New Variorum Shakespeare

Last night our exhibition about the history of the New Variorum Shakespeare opened at Cushing Library.

Thanks to Katayoun Torabi, Kris May + Dorothy Todd for curating the exhibition with TAMU Libraries, to Eric and Vicky Rasmussen for donating material, & to Marvin Hunt for his generous support.

Mar 3, 1592: Philip Henslowe notes the first recorded production of Henry VI Part I at the Rose Theatre. #OTD #Shakespeare
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A sneak peek of our exhibition about the history of the New Variorum Shakespeare being assembled at the Cushing Memorial Library @tamu.bsky.social in advance of opening on Monday evening:

Plaque at St. George's tower commemorating the baptism of Christopher Marlowe

Feb 26, 1564: Playwright Christopher Marlowe is baptized at St George's Church, Canterbury in Kent. #OTD

At the opening of our exhibition about the history of the New Variorum Shakespeare next week, we’ll also be launching a new collection of essays by our General Editor Prof. Eric Rasmussen.

Michael Dobson · Flash and Thunder: Marlowe’s Betrayals As Stephen Greenblatt’s Dark Renaissance shows despite itself, it is not Marlowe’s life story that we still need,...

‘What is it​ we still want from Christopher Marlowe? To judge from their recent reception, it’s not his plays.’

Michael Dobson on Stephen Greenblatt’s new study of Marlowe.

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Mary Fermor, 1628-70, done in 1658

(Northampton Museums & Art Gallery)

One week to go until the grand opening of our exhibition about the history of the New Variorum Shakespeare, generously sponsored by Prof. Marvin Hunt:

My proofs have arrived and #AGoldenWorld is now available to preorder! How did Indigenous peoples and knowledge enter into Tudor & Stuart art, literature, and fashion – and at what cost?

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#earlymodern #Tudors

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@swittek.bsky.social presents "Drama and Conversion." This Issues in Review explores how early moderns viewed identity and power through conversion, intertwining race, gender, politics, and performance.

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The grand opening of our exhibition about the history of the New Variorum Shakespeare is coming soon!

OBS / Lincoln College research associate position!

We invite early career / grad scholars to apply to our new 2-week research associate position @lincoln.ox.ac.uk. Any interesting projects that will benefit from 2 weeks at Lincoln -- £500, accommodation and meals. Deadline 27th March

Our Director Dr. Robert Stagg will be talking about ‘Shakespeare’s Asiatic Style’ at the Renaissance Society of America conference in San Francisco today — 2:30pm, Union Square 21.

Kate Heard · Expertest Artificers: Tudor Art Art in Tudor England was more than just decoration. Occupants of a precarious throne, passed down through a series of...

‘Occupants of a precarious throne, English monarchs of the 16th century had continuous need of burnishing. They commissioned artists to produce pieces that projected a glorious heritage and irrefutable authority.’

Kate Heard on Tudor art.

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At the start of next month we’ll be opening an exhibition about the history of the New Variorum Shakespeare at the Cushing Memorial Library @tamu.bsky.social.

The exhibition has been generously funded by one of our volume editors Prof. Marvin Hunt — thank you, Marvin!

Colin Burrow · Stink of Gin: Character Types What do we mean​ when we call someone a ‘character’? It’s often a way of indicating that a person habitually...

‘The character sketch combines a transhistorical type (a kind of person we have all met) with transient historical detail (the people we meet don’t babble about Hermes or Polyperchon, but we still recognise them as belonging to this type).’

Colin Burrow on character.

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Thank you to all those involved in last week’s NVS conference. We had excellent discussions about ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, ‘The Winter’s Tale’, and future possibilities for the Variorum.

The first-round application deadline for our summer courses is TODAY!

We’re very sorry to disappoint — it was out of our hands, unfortunately…

Starting today!

(although, very regrettably, due to a recent change in university policy we are no longer able to stream the conference live on Zoom)

A photograph of a play in performance. A young man with very short hair sitting on a banqueting table with champagne flutes, a white cloth. Hr has a glass in his hand, and is wearing one long black leather glove. He has dark eye shadow and is wearing a white ballet skirt over white tights, with braces over a bare chest. There's a painted backdrop of trees.

Fairy: are you, like, actual PUCK? #MoonMad #SlowShakespeare
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Puck doesn't have to be full-on evil but he can be annoying, incompetent, even borderline malevolent rather than cheeky chap full of Pranks & Bantz. Saturnine Sergo Vares in the current Headlong Dream.

We regret that due to a very recent change in university policy we are no longer able to stream this event to a public audience as planned. We apologise profusely for the inconvenience and disappointment caused.

Handwriting that reads 'Marmaduke Peacocke'.

Contender for #EarlyModern name of the day:

Marmaduke Peacocke 🦚🦚🦚

The schedule and Zoom links for next week’s conference about ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ and ‘The Winter’s Tale’ are now available on our website:

newvariorumshakespeare.org/news

At least something is great about 2026. We've already gotten off to a wonderful start with Yahya Nurgat - come join us for our next seminar in two weeks with Federica Gigante and a bonus comment by Franciso Bethencourt.....

A recording of last week’s NVS Seminar with Prof. Nataliya Torkut, Director of the Ukrainian Shakespeare Centre, is now available on our website:

newvariorumshakespeare.org/news

John Manningham's Diary: earliest mention of Twelfth Night and a Shakespeare anecdote 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.

Feb 2, 1602: First recorded performance of Twelfth Night occurs. #OTD #Shakespeare
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1 Feb 1587: The #English Privy Council write to Archbishop Whitgift to ask him to stay any further sale of Holinshed's Chronicles #otd - as they'd become concerned about additions concerning recent events (Folger).

Yesterday members of the New Variorum Shakespeare team toured @tamu.bsky.social’s Virtual Production Institute. We’re working to use its augmented reality and enhanced green-screen technology for some exciting Shakespearean performance projects. More details coming soon…