Daniel Blank

Managing Director of Public Programs @FreeLibrary | Director @AuthorEvents | Book: "Shakespeare and University Drama in Early Modern England" @OUPAcademic

[Daniel Blank @dmblank]

It’s PUBLICATION DAY for Shakespeare & University Drama in Early Modern England! Hard to describe how excited I am to see this book in the world. You can get 30% off with the discount code AAFLYG6 through the @OUPAcademic website.

[𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐲-𝐉𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬 @Freeburian]

My review for Shakespeare Quarterly of @dmblank's fascinating study, Shakespeare & University Drama in Early Modern England, can be read here.

https://t.co/tqdOp7vief

[Daniel Blank @dmblank]

@Freeburian Thank you so much, @Freeburian, for this incredibly generous and thoughtful review!

[𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐲-𝐉𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬 @Freeburian]

It was a joy to read and review this fantastic book by @dmblank for Shakespeare Quarterly journal.

https://t.co/cjAO2nSzS7

[Daniel Blank @dmblank]

Not on here much anymore, but a friend just told me that my book is currently 86% off (!) on Amazon. Yours for under $14...

https://t.co/aFIYTvw0Ee

[Daniel Blank @dmblank]

Not on here much anymore, but a friend just told me that my book is currently 86% off (!) on Amazon. Yours for under $14...

https://t.co/aFIYTvw0Ee

[Daniel Blank @dmblank]

@HamiltonClancy @AuthorEvents Thank you! And of course -- I'm a big fan of your wonderful parking lot productions.

[Daniel Blank @dmblank]

Excited to share that I've started as Managing Director of Public Programs at The Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation! I'll be overseeing a wide variety of programming, including the renowned @AuthorEvents series. Hope to see you at our events -- especially Philly friends!

[claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle]

a newly rediscovered book inscribed and annotated by john donne @OrielOxford—& a reminder about the importance of cataloguing to the work we (can) do as literary scholars and book historians.

🧑‍⚖️📖🪶

[Los Angeles Review of Books @LAReviewofBooks]

"This is an important, much-needed study whose relevance to our current culture wars is uncomfortably apparent from the first page." @dmblank reviews James Shapiro's "The Playbook." https://t.co/j4hHFERyAJ

[Daniel Blank @dmblank]

I've been thinking a lot recently about anti-theatricalism, and I wrote up some thoughts -- in relation to James Shapiro's excellent new book -- for @LAReviewofBooks

https://t.co/NSGWIA0KJi

[Los Angeles Review of Books @LAReviewofBooks]

"'The Playbook: A Story of Theater, Democracy, and the Making of a Culture War' is a brilliant and absorbing account of the 20th-century effort to establish something like a national theater in the United States." @dmblank reviews: https://t.co/j4hHFERyAJ

[Daniel Blank @dmblank]

The actress Tallulah Bankhead once said: "There have only been two geniuses in the world — Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare."

As a fan of both, I find it hard to disagree.

https://t.co/l9IE2orJsa

[𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐲-𝐉𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬 @Freeburian]

Finished reading @dmblank's book this evening. An absolute treat. Engaging, scholarly, and truly eye-opening. A privilege to read with fabulous provocation of questions about academic insularity! You won't look at Love's Labour's Lost, Hamlet, or Macbeth quite the same way again.

[Daniel Blank @dmblank]

@Freeburian I’m honored by this, Darren! Thank you so much -- what a generous review.

[Daniel Blank @dmblank]

@Freeburian Thank you very much, Darren! I'm absolutely thrilled to hear that you've enjoyed the book 😀

[Daniel Blank @dmblank]

The Guardian published my letter about the context for a recent Shakespeare production at Oxford. A fascinating chapter in the long history of university drama...
https://t.co/TXkHQdhk1l

[Daniel Blank @dmblank]

@eoin_price @GreenWill92 Agreed!

[Shakespeare’s Globe @The_Globe]

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' ❤️

[Daniel Blank @dmblank]

@roaringgirle @TheTLS @aarontpratt @jes1003 @PhxLibrary Wow, amazing! Congratulations!

[claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle]

OUT IN THIS WEEK'S @TheTLS—

IDENTIFYING JOHN MILTON’S COPY OF HOLINSHED’S CHRONICLES by me, @aarontpratt, & @jes1003

https://t.co/AvJzVekD7R

cc @PhxLibrary

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