Joseph Stephenson 🇺🇦
@joestephenson.bsky.social
Professor of English. Renaissance and Restoration Drama. Researching a formerly lost play, /The Dutch Lady/.
Very happy for my review of an innovative production of Shakespeare's /Taming of the Shrew/ to appear in @shaxbull.bsky.social's most recent issue (dir. Jude Christian at Shax's Globe). It was the second production my students and I saw during summer 2024, and we couldn't stop talking about it.
NEW ISSUE KLAXON: Shakespeare Bulletin 43.1 is now published! Now fully open access, this issue features a cluster of essays edited by Louise Geddes and Nora J. Williams reflecting on casting, race, community, and tragedy in productions performed on and off Broadway.
📰: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55715
📰: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55715
October 16, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Very happy for my review of an innovative production of Shakespeare's /Taming of the Shrew/ to appear in @shaxbull.bsky.social's most recent issue (dir. Jude Christian at Shax's Globe). It was the second production my students and I saw during summer 2024, and we couldn't stop talking about it.
Reposted by Joseph Stephenson 🇺🇦
I think we’re really going to have to do a lot more of this. A massive deprogramming so that people can read more than ten words at a time without anxiety.
www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?
www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?
Universities teaching literature students how to cope with long novels
Critics blame GCSE English for deterring teenagers from the subject, describing the literature syllabus as boring and repetitive
www.thetimes.com
October 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I think we’re really going to have to do a lot more of this. A massive deprogramming so that people can read more than ten words at a time without anxiety.
www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?
www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?
O, that record could with a backward look,
Even of five hundred courses of the sun,
Show me your image in some antique book,
Since mind at first in character was done!
#ShakespeareSunday
Even of five hundred courses of the sun,
Show me your image in some antique book,
Since mind at first in character was done!
#ShakespeareSunday
June 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM
O, that record could with a backward look,
Even of five hundred courses of the sun,
Show me your image in some antique book,
Since mind at first in character was done!
#ShakespeareSunday
Even of five hundred courses of the sun,
Show me your image in some antique book,
Since mind at first in character was done!
#ShakespeareSunday
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I do not want AI in Slack. I do not want AI in Google. I do not want AI on Facebook. I do not want AI in documents or spreadsheets. I do not want AI in Adobe Acrobat. I do not want AI in Zoom. I do not want AI on news sites. I do not want AI in the patient portal for my doctor's office. I do not wan
June 17, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I do not want AI in Slack. I do not want AI in Google. I do not want AI on Facebook. I do not want AI in documents or spreadsheets. I do not want AI in Adobe Acrobat. I do not want AI in Zoom. I do not want AI on news sites. I do not want AI in the patient portal for my doctor's office. I do not wan
May 12, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Reposted by Joseph Stephenson 🇺🇦
Your turn big public universities! A lot of us are now looking at you Ohio State, Michigan, Texas & Texas A&M, Arizona State, Virginia, Illinois, Minnesota, Michigan State, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Penn State, and on and on and on... www.harvard.edu/research-fun...
www.harvard.edu
April 14, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Your turn big public universities! A lot of us are now looking at you Ohio State, Michigan, Texas & Texas A&M, Arizona State, Virginia, Illinois, Minnesota, Michigan State, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Penn State, and on and on and on... www.harvard.edu/research-fun...
#ShakespeareSunday
Somebody's got to post it:
The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne,
Burned on the water: the poop was beaten gold;
Purple the sails, and so perfumed that
The winds were lovesick with them; the oars were silver,
Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke . . . .
Somebody's got to post it:
The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne,
Burned on the water: the poop was beaten gold;
Purple the sails, and so perfumed that
The winds were lovesick with them; the oars were silver,
Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke . . . .
March 16, 2025 at 1:39 PM
#ShakespeareSunday
Somebody's got to post it:
The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne,
Burned on the water: the poop was beaten gold;
Purple the sails, and so perfumed that
The winds were lovesick with them; the oars were silver,
Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke . . . .
Somebody's got to post it:
The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne,
Burned on the water: the poop was beaten gold;
Purple the sails, and so perfumed that
The winds were lovesick with them; the oars were silver,
Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke . . . .
I sent my accomplishments! Wouldn't it be great if Elmo's inbox was flooded with 25 million emails that they had to sort through?
Are you bored tonight? Send your five accomplishments, maybe your shopping list, or your five thoughts on Elon from the past week to OPM at HR@opm.gov.
February 23, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I sent my accomplishments! Wouldn't it be great if Elmo's inbox was flooded with 25 million emails that they had to sort through?
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Lots of reporting suggested that, this time around, Trump and his lawyers would avoid the sloppy legal work that plagued his first administration so they’d fare better in the courts. I see no evidence of that in this round of executive orders. This is poor, slipshod work obviously assisted by AI.
January 21, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Lots of reporting suggested that, this time around, Trump and his lawyers would avoid the sloppy legal work that plagued his first administration so they’d fare better in the courts. I see no evidence of that in this round of executive orders. This is poor, slipshod work obviously assisted by AI.
What would you have done in Germany in the 1930s? In other words, what are you doing now?
Here a side-to-side comparison between Hitler and Musk and their salute...
you decide if this isn't a nazi salute
you decide if this isn't a nazi salute
January 21, 2025 at 5:44 AM
What would you have done in Germany in the 1930s? In other words, what are you doing now?
but O ere long
Huge pangs and strong
Will pierce more near his heart.
Giovanni Bellini, Circumcision of Christ (circa 1500)
Huge pangs and strong
Will pierce more near his heart.
Giovanni Bellini, Circumcision of Christ (circa 1500)
January 2, 2025 at 4:53 AM
but O ere long
Huge pangs and strong
Will pierce more near his heart.
Giovanni Bellini, Circumcision of Christ (circa 1500)
Huge pangs and strong
Will pierce more near his heart.
Giovanni Bellini, Circumcision of Christ (circa 1500)
@pariglas.bsky.social
Hey, there! Does your expertise stretch back to 17th-century Venetian glass and English glass? I have . . . questions.
Hey, there! Does your expertise stretch back to 17th-century Venetian glass and English glass? I have . . . questions.
December 29, 2024 at 10:23 PM
@pariglas.bsky.social
Hey, there! Does your expertise stretch back to 17th-century Venetian glass and English glass? I have . . . questions.
Hey, there! Does your expertise stretch back to 17th-century Venetian glass and English glass? I have . . . questions.
#ShakespeareSunday
Since today is the feast of Thomas Becket, I will share this line spoken by Exton in R2 5.4, seemingly inspired by Henry 2's similar question re: Becket:
Didst thou not mark the King, what words he spake,
“Have I no friend will rid me of this living fear?”
Was it not so?
Since today is the feast of Thomas Becket, I will share this line spoken by Exton in R2 5.4, seemingly inspired by Henry 2's similar question re: Becket:
Didst thou not mark the King, what words he spake,
“Have I no friend will rid me of this living fear?”
Was it not so?
a man in a red robe stands in front of a table with the words will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest below him
ALT: a man in a red robe stands in front of a table with the words will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest below him
media.tenor.com
December 29, 2024 at 9:48 PM
#ShakespeareSunday
Since today is the feast of Thomas Becket, I will share this line spoken by Exton in R2 5.4, seemingly inspired by Henry 2's similar question re: Becket:
Didst thou not mark the King, what words he spake,
“Have I no friend will rid me of this living fear?”
Was it not so?
Since today is the feast of Thomas Becket, I will share this line spoken by Exton in R2 5.4, seemingly inspired by Henry 2's similar question re: Becket:
Didst thou not mark the King, what words he spake,
“Have I no friend will rid me of this living fear?”
Was it not so?
From the excellent Good Tickle Brain:
December 25, 2024 at 7:46 PM
From the excellent Good Tickle Brain:
#ShakespeareSunday
When all aloud the wind doth blow
And coughing drowns the parson's saw
And birds sit brooding in the snow
And Marian's nose looks red and raw....
When all aloud the wind doth blow
And coughing drowns the parson's saw
And birds sit brooding in the snow
And Marian's nose looks red and raw....
a bird is perched on a branch with red berries
ALT: a bird is perched on a branch with red berries
media.tenor.com
December 15, 2024 at 7:38 AM
#ShakespeareSunday
When all aloud the wind doth blow
And coughing drowns the parson's saw
And birds sit brooding in the snow
And Marian's nose looks red and raw....
When all aloud the wind doth blow
And coughing drowns the parson's saw
And birds sit brooding in the snow
And Marian's nose looks red and raw....
Looking forward to #BSA2025! @oelj.bsky.social is going to put together a great conference.
The first round Call for Participation for BSA Conference 2025 is open!
#BSA2025 'Practising Shakespeare: new collaborations, expanding horizons' will be hosted by the University of York, 25-28 June. View the full CfP www.britishshakespeare.ws/conference/
#BSA2025 'Practising Shakespeare: new collaborations, expanding horizons' will be hosted by the University of York, 25-28 June. View the full CfP www.britishshakespeare.ws/conference/
November 13, 2024 at 1:08 AM
Looking forward to #BSA2025! @oelj.bsky.social is going to put together a great conference.
Hello, anyone here? Let me throw some hashtags out and see what happens:
#shakespeare
#earlymoderndrama
#restorationdrama
#renaissanceliterature
#englishliterature
#shakespeare
#earlymoderndrama
#restorationdrama
#renaissanceliterature
#englishliterature
November 20, 2023 at 2:55 AM
Hello, anyone here? Let me throw some hashtags out and see what happens:
#shakespeare
#earlymoderndrama
#restorationdrama
#renaissanceliterature
#englishliterature
#shakespeare
#earlymoderndrama
#restorationdrama
#renaissanceliterature
#englishliterature