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If you look at the title page of my new book, Shakespeare’s ‘Lady Editors’: A New History of the Shakespearean Text, you might notice that there’s something missing – the space beneath my name is blank, an empty void where, usually, you would see an author’s institutional affiliation. In the three years since I submitted […]
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William Shakespeare was born just thirty years after the founding of Cambridge University Press, yet it was another three hundred years before the Press started printing his works. Since then, we have published his plays continuously in various forms. In January, the Cambridge editions of Shakespeare’s complete works – and much more besides – will […]
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Why should one mind performances at court in Shakespeare’s time? Do we really need a book on the subject? So much has been written about the Elizabethan theatre industry’s connection with the public stage that we have invariably been led to focus on Shakespeare as a writer of public plays—perhaps because this makes him at […]
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Shakespeare scholar Heather Hirschfeld, author of the brand new introduction to the New Cambridge Shakespeare Hamlet (third edition), reflects on what it means for modern audiences to encounter the play for the first time.
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“Shipping” (from “relationship”) is a phenomenon within the wider culture of fan fiction that places characters (or the actors who play them) from a particular cultural world into a romantic relationship. Fan fiction derivative of brand “Shakespeare” supplements and rewrites his works to satisfy curiosity about what happened before, or after, or instead of the […]
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This interview with Kiernan Ryan and Ewan Fernie, author of Shakespeare for Freedom, was recorded at The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust on 10th May 2017.
Read MoreAfter another season of bardolatry, in this blog post, Ewan Fernie explains why Shakespeare matters today - and it might not be for the reasons you think... Ewan Fernie is author of Shakespeare for Freedom.
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Sarah C. E. Ross and Paul Salzman - editors of Editing Early Modern Women - discuss the challenges associated with editing the texts of Renaissance women. Read free chapters and find out more about International Women's Day.
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