I wrote about Dr Amy Lidster and Sonia Massai’s exhibiton at National Army Museum and their brilliant collection ‘Shakespeare at War’ for Literary Review! literaryreview.co.uk/once-more-unto…

Thank you to all who joined us in experiencing the US premiere of Zinnie Harris' MACBETH (AN UNDOING). We’re sending the very best to this exceptional company as they embark on the last leg of their tour in the place it all began, The Lyceum, May 14-25 ❤️ #happyclosing

I'm writing a how-to manual for civil war, regicide, rebellion, necromancy, siege warfare, divorce - and gardening.

Yes, it's the Oxford Very Short Introduction to Shakespeare's Histories🙄
Oxford Academic

*Tomorrow!*

Join authors Richard Schoch & Tiffany Stern Stratford Literary Festival as they talk about Richard's book 'Shakespeare's House', on the changing fortunes of the Shakespeare B Trust, & ask how much we really know about Shakespeare's life.

Sun 5th May, 1-2pm
stratfordliteraryfestival.co.uk/events/richard…

Blurbs are in. Grateful, gratified, and a little abashed.

The Queen's copy of the First Folio has been fully digitised and can now be viewed from anywhere in the world, via Digital Bodleian!

Take a look here: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/cb24be…

Thanks The Arden Shakespeare for showing our newly affordable volume! Contributors include Dr Varsha Panjwani Emma Smith Preti Taneja Julie Sanders Dr. Katherine Brokaw Ailsa GF Susanne Greenhalgh Louise Geddes & more—+ MediaShakespeare & me, adding hairdryers & banyans to the metaphorical map!

'What Is Early Modern Dramatic Collaboration?' by Laurie Maguire and Emma Smith, from the latest issue of Critical Survey. View the article here: bit.ly/3VLrXzc Emma Smith

Heading to Stratford Literary Festival this week?

Join authors Richard Schoch & Tiffany Stern talking about Richard's book 'Shakespeare's House', on the changing fortunes of the Shakespeare B Trust, & asking how much we really know about Shakespeare's life.

Sun 5th May, 1-2pm
stratfordliteraryfestival.co.uk/events/richard…

Delighted to see the 'lost' (now found) production of #Macbeth 🗡️ being broadcast on BBC Radio 3 this coming weekend gets three mentions in the Radio Times
You can hear it live on Sunday or after that on BBC Sounds
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
#Shakespeare #RadioDrama BBC Radio Drama

This week’s The TLS, featuring Alicia E. Stallings on Anne Carson; Lawrence Freedman on Nato; Emma Smith on Richard Sennett; Peter Kemp on Salman Rushdie; Eric H. Cline on Linear B; poems by Carson, Liz Berry and Yehuda Amichai (tr. Robert Alter) – and more

New Gutenberg Bible opening ransomcenter! Come check it out—it’s a good one.

fol. 160v: hrc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collec…

&

fol. 161r: hrc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collec…

What does a book cost?

Back in 2015 we ran some calculations to figure out what a book costs, what it sells for, and where the money goes. We've done the sums again - for 2023 -and you head here for some grim, but hopefully also interesting, reading: galleybeggar.co.uk/what-does-a-bo…

A late entry for #Folio400 ! I have a book due out in May. It’s not exactly an exhibition catalog, but its chapters reflect the themes of the exhibition now on The Frick Pittsburgh Museums and Gardens featuring CMU’s copies of the four Shakespeare Folios
psupress.org/books/titles/9…

Proofs! of my essay ‘Shakespeare’s Arabic Sonnets’, to be published in ‘Shakespeare Survey’ later this year

Ruled by an ineffectual leader, Britain is trying to break away from the rest of Europe, while a power-hungry figure plots to put a dangerous idiot in charge, by any means necessary. Shakespeare’s Cymbeline - Drama on 3, 8pm BBC Radio 3 catch up BBC Sounds bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Thank you to everyone who joined us for today's memorial to our friend and colleague Liz Cooke. Your eloquent tributes proved that neither Liz's memory nor her voice are gone from Somerville, but will live on among all of us who remember her.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=wemlem…

So excited to be Theatre for a New Audience for Zinnie Harris Macbeth (An Undoing).

In celebration of Bardy birthday week here is a masterful take on #ShakeRace by Deranged Covid-Clinger courtesy of Folger Shakespeare Library

ENCORES: Professor Kim F. Hall delivers 'Othello was my Grandfather' youtu.be/9u324C6ra5o?si… via YouTube

Jodhpurs and stirrups, please: it's Country Life!