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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

4 years

Paperback launch party for This Is Shakespeare.

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

2 years

I’m allowing myself one book selfie for publication day #PortableMagic ⁦ @PenguinUKBooks ⁩. Thanks to everyone who helped along the way, and solidarity with all whose lockdown made it impossible to make progress with writing: I know how lucky I am.

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Alice Oswald elected Professor of Poetry @UniofOxford @engfac ! Brilliant news - thanks to all who nominated, voted, and gave their support. It only took three centuries....

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@OldFortunatus

5 years

Nope

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

2 years

Calling all booksellers: two months until Portable Magic: A History of Books and their Readers emerges. If you'd like an advance reading copy, contact @AllenLaneBooks : I'd love to know what you think.

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

5 years

I am so excited to have got a credit on @josierourke @MaryQueenMovie ! Sit through all brilliant embroiderers & wigmakers & you’ll see me. My role mostly to wince at modern words & phrases in 1st script but I claim John Knox’s toxic ‘polecat’ as my tiny contribution. Go see!

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

7 months

First folio anniversary year achievement unlocked

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

8 months

Reading a book from start to finish is not a moral act.

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

1 year

Delighted that Taking Issue With Shakespeare (BBC r4, 1.45pm this week) is an example of the woke nonsense destroying the station. Actually, my interview with Will Self on Hamlet abt toxic masculinity isn’t a love-in - but has promoted a lot of anxieties (&trolls): have a listen.

Gareth Roberts

@OldRoberts953

1 year

I wrote this ⤵️ for @SpecCoffeeHouse about the suddenly plummeting ratings of Radio 4, and why that might possibly be -

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

7 months

I have 10 copies of Portable Magic to distribute - anywhere in the world. Repost and I’ll pick at random.

Wolfson History Prize

@WolfsonHistory

8 months

"Anyone who loves books will enjoy this one." Here's why the #WolfsonHistoryPrize judges chose to shortlist @OldFortunatus 's #PortableMagic for the 2023 prize.

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

2 years

My favourite for Ulysses day: I loved writing about this Eve Arnold photo, the edition Marilyn is reading, and where she is in the book, for #PortableMagic - out in April

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

1 month

If you can be in Oxford on 20 June, please do come along. Thanks to @bodleianlibs for this honour, and to @wadhamoxford and @QueensLibOx whose books I will be discussing

Friends of the Bodleian Annual Lecture 2024

Emma Smith gives the Friends' Annual Lecture

visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

3 years

I think you’re all being very mean about Johnson’s Shakespeare book. Just look at the calibre of his insights here.

PoliticsHome

@politicshome

3 years

🎭 The week before his trip to Chevening, the PM spent two minutes discussing the bard’s relationship with Elizabeth I during a “People’s PMQs” session “Anyway, nobody asked me that question tonight on ‘People’s PMQs’, but I’m giving you that information absolutely free.” /5

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

5 years

My work here is done. #ThisisShakespeare on the beach? Best holiday beach reads: @telegraph

Best holiday beach reads: 75 books to read this summer

From page-turners to politics, short stories to science – we pick the 75 must-reads that deserve a space in your suitcase

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

1 year

@LRB Barbara Everett (my undergraduate Shakespeare tutor) continuing to be graciously disappointed by my work….

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

3 years

It was great to be involved with this:

BBC Radio 3 - Drama on 3, The Duchess of Malfi

A bold production of Webster's 17th-century masterpiece for BBC Radio 3.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

2 years

Published online in Shakespeare Quarterly - Laurie Maguire’s and my attempt to rethink the texts of Merry Wives from a more theatrical perspective. DM if you don’t have access.

Theater, Revision, and The Merry Wives of Windsor

Surveying several centuries of debate about the relationship of Q (1602) and F (1623) Merry Wives, Jeanne Addison Roberts concluded in 1975 that textual cr

academic.oup.com

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

25 days

Delighted to see the exquisite Wilton Diptych @AshmoleanMuseum - even more pleased to see the court of heaven wearing @HertfordCollege stash

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

5 months

Have had a sneak preview and can absolutely 100% recommend.

Carol Atherton

@CarolAtherton8

5 months

Three months to go until publication day! #ReadingLessons ⁦ @FigTreePenguin ⁩

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

4 years

It’s halfway through a really stressful term. Many people are working from home, and therefore without technical support. We’re at full stretch. Is this really the time to change the login details for all @UniofOxford services? Asking for all the friends.

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

7 months

Wonderful company - I’m honoured!

Cogito Books

@CogitoBooks

7 months

Inspired by the great #JudiDench and 'Shakespeare: The Man who Pays the Rent' we're celebrating the 400th anniversary of the First Folio edition; imagine if it had never been compiled!! Favourite books on the Bard: 'This is Shakespeare' by @OldFortunatus and of course, #Hamnet

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

3 months

Privileged to have had an early peek - this is a really important book but so much more fun than that sounds!

Will Tosh

@will_tosh

3 months

STRAIGHT ACTING has a cover! I’m beyond thrilled - and even more delighted with this nifty preorder link. Go ahead, treat yourself and get a surprise package on June 13: 😀🌈🎉

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

3 years

Except, it seems, gain senior roles at Oxford: 6 pro vcs (5m, 1f), 4 heads of division (3m, 1f, soon to be 4m)

University of Oxford

@UniofOxford

3 years

'There's nothing women cannot achieve' Vice-Chancellor Prof Louise Richardson has this message on #InternationalWomensDay . #WomenAtOxford #IWD2021

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

2 years

Not often an academic book on Shakespeare seems so urgent - gulped this dazzling reflection down in one sitting (binge reading?) - brava, @PascaleExeter

Cambridge UP - Literature & Performance

@CUP_LitPerform

2 years

New Cambridge Element Viral Shakespeare by @PascaleExeter out now! Read for free for 2 weeks #cambridgeelements #literature

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@OldFortunatus

3 years

Somehow this has struck me as enormously funny.

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

4 years

Hi @blackwellbooks . I've been trying to ask your online team for weeks why your website is promoting Mein Kampf:

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

4 years

I stand by it...

To Be Or Not To Be: Lockdown Shakespeare

@ToBeOrNotcast

4 years

"Sometimes I look at Hamlet and think, you are an indulged young man ... I don't think Hamlet is a fabulous play for women". Listen to the wonderful @OldFortunatus in the latest episode of the "To Be Or Not To Be" podcast -

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@OldFortunatus

5 months

It's new work for me, trying to unpick connections between the invention of the category and value of rare books in the c18 & the development of bibliophilia to the economics of enslaved labour and products especially sugar. I'd really appreciate feedback

Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

5 months

If you could be in Edinburgh on 16 February, please do come to my lecture on book collecting in the age of slavery.

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

9 months

Important thread. I’m very grateful indeed to have been shortlisted. But I do absolutely acknowledge the privilege that @rain_later is highlighting. Thanks for this direct and constructive commentary.

Benjamin Thomas White

@rain_later

9 months

The #WolfsonHistoryPrize shortlist was announced this week. Last year's shortlist demonstrated how narrowly the prize defined 'prestige' in history writing. "Things need to change", the Wolfson Foundation CEO admitted to the Bookseller. So, what's changed? Not much!

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

5 months

If you could be in Edinburgh on 16 February, please do come to my lecture on book collecting in the age of slavery.

Prof Emma Smith: Following the Money: Book Collecting in the Age of Slavery

For Edition's inaugural Annual Lecture, we welcome Professor Emma Smith from the University of Oxford.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

7 years

@MrsSpalding My lectures Approaching Shakespeare good for teachers or chopped up into smaller segments for students: or iTunes

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@OldFortunatus

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@Telegraph no

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

4 years

putting on my best blouse for @HarryMcCarthy & the @CUPAcademic Elements launch, I suddenly realised KL was written in plague after all: 'Down from the waist they are Centaurs,Though women all above: But to the girdle do the gods inherit, Beneath is all the fiends'=zoom dressing

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

7 months

This will be brilliant! Congratulations, Hailey.

Hailey Bachrach

@hbachrach

7 months

Hey guess what!! My book is coming out this month, and I have a discount code! Give me a shout if you want one!

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@OldFortunatus

11 months

Whenever I convince myself enough is enough on here, someone always does that Twitter magic.

Jessica Cale

@DrtySexyHistory

11 months

Makes you want to start a Martin Luther account A thread (1/95)

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

2 years

today is the final - 218th - instalment of @starcrossed2018 #SlowShakespeare Macbeth: here's a thankful shout out to Hester for her intellectual generosity, insight and (extraordinary) consistency.

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

6 years

Promises, promises @will_tosh

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

5 years

Have persuaded myself to give LRB subscription another try - maybe it has got a bit better on/for women. Inauspicious start: my subscription email greeting has transformed 'Professor' into 'Mrs' - time to revive #immodestwomen ?

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

2 years

So looking forward to this!

A Bit Lit

@a_bit_lit

2 years

Audiences at #AShakespeareDayOut will be welcomed by Simon Russell Beale and @OldFortunatus , who will set the story for us as we prepare to go on our trip to 1600 and the theatre.

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@OldFortunatus

2 months

Very pleased to see this - I wrote about other examples in Portable Magic and hope this is an example to other libraries

Harvard University removes human skin binding from book

The book, from the mid-1880s, was reportedly bound with the skin from the body of a female patient.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

7 months

Great to see this in Penn Bookstore @DrCLaoutaris @clamorousvoice @ProfFarahKC

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

2 years

⁦ @bodleianlibs ⁩ #BodSensational - physical books slaying ebooks in our visitor poll. Kindle fans, come visit!

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

1 year

Fabulous - the Folio discovery of the era kicks of folio400. Brilliant work by @jes1003 and @roaringgirle

claire m. l. bourne

@roaringgirle

1 year

📖💫 @jes1003 & i are pleased to share that our article identifying john milton as the former owner & annotator of the @freelibrary shakespeare first folio is out now! 'thy unvalued Booke': John Milton's Copy of the Shakespeare First Folio READ HERE 👉

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@OldFortunatus

3 years

@Joannechocolat

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

6 months

This looks fantastic! Congratulations to author and editor!

Dr Elizabeth McDonald

@DrPastonsRUs

6 months

Publication Day!! Today's publication is particularly special as it is the 1st book I ever contracted as a Commissioning Editor with @boydellbrewer : . I recall the excitement of reading that 1st email & the proposal, the final book surpasses every hope!

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

4 years

We have a winner.

Ambereen Dadabhoy 🪬

@DrDadabhoy

4 years

No one: Prospero: After 2 weeks of multiple health screens and asking everyone to quarantine, I surprised my closest inner circle with a trip to a private island where we could pretend things were normal just for a brief moment in time.

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

5 months

and look out for Twelfth Night - out next year.

The Arden Shakespeare

@Ardenpublisher

5 months

Have you discovered our State of Play series? Edited by Ann Thompson & Lena Cowen Orlin, each volume presents a detailed engagement with a major Shakespeare or Early Modern work, focusing on current issues in teaching, performance and research.

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

2 months

Can 100% recommend: playful, revelatory, resonant.

Dr Jackie Watson

@jackiewatson05

2 months

Hurrah! Epistolary Courtiership is now available to pre-order (). Use the code NEW30 for 30% discount. @EdinburghUP

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

5 years

*You* bring Shakespeare to life - that’s the central takeaway from my book! Join us if you can.

How To Academy

@howtoacademy

5 years

Natascha McElhone and Michael Pennington bring Shakespeare to life tonight in a theatrical extravaganza led by Oxford Prof Emma Smith. Tix and info here... @OldFortunatus @hannahmacin

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

11 months

Just to say - in future years the program will include a seminar on editing early modern drama beyond Shakespeare, in case that is useful for your planning

Folger Research

@FolgerResearch

11 months

Deadline approaching! Apply by July 10 for the #FolgerInstitute yearlong monthly seminar “Next Gen Editing: Shakespeare,” directed by Emma Smith ( @OldFortunatus ). Learn more about our upcoming yearlong programs and apply!

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@OldFortunatus

3 years

A daily thread about the articles in this issue. 1: Whither goest thou, public Shakespearian?’ Sharon O’Dair and Timothy Francisco ask what ‘Public Shakespeare’ can do within and beyond the academy.

Cambridge UP - Literature & Performance

@CUP_LitPerform

3 years

Shakespeare Survey 74 is now available! As part of a new initiative, each new edition of Survey will contain a free chapter - 'Teaching Shakespeare in a Time of Hate' by Alexa Alice Joubin, Lisa S. Starks is available to read online now: @OldFortunatus

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

2 years

Could you be #ShakespeareSurvey ’s next Critical Studies reviewer? We’re looking for a post-doctoral scholar to contribute an annual narrative review of significant works of criticism. Contact me firstname.lastname @hertford .ox.ac.uk with your brief CV if you’re interested.

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

2 years

Any guesses about this upside-down library book? #PortableMagic

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

6 months

I’m trying to transfer my energies to the other site, and have codes if anyone would like to join.

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

6 years

Ah well - presume you’ll be resigning your honorary fellowship @StJohnsOx forthwith?

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

1 year

I couldn’t be more delighted to be between the brilliant @kitchenBee and a bowel emergency for my LRB debut. Thanks for including me.

London Review of Books

@LRB

1 year

Our new issue is now online, featuring @JamesWolcott on Rudy Giuliani, @KitchenBee on Paul Newman, Emma Smith @OldFortunatus on Twelfth Night, @TriciaLockwood on a surprising bowel emergency and a cover by Johnny Bunting. Read online at

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

6 years

It will come to you in time, whippersnapper

Dr Harry R. McCarthy (he/him)

@HarryMcCarthy

6 years

How to spot a scholar’s age: the temporal flexibility with which their writing uses the expression ‘has recently argued’

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

2 years

A reminder to Shakespeareans - @CUP_LitPerform #ShakespeareSurvey is still accepting submissions for volume 76 (due September 2022). Do think about us for your work in any area of Shakespeare studies.

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

3 years

Keep up, Observer: we have same-sex marriage now. Pick the wrong degree and even wedding bells are less likely | Torsten Bell

Pick the wrong degree and even wedding bells are less likely | Torsten Bell

University courses not only determine what you’ll earn, but who you’ll end up marrying, if at all

www.theguardian.com

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@OldFortunatus

4 years

@CUPAcademic The Board of Shakespeare Survey is looking for new members - particular encouragement for applications from early career colleagues, and to scholars of colour, in Shakespeare studies. #ShakeRace 1/3

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

4 years

Record price for Mills College Shakespeare Folio at Christie’s in NY: $8.4 million hammer price.

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

5 years

Proud to publish work by @randall_rmartin , @DianaHe23732776 , @SteveTPurcell @DrPeteKirwan among many others

CambShakespeare

@CambShakespeare

5 years

Happy #PubDay to 'Shakespeare Survey Vol. 72: Shakespeare and War,' the latest in our #ShakespeareSurvey series! Use code 'SHAKESPEARE72' at checkout to save 20% on the book through October 31st: #Shakespeare #ShakespeareStudies #LitCrit #ReadUP

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@OldFortunatus

3 years

You *are* a genius

Philippe Bosher

@BosherPhilippe

3 years

'This is Shakespeare' by Emma Smith has opened up the world to me. Totally accessible and masterful. She makes the reader feel like a genius. It's the one in 20 book.

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

11 months

Do join us! It will be a blast.

Folger Research

@FolgerResearch

11 months

Deadline approaching! Apply by July 10 for the #FolgerInstitute yearlong monthly seminar “Next Gen Editing: Shakespeare,” directed by Emma Smith ( @OldFortunatus ). Learn more about our upcoming yearlong programs and apply!

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@OldFortunatus

4 years

Does anyone recognise this picture of Miss Robinson’s English classroom? I’m keen to use it for something and would like to contact the copyright holder. Thanks @EngMediaCentre @NATEfeed

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@OldFortunatus

3 years

If, like me, you're feeling so grateful to @bodleianlibs for their free #scananddeliver service, and you can afford it, maybe join the Friends of the Bodleian?. £45 pa, or £15 for students (for any degree).

Join the Friends of the Bodleian

Friends of the Bodleian enjoy members-only discounts and invitations to exclusive events whilst supporting the Library to acquire, preserve and display its treasures

visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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@OldFortunatus

6 years

If this what being a less prestigious college means - admitting Alain Locke as first African American Rhodes scholar - then am very proud to be @HertfordCollege

Phil I

@twts_phil

6 years

Thanksgiving 1907, the American Club at Oxford university host a dinner party. At the behest of the 'gentlemen from Dixie', Alain LeRoy Locke, the first African-American Rhodes Scholar, is not invited to attend. Philosopher Horace Kallen is one of the few who thus refuses to.

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@OldFortunatus

7 months

Amazing job - thank you to @starcrossed2018 for the delicacy and accessibility of her insights - do read if you’ve missed this slow Shakespeare treat

Hester L-J

@starcrossed2018

7 months

In attempting to retweet this morning's post, I managed to delete the tweet😬 Anyway, this is the 327th and last post in my #SlowShakespeare daily reading of Antony and Cleopatra, #BurningBarge , which I started just over a year ago.... thanks for reading, faithful readers!

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@OldFortunatus

8 months

If you’ve managed to avoid me on this all year, well done! But there’s still the chance to hear about Shakespeare’s First Folio @wantagelitfest 28 October

Wantage Literary Festival event tickets from TicketSource

Buy tickets for Wantage Literary Festival's upcoming events. Click the link for further information and to secure your tickets now!

www.ticketsource.co.uk

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@OldFortunatus

23 days

I'm on the lookout for books with this plate: do let me know if you see any. Happy to share the wider research. (this image from @StAndrewsUniLib )

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@OldFortunatus

3 years

Join us online at the St Hilda’s Crime Festival next weekend - I’ll be talking about Shakespeare and crime but much better, there’ll be @valmcdermid ! @AndrewJRTaylor ! @lucyatkins ! And many more Tickets here: . #HCFW21

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@OldFortunatus

5 years

Brilliant @HertfordCollege senior scholars, now Drs - we’ll @done @endeeekay and @KristinGrogan

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

2 years

Is anyone at @SAAupdates 2023 up for this pilgrimage?

Paisley Park | Prince's Home and Studio

Love is the color this place imparts. Buy tour tickets, attend concerts and events, and be inspired all over again. Find Prince in U at Paisley Park.

www.paisleypark.com

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@OldFortunatus

4 months

Shout out to @BrisUniSpColl and especially Jamie Cairstairs, who sent me a picture of a book in their collection *within hours* of my email. Very grateful for their help as I prepare my @LLCatEdinburgh lecture on rare books and slavery.

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@OldFortunatus

4 years

Brilliant, generous thread and loads of great suggestions for new reading

Ambereen Dadabhoy 🪬

@DrDadabhoy

4 years

Tell me about a publication that YOU wrote that you ❤️ & are PROUD of. I want to read & share your work. Mine is pictured below: my first Shax pub ✊🏽🔥 Cant wait to read your brilliance! #ShakeRace #LitPOC #Bigger6 #AcademicTwitter #medievaltwitter #AcademicChatter

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@OldFortunatus

5 years

Do come to this year's NATE conference - 21-22 June - where I'm honoured to be giving a keynote

NATE

@NATEfeed

5 years

Studying English bring movie fame! @MaryQueenMovie We were pleased to recognise @OldFortunatus 's contribution to the subject with an award (in Stratford, of course) at #NATEconf 2016

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@OldFortunatus

7 years

I've been Vickersed @TheTLS this week. Defenders of true bibliography and Hinman: don't miss it!

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

3 years

Hadn’t realised the brilliant Catherine Belsey was ⁦ @SomervilleOx ⁩

Catherine Belsey obituary

Literary scholar who related books to the wider world and showed how the established canon reinforces privilege

www.theguardian.com

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

7 years

@MrsSpalding My short lecture on Shakespearean tragedy from Hay festival -

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

1 year

Very proud to be a tiny part of this programme

Shakespeare’s Globe

@The_Globe

1 year

Delve deeper into Shakespeare’s plays and uncover his impact on the world in: 💻 Anti-Racist Shakespeare free webinars 📜 Research in Action: explore Early Modern Drama 📝 Study Days on Shakespeare's plays 📖 Folio 400 Lecture #ThisWoodenO

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

2 years

A preview of #PortableMagic @PenguinUKBooks in April's @Lit_Review : I write about books in Lady Anne Clifford's Great Picture, for Mme de Pompadour reinventing herself as an intellectual, & for Marilyn Monroe reading Ulysses - and in the wonderful @BCredibility , natch.

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@OldFortunatus

5 years

Great news from #shax2019 town hall meeting yesterday - going forward after 2021 the conference will no longer clash with Passover and Easter

Pascale Aebischer

@PascaleExeter

5 years

Having a bout of #FOMO about #SHAX2019 ... So sending all of you lovely folks assembling at the moment a ray of Devon sunshine and a big virtual wave. Skipping it this year for Easter with family, which is also A Good Thing. Have a great time, you all! (I'm sure you will)

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@OldFortunatus

6 years

Is there really no literature in new Norton anthology between 1603 and 1660? Radical...

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

1 year

I’m interested to know about new work on Twelfth Night - please hit me up with your own work or recent faves.

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@OldFortunatus

5 years

First twitter glimpse of This Is Shakespeare - due @PenguinUKBooks in May - thanks, James.

James Miller

@IamEudaimon

5 years

Reading @OldFortunatus 's This is Shakespeare & enjoyed the chapter on The Comedy of Errors. @PropellerTheatr 2011(?) production was one of the finest things I have seen. I listened avidly to her excellent podcasts so the compressed book form is familiar.

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

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This is such an honour for me: do join us for Shakespeare’s birthday (or thereabouts: don’t @ me).

Will Tosh

@will_tosh

1 year

We've a season opener to die for in the shape of @OldFortunatus herself, our Sam Wanamaker Fellow for 2023, telling us the untold history of the First Folio on 23 April...

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

4 years

thanks to everyone for comments on this. To reiterate - not suggesting this book should be banned, merely not promoted in a cheery list of bestsellers without context. Saying it is not a book like Peter Rabbit isn’t a call for censorship. No reply from @blackwellbooks .

Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

4 years

Hi @blackwellbooks . I've been trying to ask your online team for weeks why your website is promoting Mein Kampf:

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

1 year

So grateful for the vital work of @LBS_at_UCL and for @marcoinstitute for this opportunity

Marco Institute

@marcoinstitute

1 year

And now for our main event: Emma Smith ( @OldFortunatus ), Professor of Shakespeare Studies at @HertfordCollege @UniofOxford , delivering our Keynote Address: “How a Folio Became the First Folio: Shakespearean Cultures in the Age of Slavery”! #shakespeare #earlymodern #firstfolio

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

2 years

@PascaleExeter @james_waddell Here’s the actual lovely cover!

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

4 years

Reposting this call for Shakespeare Survey Board member nominations - particular call out to scholars of colour, and to ECRs. Short CV and paragraph of what you'd offer, sent to me firstname.lastname @hertford .ox.ac.uk by 30 November

Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

4 years

@CUPAcademic The Board of Shakespeare Survey is looking for new members - particular encouragement for applications from early career colleagues, and to scholars of colour, in Shakespeare studies. #ShakeRace 1/3

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

3 years

Can anyone in #bookhistory help me with the Widow Wadman blank page in Tristram Shandy? Has someone written about readers who do actually fill it in, or about other material traces of readers interacting with the book? Thanks

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

1 month

Great to have this shoutout for the Shakespeare Club. Come and join us!

Paul_Edmondson

@Paul_Edmondson

1 month

Thank you @PetrocTrelawny @BBCRadio3 for marking the 200th Anniversary of The Shakespeare Club, Stratford-upon-Avon on 'Breakfast.' Lovely to hear 'Thou soft flowing Avon' & 'Warwickshire Lad' in Shakespeare Day! @ShakespeareBT @stanley_wells @BSAShakespeare @TheRSC @The_Globe

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

6 years

Oxford! Be afraid! Tea with Theresa May on offer at Weston Library @bodleianlibs

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

8 years

Thanks to @stjohnscollege for solidarity with #orlando at evensong to tonight

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

3 years

This is an indispensable work - a thorough reworking not just an update. Congratulations to @Murphx

Andy Murphy

@Murphx

3 years

My own copies of the beast have arrived (here w/ 1st ed). Huge thanks to Sarah Stanton, Emily Hockley and all @CambridgeUP ; @FolgerLibrary & @MarshsLibrary for images; Andrew Ward for the beautiful cover; @stanley_wells and @OldFortunatus for jacket comments.

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

4 years

New Twitter bio: ‘Emma Smith parle de gappiness’. Thankyou @ModEarly @PenguinUKBooks

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

8 years

Philomena Cunk: ‘Shakespeare hated monkeys in case they ganged up on him and stole his job'

Philomena Cunk: ‘Shakespeare has more Henrys than a Hoover showroom’

On Shakespeare’s 400th anniversary, who better to cut the bard’s best-known works down to size than Weekly Wipe’s noted cultural commentator?

www.theguardian.com

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

5 years

#shax2019 #SAAllies happy to meet up with any newbie SAAers heading to DC from the UK or Europe in particular - feel free to DM me beforehand to arrange. Thanks for this great initiative!

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Emma Smith

@OldFortunatus

8 years

I think this picture shows that my shoes were a highlight of the evening.