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New Variorum Shakespeare @nvshakespeare.bsky.social · 10h

Our Director Dr. Robert Stagg will be giving a lecture at Waseda University in Tokyo today about the Ottoman associations of “bombast” in early modern England and Shakespeare’s work in particular.

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 13h

The Conference Gate, also known as the Tuileries gate, in Paris Joannes de Ram after Adam Perelle, 1670-1695 (British Museum)

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New Variorum Shakespeare @nvshakespeare.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to Prof. Marvin Hunt, one of our NVS ‘Hamlet’ editors, on the publication of Volume 2 of ‘Hamlet: The Critical Tradition’! @ardenpublisher.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/us/hamlet-97...

Hamlet

A companion to volume 1, Hamlet: Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition, Volume 2 presents key critical accounts of Hamlet from 1885-1964. The volume offers, in s…

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Shakespeare Association of America @saaupdates.bsky.social · 1d

Applications for #digital exhibits at #Shax2026 are now open! Showcase your work on early modern projects — find more information and apply at shakespeareassociation.org/annual-meeti...

Image of the Chandos portrait of William Shakespeare, overlaid with translucent green text of computer code and strings of binary code. Along the right side of the image, dark text reads "Propose a Digital Exhibit". End ID.

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New Variorum Shakespeare @nvshakespeare.bsky.social · 2d

We are thrilled to be the cover story in the Texas A&M English Department’s student-designed and student-written newsletter:

newvariorumshakespeare.org/news

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Olivia Smith @oliviasmith.bsky.social · 2d

I've lost track of how many people over the past years I've told to watch for Elizabeth Scott-Baumann's next book coming out, and now it's here. Proper good ideas: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Sex and Style

A new literary history that places women writers at the center of poetic theory and practice in English literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

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UCL Digital Humanities @ucldh.bsky.social · 2d

UCLDH at 15: Highlights, Milestones & What’s Next
Thoughts from our new Co-Directors, Adam Crymble and Jin Gao.
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/dh/2025/09/3...

UCLDH at 15: Highlights, Milestones & What’s Next

We are delighted to write to you as the new co-directors of the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities. As we step into this role together, we want to take a moment to reflect on the past year, celebrate o...

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Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH) @aadh.bsky.social · 3d

🐣 Early Bird registrations for DHA2025 - "Digital Archipelagos" are closing soon!

🌏Join us at the Australian National University and be part of a growing Digital Humanities community in our region.

👉Check out our program and register before Oct 10 at a discounted rate:
dha25.org/post/registr...

DHA2025: Registration Open

Registration is open for DHA25. Please click through to the registration site at the Australian National University to purchase your tickets.

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Points Like A Man @pointslikeaman.bsky.social · 3d

Check it out! Our project director, @aelagrand.bsky.social won the @honeyandwaxbks.bsky.social Book Collecting Prize for her collection of materials related to Shakespearean breeches actresses! ✨🎩 Points Like A Man even gets a shout-out!

Fine Books & Collections @finebooks.bsky.social · 12d

Alexandra E. LaGrand Wins 2025 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize
www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-n...

Alexandra E. LaGrand Wins 2025 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize

Alexandra E. LaGrand has won the 2025 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize for her archive documenting Shakespearean breeches actresses over the long 19th century.The annual prize, which rewards American...

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New Variorum Shakespeare @nvshakespeare.bsky.social · 4d

Our Director Dr. Robert Stagg has written a foreword to ‘Richard Barnfield’s Poetics: Early Modern English Poetry Beyond Shakespeare’, ed. Camilla Caporicci, Fabio Ciambella and Cristiano Ragni. @ardenpublisher.bsky.social

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 4d

This week the Society also launched the call for its First Book and Early Career Article Prizes, 2026.

Eligible titles, published in 2025, should be submitted by the author before the closing date of 15 December. Further details and how to apply: bit.ly/3KnR47v

#Skystorians

Royal Historical Society Book and Article Prizes, 2026: submissions now invited - RHS

The Royal Historical Society invites applications for its First Book Prize, 2026 and Early Career Article Prize, 2026. The call for submissions opens on Monday 29 September 2025 and runs to Monday 15 ...

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New Variorum Shakespeare @nvshakespeare.bsky.social · 9d

We are saddened to report the recent deaths of two of our New Variorum Shakespeare editors, Prof. Jay Halio and Prof. Susan May. A tribute to their extraordinary commitment to the Variorum can now be found on our website, here: newvariorumshakespeare.org/news/

New Variorum Shakespeare

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · 11d

How can AI and other computational approaches help us to understand the distant past? @jrladd.com will share work from two cultural analytics projects that address these challenges by combining analog research methods and machine learning to study the print culture of the 16th and 17th centuries.

Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · 23d

Sep 29: "Human and Machine Intelligence in Networks of Early Modern Print" with John Ladd (@jrladd.com), Assistant Professor in Computing and Information Studies at Washington & Jefferson College. Info/RSVP:

Human and Machine Intelligence in Networks of Early Modern Print

cdh.princeton.edu

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STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse @stemma.bsky.social · 12d

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New Variorum Shakespeare @nvshakespeare.bsky.social · 15d

New Variorum Shakespeare @nvshakespeare.bsky.social · 18d

Our Director Dr. Robert Stagg will be in Tokyo next month to: deliver a plenary lecture to the Shakespeare Society of Japan, host a NVS reception at the SSJ, join a roundtable about ‘non-Anglophone Shakespeare’ at Waseda University, and begin NVS collaborations with the Tsubouchi Theatre Museum. 🇯🇵

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Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social · 18d

Sep 20, 1592: Greene's Groats-Worth of Wit and its derogatory reference to #Shakespeare is recorded in the Stationer's Register. #OTD
bit.ly/3ro2vhu

Greenes, groats-worth of witte: First printed allusion to Shakespeare as a playwright

Shakespeare Documented features all primary sources that document the life and career of William Shakespeare. It has images, descriptions, and transcriptions of 500 manuscripts and printed works.

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New Variorum Shakespeare @nvshakespeare.bsky.social · 21d

🇯🇵 Our next New Variorum Shakespeare event is a tea reception at the Shakespeare Society of Japan conference in Tokyo next month. We look forward to telling delegates more about the NVS and how it can be used in their teaching and research. 🇯🇵

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 22d

16 Sept 1672: d. Anne Bradstreet, #poet - she was the first woman to be published in the #English American colonies #otd

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New Variorum Shakespeare @nvshakespeare.bsky.social · 23d

Want to hear more about Whitney Sperrazza’s new book ‘Anatomical Forms’, which we launched in our NVS Seminar @tamu.bsky.social last week?

There will be another book launch (including books by @georginaemw.bsky.social and Jonathan Lamb) this Thursday:

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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 24d

@profjoubin.bsky.social gave a talk at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. She argued that AI operates with similar logics to theater.

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AI and Theatre through a Trans Lens, London

YouTube video by Alexa Alice Joubin

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German Shakespeare Society (DSG) @dsg-shakespeare.bsky.social · 25d

Join us for our upcoming conference on 13-14 November on #Shakespeare, #Ecocriticism and #Education @uni-wuerzburg.de, in collaboration with the #Domschule, the #Mainfrankentheater and the #Chambinzky Theater in #Würzburg. For more information, visit www.neuphil.uni-wuerzburg.de/anglistik/ac...

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The Arden Shakespeare @ardenpublisher.bsky.social · 26d

It's that time of year 🎓 🍂 Stock up on all the books you need for class at 30% off in our sale until 5th October.

Shop The Arden Shakespeare https://bit.ly/47KN7mO

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New Variorum Shakespeare @nvshakespeare.bsky.social · 27d

TODAY 12:30 CT: our first event of the semester, a book launch for Whitney Sperrazza’s ‘Anatomical Forms’.

More details + Zoom link: newvariorumshakespeare.org/news/

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Claire Hansen @claireghansen.bsky.social · 29d

Globe4Globe 2025 is only a few days away! We've added more exciting names and screenings to the line-up - you can check the program and register (free) here: events.humanitix.com/globe4globe

Globe4Globe 2025: Shakespeare & Environmental Justice

The Globe4Globe event draws together scholars, practitioners, activists and educators to explore how Shakespeare's works relate to environmental justice.

events.humanitix.com

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