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One of the most daring theological works of the C17th, published by Elizabeth Avery in 1647. It reconsiders every mainstream Protestant teaching about the apocalypse, and caused her to be denounced as a heretic, including by her own brother. I tell Avery’s story in Voices of Thunder #earlymodern

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…

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...

Colonial “Illegals”: Marronage Communities and the Ongoing War on Migrants — INSURRECT! “Experience is our best teacher, and we must check time: remember what we have lost, who we have been, and commit to supporting, in whatever ways we can, the communities and networks of undocumented w...

www.insurrecthistory.com/archives/xd6...

An excellent true thing is that I gave unequivocally anti-“AI” talks at Wesleyan and Tufts this month where the computer scientists and engineers in attendance have no interest in allowing this industry to hijack education and asked me “how can we get our students to take your classes?”

Time to take this out for another spin.

sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...

Up next at #Globe4Globe 2025: Animal Justice!

Karen Raber - Resisting Tyranny: Shakespeare’s Animals

Gigi Pinwill - Shakespeare’s Animals: An Actor Prepares

Barbara Taylor - They Howled All Together: Imagining Predators with Shakespeare

#G4G2025

What is an ‘Afghan Tartar’? A Short Overview of a Puzzling Phrase | MEMOs As with the ‘Afghan Tartars,’ people plug gaps in knowledge about people loosely, by analogy or merging with other categories.

What is an 'Afghan Tartar'? Guest contributor Timur Khan attempts to find the answer in today's MEMOries blog post.

memorients.com/articles/wha...

Prepping for my first one-shot digital humanities workshop 💪 Intro to Data for Humanists that is the most gentle walkthrough for folks who aren't used to thinking about their work in these terms.

Working with data from my two fav projects: @ccp-org.bsky.social and the Womens Print History Project

Welcome | Reading Early Plays Reading Early Plays is a group that meets regularly online to explore drama written before the closure of the London theatres in 1642. We are interested in tracing the connections within groups of pla...

The new season of REP play-readings kicks off with 1 Henry IV at 7.30 p.m. on 24 September, and will feature the King’s Men repertory of 1612-14, including The Duchess of Malfi, Valentinian and several Shakespearean revivals.

- see the full autumn schedule here:
www.readingearlyplays.com

No suffering, no death, no limits: the nanobots pipe dream | Aeon Essays Thirty years ago, nanotech was about to change everything. Let’s not get tricked again by Silicon Valley’s magical thinking

The #AI fairy stories of today's tech bros parallel those they told about nanotechnology 20 years ago. In both cases, the tech echo-chamber demanded the rest of us accept a nightmarish future for the sake of *their* egos, magical thinking, and wealth. @philipcball.bsky.social writes: 🧪 🗃

From the Dark House to the Box Tree: Twelfth Night indoors and out | Folger Shakespeare Library Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...

Check out our wonderful Dr Simon Smith's recent blog post about the history of Twelfth Night in indoor and outdoor spaces. Available on the @folger.edu blog here:
www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...
#twelfthnight #folger #Shakespeare #theatre

I've updated #EarlyModern Resources earlymodernweb.org/resources/ Quite a few new links but also a big overhaul of the site to be more usable + a visual refresh.

(If you can't see a change, you may need to clear your browser cache and refresh hard. 😬)

Our first event of the semester will be a book launch for Dr. Whitney Sperrazza’s ‘Anatomical Forms’ (UPenn Press, 2025). Thurs 11 Sept, 12:30pm CT, in person and streamed on Zoom. For more details and Zoom link: newvariorumshakespeare.org/news/

If you are in or near Baltimore you should know that the Walters Art Museum (which is free!) has a small but wonderful exhibit about cats in medieval manuscripts

Shakespeare Special issue on ‘Shakespeare in Asian Currents’, guest edited by Bi-qi Beatrice Lei and Judy Celine Ick. Volume 21, Issue 3 of Shakespeare

New special issue, "Shakespeare in Asian Currents" now available, with criticism, performance, and a roundtable on future directions! #earlymodern #shakespeare www.tandfonline.com/toc/rshk20/c...

Just discovering this database of books as symbols in Renaissance art--a wonderful resource #EarlyModern #HerBook basiraproject.org

A Dictionary of "AI" — Sonja Drimmer Even if you spend just a small amount of time listening to people who believe that any kind of digital technology (whether that’s “artificial intelligence” or not) is an unquestioned good, you’ll hear...

An updated Dictionary of AI to help cut through the obfuscating buzzwords. sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...
*with thanks to Joseph Potts and @petertarras.bsky.social for their contributions

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

Loudly tooting this CFP, please retweet:
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How to Know the Witch: Trivial Domestication, Tragicomedy, and Race in The Witch of Edmonton | English Literary Renaissance: Vol 55, No 3 Abstract What does it mean to “know” a witch in early modern culture, and how do questionable knowledge-processes become tested and verified in comedies? Dekker, Ford, and Rowley’s 1621 tragicomedy, T...

new essay just out in ELR, "How to Know the Witch: Trivial Domestication, Tragicomedy, and Race in The Witch of Edmonton"🤩 Go check it out if you dig weird EM plays
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Inside Hamlet's Head with Jeremy McCarter | Folger Shakespeare Library Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...

A six-episode podcast drops you inside "Hamlet" from the prince's POV. Now on *our* pod, director Jeremy McCarter of Make-Believe Association explains how 21st-century technology unlocked a fresh take on Shakespeare's tragedy. 🎧 at bit.ly/4m5TyFI

This wonderful 1805 book exposes the reality behind various tricks and illusions of the day, beginning with arguably the most enigmatic of the tricks listed, that of the “Learned Pig”, or as the excellent frontispiece refers to it “The Pig of Knowledge”: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...

PBS to Broadcast Twelfth Night Starring Peter Dinklage, Lupita Nyong'o, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Sandra Oh If you can't get a free ticket to the Shakespeare in the Park production, you can watch the play at home.

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PBS to Broadcast Twelfth Night Starring Peter Dinklage, Lupita Nyong'o, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Sandra Oh

The First English Witch: Agnes Mylles and the Death of William Bayntun — Louise Ryland-Epton In the spring of 1564, as Queen Elizabeth I's reign was still finding its footing, a tragedy unfolded in the Wiltshire countryside. A baby died and three women became implicated in his alleged ‘murder...

I’ve posted about #poltergeists 👻 today so it’s probably a good moment to post my latest #witchcraft 🧹 blog. This story is big & complicated but here it is blog sized.
www.louiserylandepton.co.uk/blog/the-fir...

An illustration of a naked man. He is being hit or pierced with various weapons including knives, swords, and clubs. Next to the wounds is text describing accompany treatments. This illustration is from the Wellcome Collection in London.

“Wound Man” is an illustration which first appeared in European surgical texts during the Middle Ages. It laid out schematically the various wounds a person might suffer in battle or in accidents, with accompanying text stating treatments.

It's Friday! Tag yourself as a wound.

“with an abundance of critical firepower and editorial momentum balanced on either side, the stage is set for a wearyingly inconclusive contention between rival scholarly dynasties." loll why is this sentence so hilarious

A picture of a book entitled Anatomical Forms: The science of the body in early modern women's poetry, by Whitney Sperrazza. The cover has a skeletal hand pointing at a page of manuscript poetry, and in the foreground a human hand points at the skeletal hand, mimicking the cover.

Look what I got today: @wsperrazza.bsky.social 's magnificent new time, fresh off the presses!

Detail of an early modern image of a person blowing a trumpet on a horse backgrounded by words and a sun

For those who missed it: The English Short Titles Catalogue (ESTC) has finally been relaunched with the help of the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL) following the cyber-attack on the @britishlibrary.bsky.social. Find it here: datb.cerl.org/estc/

Macbeth(s) This wide-ranging week of films spotlights the Bard’s most screen adapted work.

@bambrooklyn.bsky.social is hosting a Macbeth festival that looks demonically good: www.bam.org/film/2025/ma...