Ben Blyth

Shakespeare in Shoreditch! Coming soon to a bookshop near you from @ardenpublisher.bsky.social 🥳🥳🥳

I had so much fun chatting to Phil about staging Shakespeare in all sorts of weird and wonderful spaces around the world: Parking lots ✅ Asylums ✅ Archaeological sites ✅ Riverbanks ✅ Divers ruinous locales ✅ His podcast is a fantastic resource, please do consider supporting his work here: 🎭📚🥳

In today's new episode hear Ben Blyth and I discuss Shakespeare in performance and how non-theatre locations can shape, challenge, and benefit performance. doi.org/10.1017/9781... #theatre #theatrehistory #Shakespeare #sitespecific podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

New findings about Marlowe, Shakespeare, and the authorship of Edward III (with @notwithoutmustard.bsky.social) The article in question, 'Reintegrating Marlowe and Shakespeare', will be published later this year in SQ. @marloweproject.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

'Losing theatres such as the Gate should be a wake-up call for our industry's future' - Anthony Simpson-Pike, artistic director of Theatre503, in this week's The Stage. 👉 buff.ly/qLnCtB1 #FreelancersMakeTheatreWork

Is there a coat of arms more suited to the Halloween season than this one?! This image comes from a German manuscript made up of a collection of coats of arms which relate mainly to the Holy Roman Empire. It was probably written in southwest Germany or Switzerland, around the early 16th century.

Don’t miss this lunchtime lecture! 🚨 Shakespeare's Objects: Understanding the Off-Stage Lives of Early Modern Stage Props 📅 Thursday, 22 October 2026 📍V&A South Kensington 🎟️ www.vam.ac.uk/event/NMnxLX... 📕 www.bloomsbury.com/9781350123564/

ROSE GUIDED TOURS Thursdays, now booking to 29 Oct. Our new tours began last week, and we've been amazed by the response, with most selling out. There are still just a few tickets left for this coming Thursday, 22 Sept. Tours last 45 mins. More info & book: www.trybooking.com/uk/event/118972

"The Bard in the Borderlands" (@acmrs.bsky.social), a three-volume anthology of plays by Chicanx and Indigenous playwrights, explores the possibilities of retelling Shakespeare through the culture, language, and traditions of “the borderlands.” More on the podcast: www.folger.edu/podcasts/sha...

The BSA is looking for a new Membership Officer! This is a senior position central to our aims to educate, promote and foster a better understanding of Shakespeare and his work. Full details of the post are available at www.britishshakespeare.ws/membership-o... Deadline for applications 28 Aug.

Unsettling Shakespeare - our call for papers is open. Come join us! conference.anzsa.org

/postmedieval/ is looking for special issue and essay cluster proposals. do you work in medieval studies—or a field that speaks to premodern cultures? we'd love to hear your ideas. if you're interested in guest-editing a collection for the journal, send us your proposal by 15 september.

127 years after the very first Arden Shakespeare play published in 1899, a new generation of editions begins today. The first 2 plays - Titus Andronicus and Julius Caesar - are out now 🎉 Discover the Fourth Series: https://bit.ly/48RVXiA

Beds, perfumes, doublets, torches, lutes, clocks, handkerchiefs… Who owned these objects in early modern England? How were they used? @profcatheriner.bsky.social's 'Shakespeare's Objects' explores 33 significant objects in full colour illustration. Out today! https://bit.ly/4f7YOaM

“Site-Specific Shakespeare” is out now with @universitypress.cambridge.org From ruined convents to parking lots to Zoom calls: this is a study of Shakespeare in the wild, where economic precarity meets creativity. Read free (til July 23): doi.org/10.1017/9781... & please share if you are able 🤩🥳🙏

hiddentheatre.com/about/jobs-a... We need YOU to be in our waggon crew, maybe even our waggon master! Come help our waggon move & be part of something very special & unique to York!

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Applications are still open for the British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants. These grants help to support primary research in the humanities and social sciences. Apply now: https://bit.ly/4t0MDRl

This was so much fun to research and write! Coming your way this July, my “swashbuckling” Cambridge Element is a rallying cry for those intrepid theatre makers who dare to stage Shakespeare in the world beyond the theatre. 🎭🤺🏴‍☠️🍻 www.cambridge.org/core/element...

What theatrical forms existed beyond the stage in Shakespeare's England? In this interview and excerpt from Early Modern Performance Beyond the Public Stage, Amrita Sen and Jennifer Linhart Wood explore court masques, puppetry, and performing monkeys! @folger.edu bit.ly/4tvkYZa

If you are in Denver for #SAA2026 you’d be very welcome today in “Mineral F” @ 2pm ⛰️ for our hybrid seminar “Rethinking Original Practices”, with the great @oelj.bsky.social and a stacked line up of seminarians! Papers fab. Swords optional. Jigging highly encouraged. 🎭 @saaupdates.bsky.social

🤯 (give or take a year on Almagro construction duration…and Curtain final activities? tho also c. 450 since opening…). Stars aligning…

*Book launch* Join Annie Tyson & @stephenunwin.bsky.social for the launch of their Arden Performance Companions on Shakespeare & Stanislavsky, and Shakespeare & Brecht. 📍Royal Central School of Speech & Drama 📆 Thu 19 March, 7–8:30pm Reserve your (free!) place: https://bit.ly/4lmMVPB

Alright you lot, own up. Which one of you is responsible for this shenanigan?

Today’s Extra Credit focuses on Benjamin Blyth’s article, “Shakespeare’s “Dramatic Style” at the Curtain: A Collaborative Model for Site-Responsive Practice-as-Research”. Check out these open-access resources to go along with this open-access article! 📰: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Are you a Post-Graduate Researchers, Early Career Researchers or someone starting out in a field involving the past? Join us on 16 Jan for a free event to consider how the Society could contribute to early career support! www.sal.org.uk/event/early-...

NEW ISSUE KLAXON: Shakespeare Bulletin 43.2 is now published via Project Muse! In this open-access issue, scholars and practitioners engage in conversations across time, media, and geographic distance. 📰: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55948

😈Doctor John Faustus continues with chapter 19 - oh dear, a rout of Devils appear unto him, threatening him sharply. Very sharply. Literal pitchforks people, devils with pitchforks. #demon #devil #DoctorFaustus audioboom.com/posts/874511...

Applications are now open for the International Writing Workshops. The scheme is designed to help early-career researchers enhance their writing skills and increase the uptake of their research in academic publications. Learn more: buff.ly/OdmgXOf

"My voice is in my sword" - SIGNED in performance. It gave me goosebumps in the telling of it let alone the performing. BRAVO!

We're at #BSA2025 @bsashakespeare.bsky.social and enjoying catching up with authors and meeting new prospective authors, while showcasing recent publications. If there's a project you'd like to discuss just come and say hello 👋

Erin Julian reviews Crow’s Theatre’s 2024 production of The Land Acknowledgement or As You Like It, created by Cliff Cardinal. 🎭: www.mirvish.com/shows/the-la... 📰: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/956906 📷: Dahlia Katz

One of the things I love about the discovery reported in today’s Guardian is that it puts paid to the prejudice you see in a lot of biofiction that Anne Shakespeare/Hathaway would have been illiterate. Nope! www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Check out our latest blog post on 'Dark Arcadia and the wider Shakespeare Republic universe' by @sallymclean.bsky.social! We were proud to support 'Dark Arcadia' with #BSASmallGrants in 2024 and excited to see more #Shakespeare adaptation on screen. Follow the the link in our bio to read more!

It's #nationalpoetrymonth -- here's my poetry on a billboard on Calgary's Deerfoot Trail, courtesy @wordfest.com

Hello Bluesky! We are excited to be here and even more excited to announce that registration for #BSA2025 Conference 'Practising Shakespeare' is open now! 25-28 June, University of York, School of Arts & Creative Technologies Follow the link in our bio to register and view the provisional programme

NEW ISSUE KLAXON: Shakespeare Bulletin 42.4 features Claire Kimball's essay on visual dramaturgy, Jennifer Birkett's essay on the 50/50 Shakespeare project, and a special reviews section on the Ukrainian Shakespeare Festival. 📰: muse.jhu.edu/issue/53960

I do! Looking forward to discussing Titus Andronicus with @oldfortunatus.bsky.social in this free webinar next month. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/english-fa...

Huge congratulations to this year’s ENGL401 cohort at #STMUCalgary for their fantastic capstone conference today! Brilliant papers on subjects from Katherena Vermette to Medieval Monsters! Not truly the end, just a new beginning. The future is bright. So proud of you all! 👏

Lecture series!👩‍🏫 'Performing (in) the Early Modern City': join myself, Dr Lydia Valentine, and Prof. Clare McManus Thursdays 29th May-12th June to hear about secret performance, sky-high performance, and the influence of civic performance on race-making in early modern London. 🧵more info below!

Massive crowd in #yyc tonight for eventful @mark-carney.bsky.social rally. Security tight with 1000+ outside. These are difficult times, but in the words of great Tsuu T’ina leader Travis Meguinis: “it’s a good sign when the sun and the moon are together in the sky!” #cdnpoli #abpoli #elbowsup 🇨🇦

James Stokes's new Records of Early English Drama collection for the whole county of Suffolk is now LIVE and up on the REED site: ereed.org/collections/... What East Anglian riches await... #theatrehistory

Two new #earlymodern designs, and just in time for Spring! www.zazzle.com/store/dredit...

Wise words from Fletcher and Massinger’s “Rollo” that hit a little different on a Monday morning 🍻