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This is a talk with Tanya Pollard of Brooklyn College, City University of New York about Ben Jonson and about her other work on women in Shakespeare and early modern drama.
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:34 - Ben Jonson’s ‘The Alchemist’.
00:15:12 - Greek tragic women, drama, research methods
00:40:15 - Work with theaters in New York City
00:52:27 - What brought Tanya to NYC, CUNY
00:57:27 - Tanya’s aerial work, the silks
01:08:17 - Closing remarks
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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
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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 -
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Video broadcast at https://youtu.be/UO-SQwmu82Q. 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
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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.
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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'.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 - Introduction00:01:30 - 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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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)
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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