Lisa Hopkins

An AI generated portrait of Shakespeare, where his image appears made of brightly coloured computer code

ANNOUNCING #BSA2026 VIRTUAL CONFERENCE!
AI and Shakespeare: CfP

The BSA will meet virtually in 2026, 26–27 Feb, 1–5pm GMT to reflect and take stock on the explosive impact of AI on Shakespeare research, performance and education communities, considering opportunities and threats, briefs and griefs

Deborah Cartmell and I are pleased to announce a virtual conference on AI and Shakespeare which we're running on behalf of the BSA in February 2026. Details and cfp at
www.britishshakespeare.ws/events/

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My author copy of this has just arrived. My son is always telling me I should lift weights so it will have a practical as well as an intellectual use.

🌟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...

You could try the third group down at extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/r..., 'Edited modern spelling e-texts of Renaissance plays'. Most of these were MA work but one or two were third year dissertations. They're complete plays but you could use the same approach for smaller chunks.

So pleased to see this special issue come to fruition.

Review of Shakespeare’s King Lear (Directed by Clive Brill) on BBC Radio 4 in Two Parts, 8 and 15 June 2025 Published in Shakespeare (Ahead of Print, 2025)

And I've also got a piece in the journal Shakespeare: 'Review of Shakespeare’s King Lear (Directed by Clive Brill) on BBC Radio 4 in Two Parts, 8 and 15 June 2025'. Available here: doi.org/10.1080/1745... if you have access, or free via this link: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/4XA4F... (2/2)

Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies - CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature

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What do these have in common? From Columba to Muhammad, Mary Queen of Scots to Ivan the Terrible ... come hear where Scotland's history links into that of the world! Finding Scotland's Place in World History 18 August! @edbookfest.bsky.social
#ScottishHistory #edbookfest @luathpress.bsky.social

Thank you. This new variant is not as much fun as it's cracked up to be.

I thought it was you I could see but I wasn't sure.

Thank you. I've just done that.

If they just want a list of index terms in Word I wouldn't worry about supplying that pre-production.

In my experience it depends which press and whether they're going to populate the index from your text (in which case it's not much trouble).

This issue includes my review of @krheyam.bsky.social's truly excellent book, _The Reputation of Edward II, 1305–1697: A Literary Transformation of History_ (@amsterdamupress.bsky.social)

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The new issue of The Journal of Marlowe Studies is now available. Over 200 pages of original Marlovian research, book reviews and performance reviews, all open access. journals.shu.ac.uk/index.php/Ma...

Review of Arden of Faversham by a Young Shakespeare and a Senior Collaborator (Directed by Gerald Baker for Richmond Shakespeare Society) at the Mary Wallace Theatre, Twickenham, 2 November 2024 Published in Shakespeare (Ahead of Print, 2025)

My review of the Richmond Shakespeare Society’s production of Arden of Faversham is now live. I'm grateful to @oldfortunatus.bsky.social for bringing it to my attention. You can read it here if interested 😊
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

CFP for next year's congress! #SFS2026

Just received my author copies of this:

Er, today is not 31st May.

Neighbourly Relationships in Early Modern Drama: Staged Communities The book offers the first sustained examination of neighbourly relationships in early modern English drama, situating the close analyses of the selected plays within contemporary prescriptive literatu...

Excited that my book will be published on September 30th ☺️

www.routledge.com/Neighbourly-...

Early Modern Bonds of Trust The concepts of trust and risk provide important insights into the social and cultural life of early modern England but remain relatively unexplored in early mo…

Very pleased that the latest addition to the Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama series is now out: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/early-mod...

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. ...

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....

Fascinating and eye-opening article on Anne Hathaway Shakespeare with as an added bonus a bit about the provenance of the book, which was in a school library created by the will of Lady Margaret Hawkins #EarlyModern #SortofHerBook

_Shakespeare_ doesn't yet have a reviewer for this summer's _Hail to the Thief_ www.rsc.org.uk/hamlet-hail-.... If you sit in the Hamlet/Radiohead Venn diagram overlap, do by all means drop me a line at my institutional address (see sheffield.ac.uk/english/peop...).

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.

Shakespeare did not leave his wife Anne in Stratford, letter fragment suggests Professor says text shows Hathaway lived with playwright in London, upending the established idea of an unhappy marriage

www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Congratulations on this stunning discovery, @matthewsteggle.bsky.social !

3 weeks left. Get those abstracts in!

_Shakespeare_. Out on Wednesday. Has some stuff in about Shoreditch that, if it were true, might connect to your interests.

Makes me think of Ford's The Fancies Chaste and Noble - 'Chaste too, and yet collapsed?'