Will Tosh

This is fantastic! 👏🏼👏🏼

Brideshead it ain’t.

Literary Review - For People Who Devour Books In the Current Issue: Will Tosh on Christopher Marlowe * John Banville on Christopher Clarke * Claire Harman on Muriel Spark * Seamus Perry on Tennyson * Lucy Hughes-Hallett on the stiff upper lip * L...

Out now! Literary Review's September 2025 issue, featuring

@willtosh.bsky.social on Christopher Marlowe
@claireharman.bsky.social on Muriel Spark
Seamus Perry on Tennyson
Lucy Hughes-Hallett on the stiff upper lip
Patrick Wilcken on Easter Island

and much, much more: literaryreview.co.uk

Thanks so much Mark - sorry to miss you.

This will be FAB 🧚🏻‍♂️

From apprentice to master playwright: Shakespeare learns his craft Pub quiz masters with a taste for William Shakespeare are spoiled for choice when it comes to red letter years. The playwright’s birth and death, the building and burning down of the Globe, and the...

From apprentice to master playwright: Shakespeare learns his craft.

✍️ Will Tosh

Shakespeare's queer inspiration | Folger Shakespeare Library Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...

In an excerpt from "Straight Acting," @willtosh.bsky.social tells the story of Richard Barnfield's meteoric rise in literary London in the 1590s and how his groundbreaking poetry influenced Shakespeare's sonnets. Read the full excerpt: www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...

Glad you’re enjoying!

Sounds like a plan! (Also sounds like very typical academic timescales)

A terrific appointment!

Thank you Liza!

Thank you so much!

Absolutely chuffed and very grateful that STRAIGHT ACTING has been shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize 2024 - it’s made my week!

www.str.org.uk/grants-prize...

It was an unbelievable privilege to be your first guest! You both do incredible work xx

Grazie mille to Fabio and Sonia Massai and all at Sapienza Università di Roma for having me!

I’ve not ruled it out.

I can’t promise this will be brilliant but I can certainly promise to have a brilliant time delivering it IN ROME. 🥳 indeed!

Looks fantastic!

Absolutely delighted that #StraightActing is out in paperback (that’s like quarto, for all you early modern drama fans) today!

I think that was Gareth’s recommendation! But will happily second. Thank you so much for having us!

SOME NEWS: It's been a honour and a joy to have devised this celebration of the glorious life, work and wit of P.G. Wodehous, hosted by Sir Stephen Fry, with guest stars including Alexander Armstrong and Stephen Mangan.

Tuesday 20th May, Wilton's Music Hall, in aid of the National Literacy Trust.

Oh I’m so pleased - thank you for telling me!

Congratulations Lily!

Straight Acting: The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare with Will Tosh If It Ain't Baroque... · Episode

Everybody knows #Shakespeare.
Beneath the surface, much of Shakespeare’s work surrounds ideas of gender and queerness.
Welcome, @willtosh.bsky.social as we discuss his book 'The Hidden Queer Lives of William Shakespeare' @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/0aYb... #shelfie

Well I will definitely find you today!

Very glad to have had the chance to review Simon Goldhill’s queer history of King’s for @thetls.bsky.social

t.co/CCdCXZNPtU

👋🏼 (SAA although I’ll drift RSA-wards when needed)

Hope you enjoy - and thank you @davidjones.nyc for the recommendation!

Thanks so much for listening!

Edward II: Did a gay love affair spark a 14th-Century royal crisis? A new revival of Christopher Marlowe's pioneering play about the 14th-Century King of England puts the spotlight back on his relationship with his male "favourite" Piers Gaveston.

Enjoyed chatting to @mrnicklevine.bsky.social for this fun piece on Edward II

www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...