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Our newest edition is out now! ✏️ (4/4)

Building on our earlier conversation, this concluding thread reveals what more you can find in our latest issue (28.1)! #StayInformed #ExcitingNews

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Our newest issue is out!!! 🎙️ (2/4)
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55088
Following the last thread, here's what more you can find in our latest issue (28.1)!
#StayTuned #ExcitingNews

Cover of Early Theatre journal, Volume 28.1 (2025), featuring a red background with white illustrations of early modern figures in costume and an ornate theatrical arch above the title. The journal rests against a deep burgundy background patterned with faded line drawings of similar historical characters. Large text below reads "Early Theatre."

🎭 Hello, Bluesky! (1/4)

We're excited to share that Early Theatre 28.1 is now live!
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This issue is fully open access and free to read via Project Muse’s Subscribe to Open Access.

Curious what’s inside? Follow this post and the threads that follow for highlights, links, and more!!

We can’t wait to share ET's upcoming Issues in Review section on Queer and Trans Issues in Medieval Drama edited by @jeffgstoyanoff.bsky.social. Look for this work in issue 27.2 of Early Theatre by the end of the year!

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An open box on a table containing copies of the book Historicizing the Embodied Imagination in Early Modern English Literature

Historicizing the Embodied Imagination in Early Modern English Literature (Palgrave, 2024) will be released in the coming weeks. Many thanks to my wonderful co-editor, Grant Williams, and our terrific contributors who have produced amazing chapters. More info here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Open Letter to College and University Presidents on Student Protests | ACLU Academic freedom and free speech are essential. Universities must protect them.

www.aclu.org/news/free-sp...

April 26, 2024 Yale Faculty Letter

Nearly 300 @Yale faculty condemn the criminalization of @Yale students engaged in acts of peaceful protest. @Yale
must drop all charges, take no disciplinary action against those arrested, and respect peaceable speech and assembly on campus. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

What a fun afternoon session today with fellow editor @jamieparis.bsky.social discussing the ins and outs of editors’ first read throughs and next steps for new submissions to @earlytheatre.bsky.social !

If you work in #earlymodern drama, particularly in the methodologies Bill did so much to support through his scholarship, teaching, and mentoring, please consider submitting to the collection! Email abstract & bio to mapangallo@vcu.edu before August 30, 2024.

Try Girl and the Goat!

Our negative assumptions about people with Down syndrome can lead us to treat them in such a way that these assumptions become reality. In sociology, this is... Assume That I Can | Global World Down Syndrome Day Campaign 2024

#assumethatican

Love the “Reflections” essay possibility as described in revised Style Guide!

Little more on this deposition and other accounts of that day, with prime prop of the broomstick, here: beforeshakespeare.com/2018/12/10/e...

Line drawing of an hourglass with real sand running through it. Above the hourglass is text in a script font, reading “deadline reminder.” The SAA logo is in the bottom right corner of the image.

Don’t forget about these upcoming SAA deadlines:

- voting for officers closes Feb 15
- program proposals for #Shax2025 are due Feb 15
- discounted registration for #Shax2024 ends March 10

Find details at linktr.ee/saaupdates

Best New History Books of 2023 Revolutions and rubles, godlings and fascist symbols, Shakespeare and silk: ten historians choose their favourite new history books of 2023.

Can’t quite believe ‘What is a Playhouse?’ is generously listed (in some distinguished company) as one of the 2023 Books of the Year in History Today
www.historytoday.com/archive/revi...

British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding shortlist event Nandini Das, winner of the British Academy Book Prize 2023, discusses her experience of writing her prize-winning book Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire.

You can hear from Nandini Das - winner of the @britishacademy.bsky.social
Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding at our first event of 2024.

Monday 15 Jan at 6pm online and in person. Free - book your place here
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/in-co...

Image of the cover and title for The Theatrical Legacy of Thomas Middleton, 1624-2024 edited by William David Green, Anna L. Hegland, and Sam Jermy.

As you share your 2023 reading wrap-ups and begin to compile your 2024 reading lists, here’s my plug for ‘The Theatrical Legacy of Thomas Middleton, 1624-2024’, coming in April 2024! #EarlyModern

MSA isn't on #earlymodern Bluesky yet: SAVE THE DATE! The Marlowe Society of America's 9th International Conference will be held in London, 9-12 July 2024. Further details including the Call for Papers are forthcoming -- see www.marlowesocietyofamerica.org for updates.