Speaking of Shakespeare

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.

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​

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

Thomas Dabbs speaks with Stephen Greenblatt of Harvard University about Greenblatt’s recent work on Shakespeare, the Bible, and Lucretius.

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.