Speaking of Shakespeare: Recent Episodes
Thomas Dabbs
Conversations about things Shakespearean, including new developments in Shakespeare studies and Shakespearean performance and education across the globe. These talks are also available on YouTube under the search term, 'Speaking of Shakespeare'. This series is made possible by institutional support from Aoyama Gakuin University (AGU) in central Tokyo and is also supported by a generous grant from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).
Video broadcast here or at https://youtu.be/uVmVZxW2Pu8
Thomas Dabbs speaks with Agnès Lafont of Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 and Lindsay Reid of the University of Galway about their research and recent collaborations in early modern editing and performance. Lots of Ovid, for Ovid lovers:
[LINKS]
- The Edward’s Boys, 'The Maydes Metamorphosis':Trailer, 2024 © Esme Cornish
King Edward VI School (KES), Stratford-upon-Avon
https://nakala.fr/10.34847/nkl.935bd7zg
- Edward's Boys at https://www.edwardsboys.org.uk
- Artists in residency, IRCL: https://ircl.cnrs.fr/en/recherche/residences-dartistes-en-laboratoire-scientifique/
- "The Maid's Metamorphosis or The Metamorphoses of the Maid?": https://researchrepository.universityofgalway.ie/entities/publication/e20d661b-fae7-44f3-b062-38d0b2a2094c
[SEGMENTS]
00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:35 - ‘The Maydes Metamorphosis’ and Ovid
00:21:27 - Summer School in Sardinia: ‘The Tempest’
00:28:53 - Ovid in the air, cross-cultural influences
00:47:04 - Remediating the Early Book: Past and Futures
00:50:34 - Polyglot Encounters in Early Modern Britain
00:53:34 - Scholar adventurers, outreach, beautiful places
This is a talk with David Kastan of Yale University about his career and about what Shakespeare has to do with art and color. It features his forthcoming book on Shakespeare and Rembrandt.
00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:42 - Accident, chance, adventure, and scholarship
00:12:45 - Shakespeare and Rembrandt
00:31:25 - Art that makes you stop
00:44:37 - What is beauty in art and poetry? Paying attention
00:56:35 - Shakespeare and religion, translations
01:08:32 - On Color
01:20:15 - Closing: The prospect of beauty
Thomas Dabbs again speaks with James Shapiro of Columbia University, this time about his recent book entitled: ‘The Playbook: A Story of Theater, Democracy, and the Making of a Culture War.’
[SEGMENTS]
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:20 - ‘The Playbook’ and Shakespeare in America
00:04:17 - The Federal Theater (1935-39)
00:07:22 - Hallie Flanagan and the Federal Theater
00:13:02 - Martin Dies and the conservative playbook
00:18:50 - The American culture war
00:20:05 - Beginnings of the Federal Theater
00:23:50 - A lost and found research archive
00:25:10 - Is Christopher Marlowe a communist?
00:31:35 - Race and Macbeth
00:36:50 - Criticism from the left of the left
00:39:25 - The death of innovation, the playbook redux
00:47:40 - The life of Othello in America
This is a public lecture by Christopher Highley of the Ohio State University on his book, 'Blackfriars in Early Modern London' (Oxford UP, 2022). Highley specializes in Early Modern literature, culture, and history. Along with his many publications, honors, grants, and awards, he is the author of Shakespeare, Spenser, and the Crisis in Ireland (Cambridge UP, 1997), Catholics Writing the Nation in Early Modern Britain and Ireland (Oxford UP, 2008). His well-received and most recent book is entitled Blackfriars in Early Modern London: Theater, Church, and Neighborhood. He is currently continuing his work on early modern London during the English Reformation period, as well as on the posthumous image of Henry VIII.
Video version at: https://youtu.be/I_kDph02QcI?si=Z2jXDMPwrm3XQi0h. Stephen Wittek speaks at Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, on his book, 'The Cultural Politics of Conversion in Early Modern England' on Tuesday, June 6th, 2023. Wittek’s work lies at the intersection between early modern drama, cultural studies, and digital humanities. His most recent book is a close examination of Shakespeare’s engagement with the flurry of controversy and activity surrounding the concept of conversion in post-Reformation England. He is also the author of 'The MediaPlayers: Shakespeare, Middleton, Jonson, and the Idea of News' and co-editor of two collections: 'Performing Conversion: Cities, Theatre and Early Modern Transformations' and 'Shakespeare and Virtual Reality'.
Thomas Dabbs speaks with Diana Henderson of MIT about her recent work in Shakespearean pedagogy and Shakespearean adaptation in particular, but also about her influential contributions to literary study during her career as a Shakespeare scholar.
00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:18 - Balliol College sabbatical, current research
00:06:12 - Why humanities, arts, and social science at MIT
00:12:50 - Shakespeare and digital pedagogy
00:22:33 - Shakespeare and adaptation
00:40:09 - Shakespeare in film, Shakespeare/Sense
00:48:21 - Preserving theatre with recordings and records
00:58:30 - Diana’s work as a dramaturg
01:03:10 - Passions Made Public/ made feminism in academia
01:11:11 - Genealogies of literary criticism
01:14:33 - Closing remarks
Stephen Wittek sits in as co-host and speaks with Thomas Dabbs about his career, both as a Shakespearean and as a Bible teacher in Japan.
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:00 - The Speaking of Shakespeare Series
00:06:40 - Aoyama Gakuin, Tokyo, and how Dabbs got to Japan
00:16:45 - “Genesis in Japan: the Bible beyond Christianity”
00:34:14 - St Paul’s, Paul’s Cross and Shakespearean drama
00:47:03 - Digital Humanities, AI, AGU Digital Project, Archives, Meisei
00:56:17 - “Waiting for Will,” avant-garde drama in Japan, prison
01:04:02 - “Playing with Shakespeare in Japan”
01:14:27 - “A Midsummer’s Night Dream” and the Office of the Revels
01:18:12 - Closing remarks
Thomas Dabbs speaks with David Sterling Brown of Trinity College, Connecticut, about his recent book, entitled 'Shakespeare’s White Others', and also about other work that David has done in the field of critical race studies.
[LINKS]
David Sterling Brown (Website): https://www.davidsterlingbrown.com
David Sterling Brown VR Gallery: https://hubs.mozilla.com/p963Ga4/david-sterling-gallery-vrv
The Republic of Yarnia: https://www.republicofyarnia.com
[SEGMENTS]
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:55 - ‘Shakespeare’s White Others’
00:30:07 - Personal elements in David’s writing
00:31:25 - Trinity College and teaching
00:42:32 - White Others VR Art Gallery
00:51:44 - Hood Pedagogy
00:56:48 - Claudia Rankine: The Racial Imaginary Inst. (TRII)
01:07:45 - Promotion and mini-book tour
01:15:16 - Upcoming panel: In Plain Sight
01:18:07 - Stopped by the police, generational racism
01:32:45 - Rest and mental health
01:39:11 - Southern grandmothers: race relations
01:45:18 - Closing remarks
Thomas Dabbs talks with Tiffany Stern of the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, about her recent perspectives on ballads in early modern drama, on Edmond Malone’s 18th-century scholarship, and on her editorial work in Shakespeare and 16th-century literature
Thomas Dabbs speaks with Jean-Christophe Mayer about his recent book, Shakespeare’s Early Readers and about his work with the French National Center for Scientific Research and his other research and administrative activities.
00:00:00 - Introduction
00:01:30 - CNRS and IRCL: Roles in research
00:08:58 - Human beings in history: materialism and theory
00:21:48 - Trans-disciplinary research
00:26:00 - Shakespeare in Japan
00:27:24 - Montpellier
00:28:48 - First Folio in Japan: Meisei, Used Books
00:42:32 - Early readers: Finding yourself in a book
00:51:03 - Elizabeth Montague and Voltaire
00:57:10 - Popular theatre: Shakespeare, Molière
01:09:07 - The early modern print industry
01;14:35 - Reception theory and appropriation
01:18:04 - The Tempest: Here and There
01:21:34 - English drama and the French
01:27:25 - Cahiers Élisabéthains and literary journals
01:35:00 - Closing remarks
This is a talk with Peter Herman of the University of California, San Diego about his new book, Early Modern Others and other elements of his research that focus on the relationship between literature and culture.
This is a talk with Eric Rasmussen of the University of Nevada, Reno, about his work in locating and cataloguing full descriptions of over 200 copies of the Shakespearean First Folio, the large book that made Shakespeare, Shakespeare. This year is the 400th anniversary of the publication of this edition, entitled Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies and published in 1623.
This is a talk with Heidi Craig of the University of Toronto about her recent book on drama during the English Civil War period:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:00 - Drama during the English Civil Wars
00:05:46 - Old drama/new drama, when Shakespeare wasn’t first
00:08:45 - Periodization of drama
00:13:10 - Secret or underground performance
00:17:01 - Plays becoming literary and commercial products
00:21:50 - The effort to kill off drama and theatre and fun
00:27:28 - Elevating/ destroying drama politics/ pandemic
00:33:12 - Historic preservation and the digital age
00:36:45 - Early Modern Dramatic Paratexts (EMDP)
00:42:18 - Linked Early Modern Drama Online (LEMDO)
00:51:00 - The value of preservation
00:52:20 - The Last Age and Old Plays
00:56:26 - The value of the archive, Folger et al.
00:58:46 - Heidi’s current position/ the scholarly community
01:05:00 - Upcoming projects/ rags and paper
01:11:10 - Closing remarks
This is a talk with Darren Freebury-Jones, Lecturer in Shakespeare Studies, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, about his two recent books: ‘Reading Robert Greene’ and ’Shakespeare’s Tutor: The Influence of Thomas Kyd'. Along with providing a fresh view of two playwrights that deserve much more of our attention, both books explore new ways to understand creative collaboration among young, aspiring playwrights, particularly during Shakespeare's early years as a dramatist in London.
00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:10 - ‘Reading Robert Greene’
00:07:27 - Thomas Kyd, ’Shakespeare’s Tutor’
00:14:20 - Authorial attribution—digital vs critical
00:22:50 - Collaboration—Shakespeare, Kyd, and others
00:28:40 - The art of adapting known narratives
00:31:48 - Thomas Kyd, and the Ur Hamlet
00:36:32 - Influences on Shakespeare—Kyd, Greene, others
00:43:00 - Elizabethan playwrights and educational backgrounds
00:49:30 - Darren’s as creative writer and actor
00:56:10 - The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, and Darren's role
01:07:15 - Next--Shakespearean influences and the other dramatists
01:16:00 - Closing remarks, Wales and rugby
Thomas Dabbs speaks with Emma Smith of Hertford College, Oxford, about Shakespeare’s First Folio. The year 2023 is the 400th anniversary year of this monumental edition. This conversation covers the re-release of two of Emma’s books, one on the making of the First Folio and one on the history of its reception over the following centuries.
Thomas Dabbs speaks with Ian Smith, current president of the Shakespeare Association of America, about his new book, ‘Black Shakespeare: Reading and Misreading Race’ (Cambridge UP)
Thomas Dabbs speaks with Gayle Greene about her new book, ‘Immeasurable Outcomes: Teaching Shakespeare in the Age of the Algorithm’ (Johns Hopkins). This book covers the history of coordinated attacks on humanities education and also examines the administrative obstacles placed on teachers in general in the modern classroom. She pushes back on these forces by using the responses of real students in an actual college Shakespeare class.
Thomas Dabbs speaks with Jane Hwang Degenhardt of the U Mass, Amherst about her recent book, Globalizing Fortune on the Early Modern Stage: They also discussed features of Jane’s research on religious conversion in the early modern period and her approaches to teaching Shakespeare and early modern drama.
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:11 - Globalizing Fortune on the Early Modern Stage
00:27:20 - Shakespearean Horizons: The Worlding of Shakespeare
00:34:06 - Arthur Kinney
00:35:68 - Jane’s background, and fortune and chance
00:43:48 - Conversion, and fictional Islamic conversation
00:49:00 - Jane’s teaching, gender and women’s studies
00:53:30 - Shakespeare and the left, Pericles
01:00:04 - Closing remarks
Thomas Dabbs speaks with Alexa Alice Joubin of George Washington University about her recent book, 'Shakespeare and East Asia'. Alexa also reviewed her recent research in race and gender studies, with regard to Shakespeare, and presented on her examinations of Shakespearean adaptation across the globe in small and in large ways.
[SEGMENTS]
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:11 - Shakespeare and East Asia
00:08:52 - Constructed “foreignness”, invisible and visible
00:28:58 - Critical race studies and racial identity
00:27:41 - Reparative transgender Shakespeare
00:34:04 - Stage Beauty, inspired by Othello
00:38:45 - Transgender theory and Stage Beauty
00:47:50 - The King and the Clown, inspired by Hamlet, 12th Night, and Shrew
00:54:13 - Adapting Shakespeare for reparative purposes, vocal disability
00:57:05 - The King’s Speech, reparative adaptations
01:03:09 - Onscreen Allusions to Shakespeare
01:10:04 - Teaching Shakespeare in a time of hate, inclusive pedagogies
01:15:49 - Screening Shakespeare, an open-access textbook
01:17:43 - Closing remarks
[KEYWORDS AND PHRASES]
Shakespeare and East Asia
How perception of “foreignness” is constructed in intercultural work
Critical race studies and racial identity
Being invisible and visible
Reparative transgender Shakespeare
Stage Beauty, inspired by Othello
The King and the Clown, inspired by Hamlet. Twelfth Night, and Taming of the Shrew
Adapting Shakespeare for reparative purposes
Depictions of vocal disability
The King’s Speech, recitation of “to be or not to be” in a scene
Teaching Shakespeare in a time of hate
Inclusive pedagogies
Strategies to de-colonize Shakespeare
Open-access interactive textbook on Shakespeare and film studies
Thomas Dabbs speaks with Richard Strier of the University of Chicago about his recent book, Shakespearean Issues: Agency, Skepticism, and Other Puzzles.
Thomas Dabbs speaks with William Carroll of Boston University about Bill’s recent book, ‘Adapting Macbeth: A Cultural History’.
Thomas Dabbs speaks with Peter Holland of the University of Notre Dame about Peter’s recent book, ‘Shakespeare and Forgetting’.
This is a talk with Michael Dobson, Director of the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, located in Stratford-upon-Avon. Here we talk about the Shakespeare Institute’s programs and mission and also about Michael’s recent work on Shakespeare in national repertories across the globe.
Thomas Dabbs speaks with Stephen Wittek of Carnegie Mellon University about conversion, religious and otherwise, during the early modern period and also about recent developments in Shakespeare and virtual reality.
Thomas Dabbs speaks with Laura Mandell of Texas A&M University and director of the university's Center of Digital Humanities Research or CoDHR. The CoDHR is the publisher of the New Variorum Shakespeare, a project that is working to provide open Internet access to the full history of Shakespearean editions and annotations, and much, much more:
The CoDHR supports a dazzling array of DH projects in the areas of digital development and in multidisciplinary research and publication. Among Laura's many contributions to scholarship, is her monograph, or better, manifesto, entitled “Breaking the Book,” which works to reveal why there remains a resistance to the digital humanities in traditional humanities disciplines.
[LINKS]
New Variorum Shakespeare: https://newvariorumshakespeare.org
Jullia Flanders TEI-c.org: https://tei-c.org
IATH: http://www.iath.virginia.edu
The Poetess Archive: https://poetess.dh.tamu.edu/index.html
Blake Archive: http://www.blakearchive.org
ARC: https://arc.dh.tamu.edu
[SEGMENTS]
00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:36 - The New Variorum Shakespeare (online)
00:13:38 - The advantages of TEI
00:17:24 - Encoding challenges and solutions
00:27:32 - 18th-century, The Poetess Archive
00:30:26 - Searchable databases in literary study
00:32:00 - Shakespeare in the 18th century
00:34:45 - Women in 18th-century literature
00:37:22 - Visualizing digitized literature, William Blake
00:40:22 - IIIF compliance and sharing images
00:43:47 - Keeping women in the digital canon, gender marking
00:51:33 - The value of building digital resources, ARC
01:03:44 - Evaluating digital contributions in the profession
01:08:09 - Closing remarks
Christopher Highley of Ohio State University speaks with Thomas Dabbs about his recent book on the Blackfriars district in early modern London and also the Blackfriars complex from which the district got its name. Formed as a religious house for Dominican friars, the Blackfriars complex was repurposed during the Henrican Reformation and became the home for several notable theatre initiatives. In the early 17th century the Blackfriars theatre became a venue for Shakespeare and the King’s Men. Highley’s work provides a detailed view of the entire district, including a fresh understanding of the unique and intriguing religious and social features of the Blackfriars neighborhood during the early modern period.
Thomas Dabbs speaks with Fiona Ritchie of McGill University about her forthcoming book on 18th-century theatre entitled Shakespeare in the Theatre: Sarah Siddons and John Philip Kemble: Dabbs and Ritchie also discuss the role of women in the theatre and other elements of London and regional theatre during the 'long' 18th century, a period that dates from 1660 to 1830.
Podcast at https://speakingofshakespeare.buzzsprout.com. Thomas Dabbs talks with Lucy Munro, King’s College, London, mainly about her recent book entitled ‘Shakespeare in the Theatre: The King’s Men’. Also Lucy gives her perspectives on London playhouses during Shakespeare’s time and beyond, with a particular focus on Blackfriars. This talk also covers elements of lost culture in Shakespeare’s time and the initiative to produce a lost play based on historical records entitled ‘Keep the Widow Waking’. There is also commentary on Lucy’s work in theatre architecture with regards to current-day reproductions of old theatres.
Thomas Dabbs talks with Mark Thornton Burnett of Queen’s University, Belfast, about Shakespearean adaptations, particularly in film and across the globe.
Thomas Dabbs speaks with Stephen Greenblatt of Harvard University about Greenblatt’s recent work on Shakespeare, the Bible, and Lucretius.
This is a talk with Alec Ryrie, FBA, of Durham University about the relationship between Reformation religion and Shakespeare and Marlowe. In this talk Alec reflects on drama and emotion in Protestantism during the 16th and 17th centuries in England and on purgatory, ghosts, souls, atheism, and church ritual.
Alec is a historian of Protestant Christianity in general and of religion in early modern England and Scotland in particular. He has written extensively on the English Reformation and the history and impact of Protestantism in England and Scotland and across the globe. His most recent book is ‘Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt.’
He has spoken on the cultural, social, political and emotional history of religion and on other subjects, including faith and doubt; martyrdom, violence and religious warfare; magic and deception; moderation and radicalism; childhood religious experience; and liturgy and prayer. Alec is also a reader (lay minister) in the Church of England and serves as a Gresham College Professor of Divinity.
Thomas Dabbs speaks with Sarah Olive of the University of Bangor about global Shakespearean education and about her work on young adult and children’s fiction (where things Shakespearean make many appearances). Sarah is currently on research leave (2022) and is a visiting professor at Kobe Women’s College in Japan.
Thomas Dabbs speaks with Edward Wilson-Lee of Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge. Wilson-Lee is the author of “Shakespeare in Swahililand,” a study of how Shakespearean plays made their way into East Africa. He is also the author of “The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books,” which examines the life of Columbus’s son, Hernando Colón, and Hernando’s dream of a library that held universal knowledge. This work is supplemented with another book on Colón’s catalogue, a collaboration with José María Pérez Fernández entitled “Hernando Colón’s New World of Books: Towards a Cartography of Knowledge.” Wilson-Lee also has another book that will appear in August 2022, entitled “A History of Water, being an account of a murder, an epic, and two vision of global history.”
00:00:00 - Intro
00:03:41 - Formative years, East Africa, books and adventure
00:07:04 - A History of Water
00:16:15 - Shakespeare in Swahililand
00:32:10 - The travels of translation
00:39:50 - Shakespeare for the people, Shakespearean adaptation
00:45:30 - Hernando Colón and preserving knowledge
00:56:20 - The found book and ordering knowledge
01:19:28 - Scholarship in narrative form; the wandering scholar
01:15:50 - Japanese translation and closing remarks
Peggy O’Brien, Director of Education at the Folger Shakespeare Library, about the Folger Method for teaching Shakespeare (see link below). This talk also covers the Folger’s educational offerings online and on-site, including lesson plans and and other offerings for those who teach Shakespeare.
The Folger Method: https://www.folger.edu/the-folger-method
Folger Shakespeare Library (homepage): https://www.folger.edu
00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:40 - The Folger Method and its origins
00:08:15 - NEH, Professional development, The Wide World, Folger Teaching
00:14:15 - Global literary education, bridging the language and dialect gap
00:21:00 - Why so much Shakespeare? The sweep of literature. Race and Gender.
00:27:10 - Recent troubles in American schools. Political polarization
00:37:15 - Humanities under attack. Public demand for the humanities.
00:44-38 - Outreach, Michael Witmore
00:51:34 - Shakespeare, theory, history, and student-centered interpretations
01:58:40 - Shakespearean adaptation in Japan and across the globe
01:03:00 - Peggy’s career in education
01:08:40 - Covid and adapting to change in teaching
01:10:54 - A welcome from the Folger and closing remarks
This series is funded with institutional support from Aoyama Gakuin University (AGU) in Tokyo and with a generous grant from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
Thomas Dabbs speaks with Holger Schott Syme of the University of Toronto about his revisionist understanding of the London theatre during Shakespeare’s time. The talk also covers Holger’s views on acting companies and theatre going in the Elizabethan period, and also his editorial work, specifically on ‘The Spanish Tragedy’.
Thomas Dabbs speaks with Lena Cowen Orlin about her new book, ‘The Private Life of William Shakespeare’ and about about other areas of her research, including her findings on Tudor homes and her detailed recovery of quotidian life during Shakespeare’s time.
00:00:00 - Intro
00:03:24 - ‘The Private Life of William Shakespeare’: Overview
00:09:20 - Shakespeare’s education in Stratford: Ovid and Cicero
00:12:40 - Shakespeare’s returns to Stratford from London: Oxford, monuments
00:15:02 - Shakespeare’s monument
00:17:58 - Problems in the history of Shakespearean biography
00:20:00 - Biographical research, evidence clusters: misrepresentations and obsessions
00:27:48 - Misrepresentations of Shakespeare’s marriage: 2nd best bed
00:33:08 - Shakespeare’s will, early modern wills
00:35:04 - Lena’s research on private life and Tudor houses
00:38:49 - Hagler Institute: the Shakespeare Variorum
00:45:45 - The Folger and Lena’s work at the Folger, training at Chapel Hill, Hinman collator
00:50:21 - Benefits of digital resources
00:52:47 - Shakespeare Birthplace Trust: Stratford and fires
00:58:55 - Lena and the Shakespeare Assoc. of America, and the International Shakespeare Assoc.
01:03:01 - Lena’s background: Washington, D.C., and London, research on houses
01:06:55 - More on Lena’s future work, private papers in Shakespeare
01:08:55 - Research travel during a pandemic: in-person conferencing and field research
01:15:08 - Closing remarks
The Speaking of Shakespeare series is funded with institutional support from Aoyama Gakuin University (AGU) and with a generous grant from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).
Thomas Dabbs speaks with David Sterling Brown of Binghamton University. David is currently an ACLS/Mellon Scholars and Society Fellow in residence with The Racial Imaginary Institute, founded by Claudia Rankine, and in July 2022 he will join the faculty at Trinity College (USA), his undergraduate alma mater.
This conversation includes a look at recent initiatives that explore whiteness and modern racial conflict through the performance and study of Shakespeare. It also focuses on such recent initiatives as The Racial Imaginary Institute, spearheaded by Claudia Rankine, and also on the progress of 'Untitled Othello,' an ensemble led by Keith Hamilton Cobb.
[SEGMENTS]
00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:00 - The Racial Imaginary Institute (TRII), Claudia Rankine
00:08:20 - American Moor, Untitled Othello, Keith Hamilton Cobb
00:28:50 - Cleopatra
00:33:10 - Whiteness and Color, the segregated South, Racialized Whiteness
00:39:40 - James Baldwin, African-American Lit and Shakespeare
00:44:50 - Challenging Shakespeare, ‘Titus Andronicus’
00:47:08 - Tragedy vs Comedy, racial perspectives, dark comedy
00:52:24 - bell hooks’ passing and her contributions, reflections
00:59:03 - Redemption, mediating change, confronting the now
01:13:38 - Guys, folks, drag, and drag queen
01:15:40 - David’s editorial positions with journals.
01:16:26 - Social Justice in Contemporary Performance
01:19:28 - Shakespeare's Other Race Plays
01:21:00 - The Folger and Teaching Race Every Place, The First Folio
01:22:39 - Forthcoming books, Racialized Whiteness and Pedagogy/Scholarship
01:24:20 - The Sonic Color Line, Black Klansman, Sorry to Bother You
01:27:50 - Hood Feminism
01:30:55 - The Household and Mental Health
01:37:40 - Closing remarks
This is talk with James Shapiro of Columbia University on his recent book, ‘Shakespeare in a Divided America’. This conversation covers highlights of Shapiro’s book on the influence of Shakespeare in American thought and on the minds of such American leaders as John Quincy Adams, Ulysses S. Grant, Abraham Lincoln, and Henry Cabot Lodge. The book also examines how Shakespeare appears in American history and how Shakespearean material weighs in on such matters as race, immigration, and gender. From the Astor Place riots in the 19th century to the hullabaloo over the portrayal of a Trump look alike at the Delacorte theatre, this book also shows how Shakespearean performance exposes a range of divisive conflicts in the American consciousness. This talk also cover Shapiro’s prior work on Shakespeare’s life, antisemitism in Shakespeare, and the question of Shakespearean authorship.
00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:47 - Overview of ‘Shakespeare in a Divided America’
00:06:57 - John Quincy Adams, Ulysses S. Grant, and ‘Othello’
00:11:08 - Why Shakespeare in America?
00:13:56 - Astor Place Riots, Shakespeare competition, unruly behavior
00:21:30 - Shakespeare in prison
00:26:39 - Henry Cabot Lodge, ‘The Tempest’, and immigration
00:32:47 - Kiss Me Kate, post war American and marriage
00:34:59 - LGBTQ and ‘Shakespeare in Love’
00:38:39 - Joel Coen’s ‘Macbeth’, using film in pedagogy
00:40:23 - Trump as Caesar at the Delacorte
00:43:33 - James Shapiro’s history as a Shakespearean, theatre goer
00:46:22 - The transformation experience of theatre going
00:48:30 - The Shakespearean authorship question and the Supreme Court
00:54:58 - Following one’s own path in Shakespeare studies
00:56:58 - Future research, African-American Shylock, multicultural Shakespeare
01:01:25 - Theatre in Ireland
01:04:49 - Closing remarks
Thomas Dabbs speaks with John Wall about the completion of the Virtual St Paul's Cathedral Project. This project is a digital reconstruction of St Pauls Cathedral before Christopher Wren and during the time of John Donne and Shakespeare. It provides architectural and acoustic models for Christian worship in the early decades of the Church of England and also a view of the nave and and bookshops of Paul's Cross Churchyard, where Londoners came to hear the news and to shop.
[LINKS]
Virtual John Donne Project: https://virtualdonne.chass.ncsu.edu
Virtual St Paul's Cathedral Project: https://vpcathedral.chass.ncsu.edu
Virtual Paul's Cross Project: https://vpcross.chass.ncsu.edu
[SEGMENTS]
00:00:00 - Intro
00:03:04 - Panoramic views of St Paul’s
00:06:38 - Virtual St Pauls, architecture
00:13:44 - John Donne and cathedral spaces
00:18:38 - Cross-disciplinary team, visual/acoustic models
00:25:50 - Materializing the ephemeral, the people, project history
00:30:09 - Seeing and hearing cathedral worship
00:34:05 - John Schofield’s contribution as architectural historian
00:39:03 - Paul’s Cross churchyard, transatlantic connections
00:47:50 - Paul’s Cross sermons, Donne, Gunpowder Plot, Old Pronunciation
00:53:00 - Auditory technology, the churchyard from bone to book
01:01:03 - Literacy and hearing
01:04:00 - Sounds of worship, the anechoic chamber, the choir and recording
01:15:55 - The nave of the cathedral, space and noise
01:27:18 - The ‘Book of Common Prayer’ - daily and Easter service
01:39:27 - Trinity Chapel and John Donne
01:45:00 - Closing remarks, ‘Is there sand enough in the glass?’
Thomas Dabbs speaks with Sonia Massai about her recent book, 'Shakespeare's Accents', and about her work as an expert in early modern drama editing and in the theatre arts.
00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:19 - Shakespeare’s Accents
00:09:38 - Mary Hope Baldwin, Studies in Diversity, accent and dialect
00:18:05 - Acoustic diversity
00:20:37 - Wartime Shakespeare
00:34:40 - Textual transmission and reception, Thomas Berger
00:38:50 - ‘Shakespeare and the Rise of the Editor’
00:31:45 - Mentorship in the profession
00:46:45 - Diversifying textual studies and Shakespearean editing
00:54:22 - Paratexts and digital development, bibliography
01:06:40 - Ivo van Hove and avant garde theatre
01:19:00 - ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore
01:34:30 - Closing
TOPICS:
shakespeare
shakespeareantheatre
shakespeareanperformance
shakespearescontemporaries
editingshakespeare
renaissancedrama
earlymoderndrama
digitalhumanities
teachingshakespeare
[See SEGMENTS below]. Audio podcast at: https://speakingofshakespeare.buzzsprout.com.
Thomas Dabbs speaks with Emma Smith of Hertford College, Oxford, speaks about her book, 'This is Shakespeare', and her work as a scholar and theatre consultant.
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:20 - Emma’s book: ‘This is Shakespeare’
00:13:06 - The humanities and public outreach
00:15:34 - Why the humanities?
00:19:35 - Upcoming projects: Nashe, Merry Wives, Books as Portable Magic
00:27:05 - Book history and the future of the book.
00:31:09 - The Elizabethan Top Ten
00:34:00 - First Folio of Shakespeare
00:43:22 - Approaching Shakespeare: Outreach and RSC theatre work
00:47:28 - Christopher Marlowe
00:52:45 - ‘Twelfth Night’
00:57:36 - Background: love of literature vs professional literary studies
01:02:32 - Closing remarks
This a talk by Andy Kesson about bearbaiting in Shakespeare's London. This talk was given to students and scholars primarily in Japan and hosted by the English Literary Society of Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo.
Also available on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/c/SpeakingofShakespeare.
[See SEGMENTS below] Thomas Dabbs speaks with Shoichiro Kawai of the University of Tokyo about his role as a director, playwright, translator, and scholar. Professor Kawai directs The Kawai Project, a multi-volume series that has staged productions of 'Much Ado about Nothing,' 'The Comedy of Errors,' and other Shakespearean plays and adaptations. Kawai has also adapted Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot' for the Japanese stage and has produced a Beckett-esque drama drawing from Shakespeare and echoing Beckett entitled 'Waiting for Will.'
LINKS:
Kawai Project (in Japanese): https://www.kawaiproject.com
SEGMENTS:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:08 - The Holy Trinity of being a Shakespearean
00:02:40 - Kawai Project: Waiting for Will and Samuel Beckett, Jean Jean Theatre
00:11:45 - Kawai Project: Translating ‘Waiting for Godot’ and ‘Waiting for Will’
00:14:13 - Kawai Project: Much Ado about Nothing’: Immersive theatre
00:15:05 - Kawai Project: Comedy of Errors’ and ‘As You Like It’
00:17:35 - Translating and writing plays in Japanese
00:18:45 - Kawai’s and translation theory: ‘To Be or Not To Be’
00:35:20 - Shakespeare: ‘Master of the Theatre of Life’
00:40:30 - Cultural adaptation: Bunraku and (mostly) Kyōgen
00:49:20 - Critical theory vs doing and mimicry
00:52:16 - Coming work: Maugham, Poe, The Tempest, Henry IV
00:56:40 - The need for more Shakespearean drama
00:59:30 - Other Shakespearean activities in Japan, King Lear (again)
01:01:03 - Young Kawai and turning to theatre and Shakespeare
01:13:10 - Closing remarks, Hamlet is Fat
Also available on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/c/SpeakingofShakespeare.
[See SEGMENTS below] Thomas Dabbs speaks with Roze Hentschell of Colorado State University about her recent book: 'St Paul's Cathedral Precinct in Early Modern Literature and Culture: Spatial Practices'.
LINKS:
The Virtual St Pauls Cathedral Project: https://vpcathedral.chass.ncsu.edu.
The Virtual Pauls Cross Project: https://vpcp.chass.ncsu.edu.
SEGMENTS:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:20 - St Paul’s Precinct in the Early Modern Period
00:09:52 - Virtual St Paul’s Project
00:16:22 - Relationships between pulpits, stages, and bookshops
00:17:09 - Going low with sermons and secular writing
00:19:38 - Non-discreet space within and without
00:22:33 - Going low with commercial aspects of the Cathedral
00:25:15 - Shopping bookshops, public responses, anxiety
00:30:55 - Masculinity and vice, in place out of place
00:39:00 - Shakespeare, more vice, and St Paul’s
00:43:37 - Roze’s book, Virtual St Paul’s, spawning more research
00:45:14 - Cloth and tapestry
00:50:15 - Roze’s work in administration: disciplinary boundaries
00:59:58 - Roze, motherhood, exercise, good habits
01:00:05 - The Mexican connection, educational background
01:02:12 - Return to the cathedral and changing spaces
01:05:00 - Paul’s Cross churchyard, bones and bookshops
01:11:35 - Roze’s future work, grounds for further research
01:17:30 - Closing remarks, Old St Paul’s and Culture
Thomas Dabbs speaks with Andy Kesson of the University of Roehampton. Featured in this talk is new research into Bear Baiting and also a shout out to Andy's new program, 'A Bit Lit.' Andy's research covers a host of topics on theatre history and particularly the under-studied but rich period of English drama in the decades before Shakespeare.
LINKS:
A Bit Lit: https://abitlit.co
Box Office Bears: https://boxofficebears.com
More Box Office Bears: https://beforeshakespeare.com/2020/08/03/box-office-bears-a-new-research-project-on-animal-baiting/
Box Office Bears on YouTube: https://youtu.be/vZsYjhzaD8s
Before Shakespeare: https://beforeshakespeare.com
Bears: Lyle Lovett: https://youtu.be/_T4SaNuxZO8
SEGMENTS:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:18 - A Bit Lit
00:05:45 - Andy’s research,
00:11:10 - Before Shakespeare, Trans Theatre, Gallathea,
00:18:45 - Elizabethan Top Ten
00:24:56 - Box Office Bears
00:38:53 - Theatre Before Shakespeare: 1560-1590
00:49:32 - Digital Humanities
00:55:30 - Andy’s educational background and future
01:05:00 - Bears in the future
01:10:31 - Closing remarks
This podcast is also available on YouTube at 'Speaking of Shakespeare'. This is a conversation with Professor Bryan Reynolds of the University of California, Irvine. In this talk Bryan covers his personal background to show his path from truant student and motocross aficionado to the study of Shakespeare and critical theory at Berkeley and Harvard. Bryan now travels to conflict zones across the globe to direct plays that he composes and even acts in.
Thomas Dabbs speaks with Tiffany Stern of the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. The Shakespeare Institute is located in Stratford-upon-Avon and has become a beacon of scholarship in studies of Shakespearean performance and texts. In this talk, Professor Stern's work on Shakespearean performance and documents are discussed along with how Shakespearean drama related to the common person in Elizabethan London and in England during Shakespeare's time. Stern also talks about her forthcoming work on fairgrounds during the Shakespearean period and on broadside ballads and how popular songs appear throughout Shakespeare's plays. Stern also describes her work as a general editor of plays in the Arden Shakespeare series.
SEGMENTS:
0:00:00 - Intro and greetings
0:02:54 - Summary of Tiffany Stern's research
0:14:23 - The Shakespeare Institute
0:19:06 - Fairgrounds and Shakespeare
0:30:50 - Broadside Ballads
0:36:54 - The art of insult, the 4th wall audience response
0:45:25 - Shakespeare beyond Performance
0:54:58 - Textual Editing, Arden, Hard Copy vs Digital
1:04:29 - Shakespearean adaption: Novels, Manga, Anime
1:07:12 - Beyond performance. beyond text, clowns
1:13:50 - Closing remarks, recent scholarship, chronology
TOPICS:
shakespeare
shakespeareantheatre
shakespeareanperformance
shakespearescontemporaries
editingshakespeare
renaissancedrama
earlymoderndrama
digitalhumanities
teachingshakespeare
[See SEGMENTS below] Thomas Dabbs speaks with Jenelle Jenstad about the future of digital humanities, specifically in early modern research. Janelle is General Editor and Director of The Map of Early Modern London (MoEML) and a Coordinating Editor of the Internet Shakespeare Editions (ISE). She is also director of LEMDO (Linked Early Modern Drama Online), a TEI encoding, editing, and anthology-building platform for Early Modern Drama. She is a team member for The Endings Project, which seeks to develop strategies for concluding and preserving scholarly digital projects, and for maintaining long-term usability across a representative range of disciplines and DH methodologies. Janelle also maintains a blog that focuses on occasional drama.
SEGMENTS:
0:00:00 - Intro and greetings
0:02:25 - LEMDO (Linked Early Modern Drama Online), TEI
0:04:05 - Internet Shakespeare Editions (ISE) and LEMDO
0:12:27 - Future of LEMDO, Queen's Men, Digital Renaissance Editions (DRE)
0:15:28 - Mayoral Shows Anthology (MOMS)
0:16:00 - Summary of LEMDO's platform,
0:19:38 - Map of Early Modern London (MoEML), John Stow, Mayoral Shows
0:41:44 - Gazetteers
0:44:03 - Janelle's background humanities/digital
0:45:55 - Livery companies, trade guilds
0:53:24 - The beginnings of MoEML
0:58:19 - MoEML 6.6, Copyrights?
1:02:42 - Academic credit for digital contributors
1:10:01 - Linked data
1:14:00 - Paul's Cross churchyard, ESTC, Stationer's Hall
1:19:00 - The future of LEMDO
1:21:10 - The Endings Project and points of failure
1:29:05 - Closing remarks
LINKS:
LEMDO: https://lemdo.uvic.ca
Internet Shakespeare Editions: https://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca
Map of Early Modern London: https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca
Digital Renaissance Editions: https://digitalrenaissance.uvic.ca
This conversation is also available on YouTube under the search term, 'Speaking of Shakespeare.' Aaron Pratt studied the early modern period with a cadre of fine scholars first at Ohio State University and then at Yale University. He is currently the Carl & Lily Pforzheimer Curator of Early Books & Manuscripts, Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, Austin.
Aaron describe the center and its holdings and also discussed his scholarly approaches to evaluating the public reception and impact of early books and manuscripts within the context of the times they appeared. He also speaks on early modern drama, Shakespeare, and 16th and 17th century religious editions.
[See SEGMENTS below] Thomas Dabbs speaks with Heather Knight about theatre during the Shakespearean period. In this discussion, Heather Knight discusses recent archeological finds at the Boar's Head, Whitechapel. This conversation also covers findings that concern The Curtain Theatre, the venue for Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet'. The Curtain was once thought to be a round shape, but digs and discoveries at this site have proven that it was a much larger theatre and also rectangular. This discovery has changed the way that theatre historians look at Shakespearean theatre and also the theatre of the times. Heather Knight is also an expert on the archeology of a theatre simply call, The Theatre, which was, according to historical records, one of the earliest large commercial playhouses in London.
LINKS:
The Curtain Theatre Site: https://www.mola.org.uk/blog/remains-shakespeare’s-curtain-theatre-discovered-shoreditch
Museum of London Archeology: https://www.mola.org.uk
SEGMENTS:
0:00:00 - Intro
0:01:37 - Roehampton Conference: Before Shakespeare
0:02:45 - MOLA, Heather's role in theatre archeology
0:03:35 - The Boar's Head playhouse
0:09:45 - Received narrative and global access to sites and records
0:14:05 - The Curtain
0:22:26 - Playhouses in Spain and on the continent
0:27:00 - The Curtain (again) and things lost, depositional signatures
0:41:15 - Positions and dates of theaters, space and the City of London
0:40:40 - The commercial theatre: economics, and expansion
0:49:05 - Future work at MOLA, documentation, digital public access
0:53:45 - Cross disciplinary collaboration
0:55:45 - The plague and theatres, then and now, and more on the future
0:57:14 - The future of the past: the Boar's Head, the Curtain, and The Theatre
1:01:08 - Closing comments: Collaborations then and now, money pots, selling goods
[See SEGMENTS below] Thomas Dabbs speaks with Heidi Craig of Texas A&M University. Heidi Craig is the General Editor of the World Shakespeare Bibliography. A graduate of the University of Toronto, Heidi also works on Shakespeare, early modern drama, book history and bibliography and digital humanities.
LINKS:
World Shakespeare Bibliography: https://www.worldshakesbib.org
Early Modern Dramatic Paratexts: https://paratexts.folger.edu
SEGMENTS:
0:00:00 - Intro
0:02:55- World Shakespeare Bibliography
0:05:30 - Aoyama Gakuin and the early Bible
0:06:05 - WSB Collaborative efforts, the Folger Shakespeare Library and others.
0:08:00 - WSB correspondents in Japan, Professor Takashi Sasaki
0:13:07 - Paratexts in the early modern period
0:22:00 - Material criticism, theatre history, Tiffany Stern, work and space
0:25:12 - Rag women and the production of paper
0:40:28 - The things that have to happen before Shakespeare happens
0:45:09 - Dead theatre, the Commonwealth period
0:50:30 - EMDP, digitizing paratexts database
0:56:20 - The advantages of collaboration
0:57:50 - Closing
TOPICS:
shakespeare
shakespeareantheatre
shakespeareanperformance
shakespearescontemporaries
editingshakespeare
renaissancedrama
earlymoderndrama
digitalhumanities
teachingshakespeare
[See SEGMENTS below] Thomas Dabbs speaks with David McInnis of the University of Melbourne. Along with Roslyn L. Knutson and Matthew Steggle, David is founder and co-editor of 'Lost Plays Database', and is the author of 'Shakespeare and Lost Plays' (Cambridge, 2021).
LINKS:
Lost Plays Database: https://lostplays.folger.edu/Main_Page
Shakespeare VR: https://cmu-lib.github.io/dhlg/project-videos/wittek/
SEGMENTS:
0:00:00 - Intro
0:02:07 - 'Shakespeare and Lost Plays' / 'Lost Plays Database' (LDP)
0:08:00 - LPD and the Folger Shakespeare Library
0:09:15 - History of LPD / Funding / Sustainability
0:11:05 - Future of LPD
0:13:30 - The need for academic credit for digital development
0:17:40 - Bibliographical work contrasted with theoretical work
0:21:05 - Lost plays before Shakespeare and their influence on Shakespeare
0:23:25 - The Curtain Theatre archeological find and its impact
0:24:30 - Speculation about what the Curtain meant for Shakespeare
0:28:00 - Absence of evidence as potential evidence
0:31:14 - Shakespeare and Virtual reality / Stephen Wittek / 3D Modelling
0:35:38 - Timon of Athens / Off Shakespeare and on Shakespeare
0:40:23 - Tamburlaine the Great / Comments on Marlowe
0:46:20 - Lost and literary culture / Lost as a theme
0:50:00 - Responsible conjecture, honest scholarship
0:52:24 - Asserting ourselves as scholars / the advantages of remote access
0:55:20 - The Wild Goose Chase going viral
1:02:18 - David's background, turning points / Dympna Callaghan
1:07:10 - Who may we be influencing as teachers?
1:08:38 - More on David's academic background
1:09:55 - Closing remarks
TOPICS:
shakespeare
shakespeareantheatre
shakespeareanperformance
shakespearescontemporaries
Thomas Dabbs speaks with Brett Greatley-Hirsch, University Academic Fellow in Textual Studies and Digital Editing, University of Leeds. Brett is a Coordinating Editor of Digital Renaissance Editions (DRE) and Co-editor of the journal Shakespeare (Routledge) and a Trustee of the British Shakespeare Association.
Thomas Dabbs speaks with John Yamamoto-Wilson, Sophia University, Tokyo, (retired) about his book entitled 'Pain, Pleasure, and Perversity', about rare early modern books, Shakespeare and also about his YouTube channel, Ano Sensei.
SEGMENTS:
0:00:00 Intro
0:02:05 Pain, Pleasure, and Perversity / Clark's Martyrology
0:06:10 Research at Cambridge / Attitudes toward suffering
0:07:35 John's education / Family and religious background
0:09:20 Peter Milward / Sophia / Shakespeare as a Catholic?
0:18:00 John as antiquarian / Digitizing (scanning) rare books / Gunpowder plot
0:23:24 Early English Book Online (EEBO) searching / David McInnis, Lost Plays, OED
0:27:38 Consciousness revealed through digital searches / religious doctrines
0:29:05 Early modern religion, pain and pleasure and suffering
0:35:14 Early modern perversity, religious to secular print and drama
0:41:51 Ano Sensei / English language training / British poetry and history
0:44:35 Ano Sensei and the enormous global interest in British poetry
0:49:20 The accuracy of auto-generated subtitles
0:57:02 John as a mentor to the SOS program, given to teaching
0:59:17 John's youth and formative years / education / graduate education
1:08:15 Setbacks, and back to Spain then Japan:
1:13:30 Utilitarian approaches to ESL vs content and cultural studies
1:19:38 Recent and new on Ano Sensei and closing remarks
Shakespeare
DigitalHumanities
aoyamagakuin
poetry
literature
esl
reformation
rarebooks
englisheducation
shakespeareperformance
shakespeareadaptation
Available as a podcast from your favorite service at: https://speakingofshakespeare.buzzsprout.com
(See SEGMENTS below): Thomas Dabbs speaks with Professor Kyoko Matsuyama about Shakespeare. Professor Matsuyama examines many elements of Shakespeare, including Shakespearean influences in novels, mange, and anime.
0:00:00 Intro
0:01:16 End of 1st year of pandemic teaching
0:04:55 The wonders of the Odakyu line
0:06:15 Travel limitations, Tokyo
0:07:40 Gothic Literature conference / Titus Andronicus in anime
0:09:55 Educational challenges during a pandemic
0:18:42 Kyoko's research on teaching Shakespeare in Japan / 12th Night
0:23:08 Teaching unfamiliar material with familiar resources,
0:23:45 Manga and YA novels / vampires
0:28:25 Kyoko's international education / cultural adaptation, re-adaptation
0:39:35 Issues with assimilation and re-assimilation / studies in literature
0:47:33 Teachers who inspired / turning to humanities as a career
0:48:43 Research in theatre history / Midsummer / Edmund Kean / Kemble
0:54:10 Shakespeare in Manga and Anime / Gaming
1:09:10 Future research: Funeral of the Rose King anime and Shakespeare
1:11:00 PsychoPass / violence
1:13:10 Comments on violence in popular culture and in Shakespeare
1:20:00 Closing remarks
TOPICS:
Shakespeare
manga
anime
aoyamagakuin
literature
esl
educationjapan
englisheducation
shakespeareperformance
shakespeareadaptation
Thomas Dabbs speaks with Professor Hirohisa Igarashi of Toyo University about the First Folio of Shakespeare and about teaching and performing Shakespeare in Japan.
SEGMENTS listed below. Thomas Dabbs speaks with Pip Willcox, Head of Research, The National Archives, U.K., about online collections, public engagement, and special holdings of the National Archives, specifically Shakespearean holdings.
SEGMEMTS:
0:00:00 - Intro
0:01:21 - Greetings, Digital Oxford
0:05:55 - The human element
0:07:00 - Pandemic remote work environment
0:13:05 - Pip's role at the National Archives
0:14:11 - Public engagement
0:15:08 - National Archives: Overview
0:30:45 - NA, Shakespeare holdings
0:38:40 - Chancery Court Records
0:47:45 - Maps and the Doomsday Book
0:52:43 - Shakespeare's Will
0:54:26 - Pip's background
0:59:28 - Early English Books Online
1:07:24 - Oxford English Dictionary
1:12:31 - Turning to study Humanities
1:19:22 - Pip's career, digital initiatives, TEI
1:30:15 - Closing remarks
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shakespeareadaptation
Thomas Dabbs speaks with Alexa Alice Joubin of George Washington University about her book on Shakespeare in East Asia, and about race and cultural appropriations in Shakespeare studies and performance.
SEGMENTS:
0:00:00 Intro
0:01:55 Shakespeare in East Asia
0:11:30 Alexa's life, cultural background and Shakespeare
0:23:20 Global Shakespeare
0:27:30 Alexa's American experience / racial identity
0:28:20 Alexa's co-authored book on race
0:31:40 Racial identity, challenges, American cultural identity
0:42:20 Decolonizing Shakespeare
0:49:40 The ethics of Shakespearean appropriation
0:58:15 Concrete examples of Shakespearean appropriation
1:06:38 Shakespeare in translation
1:11:35 Shakespeare and Digital Humanities
1:31:35 Closing remarks
RELATED TOPICS:
alexajoubin
Shakespeare
folgershakespeare
globalshakespeare
asianshakespeare
DigitalHumanities
teachingshakespeare
englisheducation
shakespeareperformance
shakespeareadaptation
[Click 'More' below to see SEGMENTS] Thomas Dabbs speaks with Shakespearean actor Ben Crystal. Ben is also a writer, a producer, and curator of the Shakespeare Ensemble. Ben speaks about Shakespearean acting, on stage and online, and also about salmon and many other topics. Ben is an expert in OP, or the Original Pronunciation of words in Shakespeare's works, and he also has worked to stage plays using original production techniques.
SEGMENTS:
0:00:00 - Intro
0:01:40 - The Welsh rain, salmon, Snowdonia, and Wales again
0:04:10 - Tokyo during the pandemic (Oct. 2020)
0:06:15 - The Zoom learning curve for actors, teachers, and learners
0:10:40 - YouTube work, To Be or Not to Be et al., as work dries up for actors.
0:12:55 - Timon of Athens and online Shakespeare
0:13:51 - The Show Must Go Online, More on Timon and Titus
0:16:45 - Ways to feature online Ben while waiting for his return to Japan?
0:20:20 - How to adjust to lack of audience response online, learning curve again
0:22:30 - Original Shakespearean rehearsal practices and the value
0:34:50 - Ben's pre-pandemic tour of Japan (2019) / Japan experience
0:37:36 - Love of linguistics and the Welsh language,
0:40:33 - Cultural kinship with Japan / culture features of Japan
0:43:14 - Shakespeare in Japan / Ninagawa
0:46:18 - Pandemic performance / advantages of distancing, and disadvantages
0:54:05 - Theatre and challenges of pandemic mindset / living too much in the head
0:57:44 - Shakespeare during the plague in his time
0:59:28 - Ben during the plague of his time / and more plague
1:01:45 - Shakespeare after the plague / revival energy
1:02:16 - 'Midsummer' / features of Shakespearean comedy
1:06:40 - Ben's recreation of a John Donne sermon
1:09:40 - Ben and The Shakespeare Ensemble
1:12:00 - Ben's coming day and closing remarks
LINKS:
Ben Crystal: http://www.bencrystal.com/about
The Show Must Go Online: https://www.youtube.com/c/RobMyles/videos
The Shakespeare Ensemble: https://www.theshakespeareensemble.com
Thomas Dabbs speaks with Eric Johnson, Director of Digital Access, Folger Shakespeare Library about the relationship between the Folger and Aoyama Gakuin University. Eric also talks about the Folger's history and holdings and how his team is making rare Shakespearean material available for open access viewing online.
TOPICS:
folgershakespeare
aoyamagakuin
shakespearescholarship
first folio
shakespeareperformance
teachingshakespeare
asianshakespeare
Ben Crystal speaks at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo about maintaining the performing arts and Shakespearean performance during a pandemic. This talk was hosted by Thomas Dabbs and sponsored by the AGU English Literary Society.
Thomas Dabbs and Professor Sarah Olive speak about teaching during the Covid pandemic, about sound educational practice in teaching Shakespeare, and about Shakespearean performance. Dabbs and Olive also discuss issues concerning global adaptation and transgender representations in Shakespearean production and performance.