Speaking of Shakespeare

SoS #24 | Sonia Massai: Shakespeare's Accents

December 06, 2021 Thomas Dabbs Season 2 Episode 5
Speaking of Shakespeare
SoS #24 | Sonia Massai: Shakespeare's Accents
Show Notes

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

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