English Faculty/OWC Shakespeare Webinar: Cymbeline
In this free webinar, Professor Emma Smith will be discussing the new edition of Cymbeline from Oxford World's Classics.
Our English Faculty / Oxford World's Classics #Shakespeare webinars continue!
On Monday, 2 March, Prof Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social will be joined by Dr Kim Gilchrist @kimgilchrist.bsky.social to discuss #CYMBELINE followed by Q&A.
All welcome! Free, but booking required. #booksky
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As someone who has published books with 100+ images, here are my tips for finding free #earlymodern images (and tips for discounts when you have to pay for them!) ποΈ
sarahabendall.com/2020/03/11/e...
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Bahl 25 Feb - Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, University of York
CREMS Research Seminar with Christopher Bahl, Durham University
Our second seminar of the semester is coming up!
Scholarly exiles in Mecca β approaching a political practice of the Mughal court
Speaker: Christopher Bahl, Durham University
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Wednesday 25 February
π 5:00-7:00pm
π Yarbrugh Room, HG/15 & Zoom
π www.york.ac.uk/crems/events...
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Public Domain Image Archive
Explore our hand-picked collection of out-of-copyright works, free for all to browse, download, and reuse. This is a living database with new images added every week.
Question for #EarlyModern #Skystorians please! ποΈ
What are your favourite online places to search for public domain images?
(free to use, out of copyright, cleared by copyright owner for public use etc)?
Example: Public Domain Image Archive pdimagearchive.org
24.02.2026 13:35 β
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Thank you!
23.02.2026 17:00 β
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Look what just got published on the excellent @memorients.bsky.social blog! π
23.02.2026 16:56 β
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@naomipullin.bsky.social?
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Shakespeareβs Body Language
Why do the Capulets bite their thumbs at the Montagues? Why do the Venetians spit upon Shylock's Jewish gaberdine? What is it about Volumnia's act of kneeling tβ¦
Bloomsbury are having a sale at the moment and there's one day left to get my book, Shakespeare's Body Language, at 30-40% off! @ardenpublisher.bsky.social
If you've ever wondered why Romeo and Juliet starts with a thumb bite - and what it means - I got ya.
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/shakespea...
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Sneak peek at my next blog piece for @memorients.bsky.social π
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Good to see thatLancaster Universityβs Prof. Naomi Tadmor is delivering the keynote π
16.02.2026 07:42 β
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A Shakespearean History of Traffic
Could Shakespeare ride a horse? How did Tudor wine orders get delivered? Did playhouses cause congestion? and other questions
Meet Thomas the carterβ¦ New post follows Tudors moving around London, on the back of some recent research.Β What did Shakespeareβs commute look like and who invented the one-way street?
open.substack.com/pub/shakespe...
13.02.2026 09:16 β
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She's not impressed...
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Of Scimitars and Shakespeare | MEMOs
As an early modern English playwright, Shakespeare uses the scimitar as a sign of Eastern otherness and the anxieties associated with it across time and space.
In today's new blog, Dr. Murat ΓΔΓΌtcΓΌ offers exciting insights into how William Shakespeare uses the scimitar as a marker of Eastern otherness and the anxieties associated with it across time and space. Check it out here:
memorients.com/articles/of-...
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeareβs Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
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Race and the Early Modern β CEMS KCL Blog
Delighted to announce our seminar - 'Race and the Early Modern' - now has a full schedule of events. We'll be convening monthly to discuss research on race, racemaking, and racialisation across #earlymodern studies.
@kingsartshums.bsky.social @folger.edu
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...
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Haha indeed!
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She agrees...
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Early modern friends - whatβs your favourite, oddest, or most obscure onstage animal or creature? Play, pageant, masque, etc.
Thinking of Cymbelineβs eagle, Dog in Witch of Edmonton, crocodile and snake in Locrine, Hensloweβs animal props, snakes in St Patrick, swans in 7 Champions, all the bearsβ¦
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Alas, no
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Gammer Gurton's cat, Gib
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NEW ISSUE KLAXON: Shakespeare Bulletin 43.3 is now published via Project Muse! This open access issue features articles on Margaret's presentation in Much Ado; an analysis of bushido in Kurosawa's Ran; and a pedagogy-oriented exploration of a Globe app for actor-training.
π°: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56353
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How did plays from the popular theatre, written by an author better known as a poet, become the greatest literary monument in English?
Stephen Orgel's 'The Texts of Shakespeare: The Transformation of Popular Theatre to Printed Book' is out now: https://bit.ly/4jy3Hu8
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