The Shakespeare Newsletter

06/26/2025

Hardy M. Cook has passed away. Hardy is a past member of the SHAKESPEARE NEWSLETTER family. Here is his CV.

06/02/2025

Michael P. Jensen, our contributing editor, will lead a seminar at the 2026 Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting in Denver: Audio Shakespeare Around the World: Radio, Recordings, Internet. The Shakespeare Newsletter is proud to spread the word and invite our subscribers and followers to consider signing up for this seminar. Here is the description from the SAA Bulletin.

"Global audio Shakespeare is the most neglected area of Shakespeare performance studies. This seminar is open to all radio, recorded, and internet audio performances. Papers may include any country and language, studies of specific audio performances, audio series, or performances by themes such as navigating race, gender, period, culture, and other issues that inform audio performances. The field is wide open. Let’s fill it."

04/23/2025

01/13/2025

Another free article in the current SHAKESPEARE NEWSLETTER is actually a reprint of an old "Review of Periodicals" from 1992 that still has some interest. You may find the article behind this link.

Review of Periodicals 42.2 Summer 1992 (pp. 35-36)

01/09/2025

Here is another free article in the current SHAKESPEARE NEWSLTTER.

Yosemite’s Dream & Shakesqueer’s Macbeth in California

12/14/2024

FOUND ANOTHER SHAKESPEARE!
George Herriman, KRAZY KAT, 9 August 1921.

12/13/2024

Here is a link to an open source review from the new issue of SHAKESPEARE NEWSLETTER.

Review of Richard Strier’s Shakespearean Issues – Agency, Skepticism and Other Puzzles

12/03/2024

The new SHAKESPEARE NEWSLETTER is a double issue featuring extended content to help us catch up with the publications schedule. Here are the details.

FEATURES
“It’s All About Community: A Journal of the 2024 ISA Conference in Stratford-upon-Avon” by Monica Matei-Chesnoiu.

Michael P. Jensen’s new “Talking Books Update,” discussions of six recent books.

BOOK REVIEWS
The Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare Appropriations en La Frontera, Volume 1 edited by Katherine Gillen, Adrianna M. Santos, and Kathryn Vomero Santos is reviewed by Jesus Montaño.

Shakespearean Issues – Agency, Skepticism and Other Puzzles by Richard Strier is reviewed by Maria Sequeira Mendes.

Adrian Noble’s How to Direct Shakespeare and Greg Doran’s My Shakespeare: A Director’s Journey through the First Folio are reviewed by Michael P. Jensen.

Communal Justice in Shakespeare’s England: Drama, Law, and Emotion by Penelope Geng is reviewed by Iman Sheeha.

PERFORMANCE REVIEWS
Yosemite’s Dream & Shakesqueer’s Macbeth in California is reviewed by Katie O’Hare.

King Lear in New Haven, CT reviewed by Kim Paffenroth.

Pericles at the RSC 2024 reviewed by Kelly Newman O’Connor.

“Side View of Macbeth,” is about the Ralph Fiennes production, reviewed by Grace Tiffany.

FROM THE ARCIVES
There are in addition two free articles from the archives that may be read by both subscribers and non-subscribers.
“Review of Periodicals,” 42.2, Summer, 1992, (pp. 35-36) by William Hutchings.

Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream reviewed by Bernice Kliman (Nassau Community College) Vol 53.2 (Summer 2003), 35, 58.

I am especially glad to see this last since Bernice Kliman was my mentor.

Here is a link to the new issue.

73 Double Issue (1-2)

11/19/2024

It is time for our pre-publication reminder that the only reason this page exists is to alert SHAKESPEARE NEWSLETTER readers when a new issue is available so that subscribers may read the new issue. There are far more people who follow this page than actually subscribe. You are most welcome, but this puzzles us.

The new issue will be available soon - I edited some page proofs this week. Please consider subscribing if you do not. SN is a bargain at $25 an year and $40 for two years to individuals, and institutional subscriptions are below that of most journals. Here is everything you need to know.

https://www.iona.edu/academics/schools-institutes/school-arts-science/english-department/shakespeare-newsletter-1

10/19/2024

FOUND ANOTHER SHAKESPEARE!
George Herriman, KRAZY KAT, 8 Oct 1920.

09/11/2024

FOUND ANOTHER SHAKESPEARE!
Brilliant, for those in the know.