Universities should indeed offer "value for money" - but how do we measure the value of education? Every test that comes from government is crassly econometric. We need to recapture a higher vision of what the university is for - and of what it means to be human. [THREAD]

Nurses, we stand with you. Today, and always. Please RT if you do too - your support means more than you could ever know. #NursesStrike

I wrote a book. Don’t judge my couch.

Quite exciting to see my book’s cover in this animation (and sorry not to be at #BSA2023 this week)! Thanks Oxford Classics

Will @drwillsharpe.bsky.social Oxford Classics Currently on p.62. The section regarding Watson, Marlowe, Shakespeare and Arden is brilliant! Having to force myself to slow down and process what is being suggested. Tremendous stuff 👍🏻

On the new acquisitions shelf ⁦ShakesInstituteLib⁩ in some venerable company! I worked in here as a student, both researching and as a part-time library assistant, so it feels quite special to be part of the collection now. ⁦Oxford Classics⁩

If you’re starting to think gifts for the holidays, I’m just saying …

Honoured to be asked! See you at 3pm

If you could sit next to any Shakespeare character at a dinner party, who would it be? We asked 11 experts for their picks, and the result is a table of raconteurs, rebels, and rascals. Read more: bit.ly/46Ym0RV

Back in the UK but cheered by the arrival of Will @drwillsharpe.bsky.social’s new book ‘Shakespeare and Collaborative Writing’. Shakespeare Institute

Not sure if anything to do with Black Friday, but currently 16%(?!) off Shakespeare & Collaborative Writing if anyone’s tempted! amzn.eu/d/28sFZDh

20% off Shakespeare & Collaborative Writing! Ideal last-minute stocking stuffer! amazon.co.uk/Shakespeare-Co…

Our very own @_erinsullivan_ is in Rome as part of our partnership with Seminario Permanente Studi Shakespeariani Sapienza Sapienza Università di Roma — auguri! 🇮🇹

A real pleasure to speak to the Shakespeare Association of Korea’s Spring 2024 conference about Shakespeare and Collaborative Writing this morning - still available in all good bookshops!

Not that I post much, but FWIW I can now/also/increasingly, I imagine, be found at: bsky.app/profile/drwill… Thanks for following me on here, and hopefully see at least some of you over there.

🌟Publication Day! 🌟 Editing Archipelagic Shakespeare (Cambridge University Press) Rory Loughnane and Willy Maley Now available to download for free (for the next 2 weeks only!) at: doi.org/10.1017/978100… Book launch to follow in January... Cambridge UP - Literature & Performance Cambridge University Press Bookshop

62% off! Can’t say fairer than that for a last-minute Xmas punt for the Shakespeare/collaboration lover in your life! Shakespeare & Collaborative Writing (Oxford Shakespeare Topics): Amazon.co.uk: Sharpe, Dr Will: 9780198819646: amazon.co.uk/Shakespeare-Co…