Does anyone - people who have been to conferences more recently than I have, and stopped by the Arden table, for example - know anything more about the Arden Performance Editions series ( Read more... )

Inexplicably crabby (okay, so knowing me, it's not actually that inexplicable) that there is an Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy, but there isn't one for comedy - and yet there are handbooks for "Shakespeare and Embodiment" and "Shakespeare and Dance" either in existence or in the works. But why would you need one for the comedies? ( Read more... )

(Yes, I am now just scrolling through the Arden website to see what's in the pipeline. Shut up ( Read more... )

An interview with Giles Block, the Text Adviser at Shakespeare's Globe (interview by Andrew Dickson ( Read more... )

A Shakespeare book coming out in 2016:

The One King Lear by Brian Vickers
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674504844

Here's the website copy:

King Lear exists in two different texts: the Quarto (1608) and the Folio (1623). Because each ( Read more... )

Shakespeare's comedies are getting a book in the Oxford "Very Short Introductions" series ( Read more... )

It looks like you can get the one-volume in hardcover with the option of purchasing the digital edition, but if you buy the two-volume set, you get the digital edition registration card automatically ( Read more... )

While I was browsing in the bookstore the other day, I came across a book in the Shakespeare section called Poor Tom. Since - as the tag says - Edgar is my very best favorite, I picked up the book, expecting it to be on vagrancy or something ( Read more... )

Found in the wild yet again on a book cover:

Shakespeare and Costume, edited by Patricia Lennox and Bella Mirabella (Arden Shakespeare, publication date April 23, 2015 ( Read more... )

This article doing the rounds on Twitter made me well up ( Read more... )