Patrick Durdel

Donate to Help Publish Meghan's Shakespeare Monograph, organized by Sarah Neville Shakespeare scholar Meghan C Andrews passed away in 2023, after a valiant… Sarah Neville needs your support for Help Publish Meghan's Shakespeare Monograph

Please consider donating to help make Meghan Andrews's forthcoming work open-access. Meghan passed away from cancer in 2023 and was honored at the MSA conference in Deptford with the Meghan C. Andrews Memorial Lecture. You can find the link to the GoFundMe here: tinyurl.com/yc8pdpbu

this is an absolutely brilliant book, go check it out & order it for your libraries!

📢 Excited to announce this Call for Papers for ‘Clio Reframed’, a conference at Oxford on 18-19 June 2026 exploring early modern women as writers of history. @engfac.bsky.social @oxfordcems.bsky.social

Abstracts due by 28 Feb! clioreframed.hcommons.org/call-for-pap...

Resource announcement: 'Theatronomics: the business of theatre, 1732-1809'

The beta web resource from the Theatronomics project is now live, with a database of eighteenth-century financial records of the Covent Garden and Drury Lane theatres.
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6235

Pls consider ordering this for your library & I'd be very happy to hear what you think!
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/closet-dr...

today is publication day for Closet Drama in Early Modern England! i wrote most of my chapter while moving apartment, burning the midnight oil in the library because we didn't have internet in the new place yet. i think it's a slightly mad piece of writing, but i let you be the judge of that!

It was so lovely to see so many people at our November meeting yesterday! Thanks for coming, everyone 🌟

If you’re a PGR or ECR working on anything Early Modern and you’d like to be a part of our community, drop us an email at revelsoffice@gmail.com 🤍

A close-up image of a printed playtext on a page in _Comedies & Tragedies_ (1647) where the inked impression of a piece of fallen type is visible. You can see the rectangular body of the typesort and make out that the letter on top of it is probably a lower-case 'r'.

seeking pointers to texts (academic or otherwise; primary or secondary; early modern or not) that discuss/theorize 'failure'?

bonus points if it specifically addresses _textual_ 'failure'.

here's an impression of fallen type for your troubles👇

I saw the matinee performance yesterday and can't stop thinking about it!

also works v nicely for a debate-style interlude like john heywood's play of love!

Call for papers for the next Medieval English Theatre Society Meeting (28th March 2026). The theme of the meeting will be ‘Records and Performance’.

A meme of 'Is this an archive?' showing a grid with various classifications of things that might be archives based on their content and structure.

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

Infographic, with headshot of the speaker: Researching The Rose, Monday Evening online talks. Professor Laurie Johnson – Pub Crawling With Playhouses. 7.30pm 10 November 2025

Monday 10 November
@ 7.30pm online

PUB CRAWLING WITH PLAYHOUSES

Join Professor Laurie Johnson @lostplayhouse.bsky.social for a ramble around the inns, taverns & ale-houses of Elizabethan London, to discover their role in the emergence of playhouse culture.

Book: www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on

The cover of a book. Text reads TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE. The illustration is of black and white embroidery of flowers, fruit, and animals; it's sitting on a blue and white William Morris print cushion.

The table of contents of a book. The chapter titles read Stuff, Linen, Leather/Wool, Silk, Inky Cloak, Sew, Cut, Fold, Ruff.

Somewhat astonishingly, here it is, a book, a thing in the world... More, including acknowledgements, soon❤️

The cover of a book. Text reads Textile Shakespeare. The lower part of the image is ink printed on linen and embroidery, black on white, with some silver thread, with flowers, fruit, insects, and animals. it is discoloured with age.

TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE is official-publication-date-minus-2-weeks (11 November) which is a LOT👀 (I can't remember feeling this wound up about other books, I have the concentration of a gnat at the moment🙄) but seems to be live as an e-book already so, available to your Kindle right now, apparently...

got the same email today good to know that my hard work in the field of how the f do i spell this is appreciated!

‘Here’s Company’: Fractured Englishness and Conflicted Communities in The Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry V - Shakespeare Survey 78 Shakespeare Survey 78 - October 2025

Wonderful surprise to see that Shakespeare Survey 78 is now out in the world, including a piece by yours truly on inter-English conflict in The Merry Wives of Windsor that I am actually quite proud of!

www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

Brilliant news! So looking forward to reading this

@gregmw4.bsky.social and I received the wonderfully welcome news that 'Predramatic Theatre' has been accepted for publication by Palgrave following peer review. Who knows? It might even be out by Christmas! It has certainly been a gift working with my mentor on a topic we're both passionate about.

‘By the Book’: Source Study and the Plot of Romeo and Juliet - Shakespeare Survey 78 Shakespeare Survey 78 - October 2025

www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...
or, if you don't have access, just send me an email/msg me here!

I realized today that my article on source study and the plot of romeo and juliet was published online a few days ago! i'm very proud of this one & if you're working on R+J or teaching the play, please check it out

last day, people!

Poster: detail from Lincoln's Inn stained glass window showing palatial buildings, with a forest covered landscape beyond. In the foreground are two men in hats and cloaks having a little chat. A dog runs towards them from the right. In the centre of the poster is a black circle containing the following text TEXT: Call for Papers on John Donne and Architecture 13th January 2026 Lincoln College, Oxford Keynote Speaker: Professor Peter McCullough Please send abstract of up to 250 words to Leah Veronese-Clucas (leah.veronese-clucas@univ.ox.ac.uk) & Paul Norris (paul.norris@bnc.ox.ac.uk) by 14th November 2025

Call for Papers John Donne’s Architecture Submission Deadline: 14th November 2025 Event Date: 13th January 2026, Lincoln College, Oxford Keynote Speaker: Professor Peter McCullough. We welcome 150–250 word abstracts for twenty-minute papers relating to any aspect of Donne and architecture from critics and historians of literature, architecture and related fields. Potential topics include (but are not limited to): The use of buildings in rhetoric or the arts of memory. Donne’s metaphorical use of architecture, as well as related disciplines such as geometry, cartography, and visual art. The buildings in which Donne lived, worked and preached (e.g. the Chapel Royal, York House, St Paul’s Cathedral, Lincoln’s Inn Chapel, St Dunstan’s in the West, etc.) and their influence on his life and work. Donne’s encounters with buildings on his travels through Europe. The relationship of literary to architectural form. Please send proposals or enquiries to Leah Veronese-Clucas (leah.veronese-clucas@univ.ox.ac.uk) and Paul Norris (paul.norris@bnc.ox.ac.uk).

Very excited to be running this conference with Paul Norris. Delighted to have @mcculloughp.bsky.social as our keynote speaker. We can't wait to hear your ideas! Please share widely

3 days left to submit an abstract for the seminar i'm organizing for next year's acla! come think about climate fictions (broadly) before (broadly) climate change (broadly) with me!
www.acla.org/seminar/f8b7...

thanks, Carlisle! yes, I think they can change it for the online version and future printings, so it's actually mostly fine i guess

Hamlet’s Garbage In Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado, the prince Nanki-Poo, disguised as a wandering minstrel, terms himself ‘a thing of shreds and patches’, adapting and

Out today!💀 (advance access, open access) my little note entitled 'Hamlet’s Garbage', Notes & Queries par excellence, and a small preview of the sorts of things that I explore in my forthcoming Textile Shakespeare: academic.oup.com/nq/article/d...

Geplante Forschungsprojekte Hier finden Sie eine Übersicht aller Forschungsvorhaben und der zugehörigen Stellenausschreibungen im Exzellenzcluster Cross-Cultural Philology.

Cross-Cultural Philology – Stellenausschreibungen im Exzellenzcluster: www.lmu.de/crosscultura...

Trying to keep my professional chill but I’m SO excited Carnegie Mellon is launching a cluster hire in computational humanities—MULTIPLE JOBS!

1. Asst Teaching Track Prof in Computational Humanities - apply.interfolio.com/173622
2. Asst Tenure Track Prof in CH - apply.interfolio.com/173626

I am writing a book about ideas about/theories of performance in some weird/great 16c. plays that are not often taught etc. – I would love to hear what you would hope to find in such a book to matter for your research/teaching in early modern drama!

🌟Publication Day!🌟

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Authorship, ed. Rory Loughnane and Will Sharpe

For more details about the book's contents and contributors, see here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...