David McInnis

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.)

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#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
theconversation.com/top-australi...

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...

Today’s attempt to avoid work whilst on leave thwarted by Sovereign Hill

Australia can't withstand further humanities cuts The Australian Academy of Humanities views with great concern the impact on staff, students and the wider community of the ANU’s plan for the humanities and social sciences. Now is not the time to red...

Australia can’t withstand further humanities cuts. Civil society depends on it.
While universities have the right to determine their education & research priorities, no one in Australia has a handle on the effects of cuts & their impact on our national skills & knowledge capabilities. bit.ly/3TqI4jn

AAH raise alarm over ANU cuts & the national capability at risk ANU restructuring of humanities & social sciences programs warning that the cuts pose a threat to Australia’s sovereign capability

'[T]he proposed closure of long-standing national infrastructure and capabilities—including the Humanities Research Centre, the European Studies Centre, and the Australian National Dictionary Centre...represents the loss of irreplaceable national assets.'

humanities.org.au/news/alarm-o...

A flyer that describes the content of my book, The Will in English Renaissance Drama.

Happy to share the flyer for my book 'The Will in English Renaissance Drama', which is out this August with @universitypress.cambridge.org.

Maybe your library would like a copy?! The 20% discount may be of interest to those heading to @srsrensoc.bsky.social! #earlymodern #drama #renaissance

Looks fantastic!

Who called Shakespeare ‘upstart crow’? Our study points to his co-author, Thomas Nashe Perhaps he intended to denigrate Shakespeare as a jack-of-all-trades player-turned-playwright who should have stuck to acting.

Striking while the iron is hot, we wrote a piece for The Conversation #earlymodern theconversation.com/who-called-s...

Photo (by David McInnis) of Australian artist Jimmy C’s famous mural of Shakespeare in Clink Street near the Globe. It depicts Shakespeare as known via the Chandos portrait, holding a skull like Hamlet does, and a quill, in front of a psychedelic swirl of colour.

📣 CFP: Shakespeare Quarterly special issue

Shakespeare’s Twenty-First Century / The Twenty-First Century’s Shakespeare

This will be Vanessa I. Corredera, Arthur L. Little, Jr. and my first issue as Editors! Please submit your finest!

More info: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

If only Banquo had known…

…so Macbeth’s just been pottering around in the herb garden too much (‘O, full of scorpions is my mind’)

Photo (by David McInnis) of Australian artist Jimmy C’s famous mural of Shakespeare in Clink Street near the Globe. It depicts Shakespeare as known via the Chandos portrait, holding a skull like Hamlet does, and a quill, in front of a psychedelic swirl of colour.

📣 CFP: Shakespeare Quarterly special issue

Shakespeare’s Twenty-First Century / The Twenty-First Century’s Shakespeare

This will be Vanessa I. Corredera, Arthur L. Little, Jr. and my first issue as Editors! Please submit your finest!

More info: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Great to see @notwithoutmustard.bsky.social (& Shakespeare Quarterly!) getting media coverage for this ‘upstart crow’ re-attribution!

archive.md/2025.06.18-2...

Currently crowdfunding for a new solo interactive Shakespeare, Timonopoly, as we lost promised funding. Astonishingly we're already 45% there! Please help if you can or share- thank you! More here:

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/timonopoly

…but an academic fan fiction spinoff from ‘The Man from UNCLE’ could still work, right? 😉

Can’t help wondering who ‘the girl from Oxford’ is now…!

We’re almost at half a million! Every bit counts, folks…

Giving Day is live! Donate now and double your impact. Bell Shakespeare.

It’s Bell Shakespeare’s Giving Day! I’m proud to serve on the Board.

Our lead supporters will match every donation made today between 8am-8pm. Help us continue sharing Shakespeare’s timeless stories across Australia, reaching further than ever before.

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Representing Peace in Samuel Johnson's Irene (1749) Brandon Chua re-examines Samuel Johnson’s play, Irene (1749), situating it within contemporary debates on religious toleration and evolving definitions of peace

Registration (free) for the 2025 Ian Donaldson Memorial Lecture is now live:
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'Representing Peace in Samuel Johnson's Irene (1749)'
Dr Brandon Chua (Hong Kong)

Mon 30 June, 6pm - 7pm
Macmahon Ball Theatre, Unimelb (and on Zoom — register for link)

Let it go, naked Men may see’t the better;] Thus has this Passage been stupidly pointed thro’ all the Editions, as if naked Men could see better than Men in their Cloathes. I think verily, if there were any Room to credit the Experiment, such Editors ought to go naked for the Improvement of their Eye-sights.

1733. Lewis Theobald advises fellow Shakespeare editors to go naked as they work. (The practice was not, to my knowledge, adopted.)

Upping this one final time - applications close this Sunday (25th May).

Saw it here in Melb around that time too I think…! Enjoyed it very much.

Ancient example of printed text to be displayed in Melbourne: ‘It unites us all’ A Japanese prayer scroll dating back more than 1,250 years has been acquired by the State Library of Victoria and will feature alongside other rare books items in an exhibition later this month

Great to see the wonderful Dr Anna Welch in the news, showing off SLV’s acquisition of a 1250-year-old printed scroll! (the Hyakumantō Darani, a Buddhist prayer text from Japan)

www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Yay! The ESTC is back!

datb.cerl.org/estc/

Bell Shakespeare’s Play In A Day Reading of Marlowe’s *Tamburlaine* gets underway in about an hour…!

www.bellshakespeare.com.au/play-in-a-da...