Jim Taylor

Great to now have a physical copy of Authenticity and Adaptation, ed. Christina Wilkins (@stinaface.bsky.social). Looking forward to exploring the rest of the volume!

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🎭 Shakespeare on the Radio is here! We're thrilled to share this fresh take on the Bard’s broadcast legacy by @audioandrea.bsky.social.

Grab your copy now with code NEW30 for 30% off: edin.ac/4m6CuzC

#Shakespeare #RadioDrama #NewRelease #Books

Great ... an excellent Titus sounds like the perfect antidote to a lame Macbeth!

Hey Pascal, if you're still in Paris, I'd recommend Munstrum Theatre's adaptation, 'Makbeth'.
theatrepublicmontreuil.com/makbeth

Thanks for posting, Ben! Great to see Touring Shakespeare out in the world, especially at #Shax2025 #RenSA2025 Have a great conference, and hope we can catch up in the UK this summer.

“How many goodly creatures are there here?” — EMSOC Philip Milnes-Smith, Digital Archivist at Shakespeare’s Globe offers an introduction to five new resources.

4 guides for those researching race, queerness, gender & disability in the records of Shakespeare's Globe
#EarlyModern 🗃️

- essays
- the theme in plays, productions & records
- advice on searching the catalogue
- glossary
- select biography
- links
- bibliography

www.emsoc.co.uk/blog/how-man...

‘New way of bearing witness’: one of biggest Holocaust archives goes online Exclusive: Wiener Holocaust Library has digitised more than 150,000 items including letters, pamphlets and photos

'Announced on Holocaust Memorial Day, the Wiener Holocaust Library’s new online platform includes more than 150,000 items collected over nine decades. Users can view letters, pamphlets and photographs that record the rise of fascism in Britain and Europe.' Link: www.whlcollections.org/index/

Latest release of files from MI5 - The National Archives Today we have made available a selection of previously top secret files from MI5. Including new details on the Cambridge Spies Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt, and John Cairncross.

The full cache of declassified MI5 files, released by the National Archives today, can be found here www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/l... Among other things, they cover the Cambridge Spy ring, including Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt, and John Cairncross.

Just read Dirk Bogarde's file, fascinating stuff.

Proud to announce the publication of Contemporary Readings in Global Performances of Shakespeare. Use SHAX30 to get 30% off at www.bloomsbury.com/us/contempor... Watch our book launch video youtu.be/4kEV_EEfung

English Faculty / Oxford World's Classics Shakespeare Webinar Series with Professor Emma Smith

Brush up your Shakespeare! Read along with our monthly webinar or just drop in to hear the conversation: english.web.ox.ac.uk/english-facu...
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Lego's great for animating your own shows! He got well into that for a couple of years. Those perplexus games can be fun, and appeal to all ages. They've been out for quite a few years now though so he might already have one. Good luck with the hunt!

No me neither, but I do remember how massive it was when it first came out. I was really surprised when he told me. It's an anniversary or something, but imagine it started on TikTok.

Hey Pascale. My son and his mates (10-11 years old) recently discovered Rubik's cube! They were all into Lego but that faded once they started junior high. Mangas like 'One Piece' are also popular.

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Review: Rumours, The Importance of Being Earnest, Grand Theft Hamlet Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music.

Friends I’m guest revewier tonight at 7.15pm. Join the cool kidz - tune in ! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

A hardback monograph, featuring an actor dressed as Julius Caesar staring into a dressing room mirror. The background is a wooden floor.

Came home to find that @jltaylor.bsky.social’s book, TOURING SHAKESPEARE: THEATRE AND POST-WAR CULTURAL DIPLOMACY had arrived (@cambridgeup.bsky.social). Looks like a brilliant new performance history: congratulations!

Oh wow! Thanks so much Miranda. Such a great feeling seeing it out in the world. I really hope you enjoy it.

Very proud of this beauty.
Available and getting lavished with praise.
(Unhumble brag)

Congratulations Andrea. Looks fab!🎉

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Cover reveal!
Thrilled with the look of my new book, #ShakespeareOnTheRadio, out in May with @EdinburghUP.bsky.social
The paperback is just £14.99
More details here: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-shakesp...
#Shakespeare #RadioDrama #AudioDrama

It seems that @Euroshakespeare is not here yet with us, so reminding you of the cfp for esra2025.com

Join Shakespeare !
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burgundy book cover for 'Shakespeare's Afterlife in the Royal Collection: Dynasty, Ideology, and National Culture' - with image of a 'Macbeth' performance at Windsor Castle

Just received the proofs for this exciting collection - we worked with a wonderful group of contributors for this and I can't wait to see it out in the world

Attempting to gather Shakespeareans- please reach out with additions as you find them! Still many authors and publishers not here. I hope that changes soon…

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Thanks Miranda!

Thanks Ben!

Thanks Gemma!

BOOK NEWS!
'Touring Shakespeare: Theatre and Post-War Cultural Diplomacy' is out today.
Cambridge University Press are offing a 20% discount (code TS2024). Available here: www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

#Shakespeare #academicpublishing #academicbooks
#scholarly #humanities

Thanks Harry. Could you add me to the list?

It felt like now was the time (actually a few weeks ago felt like the time but I didn't get round to it).
If you're someone I was in contact with on the other place, say hi and I'll follow you back. Please let people know I'm here 💛