Jonathan Webb

Enjoying lit, crit and the ancient world.

[Jonathan Webb @JonathanWebb54]

Thank you @bencrystal and @davcr for last night’s talk on Everyday Shakespeare. Can’t wait to get stuck into the book.

[Ben Crystal @bencrystal]

Immensely proud that *Everyday Shakespeare - Lines for Life* publishes today in the UK, c/o @johnmurrays @ChambersWords @davcr

https://t.co/UOmOeS3PjS

[Jonathan Webb @JonathanWebb54]

Really enjoyed visiting @KeatsHouse over Easter.

[Jonathan Webb @JonathanWebb54]

Fantastic time in the medieval and Anglo Saxon rooms @britishmuseum

[Jonathan Webb @JonathanWebb54]

This was brilliant. A great start to the break.

[Jonathan Webb @JonathanWebb54]

A fantastic event- thank you.

[Classics for All @classicsforall]

Our moot trial at the @UKSupremeCourt tonight saw Alexander the Great on trial for war crimes, over 2000 years after he burned Persepolis to the ground.

Our jury heard the cases from @philippesands and Patrick Gibbs KC and found him...

😇 NOT GUILTY 😇

[Jonathan Webb @JonathanWebb54]

Saw Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird @GielgudTheatre today. Excellent all round.

[Jonathan Webb @JonathanWebb54]

Delighted to have been included in the shortlist for @OrwellYouthPriz . It was a pleasure to write for the competition.

[The Orwell Youth Prize @OrwellYouthPriz]

📣 2022 Shortlist Announced!

We’re delighted to reveal our 40 shortlisted writers! Congratulations to all of you - and Richard Blair, Orwell’s son, has this message for you 👇

Head to our website for the full list of shortlistees: https://t.co/LXheYId6y5

@TheOrwellPrize

[𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐲-𝐉𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬 @Freeburian]

Anyone fancy a free author copy of my book, 'Reading Robert Greene: Recovering Shakespeare's Rival'?

If so, just follow me and retweet and I'll pick a winner at random in a couple of weeks' time and send a copy in the post.

Book info here: https://t.co/YVIL2dAVPW

[The Romanticism blog @Wordsworthians]

Today's picture: for Shakespeare's birthday, Keats's much-treasured copy of the Bard, from the collection at @KeatsHouse #RomanticsPics

[The Romanticism blog @Wordsworthians]

#OTD 1802 Wordsworth begins the wonderful 'Intimations of Immortality' https://t.co/6NeO1TBQKA

[The Classics Library @StephenJenkin]

Not a Wordle. Just Cicero’s verb.

[The Romanticism blog @Wordsworthians]

For the Year of the Tiger....

https://t.co/WfndTAwHpY

[Jonathan Webb @JonathanWebb54]

@Colonus_ I’ve just started reading Sophocles for the first time this Christmas holiday. He’s amazing!

[The Romanticism blog @Wordsworthians]

#OTD 1809, Byron sees Delphi and is disappointed. (This is quite possibly peak Byron)

[Jonathan Webb @JonathanWebb54]

Great visit to @britishmuseum . Saw torcs (@Tess_Machling ) and Persian twisted golden bracelets. Made me think of Herodotus.

[The Romanticism blog @Wordsworthians]

#OTD 1805 Byron takes up residence at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he will famously keep a bear. Because College rules forbade dogs, but said nothing of bears….

[Jonathan Webb @JonathanWebb54]

@LazarusTheatre @The_Globe @mems_ukc @eoin_price @Dr_Dustagheer @PascaleExeter @andykesson @EarlyModernDoc @CemsKcl @TheRSC @ldn_shakespeare @DrPeteKirwan I would go for The Spanish Tragedy, Dido Queen of Carthage and The Duchess of Malfi.

[INACTIVE - workingclassicists.bsky.social @WorkClassicists]

GIVEAWAY!

Give us a RT and a follow, and you’ll go into the hat for this beauty (dated 1883!).

The “Etc” is Ion, Medea and The Suppliants.

Draw will take place on the 14th.

[Jonathan Webb @JonathanWebb54]

@EmmaLucyHarper @Tess_Machling @rhtwit0987 @WelwynArchSoc @RomanBathMuseum It was so much fun to do.