The Early English Studies journal has recently published three articles of interest to Shakespeare scholars and enthusiasts. Borlik, Todd. “‘The Chameleon’s Dish’: Shakespeare and the Omnivore’s Dilemma.” Early English Studies 2 (2009): Web. 26 May 2010. This essay situates Shakespeare’s Hamlet within the emergent discourse of ethical vegetarianism in early modern England, challenging the...
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Archaeological dig in Shakespeare’s backyard
Archaeologists in Stratford-upon-Avon have made a sensational discovery: Shakespeare’s broken beer jug. Possibly. Scraps of pottery, broken clay pipe and a 19th century penny have emerged from a muddy hole in what was a garden until a week ago. But this is the most extensive hunt for Shakespeare in his own backyard in 150...
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Excavation on Shakespeare’s New Place home to begin this month
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust announces an exciting new investigation: A ground-breaking investigation into Shakespeare’s later life is due to start in Stratford-upon-Avon on 26 March 2010, as archaeologists prepare to excavate the remains of Shakespeare’s house in Stratford-upon-Avon, and the public are invited to come along and watch as the latest story about the world’s...
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Spotlight on editor of The New Oxford Shakespeare
UPDATED April 7, 2010 The Indy Star reports on Terri Bourus, associate professor of English Drama at Indiana Univeristy-Purdue University Indianapolis, who currently serves as one of three general editors, along with Gary Taylor (Florida State University) and John Jowett (University of Birmingham), for The New Oxford Shakespeare. The print and online edition is...
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Royal Shakespeare Company returning to Michigan
The Royal Shakespeare Company will be returning to Michigan in March to get help in developing three plays, including what they are calling a “lost” work. To read the article in full, please click here: Royal Shakespeare Company returning to develop 3 plays, including “lost” work – AnnArbor.com.
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EMLS Special Issue 19 now available
Early Modern Literary Studies Special Issue 19, edited by David McInnis and Brett D. Hirsch, is now available online at the EMLS website. The special issue includes the following articles: Embodying Shakespeare: Introduction. David McInnis (University of Melbourne) and Brett D. Hirsch (University of Victoria). How Should One Read a Shakespeare Sonnet? Bruce R....
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Archaeological discovery: Early Modern audiences snacked on seafood
David Keys of The Independent reports on new archaeological research published in The Rose and The Globe: Playhouses of Shakespeare’s Bankside by Julian Bowsher and Pat Miller, which suggests that Early Modern audiences enjoyed snacks of seafood in addition to the already known fruit-fare. Today’s theatre audiences tend to sustain themselves by craftily tucking into...
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Forget the iTablet. Hamlet Quartos Online.
Whatever Apple might announce at the Yerba Buena Center today, perhaps more exciting for Shakespeare scholars is the digitization of thirty-two Hamlet quartos. Copies of of the first five editions of the play have been digitized by The Shakespeare Quartos Archive, a joint collaboration between the UK’s JISC and the NEH in the US....
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REED: Lancashire including the Isle of Man Addenda
The Records of Early English Drama (REED) has published “Lancashire including the Isle of Man Addenda” in digital format on its website, available for download at http://www.reed.utoronto.ca/lancsadd.pdf. REED published its Lancashire collection, edited by David George, in 1991 with an appendix for dramatic records of the Isle of Man, edited by Roger Dickinson. These...
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