…is a done dissertation. And the best way to start a day of writing: Crooked Timber’s strategic advice on succesful completion of a PhD thesis!

The website of the Internet Shakespeare Editions has been completely redesigned, and new material has been added. The site looks wonderful, and has been designed around such rooms as the Foyer, the Library, the Theatre and the Annex.

New features include a section on performance, and a collection of facsimiles that can be viewed online. [...]

I was rehearsing my conference paper this morning, and discovered a very useful tool to time the paper. With this online stopwatch I found out that my paper takes me 20 minutes and 52 seconds to read. Very reassuring.

Also on the subject of presentation tools, I plan to use a PowerPoint presentation at the conference, [...]

Finally, a fresh post on this blog. After my enthusiastic posts on the Gunpowder plot, I was absorbed by so much work (and by the latest History carnival, of course) that I did not find the time or the inspiration to write on anything early modern here. My apologies to those who visited and kept [...]

To return to the Gunpowder Plot once more — the fourth centenary of the day has spawned a host of interesting new books on the subject. Online reviews of these books abound. Ronald Hutton wrote a review in the TLS, Murrough O’Brien in The Independent, and Alex Butterworth publishes his review today in the [...]

My Dutch newspaper reports that Amazon is to launch a facility that allows us to buy separate pages from books. I found the news online also at The Seattle Times. Amazon Pages facilitates the purchase of only those pages that we really need from a book: they “unbundle” the book for you. If they could [...]

Since it is exactly four hundred years ago that Guy Fawkes and his men attempted to blow up the houses of Parliament, and since I know that Sharon Howard will be hosting a conspiratory carnival on plots and politics at Early Modern Notes tomorrow, a post on the Gunpowder plot is called for today! This [...]