New Variorum Shakespeare
@nvshakespeare.bsky.social
One of the oldest editorial projects in Shakespearean studies, now in a digital format. Based at Texas A&M University. newvariorumshakespeare.org
Thanks to everyone who came to last night’s ‘Editing in Action’ event at Shakespeare’s Globe. Here are some members of the New Variorum Shakespeare with Globe theater practitioners under the candles on the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse stage:
September 18, 2026 at 10:57 AM
Thanks to everyone who came to last night’s ‘Editing in Action’ event at Shakespeare’s Globe. Here are some members of the New Variorum Shakespeare with Globe theater practitioners under the candles on the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse stage:
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Fantastic programme of speakers - including my wonderful colleague Clare Egan and the equally wonderful @callanjd.bsky.social
Online registration available
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REED 50th Anniversary Colloquium / September 19- 20, 2026 share.google/rkecbO66ktGE...
Online registration available
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REED 50th Anniversary Colloquium / September 19- 20, 2026 share.google/rkecbO66ktGE...
Records of Early English Drama 50th Anniversary Colloquium - Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies
Location Emmanuel College, Room 119 75 Queen’s Park Cres E, Toronto, ON M5S 1K5 September 19–20, 2026University of Toronto Applying REED to Reality: Pedagogy, Performance and Data Futures The internat...
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September 17, 2026 at 6:36 AM
Fantastic programme of speakers - including my wonderful colleague Clare Egan and the equally wonderful @callanjd.bsky.social
Online registration available
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@reedproject.bsky.social
REED 50th Anniversary Colloquium / September 19- 20, 2026 share.google/rkecbO66ktGE...
Online registration available
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@reedproject.bsky.social
REED 50th Anniversary Colloquium / September 19- 20, 2026 share.google/rkecbO66ktGE...
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The #BSASmallGrantsFund is open for submissions now until 30 Sept! The fund offers financial support for Shakespeare related events or research. We especially encourage proposals from doctoral and ECRs, teachers and educators, and creative practitioners.
www.britishshakespeare.ws/bsa-small-gr...
www.britishshakespeare.ws/bsa-small-gr...
BSA Small Grants Fund - British Shakespeare Association
Purpose: The purpose of the BSA’s Small Grants Fund is to offer financial support to members of the BSA who wish to organize a Shakespeare-related event or conduct Shakespeare-related research. We especially encourage proposals from doctoral and early career researchers, teachers and educators, and creative practitioners. Examples of eligible costs include: We welcome applications for […]
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September 15, 2026 at 9:35 AM
The #BSASmallGrantsFund is open for submissions now until 30 Sept! The fund offers financial support for Shakespeare related events or research. We especially encourage proposals from doctoral and ECRs, teachers and educators, and creative practitioners.
www.britishshakespeare.ws/bsa-small-gr...
www.britishshakespeare.ws/bsa-small-gr...
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Reading Early Plays returns on 30th September, rejoining the King’s Men Company in 1618, with a revival of The Merry Devil of Edmonton, introduced (as are all our play readings) by Dr. Martin Wiggins.
See www.readingearlyplays.com for our full Autumn schedule and how to join & read with us.
See www.readingearlyplays.com for our full Autumn schedule and how to join & read with us.
Welcome | Reading Early Plays
Reading Early Plays is a group that meets regularly online to explore drama written before the closure of the London theatres in 1642. We are interested in tracing the connections within groups of pla...
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September 15, 2026 at 9:13 AM
Reading Early Plays returns on 30th September, rejoining the King’s Men Company in 1618, with a revival of The Merry Devil of Edmonton, introduced (as are all our play readings) by Dr. Martin Wiggins.
See www.readingearlyplays.com for our full Autumn schedule and how to join & read with us.
See www.readingearlyplays.com for our full Autumn schedule and how to join & read with us.
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"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 Bard in the Borderlands | Folger Shakespeare Library
From a re-imagining of The Tempest set in a Houston school gymnasium to Macbeth's Weird Sisters practicing brujería, the three-volume anthology The Bard in the Borderlands compiles fantastic transform...
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September 14, 2026 at 9:07 PM
"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 New Variorum Shakespeare is at Shakespeare’s Globe this week, culminating in an ‘Editing In Action’ event which will think through how Shakespearean performance and scholarly editing can interact (tickets remain available!):
www.shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/ria...
www.shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/ria...
Research in Action: Editing in Action - The New Variorum Shakespeare | What's On
A collaborative exploration into how performance can illuminate and reshape the way we edit Shakespeare, live from our Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.
www.shakespearesglobe.com
September 14, 2026 at 9:32 AM
The New Variorum Shakespeare is at Shakespeare’s Globe this week, culminating in an ‘Editing In Action’ event which will think through how Shakespearean performance and scholarly editing can interact (tickets remain available!):
www.shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/ria...
www.shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/ria...
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If you could only teach one film adaptation of a Shakespeare play, what would it be?
September 12, 2026 at 6:49 PM
If you could only teach one film adaptation of a Shakespeare play, what would it be?
This week we’ve had the professional premodernist scribe Lucas Tucker visiting @tamu.bsky.social. Here’s a video trailer he made for one of our classes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5Jp...
Intro to Writing in Shakespeare's Time
YouTube video by Scribal Work Shop
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September 11, 2026 at 5:20 PM
This week we’ve had the professional premodernist scribe Lucas Tucker visiting @tamu.bsky.social. Here’s a video trailer he made for one of our classes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5Jp...
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Honoured to be chairing the Hakluyt Society essay prize committee for the second time, do consider submitting an essay and/or advertise to your PhD students/ECR colleagues. 🗃️ #earlymodern included!
Hakluyt Society Essay Prize Competition 2027 now open - first prize £1500, second prize £500. See www.hakluyt.com/hakluyt-soci... for more details. Closing date 1 March 2027.
The Hakluyt Society annual essay prize for graduate students
The Hakluyt Society awards an annual essay prize of up to a total of £1,250. The competition is open to any registered or recent graduate students
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September 11, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Honoured to be chairing the Hakluyt Society essay prize committee for the second time, do consider submitting an essay and/or advertise to your PhD students/ECR colleagues. 🗃️ #earlymodern included!
One week to go until our ‘Editing in Action’ event at Shakespeare’s Globe where New Variorum Shakespeare editors and Globe actors will work together to think and play out how Shakespearean performance and scholarly editing can interact. www.shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/ria...
Research in Action: Editing in Action - The New Variorum Shakespeare | What's On
A collaborative exploration into how performance can illuminate and reshape the way we edit Shakespeare, live from our Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.
www.shakespearesglobe.com
September 10, 2026 at 12:53 PM
One week to go until our ‘Editing in Action’ event at Shakespeare’s Globe where New Variorum Shakespeare editors and Globe actors will work together to think and play out how Shakespearean performance and scholarly editing can interact. www.shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/ria...
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New series of #InOurTime starts 17 September with a discussion of More's "Utopia"
Fantastic panel- @lauraashe.bsky.social
@drjoannepaul.bsky.social
and Cathy Shrank
BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Thomas More's Utopia share.google/Y0vqfquGZEgH...
Fantastic panel- @lauraashe.bsky.social
@drjoannepaul.bsky.social
and Cathy Shrank
BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Thomas More's Utopia share.google/Y0vqfquGZEgH...
BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Thomas More's Utopia
How the description of a fictional island has fascinated readers for centuries.
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September 10, 2026 at 6:37 AM
New series of #InOurTime starts 17 September with a discussion of More's "Utopia"
Fantastic panel- @lauraashe.bsky.social
@drjoannepaul.bsky.social
and Cathy Shrank
BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Thomas More's Utopia share.google/Y0vqfquGZEgH...
Fantastic panel- @lauraashe.bsky.social
@drjoannepaul.bsky.social
and Cathy Shrank
BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Thomas More's Utopia share.google/Y0vqfquGZEgH...
In recent months we have made three appointments to our Board of Governors: Prof. Sarah Neville, Prof. Janelle Jenstad @janellejenstad.bsky.social, and Prof. Stephen Wittek. See our news story here: newvariorumshakespeare.org/news/
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September 7, 2026 at 2:44 PM
In recent months we have made three appointments to our Board of Governors: Prof. Sarah Neville, Prof. Janelle Jenstad @janellejenstad.bsky.social, and Prof. Stephen Wittek. See our news story here: newvariorumshakespeare.org/news/
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Rereading Calvino's If on a Winter's Night & had forgotten that its villain persuades a thriller author w/ writer's block that "our computers would be capable of completing it easily, programmed as they are to develop all the elements of a text w/ perfect fidelity to the... models of the author."
September 6, 2026 at 9:35 PM
Rereading Calvino's If on a Winter's Night & had forgotten that its villain persuades a thriller author w/ writer's block that "our computers would be capable of completing it easily, programmed as they are to develop all the elements of a text w/ perfect fidelity to the... models of the author."
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🚨🚨 Job Klaxon 🚨🚨 Early modern Frenchies!! UVA French is hiring an asst prof of French and francophone global literature and culture 1500-1700!! We’d love someone historically minded :).
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September 5, 2026 at 1:51 PM
🚨🚨 Job Klaxon 🚨🚨 Early modern Frenchies!! UVA French is hiring an asst prof of French and francophone global literature and culture 1500-1700!! We’d love someone historically minded :).
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We are happy to welcome Prof. Stephen Wittek (Carnegie Mellon University) to the Board of the New Variorum Shakespeare!
September 2, 2026 at 5:12 PM
We are happy to welcome Prof. Stephen Wittek (Carnegie Mellon University) to the Board of the New Variorum Shakespeare!
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Which new book has caught your eye? 👀📚
Explore our July–September 2026 Drama & Performance Studies catalogue:
https://bit.ly/4dJ4Igr
Explore our July–September 2026 Drama & Performance Studies catalogue:
https://bit.ly/4dJ4Igr
September 2, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Which new book has caught your eye? 👀📚
Explore our July–September 2026 Drama & Performance Studies catalogue:
https://bit.ly/4dJ4Igr
Explore our July–September 2026 Drama & Performance Studies catalogue:
https://bit.ly/4dJ4Igr
Thank you to Prof. Alan Galey (Toronto), who has recently stepped down from the NVS Board of Governors after nearly ten years of service. He has been instrumental to the digital future of the project and we owe him an enormous debt. ischool.utoronto.ca/faculty-prof...
Alan Galey - Faculty of Information
Bio Alan Galey is a Professor in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto, cross-appointed to the Department of English, and former director of the collaborative program in Book History...
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September 1, 2026 at 10:06 PM
Thank you to Prof. Alan Galey (Toronto), who has recently stepped down from the NVS Board of Governors after nearly ten years of service. He has been instrumental to the digital future of the project and we owe him an enormous debt. ischool.utoronto.ca/faculty-prof...
Our New Variorum Shakespeare Fall 2026 events schedule is now available on our website: newvariorumshakespeare.org/news/
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August 28, 2026 at 11:05 PM
Our New Variorum Shakespeare Fall 2026 events schedule is now available on our website: newvariorumshakespeare.org/news/
Our first event of the semester will be at Shakespeare’s Globe in London, where we’ll bring together Shakespearean theater practitioners and scholary editors to think about how performance + editing can interact. Tickets here: www.shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/ria...
Research in Action: Editing in Action - The New Variorum Shakespeare | What's On
A collaborative exploration into how performance can illuminate and reshape the way we edit Shakespeare, live from our Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.
www.shakespearesglobe.com
August 26, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Our first event of the semester will be at Shakespeare’s Globe in London, where we’ll bring together Shakespearean theater practitioners and scholary editors to think about how performance + editing can interact. Tickets here: www.shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/ria...
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Panel discussion at the Shakespeare institute in Stratford-upon-Avon celebrating the launch of the Arden 4th series of Shakespeare editions (mine being Julius Caesar). Reliving the stress of addressing a room full of the world's most eminent Shakespeareans. :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6li...
The Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series at the International Shakespeare Conference 2026
YouTube video by Bloomsbury Academic
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August 26, 2026 at 1:08 PM
Panel discussion at the Shakespeare institute in Stratford-upon-Avon celebrating the launch of the Arden 4th series of Shakespeare editions (mine being Julius Caesar). Reliving the stress of addressing a room full of the world's most eminent Shakespeareans. :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6li...
We’re back for the Fall Semester with a set of exciting events: a collaboration with Shakespeare’s Globe, a book launch for a new CUP Element, and a NVS Seminar by one of the new editors of ‘Shakespeare Quarterly’. More details coming soon!
August 24, 2026 at 2:00 PM
We’re back for the Fall Semester with a set of exciting events: a collaboration with Shakespeare’s Globe, a book launch for a new CUP Element, and a NVS Seminar by one of the new editors of ‘Shakespeare Quarterly’. More details coming soon!
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August 24, 2026 at 12:23 PM
We’re back for the Fall Semester with a set of exciting events: a collaboration with Shakespeare’s Globe, a book launch for a new @universitypress.cambridge.org publication, and a NVS Seminar by one of the new editors of ‘Shakespeare Quarterly’.
More details coming soon!
More details coming soon!
August 21, 2026 at 11:12 PM
We’re back for the Fall Semester with a set of exciting events: a collaboration with Shakespeare’s Globe, a book launch for a new @universitypress.cambridge.org publication, and a NVS Seminar by one of the new editors of ‘Shakespeare Quarterly’.
More details coming soon!
More details coming soon!