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David McInnis
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Professor of Shakespeare & Early Modern Drama (Melbourne) | Editor, Shakespeare Quarterly (with Vanessa I. Corredera & Arthur L. Little, Jr) | Lost plays | Editing Behn, Shakespeare, & Marlowe.
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10/10, no notes from this Shakespearean
Real estate advertising board for townhouse 2B: ‘2B or not 2B, that is the question’
November 11, 2025 at 8:25 AM
dnmcinnis.bsky.social
In passport line in Aotearoa NZ:

Agent: why are you here?

Me: a conference on editing Shakespeare

Agent: ok, you can enter—just don’t change any of his words
jowolff.bsky.social Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 1d
In passport line in Prague remembering my best experience in US:

Agent: why are you here?

I’m a Professor, giving a talk.

What’s you subject?

Political Philosophy.

My favourite!!

Really??

No. I say that to all the Professors.
November 10, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Today, a friend involved in the Esna restoration project has shared with me his latest stunning photos of the restored ceiling and columns of the Temple of Khnum in Esna, Upper #Egypt. During a multi-year restoration project, the dirt and soot that had obscured the ...🧵1/3

📷 D. v. Recklinghausen
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Interior view of the building showing massive stone columns with detailed carvings and colorful hieroglyphs as well as the ceiling. The columns are shaped like lotus or papyrus plants and are closely spaced, supporting a decorated ceiling. 📷 Daniel von Recklinghausen
November 7, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Really exciting book news out of Norway. And while the article focusses on the sealskin binding, I'm even more excited by the fact that these neumes are not square, which suggests a date well before 1200.
November 4, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
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November 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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‘If the violent, sexually transgressive, atheistical and generally self-destructive Marlowe had had a motto, then “What nourishes me destroys me” would have been more than appropriate.’

M.W. Rowe evaluates new evidence concerning the playwright’s only known portrait.

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M.W. Rowe | But is it Marlowe?
In late 1952, builders working in the Old Court of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, removed two boards from under an...
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November 1, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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It's always a treat to find a gift book owned or given by a woman, and doubly so when the giver is none other than poet Katherine Phillips. #HerBook
martinevanelk.bsky.social Martine van Elk @martinevanelk.bsky.social · 14d
Today on the blog: a magnificent find by @franceswolfreston.bsky.social of a book that the poet Katherine Philips gave to Mary Jeffreys; a discussion with important scholarly implications for the study of Philips earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/h... #EarlyModern #HerBook
October 27, 2025 at 8:21 PM
dnmcinnis.bsky.social
*shakes fist at Shakespeare*

‘Many people will know of shrews only courtesy of Shakespeare. … [T]he offensive term has stuck through the ages, draining sympathy for and interest in the animal.’

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
And then there were none: Australia’s only shrew declared extinct
The tally of Australian mammals extinct since 1788 is now 39 species – far more than for any other country
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October 11, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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‘Very significant’ Jack Kerouac story discovered after mafia boss auction
‘Very significant’ Jack Kerouac story discovered after mafia boss auction
Exclusive: Two-page 1957 manuscript signed by author linked to his classic of beat literature, On the Road A “very significant” unpublished story by Jack Kerouac described as “a lost chapter of the On the Road saga” has been discovered after languishing in the files of an assassinated Mafia crime boss for at least 40 years. The two-page typewritten manuscript signed by Kerouac in green ink is titled The Holy, Beat, and Crazy Next Thing and is dated 15 April 1957, five months before his classic of beat literature, On the Road, was published. Continue reading...
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October 10, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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GOOD NEWS !
"A team of musicologists has unearthed the printed score of a previously unknown Purcell song, as well as the original manuscript for various keyboard compositions."
#baroque #music
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell
Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk
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October 7, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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#earlymodern out December at last such a privilege to work with three distinguished scholars of early modern women’s writing
September 24, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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With the usual prudent caveats about first examples in the OED; I love that Jonson is the first to be cited for "I told you so"
September 23, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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A massive thanks to everyone involved in #Globe4Globe 2025! We were thrilled to see 300 attendees join us for 24 hours devoted to Shakespeare & environmental justice. If you missed out, most of the presentations are now available online now: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Globe4Globe 2025: Shakespeare and Environmental Justice - YouTube
In 2025, Globe4Globe returned with the Shakespeare and Environmental Justice Symposium. Taking place live and online across 24 hours on September 12-13 2025,...
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September 23, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Hello 👋

We're the official #UniMelb account!

Follow us for news, updates and information about UniMelb. For now, enjoy the blue skies over our Parkville campus 💙
September 16, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Six internationally recognised marine scientists who are researching South Australia's toxic algal bloom are set to lose their jobs at Flinders University, the ABC understands.

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Flinders University jobs under threat as news of proposed restructure spreads
Six internationally recognised marine scientists who are researching South Australia's toxic algal bloom are set to lose their jobs at Flinders University, the ABC understands.
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September 22, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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1/At Macquarie Uni we are losing 50% of our units in my faculty. This is on top of cuts in 2020. We estimate by next year my faculty will be teaching 80% fewer subjects than pre Covid. Disciplines being cut do not have declining enrolments. @jennaprice.bsky.social @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social
September 20, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Statement of support for the Save Meanjin campaign, from colleagues in the Screen and Cultural Studies program at the University of Melbourne savemeanjin.org
September 18, 2025 at 12:22 AM
dnmcinnis.bsky.social
We’re doing a staged reading of *Volpone* next year! 🦊

Put it in your diary, Melbourne folk!

Wednesday 18 November, 6:30pm

www.bellshakespeare.com.au/events
Ad for Bell Shakespeare’s staged reading series, Play In A Day, which will be Jonson’s Volpone next year in Melbourne.
September 16, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Re #MeanjinJournal, a letter from myself and some of my colleagues to The University of Melbourne. #Meanjin is such an important part of Australia's literary ecosystem and losing it would be culturally and industrially devastating. #AusLit #AustralianWriters #Publishing #Unimelb
1 / 1 Letter in support of Meanjin’s future As members of the Publishing and Communications program’s staff at the University of Melbourne, we strongly support the continued existence of Meanjin Quarterly. From direct involvements with the journal during the past 25 years and more, we personally attest to the formative role Meanjin has played in the development of writers, editors and publishers, and an independent Australian cultural voice. The creative labour of thousands resonates deeply in the fabric of this cultural institution founded by Clem Christesen in Meanjin/Brisbane in 1940. We call on the University of Melbourne to recognise the rich and continuing social, political and literary value of Meanjin by ensuring its future. The journal is a living resource for our teaching, and vital to our students. Its publications fill our reading lists with ideas from the best minds of our time. It has uplifted many of our students through publication, internships, partnerships and employment, and its connection to the University is part of what makes our writing and editing programs valuable and comparable to other leading universities on the international stage. We believe the University’s enduring purpose of benefiting society compels it to take swift action to preserve the journal and sustain its continued publication, preferably within the University itself. At the very least, the University should do all it can, acting in good faith, to transfer the journal’s cultural and IP assets to another institution prepared to save it. Culturally, the University of Melbourne has benefited immensely from its support of the journal since 1945; the extinction of the journal would be its enduring loss but an even greater loss to the community the University serves. Signed by: Sybil Nolan Tim Coronel Matt Holden LJ Maher Fiannuala Morgan Sharon Mullins Beth Driscoll Claire Parnell Nicola Redhouse Hollen Singleton Bec Kavanagh
September 12, 2025 at 5:58 AM
dnmcinnis.bsky.social
Listening in to this now -- such inspiring papers...!
claireghansen.bsky.social Claire Hansen @claireghansen.bsky.social · Sep 12
Up next at #Globe4Globe 2025: Animal Justice!

Karen Raber - Resisting Tyranny: Shakespeare’s Animals

Gigi Pinwill - Shakespeare’s Animals: An Actor Prepares

Barbara Taylor - They Howled All Together: Imagining Predators with Shakespeare

#G4G2025
September 12, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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The University of Melbourne English and Theatre Studies Statement on the closure of Meanjin.

12 September 2025
The University of Melbourne English and Theatre Studies Statement on the closure of Meanjin. 12 September 2025 Melbourne University's English and Theatre Studies Programme calls on the University of Melbourne to act on its educational mission and find a way to support Meanjin, one of Australia’s most precious cultural institutions. For generations Meanjin has offered established and emerging writers a home for testing talent, fostering debate, and exploring ideas. But Meanjin needs no defence. It speaks for itself. It speaks for its former publisher as well: that Meanjin is the only publication cited—twice—on MUP’s “About Us” page is evidence enough that it carries much of the literary prestige to which the press can lay claim. The decision of Melbourne University Publishing’s Board to close Meanjin involved no consultation with those of us at the University of Melbourne most invested in its past and its future. The only rationale offered by the Board—that the decision was taken “on purely financial grounds”—is, as others have noted, both inexplicable and an act of "cultural vandalism.” It is also a betrayal of the University’s role as an educator, enricher and supporter of cultural life. Meanjin has a value that cannot and should not be measured in financial terms. A way forward can and must be found that allows Meanjin to continue its important work, in consultation with the University’s most affected communities, disciplines, and concentrations of expertise—including creative writing, literature and theatre studies, publishing and editing. We call on the University of Melbourne’s leadership and the board of Melbourne University Publishing to work together to preserve Meanjin’s future on grounds that take into account its ongoing cultural value, whether in Naarm or Meanjin. Dr Sarah Balkin, A/Prof Justin Clemens, Prof Deirdre Coleman, Dr Sara Fernandes Crouch, Dr Michael Falk, Dr Lindsay Goss, Dr Margaret Harvey, Dr Joe Hughes, Dr Ryan Johnson, Dr Jessica Marian, Prof David McInnis, Dr Beth McLean, Dr Marc Mierowsky, Dr Lynda Ng, Prof Peter Otto, Dr Elliot Patsoura, Prof Paul Rae, Dr Miranda Stanyon, Dr Mairi Stirling Hill, Prof Stephanie Trigg, Prof Clara Tuite, Prof Denise Varney
September 12, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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@quaritch1847.bsky.social's new catalogue of annotated books might just be the greatest bookseller's catalogue of all time. Just sayin'.

Take a moment to appreciate the fun they clearly had:
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screenshot of Quaritch's new catalogue of annotated books; the bookseller's description of each item is itself annotated, highlighted, and adorned with manicules pointing out significant features
September 5, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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What conversations are we having or should we be having, in Shakespeare studies? Authors are invited to submit articles for publication in the first issue of the SQ under the new editorial leadership, with a focus on the Twenty-First century and Shakespeare.
3 Oct 25
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CFP for special issue of Shakespeare Quarterly on Shakespeare's Twenty-First Century. What conversations are we having or should we be having, in Shakespeare studies? Authors are invited to submit articles for publication in the first issue of the SQ under the new editorial leadership, with a focus on the Twenty-First century and Shakespeare. 3 Oct 25 https://academic.oup.com/sq/pages/call-for-papers-shakespeares-twenty-first-century
September 1, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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“Two things could and should be done to restore Marlowe to his rightful place. The first, obviously and simply, is to study and produce his plays more.”

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The Guardian view on Christopher Marlowe: it’s time to read him and honour him | Editorial
Editorial: England’s second most famous playwright is the star of a new play. But his own works should be staged more, and he should be commemorated better
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August 30, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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I'm moving over from the X box. Meanwhile my edition of #Marlowe's Edward II @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
is available for pre-order. With ample critical, performance, & textual intro, annotations, plus 22 illus of C20-21 performance, early texts & readers. www.bloomsbury.com/us/edward-ii...
Edward II
Critically, theatrically, and politically, the time is ripe for a new edition of Christopher Marlowe's Edward II. Critically, the play has come to be, in the pa…
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August 22, 2025 at 4:13 PM