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