Matthew Steggle
@matthewsteggle.bsky.social
Prof of Early Modern Eng Lit. Shakespeare and other C16-17 stuff. The rest is silence, mostly. Views own.
Chapter 6 is a bit iffy, but the rest of this collection is really very good.
*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
'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
October 24, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Chapter 6 is a bit iffy, but the rest of this collection is really very good.
Fabulous new discoveries from @kscheil.bsky.social!
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
September 9, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Fabulous new discoveries from @kscheil.bsky.social!
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.
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Thomas Nashe's Almond for a Parrat (1590), corrected by the author | Folger Shakespeare Library
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August 23, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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...
www.folger.edu/blogs/collat...
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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.
August 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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.
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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.
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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August 6, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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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.
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.
I bought this book about 1992, probably from the 50p box of some charity bookshop. It was long before you could read anything you wanted on a phone, and I was trying to build up a library of Renaissance texts, one spectacularly dog-eared book at a time. It was very Jude the Obscure. (1/11)
July 31, 2025 at 9:36 AM
I bought this book about 1992, probably from the 50p box of some charity bookshop. It was long before you could read anything you wanted on a phone, and I was trying to build up a library of Renaissance texts, one spectacularly dog-eared book at a time. It was very Jude the Obscure. (1/11)
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Here’s one for early modernists: what is Norwich holding in this 1622 map (from Drayton’s ‘Poly-Olbion’)? Yes, Norwich had a big cathedral spire, but not two (and these maps usually indicate spires in the figure’s headdress). I’ve been tossing this about, and asking experts, for months. Stuck!
July 29, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Here’s one for early modernists: what is Norwich holding in this 1622 map (from Drayton’s ‘Poly-Olbion’)? Yes, Norwich had a big cathedral spire, but not two (and these maps usually indicate spires in the figure’s headdress). I’ve been tossing this about, and asking experts, for months. Stuck!
Had a lot of fun talking to Cassidy Cash www.cassidycash.com mainly about Mrs Shakspaire, with an excursion to a desert island at the end. Apologies in advance to the seagulls.
July 29, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Had a lot of fun talking to Cassidy Cash www.cassidycash.com mainly about Mrs Shakspaire, with an excursion to a desert island at the end. Apologies in advance to the seagulls.
I have two things in the new Ben Jonson Journal! A short piece on the early reception of Marston’s Malcontent, and a review, open access, of Tom Harrison’s great new(ish) book on Jonson and the classics.
www.euppublishing.com/toc/bjj/32/1
www.euppublishing.com/toc/bjj/32/1
Edinburgh University Press Journals - Table of Contents - bjj: Vol 32, No 1
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July 11, 2025 at 8:13 AM
I have two things in the new Ben Jonson Journal! A short piece on the early reception of Marston’s Malcontent, and a review, open access, of Tom Harrison’s great new(ish) book on Jonson and the classics.
www.euppublishing.com/toc/bjj/32/1
www.euppublishing.com/toc/bjj/32/1
A long shot, but can anyone make anything out in this bit of binding waste found in a book printed in England in 1608? I can’t even tell what language it’s in.
July 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
A long shot, but can anyone make anything out in this bit of binding waste found in a book printed in England in 1608? I can’t even tell what language it’s in.
Stunned from prolonged exposure to ideas at #RenSoc25 today. Chairing panel 5.7 tomorrow at 9 on Adaptation and Reception: specifically Bengal, Mexico, and the inside of Thomas de Quincey’s head.
July 3, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Stunned from prolonged exposure to ideas at #RenSoc25 today. Chairing panel 5.7 tomorrow at 9 on Adaptation and Reception: specifically Bengal, Mexico, and the inside of Thomas de Quincey’s head.
Thanks to @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social for having me on the Not Just The Tudors podcast on Shakespeare’s Women: podfollow.com/not-just-the...
Not Just the Tudors
<p>Professor Suzannah Lipscomb talks about everything from the Aztecs to witches, Velázquez to Shakespeare, Mughal India to the Mayflower. Not, in other words, just the Tudors, but most definite...
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June 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Thanks to @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social for having me on the Not Just The Tudors podcast on Shakespeare’s Women: podfollow.com/not-just-the...
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📣 CFP: Shakespeare Quarterly special issue
Shakespeare’s Twenty-First Century / The Twenty-First Century’s Shakespeare
This will be Vanessa I. Corredera, Arthur L. Little, Jr. and my first issue as Editors! Please submit your finest!
More info: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
Shakespeare’s Twenty-First Century / The Twenty-First Century’s Shakespeare
This will be Vanessa I. Corredera, Arthur L. Little, Jr. and my first issue as Editors! Please submit your finest!
More info: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
June 20, 2025 at 12:19 PM
📣 CFP: Shakespeare Quarterly special issue
Shakespeare’s Twenty-First Century / The Twenty-First Century’s Shakespeare
This will be Vanessa I. Corredera, Arthur L. Little, Jr. and my first issue as Editors! Please submit your finest!
More info: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
Shakespeare’s Twenty-First Century / The Twenty-First Century’s Shakespeare
This will be Vanessa I. Corredera, Arthur L. Little, Jr. and my first issue as Editors! Please submit your finest!
More info: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
Fabulous stuff!
For anybody who wants to see my lecture at the Society of Antiquaries this week, the video is here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=fx13...
The Flipped Playhouse: Tracing an Early Shift in Tudor Era Playing Spaces by Prof Laurie Johnson FSA
YouTube video by SocAntiquaries
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June 20, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Fabulous stuff!
Just to give a plug for this talk I'm giving, in Hereford Cathedral, on 27 June!
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In the company of Good Mrs Shakspaire - 27/06/2025 19:00:00
A talk by Dr Matthew Steggle Thursday 27 June
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June 6, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Just to give a plug for this talk I'm giving, in Hereford Cathedral, on 27 June!
www.herefordcathedral.org/Event/in-the...
www.herefordcathedral.org/Event/in-the...
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Thoughtful, connected reporting from @sbirnbaum.bsky.social for @prx.org. With contributions from @kscheil.bsky.social, me, and some chap called Stephen Greenblatt.
Thoughtful, connected reporting from @sbirnbaum.bsky.social for @prx.org. With contributions from @kscheil.bsky.social, me, and some chap called Stephen Greenblatt.
Maybe William Shakespeare had a happy marriage after all? - The World from PRX
For centuries, experts have believed William Shakespeare’s marriage to Anne Hathaway wasn’t a particularly close one. But a new piece of evidence is throwing that assumption into question. The World’s...
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May 30, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Thoughtful, connected reporting from @sbirnbaum.bsky.social for @prx.org. With contributions from @kscheil.bsky.social, me, and some chap called Stephen Greenblatt.
Thoughtful, connected reporting from @sbirnbaum.bsky.social for @prx.org. With contributions from @kscheil.bsky.social, me, and some chap called Stephen Greenblatt.
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Really enjoyed this discussion of the Shakspaire story, not least for its headline: www.shakespearenews.com/p/shakespear...
Shakespeare Slightly Less of a Jerk Than Previously Believed (Maybe)
Plus: "10 Things I Hate About You: The Musical" and "Antony and Cleopatra: The Opera"
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May 5, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Really enjoyed this discussion of the Shakspaire story, not least for its headline: www.shakespearenews.com/p/shakespear...
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First (pieces of a) breviary from medieval Bristol discovered, and she's a beaut! (Kath Thompson with the find, I'm just the identifier heh)
Reused as the wrapper for mid-16thc accounts.
Reused as the wrapper for mid-16thc accounts.
May 2, 2025 at 2:58 PM
First (pieces of a) breviary from medieval Bristol discovered, and she's a beaut! (Kath Thompson with the find, I'm just the identifier heh)
Reused as the wrapper for mid-16thc accounts.
Reused as the wrapper for mid-16thc accounts.
Impressive and well-researched work from Gavin Lee and @france24.com on the Shakspaire letter.
youtu.be/imXFvpoD5Ns?...
youtu.be/imXFvpoD5Ns?...
Good Mrs Shakespeare: Scholar deciphers letter to Anne Hathaway • FRANCE 24 English
YouTube video by FRANCE 24 English
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April 29, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Impressive and well-researched work from Gavin Lee and @france24.com on the Shakspaire letter.
youtu.be/imXFvpoD5Ns?...
youtu.be/imXFvpoD5Ns?...
Delighted to say that my article, "The Shakspaires of Trinity Lane: A Possible Shakespeare Life-Record" is now fully published and open-access! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Shakspaires of Trinity Lane: A Possible Shakespeare Life-Record
Hereford Cathedral Library holds a fragmentary seventeenth-century letter addressed to a ‘Mrs Shakspaire’, concerning her husband’s dealings with a fatherless apprentice named John Butte or Butts. ...
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April 25, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Delighted to say that my article, "The Shakspaires of Trinity Lane: A Possible Shakespeare Life-Record" is now fully published and open-access! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
So I've got this article which should be coming out in the journal _Shakespeare_ any moment now, but in the meantime - Briefly, it's about a C17 letter preserved in the binding waste of a book now in Hereford Cathedral.
April 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
So I've got this article which should be coming out in the journal _Shakespeare_ any moment now, but in the meantime - Briefly, it's about a C17 letter preserved in the binding waste of a book now in Hereford Cathedral.
Bit of a teaser - I have an article on Shakespeare coming out next week which makes quite a big new biographical claim. I mean, I might call it quite big, you might call it completely incorrect. I’m actually quite nervous about this one.
April 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Bit of a teaser - I have an article on Shakespeare coming out next week which makes quite a big new biographical claim. I mean, I might call it quite big, you might call it completely incorrect. I’m actually quite nervous about this one.
Very sad to hear this. Ian was a rock-steady support to younger scholars, even those who had little to no claim on his time. I knew about many of his innovations and achievements, but the obit lists a whole load more. What a body of work.
We are saddened to learn of the passing of Ian Lancashire, U of T Professor Emeritus of CMS and English, and one of the founders of the Records of Early English Drama (REED) project. We offer our sincerest sympathies to Professor Lancashire's family, friends, and colleagues. uoft.me/buG
April 14, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Very sad to hear this. Ian was a rock-steady support to younger scholars, even those who had little to no claim on his time. I knew about many of his innovations and achievements, but the obit lists a whole load more. What a body of work.
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April 4, 2025 at 7:37 PM
In an infringement of copyright & total disregard for my livelihood, many of my academic publications have been taken without my consent to train AI. I stand with the @Soc_of_Authors Action.
Pls sign & share this petition to protect authors' rights: www.change.org/p/protect-au...
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