The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 35.033 Friday, 15 March 2024
From: Sally-Beth MacLean <
Date: March 15 at 2:38 PM EDT
Subject: Announcing new digital REED edition for the Bear Gardens/Hope Playhouse
The Records of Early English Drama is pleased to announce another new open access resource for teaching and research: the Bear Gardens/Hope Playhouse, edited by Stephanie Hovland and Sally-Beth MacLean. As with other REED Online collections, this is an integrated digital edition of records, in this case relating to the Bear Gardens on the south bank of the Thames in Southwark, and to the Hope, Philip Henslowe’s combined bearbaiting/playhouse enterprise, built in 1613-14.
The records number over a hundred and run from 1546-1640. Accompanying the records are the informative introductory chapters familiar to REED users, one on the history of the properties and one on entertainment, with links embedded to relevant records. Appendix 1 contains selected events for the post-1642 afterlife of the fourth Bear Garden. Appendix 3 contains some contemporary ‘Allusions and Reminiscences’ of the Bear Gardens and bearbaiting and Appendix 4 guides the researcher through the complex litigation following the death of Henslowe in 1616.
The transcribed records are fully searchable. Most are linked with images of original manuscript sources from the London Metropolitan Archives, The British Library, and The National Archives, Kew, as well as with relevant images on the Henslowe-Alleyn Digitisation Project website. A historically-informed GIS map of Southwark and the Bankside in the context of the wider pre-1642 London area is interoperable with the records text. The map features select contemporary roads and lanes, polygons delimiting property boundaries, identifiable sewer lines, and layers to indicate manor, ward, and parish boundaries. A timeline feature linking events with the map and the records will be uploaded by summer 2024.
The Bear Gardens/Hope Playhouse is now available on REED Online at https://ereed.library.utoronto.ca/collections/bghop/.
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 35.032 Monday, 11 March 2024
From: Michael Egan <
Date: March 10 at 4:53 PM EDT
Subject: Book Announcement
The Critical Legacy of Thomas of Woodstock or Richard II Part One 1870-Present, edited by Michael Egan (Westshore Press, 2024.)
The anonymous 17th-century drama known as The Tragedy of Woodstock or Richard II, Part One has excited debate and controversy among Shakespeare scholars for more than 150 years. Did he write it? Or is it just a knock-off by an ambitious plagiarist? This anthology of articles and book extracts introduces readers to both sides of the debate, with selections covering more than 150 years of “Woodstock Studies.” Contributors include J.O. Halliwell, Wolfgang Keller, F.S. Boas, Bertram Lloyd, A.P. Rossiter, Wilhelmina P. Frijlinck, Ian Robinson, Eric Sams, MacDonald P. Jackson, Rainbow Saari, and editor Michael Egan.
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 35.031 Monday, 11 March 2024
From: Thomas Dabbs <
Date: March 8 at 2:51 PM EST
Subject: Diana Henderson: Speaking of Shakespeare
This is a talk with Diana Henderson of MIT about her recent work in Shakespearean pedagogy and Shakespearean adaptation in particular, but also about her influential contributions to literary study during her career as a Shakespeare scholar: https://youtu.be/Nrmho0xMQ8Y.
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 35.030 Wednesday, 6 March 2024
From: Arthur Lindley<
Date: March 5 at 6:11 PM EST
Subject: Re: The Collected Works of Thomas Kyd: Volume I
Congratulations and thanks to all involved in the Kyd volume.
Arthur Lindley
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 35.029 Tuesday, 5 March 2024
From: Darren Freebury-Jones <
Date: March 5 at 4:17 AM EST
Subject: The Collected Works of Thomas Kyd: Volume I
Dear SHAKSPERians,
We are pleased to announce the publication of The Collected Works of Thomas Kyd: Volume I. Further information can be found here: https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781843846949/the-collected-works-of-thomas-kyd/
The contributors to the first and forthcoming second volume are as follows:
Editor in chief
Sir Brian Vickers, FBA
School of Advanced Study, London University
Associate Editor
Darren Freebury-Jones
The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stratford-upon-Avon
Editors
† David Bevington
University of Chicago
Matthew Dimmock
University of Sussex
Eugene Giddens
Anglia Ruskin University
Adam Horsley
Exeter University
Domenico Lovascio
University of Genoa
Rebekah Owens
Anglia Ruskin University
Lucy Rayfield
Oxford University
Daniel Starza Smith
King’s College London
Darren Freebury-Jones