â•ď¸ŹDirector of Education at Shakespeare’s Globe
📖Author of STRAIGHT ACTING, and rep’d by Eleanor Birne at RCW
👨🏼‍❤️‍👨🏻 Hitched to @pierstorday.bsky.social
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Book Launch: join @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social, in conversation with @willtosh.bsky.social, in the Kitchen with Shakespeare at Brunch, Lunch, Tea & Suppertime!*
22 June 2026, 9:00PDT/12:00EDT/17:00BST
*other [meal]time zones available
rensoc.org.uk/announcement...
#SRSlyGood #EarlyModernEvents
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...
Grazie mille to Fabio and Sonia Massai and all at Sapienza UniversitĂ di Roma for having me!
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
It’s Food Season at the British Library. I attended a fascinating panel today on Much Ado About Cooking, looking at food in Shakespeare’s plays, chaired by @willtosh.bsky.social with Sam Bilton, Sheila Cavanagh and Simon Russell Beale. @britishlibrary.bsky.social #muchadoaboutcooking
Coming up on Monday 23rd March the Why Shakespeare? Podcast with guest @willtosh.bsky.social will be recorded live in store. To be in the audience check out the details here waterstones.com/events/search/… #shakespeare
From apprentice to master playwright: Shakespeare learns his craft.
✍️ Will Tosh
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...
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A little thread about fun upcoming book events!
Next Monday I’ll be speaking to @willtosh.bsky.social & answering all your questions at this virtual event hosted by @srsrensoc.bsky.social (& @racheljwillie.bsky.social)
@routledgelit.bsky.social
www.crowdcast.io/c/shax-kitchen
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Society for Renaissance Studies
Literary Review
Waterstones Gower Street
Dr Elizabeth Norton
The Spectator
Folger Shakespeare Library
Marissa Nicosia
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...
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...
www.folger.edu
SO EXCITED to be taking over @nationaltrust.org.uk's Fenton House in London with a celebration of queer folklore, Shakespeare and fairy tales with our 'Away With The Faeries' event on Friday 8th August.
See you there (if you dare)? Grab a ticket below:
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/london...
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...
Such a pleasure and honour to hear @willtosh.bsky.social's wonderful talk about Barnfield, especially as he opened his seminar with the cover of the anthology I'm co-editing with Camilla Caporicci and Cristiano Ragni for @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
