Up this week: Valentine’s gift ideas (as promised), more celebrity impressions, Shakespeare in Bits, weigh in on the worst Shakespeare play, and want to know what the 2012 Olympics has to do with The Tempest? Read on.
Read further anon →Greetings! Welcome to the Scrivener, your source for news in Shakespeare scholarship. We have been away for a few weeks, and news in scholarship seems to have taken a bit of a break as well, but there are a few pieces of note so let’s get to it!
Call for Papers
The Early Modern Research [...]
Read further anon →A Christmas gift.
When St. John of the Cross wrote his famous phrase “The Dark Night of the Soul,” he might well have envisioned the relationship between Abraham Lincoln and the works of William Shakespeare.
Throughout his life, the self-taught, self-made man enjoyed the theatre. Venturing far from his home, he attained [...]
Read further anon →Greetings! This is Emily with the Scrivener, your weekly dose of Shakespeare scholarship news with a bit of miscellaneous silliness to boot. I hope you all enjoy the holiday season and have a happy (and huzzah-filled) new year!
Much Ado meets Doctor Who
One of this year’s hottest London theater productions was the Catherine Tate [...]
Read further anon →It’s Monday! Hello! December is a’wasting, but fear not; we will still be bringing you Shakespeare news and reviews for some time before the Christmas holidays.
Dick Shakespeare’s Big Break
One Bob Rogers has written a screenplay about the Shakespeare family, set at Christmas in the year 1600, and seen from the p.o.v. of [...]
Hello all, Steven here and it’s time again for your weekly dose of Shakespeare Scholarship news with this week’s Scrivener. We have CFPs Conferences and other news aplenty. So without further ado let’s dive right in.
CFP’s and Conferences:
Calls For Papers
Representing Memory:
The Department of American Culture and Literature at Istanbul University has [...]
Read further anon →This week in education, The Independent revisits the Joseph Reynolds campaign against The Simpsons, The Royal College of Art displays Shakespeare-inspired prints, and The Stratford Shakespeare Festival promotes various competition challenges for students.
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