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‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk

GOOD NEWS !
"A team of musicologists has unearthed the printed score of a previously unknown Purcell song, as well as the original manuscript for various keyboard compositions."
#baroque #music
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

#earlymodern out December at last such a privilege to work with three distinguished scholars of early modern women’s writing

With the usual prudent caveats about first examples in the OED; I love that Jonson is the first to be cited for "I told you so"

Globe4Globe 2025: Shakespeare and Environmental Justice - YouTube In 2025, Globe4Globe returned with the Shakespeare and Environmental Justice Symposium. Taking place live and online across 24 hours on September 12-13 2025,...

A massive thanks to everyone involved in #Globe4Globe 2025! We were thrilled to see 300 attendees join us for 24 hours devoted to Shakespeare & environmental justice. If you missed out, most of the presentations are now available online now: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Flinders University jobs under threat as news of proposed restructure spreads Six internationally recognised marine scientists who are researching South Australia's toxic algal bloom are set to lose their jobs at Flinders University, the ABC understands.

Six internationally recognised marine scientists who are researching South Australia's toxic algal bloom are set to lose their jobs at Flinders University, the ABC understands.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

1/At Macquarie Uni we are losing 50% of our units in my faculty. This is on top of cuts in 2020. We estimate by next year my faculty will be teaching 80% fewer subjects than pre Covid. Disciplines being cut do not have declining enrolments. @jennaprice.bsky.social @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social

Brilliant!!! Congratulations!! (…now sleep!)

Statement of support for the Save Meanjin campaign, from colleagues in the Screen and Cultural Studies program at the University of Melbourne savemeanjin.org

Ad for Bell Shakespeare’s staged reading series, Play In A Day, which will be Jonson’s Volpone next year in Melbourne.

We’re doing a staged reading of *Volpone* next year! 🦊

Put it in your diary, Melbourne folk!

Wednesday 18 November, 6:30pm

www.bellshakespeare.com.au/events

1 / 1 Letter in support of Meanjin’s future As members of the Publishing and Communications program’s staff at the University of Melbourne, we strongly support the continued existence of Meanjin Quarterly. From direct involvements with the journal during the past 25 years and more, we personally attest to the formative role Meanjin has played in the development of writers, editors and publishers, and an independent Australian cultural voice. The creative labour of thousands resonates deeply in the fabric of this cultural institution founded by Clem Christesen in Meanjin/Brisbane in 1940. We call on the University of Melbourne to recognise the rich and continuing social, political and literary value of Meanjin by ensuring its future. The journal is a living resource for our teaching, and vital to our students. Its publications fill our reading lists with ideas from the best minds of our time. It has uplifted many of our students through publication, internships, partnerships and employment, and its connection to the University is part of what makes our writing and editing programs valuable and comparable to other leading universities on the international stage. We believe the University’s enduring purpose of benefiting society compels it to take swift action to preserve the journal and sustain its continued publication, preferably within the University itself. At the very least, the University should do all it can, acting in good faith, to transfer the journal’s cultural and IP assets to another institution prepared to save it. Culturally, the University of Melbourne has benefited immensely from its support of the journal since 1945; the extinction of the journal would be its enduring loss but an even greater loss to the community the University serves. Signed by: Sybil Nolan Tim Coronel Matt Holden LJ Maher Fiannuala Morgan Sharon Mullins Beth Driscoll Claire Parnell Nicola Redhouse Hollen Singleton Bec Kavanagh

Re #MeanjinJournal, a letter from myself and some of my colleagues to The University of Melbourne. #Meanjin is such an important part of Australia's literary ecosystem and losing it would be culturally and industrially devastating. #AusLit #AustralianWriters #Publishing #Unimelb

That was a particularly great session

Listening in to this now -- such inspiring papers...!

The University of Melbourne English and Theatre Studies Statement on the closure of Meanjin. 12 September 2025 Melbourne University's English and Theatre Studies Programme calls on the University of Melbourne to act on its educational mission and find a way to support Meanjin, one of Australia’s most precious cultural institutions. For generations Meanjin has offered established and emerging writers a home for testing talent, fostering debate, and exploring ideas. But Meanjin needs no defence. It speaks for itself. It speaks for its former publisher as well: that Meanjin is the only publication cited—twice—on MUP’s “About Us” page is evidence enough that it carries much of the literary prestige to which the press can lay claim. The decision of Melbourne University Publishing’s Board to close Meanjin involved no consultation with those of us at the University of Melbourne most invested in its past and its future. The only rationale offered by the Board—that the decision was taken “on purely financial grounds”—is, as others have noted, both inexplicable and an act of "cultural vandalism.” It is also a betrayal of the University’s role as an educator, enricher and supporter of cultural life. Meanjin has a value that cannot and should not be measured in financial terms.

A way forward can and must be found that allows Meanjin to continue its important work, in consultation with the University’s most affected communities, disciplines, and concentrations of expertise—including creative writing, literature and theatre studies, publishing and editing. We call on the University of Melbourne’s leadership and the board of Melbourne University Publishing to work together to preserve Meanjin’s future on grounds that take into account its ongoing cultural value, whether in Naarm or Meanjin. Dr Sarah Balkin, A/Prof Justin Clemens, Prof Deirdre Coleman, Dr Sara Fernandes Crouch, Dr Michael Falk, Dr Lindsay Goss, Dr Margaret Harvey, Dr Joe Hughes, Dr Ryan Johnson, Dr Jessica Marian, Prof David McInnis, Dr Beth McLean, Dr Marc Mierowsky, Dr Lynda Ng, Prof Peter Otto, Dr Elliot Patsoura, Prof Paul Rae, Dr Miranda Stanyon, Dr Mairi Stirling Hill, Prof Stephanie Trigg, Prof Clara Tuite, Prof Denise Varney

The University of Melbourne English and Theatre Studies Statement on the closure of Meanjin.

12 September 2025

screenshot of Quaritch's new catalogue of annotated books; the bookseller's description of each item is itself annotated, highlighted, and adorned with manicules pointing out significant features

@quaritch1847.bsky.social's new catalogue of annotated books might just be the greatest bookseller's catalogue of all time. Just sayin'.

Take a moment to appreciate the fun they clearly had:
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CFP for special issue of Shakespeare Quarterly on Shakespeare's Twenty-First Century. What conversations are we having or should we be having, in Shakespeare studies? Authors are invited to submit articles for publication in the first issue of the SQ under the new editorial leadership, with a focus on the Twenty-First century and Shakespeare. 3 Oct 25 https://academic.oup.com/sq/pages/call-for-papers-shakespeares-twenty-first-century

What conversations are we having or should we be having, in Shakespeare studies? Authors are invited to submit articles for publication in the first issue of the SQ under the new editorial leadership, with a focus on the Twenty-First century and Shakespeare.
3 Oct 25
academic.oup.com/sq/pages/cal...

The Guardian view on Christopher Marlowe: it’s time to read him and honour him | Editorial Editorial: England’s second most famous playwright is the star of a new play. But his own works should be staged more, and he should be commemorated better

“Two things could and should be done to restore Marlowe to his rightful place. The first, obviously and simply, is to study and produce his plays more.”

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Edward II Critically, theatrically, and politically, the time is ripe for a new edition of Christopher Marlowe's Edward II. Critically, the play has come to be, in the pa…

I'm moving over from the X box. Meanwhile my edition of #Marlowe's Edward II @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
is available for pre-order. With ample critical, performance, & textual intro, annotations, plus 22 illus of C20-21 performance, early texts & readers. www.bloomsbury.com/us/edward-ii...

Thank you! 😊 My entire front yard is native Australian plants; the winter flowers are amazing…

First page of our chapter on Australian Indigenous Shakespeare, pictured alongside flowering Swan River Pea (Gastrolobium celsianum)

Photo of newly published scholarly collection “Shakespeare in the ‘Post’Colonies”, pictured against a backdrop of heavily flowering Leafless Rock Wattle (Acacia aphylla)

Shakespeare in the ‘Post’Colonies… in the ‘post’colonies!

So grateful to Amrita Dhar & Amrita Sen for the chance to write about Australian Indigenous Shakespeare with my wonderful new colleague Margaret Harvey 🙂

If Shakespeare had named other plays the way he named The Two Gentlemen of Verona and The Two Noble Kinsmen:

The Two Teenagers of Verona
The Two Sisters of Padua
The Two Guys in a Pie
The Two Twins (...and Another Two)
The Two Henrys
The Two Friends and Three Witches

It’s getting real…!

It’s Melbourne Rare Books Fair time! 🙂

A book Walter Raleigh had with him in the Tower, anyone…?

(Maggs brought it out; I didn’t ask the price.)

rarebookfair.com

#TeamDekker

Have a chat with Anouska Lester—she’s working on something similarish…

Not sure I quite grasp the specifics of the ask but hopefully something here is of relevance…? eg the 2020 collection or the 2019 chapter in Tiffany’s book, perhaps? If it helps, we can talk further when you’re in Melb for the fellowship, Danielle! (Congrats!) lostplays.folger.edu/LPD-derived_...

Job-Ready Graduates attacks the arts and humanities and presents an often insurmountable obstacle for those looking to undertake further study study. Follow the link for an Open Letter to @albomp.bsky.social calling for the repeal of JRG, and sign our petition. linktr.ee/aushistorica...

Top Australian writers urge Albanese to abolish Job-Ready Graduates, calling their humanities degrees life changing Tim Winton, Helen Garner and Peter Garrett are just a few of the high-profile signatories to an open letter against Job-Ready Graduates – and for the humanities.

Top Australian writers urge Albanese to abolish Job-Ready Graduates, calling their humanities degrees life changing
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Tim Winton among 100 high-profile Australians calling for university fees that don’t ‘punish’ arts students Open letter urges Labor to reverse JRG scheme, introduced by Coalition in 2021, as cost of humanities degrees reaches more than $50,000

More than 100 high-profile and distinguished Australians -and BA graduates- have signed the @austhistassoc.bsky.social open letter calling for the repeal of Job-Ready Graduates: a policy that punishes humanities students with life-changing debts: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...