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Author. Shakespeare Lecturer. General Editor: Collected Plays of Robert Greene. Associate Editor: Collected Works of Thomas Kyd. FRHistS. ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ
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I am ridiculously excited to reveal my forthcoming book, 'Shakespeare's Borrowed Feathers', with
@ManchesterUP
. I'm immensely proud of this huge project and can't wait for folk to read!
Available to pre-order for ยฃ25 here:
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I am ecstatic to have received my author copies of 'Shakespeare's Tutor: The Influence of Thomas Kyd'. This book is the result of over a decade of research on Kyd's canon and his influence on Shakespeare, and I cannot wait for people to read it.
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Today I realised a long-term dream and signed a contract with
@EdinburghUP
to be the General Editor for The Collected Plays of Robert Greene. The first collected Greene edition in over 100 years. I've assembled a team of brilliant, internationally renowned scholars and editors ๐พ
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A historic moment! It is PUBLICATION DAY for The Collected Works of Thomas Kyd, the first critical edition of his collected works since 1901. ๐ฅณ
I've been working towards this most of my academic life and am so grateful to our editors and
@boydellbrewer
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You can magic up a sequel to any Shakespeare play. What would you choose?
I'll go first:
MALVOLIO'S REVENGE.
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'He held up another book: โShakespeareโs tutor, Thomas Kyd.โ'
As a huge, huge fan of director Martin Scorsese, I am beyond delighted that he is reading my book 'Shakespeare's Tutor: The Influence of Thomas Kyd'!
@ManchesterUP
@ShakespeareBT
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It is so wonderful to receive and hold Volume 1 of The Collected Works of Thomas Kyd! ๐ฅณ
Been working towards this pretty much all my years in academia. Immensely proud of the work of our editors and
@boydellbrewer
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Brilliant advice from my 3 year old this morning that I will consider for future lectures:
OLIVER Daddy, are you going to Stratford again?
ME That's right.
OlIVER Don't talk about Shakespeare, okay. Just talk about Spiderman 'cos you spoke about Shakespeare yesterday.
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Ridiculously excited to reveal the cover for The Collected Works of Thomas Kyd
@boydellbrewer
The web page for Volume 1 with its Contents list can be found here:
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Officially signed, sealed, and scheduled to be published March 2024!
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Over the moon to have signed a contract with
@routledgebooks
for 'Reading Robert Greene: Recovering Shakespeare's Rival'! The book proposes an expanded Robert Greene canon of dramatic works and situates his plays in the original theatrical culture in which they were produced.
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It's publication day for my book, 'Reading Robert Greene: Recovering Shakespeare's Rival', with
@RoutledgeLit
! This book will be of interest to anyone working on canonicity, theatre history, digital humanities etc. Do please share/recommend to libraries:
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The result of around a decade of research, it is officially PUBLICATION DAY for my book, 'Shakespeare's Tutor: The Influence of Thomas Kyd', with
@ManchesterUP
! Do please take a look/recommend to libraries:
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10 months
Proofs!
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Exciting news! I have signed a contract for my third book, "Shakespeare's Borrowed Feathers", to be published by
@ManchesterUP
as a trade book! ๐พ ๐ฅณ
Here's a
@BSAShakespeare
taster on this huge project mapping Shakespeare's debts to fellow dramatists:
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It has taken six months of exhausting work late in the evenings and on weekends, but I now have a full first draft of my book on Robert Greene! It has been a joy to write. Now comes the tricky bit!
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Monographs are like buses it seems! I've been working by candlelight lately on my book about Robert Greene for Routledge and I have JUST SIGNED a contract with Manchester University Press for another book: 'Shakespeare's Tutor: The Influence of Thomas Kyd' ๐พ๐I'm ecstatic!
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Here is one cat out of the bag from my forthcoming book SHAKESPEARE'S BORROWED FEATHERS with
@ManchesterUP
, new evidence for Shakespeareโs acting career (look on the content, not the title!)
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Not long at all until my book Reading Robert Greene: Recovering Shakespeare's Rival
@routledgebooks
@RoutledgeLit
is published! I will be releasing a free video talk all about the book on YouTube in due course so do let me know if interested in watching.
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Who is your favourite 'minor' Shakespeare character?
I'm very partial to the 'waterfly', Osric, in 'Hamlet', as well as Oswald in 'King Lear', whom I recall my college tutor labelling 'the campest henchman in all the land'.
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So excited! My book 'Reading Robert Greene: Recovering Shakespeare's Rival' is available for pre-order. It was such a labour of love writing this and will be of interest to anyone into early modern canonicity, theatre history, and repertory studies.
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Page 19 of today's The Guardian newspaper. I have, fittingly, spent today teaching Othello.
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All of these discussions on the princes in the tower, Richard III, Perkin Warbeck etc are fascinating.
But I feel there should be more shout-outs to the dramatist John Ford.
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On the Ides of March, Emma and I welcomed little Oliver Freebury-Jones into the world.
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Oh wow ๐ฅณ. SHAKESPEARE'S BORROWED FEATHERS is the top new release in Shakespeare Literary Criticism on Amazon!
@ManchesterUP
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Delighted that my book, Shakespeare's Tutor: The Influence of Thomas Kyd, forthcoming later this year, now has a cover! The book is available for pre-order here:
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Just hit send on Volume I of The Collected Works of Thomas Kyd...
A momentous occasion. This is a collaborative venture I have been working towards and on for many years. So grateful to all of our hardworking editors and those we have lost along the way.
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Author copies are here! A lovely feeling.
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Today marks SIX YEARS of being a Lecturer in Shakespeare Studies at
@ShakespeareBT
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I get to work with so many amazing colleagues, students, teachers, scholars, and dramaturgs. I've made the most incredible memories.
"Now take upon me, in the name of Time, / To use my wings"
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Very pleased to have been elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
@RoyalHistSoc
. Many thanks to the brilliant
@callanjd
for the letter of support!
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Iโm beyond ecstatic to have been given the dream opportunity to work at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust as Lecturer (International - USA), starting May. Iโm grateful to those who supported me during my studies & especially in the last 2 years, as well as my e-learning workmates
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Those first smiles are everything.
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Do tune in on Sunday evening to BBC Radio 3's episode on 'Shakespeare's Rival' Robert Greene, in which I get to chat about Greene with phenomenal scholars led by
@rentravailer
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While the boys sleep and mum is out, making my way through
@dmblank
superb SHAKESPEARE & UNIVERSITY DRAMA IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND
@OxUniPress
this evening, broadening knowledge on demonstrable links between the world of drama in the academe and commercial theatre of the period.
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The ghost of the protagonistโs father visits him and bellows for revenge, having been poisoned...
Obvs I'm speaking about John Marston's play Antonio's Revenge. But which came first, this tragedy or Shake's Hamlet?
SHAKESPEARE'S BORROWED FEATHERS grapples with that question.
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Very excited to announce that The Collected Works of Thomas Kyd is now listed on the
@boydellbrewer
website and Volume 1 is available for pre-order later this year!
Having collaborated for many years on this edition, it is starting to feel real.
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Spent the morning prepping a talk on Titus Andronicus. Hungry now.
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Wonderful to see SHAKESPEARE'S TUTOR and SHAKESPEARE'S BORROWED FEATHERS
@RSAorg
Chicago.
You can order with 30% OFF using the conference discount code 'RSA24' at checkout:
#RenTwitter
#RenSA24
@ManchesterUP
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Excited for 2024, which will see the publication of:
My book Reading Robert Greene in paperback.
The Works of Thomas Kyd, for which I'm Associate Editor.
My first poetry collection Rambling.
My trade book Shakespeare's Borrowed Feathers.
2023 was largely a year of writing...
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Paperbacks of my book READING ROBERT GREENE: RECOVERING SHAKESPEARE'S RIVAL have just arrived!
Like a free copy? Just give me a follow and RT this and I will DM a winner at random next week.
Further info on the book here:
@routledgebooks
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My three year old spotted a CD in my car, an audio recording of Paul Schofield as King Lear, and asked me to tell him the story.
ME: And then King Lear found himself in a giant storm and he got really wet.
OLIVER: Why didn't he bring a tent?
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Yes that really is the opening line of my book...
Anyone fancy a free author copy? Just follow me and retweet this and I will DM a winner picked at random in one week's time and post your way.
Book info here:
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It is publication day for the paperback version of my book, "Reading Robert Greene: Recovering Shakespeare's Rival", with
@routledgebooks
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It can be ordered at a much more affordable price here:
Here's a talk about the book:
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My goodness, the proofs for SHAKESPEARE'S BORROWED FEATHERS have arrived!
@ManchesterUP
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Today's Sunday Telegraph features a story about my new book, 'Shakespeare's Tutor: The Influence of Thomas Kyd', published by
@ManchesterUP
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First birthday today for my second little boy, Theo.
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Shakespearian feeding time for the youngest.
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You can give any Shakespeare character in any play one additional line. Which character do you pick and what would you have them say?
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Delighted to have just been invited to act as Associate Editor for The Works of Thomas Kyd, to be published by Boydell & Brewer (General Editor: Brian Vickers). Looking forward to meeting fellow Kyd editors next week.
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After a week of Shakespeare discussion for one of our courses in Stratford, the first thing the 3 year old says as I walk through the door back home in Wales is 'Why did Shakespeare use a feather pen?'
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Back in Stratford-upon-Avon for the first time in a while! I had almost forgotten how utterly beautiful this place is
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I have just hit send on the proofs and index for SHAKESPEARE'S BORROWED FEATHERS. ๐ฅณ๐
@ManchesterUP
have done a truly marvellous job and I cannot wait for this trade book to see the world's light in October!
Pre-order for ยฃ25 here:
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'Tis the Ides of March and also my beautiful eldest boy Oliver's fifth birthday!
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Our first Christmas as a quartet!
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Fabulous day of lecturing in Stratford-upon-Avon on Shakespeare's history plays with a brilliant group from Montpellier University. Very excited to see the RSC's Wars of the Roses plays.
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I am beyond delighted to announce that my debut poetry collection, 'Rambling', is available to pre-order. It is a dream come true to work with the brilliant
@brokensleep
PREORDER (30.04.2024):
Darrenย Freebury-Jonesโsย Ramblingย is a book of fragments exploring the topographies of love, grief, friendship, family, youth, and age in Wales. Ranging from anecdotal to linguistically complex and hauntingly intertextual.
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Happy Shakespeare day! He is so strongly in my purpose bred and it was a gift writing SHAKESPEARE'S BORROWED FEATHERS, exploring the development of Shakespeare's artistry in relation to other playwrights, from Lyly all the way to Fletcher.
Pre-order this (birthday?) gift below.
Happy birthday to William Shakespeare!
Pre-order
@Freeburian
's fascinating new book, Shakespeare's borrowed feathers, which explores the early modern authors who shaped Shakespeare's beloved plays - publishing this October:
#HappyBirthdayShakespeare
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Over the moon to say that my second book, 'Shakespeare's Tutor: The Influence of Thomas Kyd', is forthcoming in October with Manchester University Press:
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Please RT/share:
I am pleased to announce that I will be guest editor for a special issue of The Explicator journal on the topic of โShakespeare and His Contemporariesโ.
The Call for Papers can be found via the following link:
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Lovely that my books Reading Robert Greene
@routledgebooks
and Shakespeare's Tutor
@ManchesterUP
received honorable mentions in the Shakespeare Related Books category of the Fourth Annual New York Shakespeare Awards:
Huge congratulations to
@ProfFarahKC
!
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My books:
READING ROBERT GREENE: RECOVERING SHAKESPEARE'S RIVAL
SHAKESPEARE'S TUTOR: THE INFLUENCE OF THOMAS KYD โฆ
A full list of publications on Shakespeare and contemporaries can be found here:
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I am overjoyed at Andrew Hadfield's wonderful review of my book, Reading Robert Greene: Recovering Shakespeare's Rival, in this week's
@TheTLS
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A very apt occasion as we aim to resurrect Thomas Kyd and, entirely coincidentally, I have just clicked 'Send' on all materials for Volume I of 'The Collected Works of Thomas Kyd', forthcoming next year with
@boydellbrewer
!
It's 429 years today since Thomas Kyd died, but The Spanish Tragedy is still "most passing strange / And wondrous plausible." Here's to works that make a splash in the 1590s!
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I am inordinately pleased with the tiny speck of blood that grows into a pool during the course of my lecture on 'Macbeth'.
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Do check out my blog post on Shakespeare's borrowings from other playwrights!
New blog alert! Many thanks to Darren Freebury-Jones (
@Freeburian
) for giving us a sneak peek at his current research project: a book entitled 'Shakespeare's Borrowed Feathers'. Read on to find out more:
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Finally finished drafting (still need to add line references) the third chapter of 'Shakespeare's Borrowed Feathers: Exploring a Community of Playwrights'. This chapter is all about Marlowe's influence on Shakespeare and comes in at over 13000 words... Onto Kyd next!
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Really looking forward to this! I'll be speaking about Christopher Marlowe's ghostly influence on various Shakespeare works, from The Merchant of Venice to As You Like It to Hamlet and The Tempest. 'Remember me!'
Check out our Winter School where we have lively talks and discussions, with subject specialists and theatre practitioners. Upcoming sessions will focus on A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Merchant of Venice.
Find out more and book:
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My forthcoming book on Thomas Kyd and Shakespeare is now fully drafted. Time to set it aside and return to the book on Greene.
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6 months of reading Shakespeare's contemporaries in alphabetical order; 27 speeches; over 20 dramatists. In lieu of Z, the FINAL
#Shakescont
extract is an apt one from Ben Jonson's Every Man Out of His Humour. You can click the hashtag for the other 26. Thanks and adieu, folks.
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I will be on
@BBCRadio4
tomorrow morning at 8.30am speaking about Shakespeare's relationship with Thomas Kyd's dramas, as detailed in my new book, 'Shakespeare's Tutor: The Influence of Thomas Kyd', published by
@ManchesterUP
Do tune in!
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My latest essay, "THE STYLISTIC UNITY OFย ARDEN OF FAVERSHAM: SHAKESPEARE, THOMAS KYD, AND PRAGMATIC MARKERS", is freely available to read here:
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Stratford-upon-Avon bound tomorrow! Can't wait to see the town and some of its people again after several months, the changes to Henley Street, and to stand outside some of the
@ShakespeareBT
family properties again.
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Some truly extraordinary scholarship has travelled in the mail my way recently.
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Latest arrival. This looks stunning from
@Ardenpublisher
A great treat coming home to Cardiff from Stratford-upon-Avon!
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Each weekend I'll post a speech from plays by Shakespeare's contemporaries in alphabetical order! Please let me know what plays and speeches you'd like me to record. Let's kick off with A, which is for Arden of Faversham. Next weekend, B is for The Birth of Merlin!
#Shakescont
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First trip to Stratford-upon-Avon for my little boy and he even got to pop into daddy's works
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O tiger's heart! I love this show and hope another channel will be beautified in its glorious feathers
@RealDMitchell
The BBC has confirmed it has cancelled Upstart Crow, the sitcom starring David Mitchell as William Shakespeare. Mitchell is appealing for another channel to save the period comedy:
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"A mastepiece of scholarly detective work...game-changing".
I am over the moon to receive such kind words about SHAKESPEARE'S BORROWED FEATHERS from a true hero of mine, a star of poets and academic inspiration,
@DrCLaoutaris
@ShakesInstitute
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Delighted to see an excerpt from my book 'Shakespeare's Tutor: The Influence of Thomas Kyd'
@ManchesterUP
on the
@FolgerLibrary
site. You can read here:
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My latest essay, 'Repeated Phrases and Early Modern Authorship: Arden of Faversham as a Case Study', is freely available to read here:
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The name's Cade. Jack Cade.
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Nursery person: Oliver and I have had lots of chats today. He says his mum works in a hospital looking after babies.
Me: Yes she's a midwife.
Nursery person: And he says you do...shopping?
Me: Shakespeare. He says I do Shakespeare. ๐คฃ
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My website, for anyone interested in reading my work on the plays of Shakespeare as well as his contemporaries:
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Here is a FREE TALK all about my new book, Reading Robert Greene: Recovering Shakespeare's Rival:
I would be so grateful if people could watch, share, retweet. The book is available to order with
@RoutledgeLit
@routledgebooks
here:
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Who do you think is the most morally ambiguous 'goody' in the Shakespeare canon? I'll kick off with the offer of...Duke Vincentio.
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Really looking forward to giving a talk on Shakespeare's First Folio and also discussing all things Macbeth with Florida International University this week.
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My essay, "The Stylistic Unity of Arden of Faversham: Shakespeare, Thomas Kyd, and Pragmatic Markers", is now available in print. Here's a free link:
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Poring over the late, great David Bevington's materials for in progress Volume II of The Collected Works of Thomas Kyd, which makes sustained cases for the authorship of anonymous and collaborative plays.
Very excited for this innovative edition!
@boydellbrewer
@RosePlayhouse
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Latest arrival. Excited to read this one!
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Immense congratulations to all involved! Very excited to get my hands on this. Just the Middletonic, as they say (or should say).
New book just arrived in the Shakespeare Institute Library, edited and contributed to by former and current Institute students - congratulations to you all!
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First draft of the introduction to my edition of Arden of Faversham complete!
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Will be dropping my online talk about Robert Greene and Shakespeare on here on Friday. Very excited to share some insights into my discoveries concerning this fascinating dramatist... Do please keep an eye out and share, tweeps.
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The paperback version of my book "Reading Robert Greene: Recovering Shakespeare's Rival" is now available!
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Quite the intellectually stimulating morning wrapping my head around the linguistic extravagences of Love's Labour's Lost for a talk on 'Shakespeare's Feast of Language'.
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Delighted to be invited to be a member of the advisory board for the excellent Journal of Early Modern Studies today.
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