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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).
Thomas Dabbs hosts Speaking of Shakespeare, a arts show with 65 episodes published.
This is a talk with Varsha Panjwani, host of the podcast, Women and Shakespeare . She also discusses her recent work on A Midsummer Night’s Dream and on Indian and diasporic Shakespeare. 00:00:00 - Intro 00:02:05 - Women
Thomas Dabbs speaks with Darren Freebury-Jones about his recent book, Shakespeare’s Borrowed Feathers: How Early Modern Playwrights Shaped the World’s Greatest Writer. This is Darren’s second appearance on the series. Ea
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 A
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 collabora
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 Shakespea
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 0
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. Alon
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 6t
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
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 G
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 stu
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 editor
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 activ
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
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 dr
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
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
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 educa
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