SoS #24 | Sonia Massai: Shakespeare's Accents

12/06/21 • 96 min

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

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SoS #23 | Emma Smith: This Is Shakespeare

[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

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SoS #25 | John Wall: Virtual St Paul's Project

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?’