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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · 4d

always the best day of the semester! thanks for sharing! 📖♥️

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Emily Rowe @emilyrowe1.bsky.social · 5d

Lots of fun getting students to collate, fold, and stab-stitch Hamlet Q1 today (adapted from @roaringgirle.bsky.social’s class!). And now have a little interactive quarto for my office door 📖

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Tamara Atkin @tamarajatkin.bsky.social · 14d

Realise there’s. It much to go on here, but what do we think about this vellum wrapper? Recycled indenture?

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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · Sep 6

no, there’s not. this book focuses primarily on printed plays (with some treatment of MSS antecedents).

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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · Aug 15

we welcome papers about public libraries, public records offices, or any other public institution that stewards or interacts with shakespeare and early modern texts.

what can we be doing—as early modernists, book historians, & shakespeareans—to defend our public libraries? think capaciously!

Brandi K. Adams @bkadams.bsky.social · Aug 11

For those of you going to Denver’s SAA, please consider joining @roaringgirle.bsky.social and me to talk about the importance of public libraries, Shakespeare, and other early modern literature. There’s so much to consider in our current political climate:

[ SEMINAR • SAA 2026 ]
SHAKESPEARE & PUBLIC LIBRARIES
This seminar examines the role of public libraries (local, national and international) in the preservation, dissemination, and study of the books and other media that transmit works by Shakespeare and other early modern writers. The recent identification of two books once owned by John Milton—a Shakespeare First Folio and a copy of Holinshed's Chronicles-at two American public libraries (The Free Library of Philadelphia and the Phoenix Public Library, respectively) and the presence of another of Milton's books (a sammelband of early Italian editions) at a third (The New York Public Library) invites us to acknowledge and rethink an implicit bias towards well-funded elite libraries and collections as privileged sites of textual and historical research. How might our knowledge of early modern textual history and the history of early modern books in the longue durée change with greater consideration of public collections? What do (and could) scholarly partnerships with public libraries look like-and what can they achieve in terms of bolstering the value of humanistic inquiry? How might the histories of (and transmitted by) the early modern books in these collections, which we are uniquely positioned to tell, relate to the specific local communities that they serve? In this way, the seminar is also interested in the ways that public libraries feature Shakespeare in the promotion of their circulating collections, educational programming, and public events, as many U.S. public libraries did during the quatercentenaries of Shakespeare's death in 2016 and of the publication of the first folio in 2023. While the idea for this seminar emerges from our experiences working in American public libraries, we would welcome contributions from scholars and librarians considering the role of public libraries in Shakespeare and early modern studies in various different regional and national traditions.

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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · Sep 5

paperback coming early 2026! ✨

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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · Aug 17

new academic year = new planner

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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · Aug 15

we welcome papers about public libraries, public records offices, or any other public institution that stewards or interacts with shakespeare and early modern texts.

what can we be doing—as early modernists, book historians, & shakespeareans—to defend our public libraries? think capaciously!

Brandi K. Adams @bkadams.bsky.social · Aug 11

For those of you going to Denver’s SAA, please consider joining @roaringgirle.bsky.social and me to talk about the importance of public libraries, Shakespeare, and other early modern literature. There’s so much to consider in our current political climate:

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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · Aug 15

editor for life, it seems

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Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social · Aug 13

The news is all bad so here's a treat: a bunch of horoscopes written out by John Dee, a bunch of shopping lists written out by John Dee. A magus has to eat. (Bodleian Ms Ashmole 337)

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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · Aug 14

soon-to-be material texts!

The Arden Shakespeare @ardenpublisher.bsky.social · Aug 14

Find out more: www.bloomsbury.com/discover/blo...

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Brandi K. Adams @bkadams.bsky.social · Aug 11

For those of you going to Denver’s SAA, please consider joining @roaringgirle.bsky.social and me to talk about the importance of public libraries, Shakespeare, and other early modern literature. There’s so much to consider in our current political climate:

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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · Jul 26

here’s a more recent version of the commonplace book assignment, adapted for a graduate course—

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/56hb6...

www.dropbox.com

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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · Jul 21

let’s keep an eye out for his copy of chaucer, pls! probably but not necessarily the 1602 ed.

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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · Jul 18

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Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social · Jul 18

Hi crusades #medievalsky people, do we have evidence of swords being left by returning crusaders as votive offerings in churches? (Asking for @roaringgirle.bsky.social )

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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · Jul 17

louder for the people in the back!

Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social · Jul 17

If 👏 you're 👏 writing 👏 about 👏 reception 👏 history 👏 you 👏have 👏 to 👏 cite 👏 the 👏 historical 👏 editions

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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · Jul 12

This is the new matrix I engraved last night. It will cast on an 18 point quad and can be rotated or used as a border. I'll be testing this later and hopefully it will turn out as i envision! #typecasting #engraving #letterpress

A close up view of a brass rectangle which has a design of a flower engraved on it. The rectangle has 2 corners cut off at an angle and sizing notes stamped in it.

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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · Jun 26

a timelapse of #slowbibliography featuring one of its best practitioners.

Dr. Tara Lyons @tarallyons.bsky.social · Jun 26

In 1671, Rachel (Fane) Bouchier, the Countess of Bath, purchased £200 of books for the library at @tcddublin.bsky.social The books were housed together and known as “The Countess of Bath’s Library.” This week I reconstructed the bequest, with the help of the amazing TCD librarians.

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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · Jun 23

consider joining me and @bkadams.bsky.social for a conversation about public libraries at #shax2026.

if you have an idea and aren't sure whether it fits the remit of the seminar, it probably fits! but feel free to reach out to either of us with questions.

claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · May 17

thanks to @saaupdates.bsky.social for including the SHAKESPEARE & PUBLIC LIBRARIES seminar on the 2026 annual meeting program.

& thanks to @bkadams.bsky.social for collaborating with me on making space for this increasingly urgent conversation about the value of public libraries.

please sign up!

SEMINAR DESCRIPTION: This seminar examines the role of public libraries (local, national and international) in the preservation, dissemination, and study of the books and other media that transmit works by Shakespeare and other early modern writers. The recent identification of two books once owned by John Milton—a Shakespeare First Folio and a copy of Holinshed’s Chronicles—at two American public libraries (The Free Library of Philadelphia and the Phoenix Public Library, respectively) and the presence of another of Milton’s books (a sammelband of early Italian editions) at a third (The New York Public Library) invites us to acknowledge and rethink an implicit bias towards well-funded elite libraries and collections as privileged sites of textual and historical research. How might our knowledge of early modern textual history and the history of early modern books in the longue durée change with greater consideration of public collections? What do (and could) scholarly partnerships with public libraries look like—and what can they achieve in terms of bolstering the value of humanistic inquiry? How might the histories of (and transmitted by) the early modern books in these collections, which we are uniquely positioned to tell, relate to the specific local communities that they serve? In this way, the seminar is also interested in the ways that public libraries feature Shakespeare in the promotion of their circulating collections, educational programming, and public events, as many U.S. public libraries did during the quatercentenaries of Shakespeare’s death in 2016 and of the publication of the first folio in 2023. While the idea for this seminar emerges from our experiences working in American public libraries, we would welcome contributions from scholars and librarians considering the role of public libraries in Shakespeare and early modern studies in various different regional and national traditions.

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David McInnis @dnmcinnis.bsky.social · Jun 20

📣 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...

Photo (by David McInnis) of Australian artist Jimmy C’s famous mural of Shakespeare in Clink Street near the Globe. It depicts Shakespeare as known via the Chandos portrait, holding a skull like Hamlet does, and a quill, in front of a psychedelic swirl of colour.

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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · Jun 20

it is already the solstice ☀️ & i am just now building a summer reading list of great & good bookish (as in, book historical & bibliographical) things-i-have-not-had-time-to-read-but-am-going-to-create-time-to-read before back-to-school 📚📖

please share your recs for recent articles & chapters ⬇️🙏🏼

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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · Jun 17

add one+ of these titles in the ELEMENTS IN SHAKESPEARE & TEXT series to your summer reading list. they're short!

look out for more titles soon—& please get in touch with me or @loughnrv.bsky.social if you have your own idea for an element! we'd love to chat.

ℹ️: www.cambridge.org/core/publica...

The title pages of six books in the Elements in Shakespeare and Text series. Titles and authors are as follows:

Tiffany Stern, Shakespeare, Malone, and the Problems of Chronology
Holger Schott Syme, Theatre History, Attribution Studies, and the Question of Evidence
Paul Salzman, Facsimiles and the History of Shakespeare Editing
Rory Loughnane and Willy Maley, Editing Archipelagic Shakespeare
Beth Sharrock, Shakespeare Broadcasts and the Question of Value
Anupam Basu, Shakespeare and Scale

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · Mar 22

Love to refuse a prompt. static1.squarespace.com/static/53a4b...

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Emily Dourish @emilydourish.bsky.social · Jun 6

This is what happens when you add a fancy fore edge title, then 150 years later someone realises the book was misbound and moves the last 100 pages to the front. Should look like the first pic, actually looks like the second 🤦

A fore edge title reading IULI[us] / DEI GRA [tia] / EP [iscopu]S WIR /CEB AC / FRANCI / ORIENT / DUX . CUL Sel.3.82

A fore edge title reading ULI[us] D I / RA[tia] G EP[iscopu]S / VIRC ET V / RAN OR F/ DUX. CUL F*. 8.31(c)

A book whose date should read 1578 has been rebound so that it reads 5781.

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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · Jun 6

a #herbook inscription for the ages:

Elizabeth Pride her Book giuen her by [the?] Lord Larrance / a ugly Lord a rogue a folle of a Lord

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STC 22545 • @folger.edu

A handwritten inscription in the margin of THE COVNTESSE OF PEMBROKES ARCADIA (1621) that reads: “Elizabeth Pride her Book giuen her by [the?] Lord Larrance / a ugly Lord a rogue a folle of a Lord”

STC 22545 • Folger Shakespeare Library

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