Shakespeare Monograph
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December 2, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Attention #EarlyModern and #Shakespeare friends: join me on this Giving Tuesday in donating to an Open Access fund for Meghan C. Andrews’s book. Cancer took Meghan from us in 2023, but her legacy can live on. Share widely!
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Come and apply to be the Professor of Bibliography & Modern Book History @engfacoutreach.bsky.social & @jesusoxford.bsky.social (and work closely with us @bodleian.ox.ac.uk). Following a long line of great scholars: Don McKenzie, Kathryn Sutherland, & Dirk van Hulle ... my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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November 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Come and apply to be the Professor of Bibliography & Modern Book History @engfacoutreach.bsky.social & @jesusoxford.bsky.social (and work closely with us @bodleian.ox.ac.uk). Following a long line of great scholars: Don McKenzie, Kathryn Sutherland, & Dirk van Hulle ... my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
perfect timing!
November 20, 2025 at 8:18 PM
perfect timing!
i knew this issue was in the works but didn't realize that it was out already. thank you for the important heads-up!
November 20, 2025 at 6:45 PM
i knew this issue was in the works but didn't realize that it was out already. thank you for the important heads-up!
seeking pointers to texts (academic or otherwise; primary or secondary; early modern or not) that discuss/theorize 'failure'?
bonus points if it specifically addresses _textual_ 'failure'.
here's an impression of fallen type for your troubles👇
bonus points if it specifically addresses _textual_ 'failure'.
here's an impression of fallen type for your troubles👇
November 20, 2025 at 6:38 PM
seeking pointers to texts (academic or otherwise; primary or secondary; early modern or not) that discuss/theorize 'failure'?
bonus points if it specifically addresses _textual_ 'failure'.
here's an impression of fallen type for your troubles👇
bonus points if it specifically addresses _textual_ 'failure'.
here's an impression of fallen type for your troubles👇
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What, exactly, does this string of words mean? Why does everyone who stands to profit from selling "AI" love to repeat it? And what's the value of slogans that masquerade as history?
sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...
sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...
"The Printing Press Democratized Knowledge": When Slogans Masquerade as History — Sonja Drimmer
The phrase is said so frequently it seems, like the mechanism it celebrates, to mechanically replicate itself. It's become a favorite catchphrase among tech boosters of any sort (see my post on...
sonjadrimmer.com
September 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
What, exactly, does this string of words mean? Why does everyone who stands to profit from selling "AI" love to repeat it? And what's the value of slogans that masquerade as history?
sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...
sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...
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✍ Introducing ✍
Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeography
gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/
AKA What I Did Over Reading Week.
#skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing.
Love g 🗃️
Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeography
gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/
AKA What I Did Over Reading Week.
#skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing.
Love g 🗃️
Sharpie
Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for apprentice Early Modern palaeographers
gjhilton.github.io
November 12, 2025 at 11:11 PM
✍ Introducing ✍
Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeography
gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/
AKA What I Did Over Reading Week.
#skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing.
Love g 🗃️
Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeography
gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/
AKA What I Did Over Reading Week.
#skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing.
Love g 🗃️
it works brilliantly as a standalone play in performance. and on the page (says she who is editing it right now).
November 6, 2025 at 9:39 PM
it works brilliantly as a standalone play in performance. and on the page (says she who is editing it right now).
same for 1H6.
November 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
same for 1H6.
i’m talking more about john milton and ‘books read promiscuously’ on monday at penn state.
if you’re in central PA and want to learn about what we are learning about milton’s reading from what he wrote in his books, i’d love to see you!
📚♾️
if you’re in central PA and want to learn about what we are learning about milton’s reading from what he wrote in his books, i’d love to see you!
📚♾️
October 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
i’m talking more about john milton and ‘books read promiscuously’ on monday at penn state.
if you’re in central PA and want to learn about what we are learning about milton’s reading from what he wrote in his books, i’d love to see you!
📚♾️
if you’re in central PA and want to learn about what we are learning about milton’s reading from what he wrote in his books, i’d love to see you!
📚♾️
now we have to find milton's spenser/s: a view _and_ FQ
October 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
now we have to find milton's spenser/s: a view _and_ FQ
October 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
a tiny bit of good news is that we have secured funding to digitize john milton's copy of holinshed's CHRONICLES (1587).
the images will form part of MILTON'S LIBRARY, an open-access site featuring the 10 books positively identified as milton's w/ transcriptions/translations of his marginal notes.
the images will form part of MILTON'S LIBRARY, an open-access site featuring the 10 books positively identified as milton's w/ transcriptions/translations of his marginal notes.
![A close-up image of a handwritten note in a sixteenth-century book. The note reads: 'Spenser repor / teth otherwise / [o]f this Knight / [D]ialogue of Ire- / [la]nd / [p]. 76.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:glqdunvigi5zxowf6heik65g/bafkreigi4rz7omz3cell5pa7hlyceoxd4fxsjy2ynmcd37fozanjejhsry@jpeg)
October 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
a tiny bit of good news is that we have secured funding to digitize john milton's copy of holinshed's CHRONICLES (1587).
the images will form part of MILTON'S LIBRARY, an open-access site featuring the 10 books positively identified as milton's w/ transcriptions/translations of his marginal notes.
the images will form part of MILTON'S LIBRARY, an open-access site featuring the 10 books positively identified as milton's w/ transcriptions/translations of his marginal notes.
always the best day of the semester! thanks for sharing! 📖♥️
October 4, 2025 at 11:01 AM
always the best day of the semester! thanks for sharing! 📖♥️
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Lots of fun getting students to collate, fold, and stab-stitch Hamlet Q1 today (adapted from @roaringgirle.bsky.social’s class!). And now have a little interactive quarto for my office door 📖
October 3, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Lots of fun getting students to collate, fold, and stab-stitch Hamlet Q1 today (adapted from @roaringgirle.bsky.social’s class!). And now have a little interactive quarto for my office door 📖
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Realise there’s. It much to go on here, but what do we think about this vellum wrapper? Recycled indenture?
September 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Realise there’s. It much to go on here, but what do we think about this vellum wrapper? Recycled indenture?
no, there’s not. this book focuses primarily on printed plays (with some treatment of MSS antecedents).
September 6, 2025 at 11:25 AM
no, there’s not. this book focuses primarily on printed plays (with some treatment of MSS antecedents).
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we welcome papers about public libraries, public records offices, or any other public institution that stewards or interacts with shakespeare and early modern texts.
what can we be doing—as early modernists, book historians, & shakespeareans—to defend our public libraries? think capaciously!
what can we be doing—as early modernists, book historians, & shakespeareans—to defend our public libraries? think capaciously!
For those of you going to Denver’s SAA, please consider joining @roaringgirle.bsky.social and me to talk about the importance of public libraries, Shakespeare, and other early modern literature. There’s so much to consider in our current political climate:
![[ SEMINAR • SAA 2026 ]
SHAKESPEARE & PUBLIC LIBRARIES
This seminar examines the role of public libraries (local, national and international) in the preservation, dissemination, and study of the books and other media that transmit works by Shakespeare and other early modern writers. The recent identification of two books once owned by John Milton—a Shakespeare First Folio and a copy of Holinshed's Chronicles-at two American public libraries (The Free Library of Philadelphia and the Phoenix Public Library, respectively) and the presence of another of Milton's books (a sammelband of early Italian editions) at a third (The New York Public Library) invites us to acknowledge and rethink an implicit bias towards well-funded elite libraries and collections as privileged sites of textual and historical research. How might our knowledge of early modern textual history and the history of early modern books in the longue durée change with greater consideration of public collections? What do (and could) scholarly partnerships with public libraries look like-and what can they achieve in terms of bolstering the value of humanistic inquiry? How might the histories of (and transmitted by) the early modern books in these collections, which we are uniquely positioned to tell, relate to the specific local communities that they serve? In this way, the seminar is also interested in the ways that public libraries feature Shakespeare in the promotion of their circulating collections, educational programming, and public events, as many U.S. public libraries did during the quatercentenaries of Shakespeare's death in 2016 and of the publication of the first folio in 2023. While the idea for this seminar emerges from our experiences working in American public libraries, we would welcome contributions from scholars and librarians considering the role of public libraries in Shakespeare and early modern studies in various different regional and national traditions.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:oh4p26m2rd2cibjqvf2bse54/bafkreiaazajgst3ydy73ehvnbbxmvzrbbw3edutrkg6kgamublvov3ig5m@jpeg)
August 15, 2025 at 11:07 AM
we welcome papers about public libraries, public records offices, or any other public institution that stewards or interacts with shakespeare and early modern texts.
what can we be doing—as early modernists, book historians, & shakespeareans—to defend our public libraries? think capaciously!
what can we be doing—as early modernists, book historians, & shakespeareans—to defend our public libraries? think capaciously!
paperback coming early 2026! ✨
September 5, 2025 at 8:42 PM
paperback coming early 2026! ✨
new academic year = new planner
August 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM
new academic year = new planner
we welcome papers about public libraries, public records offices, or any other public institution that stewards or interacts with shakespeare and early modern texts.
what can we be doing—as early modernists, book historians, & shakespeareans—to defend our public libraries? think capaciously!
what can we be doing—as early modernists, book historians, & shakespeareans—to defend our public libraries? think capaciously!
For those of you going to Denver’s SAA, please consider joining @roaringgirle.bsky.social and me to talk about the importance of public libraries, Shakespeare, and other early modern literature. There’s so much to consider in our current political climate:
August 15, 2025 at 11:07 AM
we welcome papers about public libraries, public records offices, or any other public institution that stewards or interacts with shakespeare and early modern texts.
what can we be doing—as early modernists, book historians, & shakespeareans—to defend our public libraries? think capaciously!
what can we be doing—as early modernists, book historians, & shakespeareans—to defend our public libraries? think capaciously!