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Author of STRAIGHT ACTING @SceptreBooks @SealPress Dir of Education @The_Globe . Rep’d by @rcwlitagency . He/him.

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Will Tosh

13 days

Today #StraightActing The Hidden Queer Lives of William Shakespeare comes out in North America! I’m more proud and excited than I can say and hugely grateful to @SealPress @BasicBooks and @HachetteUS . Here’s the skinny on STRAIGHT ACTING 🏳️‍🌈🎭🪶… (1/3)

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Will Tosh

4 years

Epitaph goals.

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Will Tosh

4 years

I'm over the moon to be publishing Straight Acting: The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare with the fantastic @SceptreBooks . Huge thanks to @eleanorbirne , @pew_literary , the marvels of @The_Globe and my academic queer-peers. I hope this will make us all proud. 🌈📚⭕️

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4 years

. @SceptreBooks snaps up the study of Shakespeare's queer culture, with Straight Acting, from @will_tosh , which is billed as "a welcome addition to the Shakespeare canon and a vital contribution to queer history"! Find out more here: (£)

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Will Tosh

9 months

Ten years and counting! Thank you to @The_Globe for a decade (as of yesterday) of gainful employment. It’s been, and continues to be, emotional!

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Will Tosh

7 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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Will Tosh

4 years

The bottles you find discarded on Hampstead Heath say everything you need to know about Hampstead.

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Will Tosh

5 years

Ten years ago, at the start of my PhD, I left the archive at the end of the day to go for a drink with someone I’d never met. Reader, I married him (not that night, that would have been weird).

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Will Tosh

5 years

Oh do fuck off @Telegraph with your racism, ableism and frankly embarrassing clickbaitism. @NadiaNadarajah is a profoundly good actor whose image belongs nowhere in this story. And Shakespeare belongs to everyone.

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Will Tosh

5 years

Shortly before CoronaCrisis, @DrFarahKC was made *Professor* after nearly 16 years leading research and higher education @The_Globe and we didn’t get a chance to mark it. So - to Farah. 🥂

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Will Tosh

4 years

It’s been such a terrible few weeks, and I’ve been too sunk in despair about the fate of a world I adore even to tweet, but this pic of my beloved colleagues and members of HM government looking like the cast of a news slice-of-office-life sit com has cheered me up. A bit. ❤️⭕️

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Will Tosh

4 months

📖🏳️‍🌈STRAIGHT ACTING🏳️‍🌈📖 is here and (nearly!) in the shops. Out 2 weeks from today: the first general readership book about Shakespeare’s queer life and work.

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Will Tosh

4 months

It’s publication day for #StraightActing The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare! 🏳️‍🌈🎭🪶Get it here, as they say: (And in all good bookshops) I’ve loved writing this book, and it’s something I’ve wanted to do for twenty years. Here’s the buzz: (🧵)

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Will Tosh

1 year

Happy Pride! The irony is not lost on me that I’m missing it all to sit in the @britishlibrary and finish a book on queer Shakespeare 🤷🏻🌈

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Shakespeare’s Globe

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Happy Pride from our cast of #AMidsummerNightsDream 💙 And as we head to @PrideInLondon to celebrate with you all, they’ll be sending their love from onstage too!

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7 years

Yesterday was a pretty ace day, and today wasn’t bad either as I got to introduce this creature to my friends @The_Globe - ‘Playing Indoors’, a study of performance in the SWP, out with @Ardenpublisher February 22

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Will Tosh

4 years

📣Job klaxon📣 (and this time it’s personal). @The_Globe is looking for a f/t Teaching & Research Fellow to join our Higher Education & Research team. All details below👇🏼 and we can’t wait to hear from you. Happy holidays!

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Will Tosh

4 months

Yes, my mother did tell the cashier I’d written it.

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Norma Clarke

4 months

Can’t quite see the title which is Straight Acting; the many queer lives of William Shakespeare. And is very good. By Will Tosh

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Will Tosh

4 years

This shouldn’t seem unusual but it does... delighted we could bring our MA students to @The_Globe for a Covid-secure explore #GlobeHigherEd

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Will Tosh

6 years

Loving Alan Cumming as James I in @bbcdoctorwho ! His portrayal gets top marks so far: he has an eye for the boys and he’s a raging misogynist! Gold star for historical accuracy ⭐️

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Will Tosh

4 years

Back at @The_Globe with dear friend and film crew ❤️⭕️ 🎥 (stayed tuned on our new Higher Education webpages for a spills-all In Convo with Blanche McIntyre)

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Will Tosh

4 months

I could not be prouder of @ProfFarahKC or more thrilled for her on this very deserved honour, but seeing the news in all its glory also makes me realise she will actually be leaving @The_Globe , which we haven't even BEGUN to process. @FolgerLibrary are so lucky to have her.

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Shakespeare’s Globe

4 months

We are delighted to announce that Professor Farah Karim-Cooper ( @ProfFarahKC ) will become the Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library ( @FolgerLibrary ). For the past two decades she has dedicated her expertise to our beloved wooden 'O' ❤️

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Will Tosh

5 years

I woke up 39 today but I’m totally cool about advancing middle age because this Spanish cleric can do austere gravity *and* have a pug with a massive scarlet bow.

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Will Tosh

5 years

All dressed up for my Zoom cocktail party

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Will Tosh

5 months

Somehow it's only a month until the publication of STRAIGHT ACTING: THE MANY QUEER LIVES OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE by @SceptreBooks . And even more excitingly, I'm taking it on the road in June and July to the very best bookshops in Britain... 🧵

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Straight Acting

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Will Tosh

6 years

At 4pm this afternoon @_jjedwards passed her viva with no corrections and now @The_Globe ’s Dr Jen is having a very well-deserved pint. #burstingwithpride

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Will Tosh

4 months

Just the most fabulous night: thank you @SceptreBooks and @the_globe and everyone who helped launch #StraightActing ahead of publication on Thursday!

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Will Tosh

8 months

It’s the first day of LGBT+ History Month! So here’s a sneak peak of the contents page of Straight Acting: The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare, out in June! 🌈📚🥳

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2 years

Tell your kids! @The_Globe have let me do an 'ethical TikTok' (I have no idea if these are going on TikTok) on all sorts of Shakespeare topics. They're short! They're accurate (I hope)! They come with 'further reading'!

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Shakespeare’s Globe

2 years

🔥 How did the Globe burn down? 🐟 What is a Groundling? 🌈 Was Shakespeare gay? Discover the answers to this and more in our new video series: That Is The Question, hosted by our very own Dr. @will_tosh :

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Will Tosh

6 years

Tonight! @BBCFOUR ! 9pm! @kdbrundell exposes Elizabethan England's theatrical child-rustlers. Featuring some amazing animation, @the_globe 's Sam Wanamaker Playhouse (looking very fine), @Edwards_Boys , Tiffany Stern, Bart van Es and me!

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BBC Four - Abducted - Elizabeth I's Child Actors

Katherine Rundell uncovers the true story of Elizabethan children kidnapped for the stage.

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Will Tosh

6 years

In a bold intervention in the field of adaptation studies, @DrFarahKC has turned my book into a cushion.

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Will Tosh

6 years

Very pleased to announce that 'Playing Indoors', my book about @The_Globe 's #SamWanamakerPlayhouse , will be out in paperback in March with @Ardenpublisher ! That's the inside skinny on the SWP *and* 8 colour plates for a mere twenty quid

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Will Tosh

7 months

Bound proofs of #StraightActing - the work of @SceptreBooks promo whizz @OliviaRose_F - are in, and indeed on their way out and about! Preorder wherever you get your books, or right here:

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Will Tosh

6 years

It bends! Paperback #PlayingIndoors has landed on my desk @The_Globe - available from @Ardenpublisher and elsewhere from 21 March.

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Will Tosh

4 years

Leaving aside the memes for the moment, exemplary work from (the actual) Jackie Weaver in taking the fuss in good humour and deftly using her platform to promote good local governance. A class act.

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BBC Radio 4

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Yes, it's Jackie Weaver, star of that Handforth Parish Council Planning & Environment Committee meeting, on @BBCWomansHour . She talked with @ItsAnitaRani about bullying and getting people involved with local democracy. The interview is on @BBCSounds

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Will Tosh

6 years

'Playing Indoors', my book about performance in the #SamWanamakerPlayhouse @The_Globe , is out now in paperback with @Ardenpublisher

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Will Tosh

2 years

What a gorgeous day celebrating #Pride and the glorious queer heart of Shakespeare and @The_Globe . And we *might* have mentioned to, oh, about one million people the amazing I, Joan by Charlie Josephine that lands with a bang in August…

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Will Tosh

3 months

Not shown: a large and appreciative audience for ‘Shakespeare’s Many Queer Lives’ @The_Globe last night. Huge thanks to @allenbratton for bringing us his HENRY HENRY, and to @OldFortunatus for putting us both through our paces 🏳️‍🌈📚

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Will Tosh

4 years

This is the only time he’s come when called. #HuxleysFirstSwim

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Will Tosh

1 year

THE (game-changing) GREAT WHITE BARD by @ProfFarahKC was launched @The_Globe with banners, creepy uplighters, simply barrels of prosecco and a dazzling author interview on stage in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse by @kikibaby79 . An excellent night.

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Will Tosh

7 years

It's all too thrilling - my book on performance in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse @The_Globe is out with @Ardenpublisher in February next year. Doesn't it have a RAVISHING cover?

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Will Tosh

6 years

Job klaxon: the Research team @The_Globe is hiring! We're recruiting up to three p/t paid research assistants to work for 6 months from Feb-Aug. MA or higher degree a must, can be currently studying. More info here!

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Will Tosh

4 years

I’m fine about turning 40, why do you ask?

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Will Tosh

5 months

“Text has been finalised for printing” my friends! Yours to own (in multiple formats!) in seven weeks! #StraightActing

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Will Tosh

4 months

The lovely @ToppingsBath are letting me talk at them about #StraightActing on 19 June. If you’re in Somerset, COME!

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Will Tosh

6 years

Proud day @The_Globe ! Here’s research coordinator @_jjedwards about to hand in her *A-PLUS* PhD thesis to @RHULEnglish . I’ve read it and it’s a corker.

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2 years

She didn’t ask for the If I Could Turn Back Time backdrop but @ProfFarahKC gave such a moving and inspiring presidential address as she passed the baton on to Bernadette Andrea. Brava Farah! 🔥 #saa2022 @SAAupdates

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Will Tosh

5 years

Not only is @BCDreyer ’s English funnier than a writing guide has any right to be, but this subheading made me squawk in the middle of Logan International Aiport.

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Will Tosh

4 years

Siri, show me total #tier4denial

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Will Tosh

6 months

I *may* have mentioned I have a book out soon (ahem, out in North America 17 Sept) and US readers can nip in quick to get 25% off through the lovely people at Barnes & Noble @BNBuzz @BasicBooks #BNPreorder #StraightActing

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Will Tosh

4 years

Thought I'd freshen up my email subscription habits with a new empowering sign off, and I have just sent someone 'courageous thighs'. My courageous *thoughts* sadly didn't make it.

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Will Tosh

2 years

The sun's out and @The_Globe 's Research events are coming soon to the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse and online! I'm so excited I'm unspooling a 🧵... [1/]

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Will Tosh

4 years

🎉🥂🤩 This is amazing - @ProfFarahKC is the first UK scholar to hold the post of VP of SAA ( @SAAupdates )! Not to mention the first scholar based in a theatre and the first of south Asian heritage! ✊🏾

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Shakespeare’s Globe

4 years

Some celebratory news for your Wednesday! 🎉 We're absolutely delighted for our very own @ProfFarahKC , who has been elected Vice-President of The Shakespeare Association of America. Here's to an exciting couple of years working with our Shakespeare friends across the pond!

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Will Tosh

4 years

Hux and I had a photoshoot for the cover of our radical lockdown reinterpretation of The Call of the Wild today.

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Will Tosh

3 months

And it was a gorgeous and moving ceremony this afternoon @the_globe , as trustee Iraj Ispahani led our annual memorial, Globe Remembers, and bestowed a very swish trophy on the irreplaceably brilliant FKC

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Shakespeare’s Globe

3 months

We are delighted to announce that Professor Farah Karim-Cooper has won the 2024 Sam Wanamaker Award ❤️ This is in recognition of her 20 years’ service to the Globe, bringing us world-class research, thought-leadership, and unparallelled dedication to Shakespeare. 1/3

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Will Tosh

4 years

Look what our students did!

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WhatsOnStage

4 years

Former Shakespeare's Globe MA students plan play readathon to raise funds and awareness for closed venue – and they're looking for readers

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Will Tosh

2 years

Delighted to make a cameo in this handsome new volume alongside @ProfFarahKC @lucycmunro & Gordon McMullan discussing the @The_Globe / @kingsenglishdpt Shakespeare Studies MA - thanks to editors Liam Semler, Claire Hansen & @jvmpkb

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Will Tosh

8 months

And a word for future readers - everyone who buys the book when it’s out ALSO gets a council tax rebate!!* *pending my negotiation with 318 local authorities

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Will Tosh

4 years

So proud of @The_Globe digital team who have worked round the clock to make 2018's #Hamlet available for free on YouTube tonight (bandwidth backstage drama!). I'm so thrilled this show is coming to a truly global audience. And please donate if you can

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Will Tosh

4 months

I'm absolutely over the moon with this first review for Straight Acting: The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare, from a scholar who seriously knows her stuff! @clamorousvoice @SceptreBooks @pew_literary @The_Globe

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Sophie Duncan - In Search of the Fair Youth

Sophie Duncan: In Search of the Fair Youth - Straight Acting: The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare by Will Tosh

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Will Tosh

4 years

Welcome to the @The_Globe / @kingsenglishdpt MA Shakespeare Studies class of 2020/21! #GlobeHigherEd ⭕️❤️

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Will Tosh

5 years

Just started my annual viewing of Howards End and I now see that I’ve been unconsciously* taking Emma Thompson’s Margaret Schlegel as my style icon. *consciously

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Will Tosh

4 years

It was such a pleasure to be part of the judging panel for this year's @The_Globe book award. There were so many exemplary submissions and it was almost impossibly difficult to pick a shortlist of four, but our shortlisted authors really have done marvels. Well done to all!

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Shakespeare’s Globe

4 years

We're thrilled to reveal the shortlist for the Shakespeare's Globe Book Award 2020, which celebrates emerging scholars' work in Shakespeare Studies. 🎉Congrats to: Oliver Morgan @VulgarErrors @LiekeStelling @EmmaWhipday Read more about their research 📚

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Will Tosh

5 years

Yes! Redress the balance! Get me on telly and I will do an entire series in a slashed doublet.

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Joan Bakewell

5 years

Women historians love dressing up. Men historians never do! Why’s that d’you think?

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Will Tosh

8 months

Thank you @thebookseller buying guide for making #StraightActing : The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare a season highlight for June!

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Will Tosh

4 years

Amid the hurly-burly of this autumn something absolutely amazing happened: the simply smashing @_jjedwards was awarded a 5 year fellowship in English @QueensCollegeOx which means we @The_Globe had to say a tear-sodden goodbye to her. Lucky, lucky Oxford.

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1 year

I present the best and most lyrically-written account of @The_Globe -going currently available! @_jjedwards writes like a dream and captures all the productive inattention that can swirl during a Globe show … /1

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Will Tosh

5 years

Fancy joining the @The_Globe research team as a paid part-time research assistant? MA or PhD students and grads encouraged to apply. Full details and instructions here 👇

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Will Tosh

4 years

Mrs Dalloway thought she would buy the flowers herself.

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Will Tosh

6 years

I’ve spent #Pride indoors, a heat prisoner, windows open, curtains down, watching the dog listlessly suck an ice cube. But I give grateful thanks to the heroes who fought for my right to proudly collapse in my very gay home. 🌈🌈🌈

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4 years

Super glad I just made 48 mince pies. #Tier4

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Will Tosh

7 months

My book was already a summer highlight for *me* and I’m delighted it’s a June highlight for @thebookseller ! Thank you @CaroSanderson for including me in her roundup! #StraightActing

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Will Tosh

5 years

I love showing VIPs @The_Globe - yesterday my godson dropped in to tell me all about his recent radical reinterpretation of Puck, performed solo after his Oberon came down with a sick bug.

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Will Tosh

4 years

This is 100% terrifying because I’m ‘Historicizing Queerness as Performance’. How does it KNOW? 😱

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Thea Buckley

4 years

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Will Tosh

4 years

My husband’s greatest superpower is his inability to notice weight and volume.

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Will Tosh

7 years

Can the @guardian *please* stop running these non-stories. The only thing worse than the ‘Shakespeare was the only 16thC person ever to read a book’ argument is the ‘Shakespeare wasn’t Shakespeare’ one, and this somehow includes both.

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7 years

Buries the lede/hatchet: Scholar says Shakespeare himself annotated Hamlet source book, and that “Shakespeare himself” was Sir Henry Neville!

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1 year

On this roasting day I'm thinking again of the various ways in which @ProfFarahKC 's THE GREAT WHITE BARD is excellent... 🧵/1

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4 years

Not only did Caroline Quentin meet Johannes on @The_Globe stage but she came dressed as Sally Bowles so my favourite is assured. #Strictly

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3 months

Tune in to @BBCFrontRow tonight from 7.15 on @BBCRadio4 , when my sprawling responses to Antonia Quirke’s excellent questions will have become a taut little package! Just like my book! Just like - oh do grow up. #StraightActing

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Will Tosh

1 year

Absolutely delighted to be speaking at @britgrad this year!

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BritGrad 2024

1 year

Introducing our second plenary, Dr Will Tosh- @will_tosh #britgrad2023

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Will Tosh

5 years

It’s @PiersTorday ’s 45th and we asked Google what to do. Great Gatsby-themed margarita party games night was the answer (try it yourself!). I give you gender-swapped Jordan Baker. Golf club not in shot.

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2 months

Pret filter coffee has reverted to 99p and I really didn’t think a Labour government would start improving my life quite so quickly. ☕️✊🏼

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Will Tosh

1 year

Forgive a brief spousal glow… @PiersTorday is taking #BoxofDelights to @TheRSC this Christmas and I could NOT be prouder. It was completely enchanting at @WiltonMusicHall and will be utterly magical in Stratford. Book now! 🎭🎁🎄

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The RSC

1 year

🎁 #BoxOfDelights – opens 31 Oct 📍 Royal Shakespeare Theatre This fantastically festive production is directed by Justin Audibert, written by Piers Torday and based on John Masefield’s novel Can orphaned schoolboy Kay Harker fight to save Christmas? 🔗

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Will Tosh

5 years

I know of course that this is the right thing to do. But I’m heartbroken for my colleagues and friends @The_Globe and at theatres across the UK. If you can, please consider donating the cost of cancelled theatre tickets to these organisations.

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Shakespeare’s Globe

5 years

Following the UK Government and Society of London Theatre's official guidance, performances in the Globe Theatre and Sam Wanamaker Playhouse are cancelled, and are not going ahead until further notice.

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Will Tosh

1 year

What better way to celebrate 10 years than with yassified AI avatars of formerly young popstrels? #ABBAversary @ABBAVoyage

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In precisely one month #StraightActing hits the US and Canada with a subtle title change and a super-stylish grisaille backdrop. Thank you all @SealPress and @BasicBooks and I can’t wait to unleash Shakespeare’s hidden queer lives in North America!

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Will Tosh

4 years

I’m seriously in awe of how my @The_Globe colleagues have swivelled to auteur-level film-making to produce our online workshops and classes - look at these movie stars!

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Will Tosh

5 years

No shit being taken on College Green #StopTheCoup

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Will Tosh

4 years

I’m not saying the lockdown has gone on long enough, but I might be dyeing eggs for an Easter hunt for two grown men.

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Will Tosh

4 years

It’s actually magical how cheering are @Nigella_Lawson ’s bauble-coloured festive pickles on what feels like the bleakest day of an extravagantly bleak year.

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Will Tosh

4 years

Four Fewer Years you incompetent burnt sienna fascist. Now fuck off and take your horrible family with you. #Election2020

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Will Tosh

5 years

Delighted to announce a forum on Shakespeare's histories, gender & nation @The_Globe supported by @ldn_shakespeare on 17 March with @hbachrach @alhegland @emeramchugh and cast members (tbc) of the #GlobeEnsemble . Free to attend (ignore booking fee notice!)

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Will Tosh

4 years

This would be particularly great for anyone at school/college looking for a bit more early modern context and Shakespeare inspo...

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4 years

We've had over 1000 enrolments already for our FREE 'Shakespeare: Context and Stagecraft' online course with @FutureLearn Enrol here to get learning: @KingsAHRI @kingsenglishdpt

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Will Tosh

4 months

What a grand job by @HachettePride and @WaterstonesPicc last night! Bravo for Pride In Writing & a huge thank you to the audience & my fellow guests including Theo Gordon & Flora Dunster (their book is GORGEOUS). Anyway: #StraightActing arrives in a week!

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Will Tosh

4 years

The face of a man reunited both with a long-missed work friend and his nearly-lost dog (careful with young hounds in whited-out woods, people)

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Will Tosh

2 months

I loved reviewing this for @TheTLS : a learned, wide-ranging history of sexuality and the English dictionary by @StephenMTurton

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How the English dictionary came to terms with same-sex relations

In 1596 a Suffolk teacher called Edmund Coote assembled a compendium of classroom exercises in literacy, numeracy and the catechism called The English

www.the-tls.co.uk

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Will Tosh

4 years

Amused at the relationship inferred between me and @PiersTorday by our Amazon delivery driver.

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Will Tosh

5 years

It was an absolute privilege to host these brilliant artists @the_globe as part of #VoicesInTheDark Pride Then And Now after @TomStupot 's gorgeous #AfterEdward . Thank you @LeGateauChoc @Katyemdavies and Sanah Ahsan. Don't they look lovely against @worralljessica 's glowing set?

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Will Tosh

5 years

Judith Kerr wrote some of the most important books in my reading life: The Tiger Who Came To Tea, When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, The Other Way Around, A Small Person Far Away. An astonishing, powerful, inspiring writer. She was the best sort of person.

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Judith Kerr, beloved author of The Tiger Who Came to Tea, dies aged 95

Writer and illustrator of more than 30 books, including the Mog series based on her pet cats, arrived in England in 1936 as a refugee from the Nazis

www.theguardian.com

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Will Tosh

4 years

This is completely enthralling and I think the most moving thing is the look of wariness on the face of some of the men at the presence of a film crew in a gay bar in 1969.

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1 year

I’ve got a new talisman to help me with the final push for STRAIGHT ACTING - a print of the exquisite Elizabethan Man by @LukeEdwardHall . If super hot line-drawings could talk, I think this one would say ‘you goe, girle.’

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Will Tosh

7 years

Rather overwhelmed by the confluence of treats yesterday from the wonderful people @The_Globe and @Ardenpublisher and especially @NinaRomancikova @_jjedwards & the heroically brilliant @DrFarahKC - look what a delicious mess we made of *that* cake

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Will Tosh

5 years

Retires with no more worlds to conquer.

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