Speaking of Shakespeare
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).
Episodes
64 episodes
SoS # 65 | Darren Freebury-Jones: 'Shakespeare's Borrowed Feathers'
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. Early he has spoken about ...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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1:02:16
SoS # 64 | Tanya Pollard: Ben Jonson and Shakespeare's Tragic Women
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 - Intro00:01:34 - Ben Jonson’s ‘The Alchemist’.
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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1:09:08
SoS # 63 | Agnès Lafont and Lindsay Reid, Ovidian Drama
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 collaborations in early ...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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1:01:11
SoS # 62 | David Kastan: Shakespeare and Rembrandt
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 Shakespeare and Rembrandt.
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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1:24:23
SoS # 61 | James Shapiro: The Playbook
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 - Intro00:01:...
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Season 4
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Episode 12
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54:58
SoS #60 | A Public Talk by Christopher Highley: Blackfriars in Early Modern London
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. Along with his many pu...
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Season 4
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Episode 11
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1:20:13
SoS #59 | A Public Talk by Stephen Wittek: Shakespeare and Conversion
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 6th, 2023. Wittek’s work l...
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Season 4
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Episode 10
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1:24:36
SoS #58 | Diana Henderson: Digital Pedagogy and Shakespearean Adaptation
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 as a Shakespeare schola...
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Season 4
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Episode 9
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1:16:52
SoS #57 | Thomas Dabbs: With guest host, Stephen Wittek
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 - Intro00:01:00 - The Speaking of Shakespeare Series00:06:40 - Aoyama Gakuin,...
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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1:18:44
SoS #56 | David Sterling Brown: Shakespeare's White Others
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 studies.[LINKS]Davi...
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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1:47:58
SoS #55 | Tiffany Stern: Ballads, Malone, and Editing Shakespeare
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 editorial work in Shakespeare ...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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1:17:16
SoS #54 | Jean-Christophe Mayer: Shakespeare's Early Readers
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 activities.0...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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1:37:22
SoS #53 | Peter Herman: Early Modern Others
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.
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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1:44:02
SoS #52 | Eric Rasmussen: First Folio Shakespeare
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, Shakespeare. This year...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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1:00:15
SoS #51 | Heidi Craig: Drama during the English Civil Wars
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 - Intro00:00:00 - Drama during the English Civil Wars00:05:46 - Old drama/new dr...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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1:17:08
SoS #50 | Darren Freebury-Jones: Robert Greene and Thomas Kyd
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 with providing a fresh v...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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1:21:16
SoS #49 | Emma Smith: Shakespeare's First Folio
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 Emma’s books, one on the...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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1:01:38
SoS #48 | Ian Smith: Black Shakespeare
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)
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Season 3
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Episode 18
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1:13:22
SoS #47 | Gayle Greene: Immeasurable Outcomes: Teaching Shakespeare in the Age of the Algorithm
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 education and also examines t...
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Season 3
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Episode 17
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1:45:28
SoS #46 | Jane Hwang Degenhardt: Globalizing Fortune on the Early Modern Stage
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 per...
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Season 3
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Episode 16
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1:01:26
SoS #45 | Alexa Alice Joubin: Shakespeare, East Asia, Race, Gender, Social Justice
Thomas Dabbs speaks with Alexa Alice Joubin of George Washington University about her recent book, 'Shakespeare and East Asia'. Alexa also reviewed her recent research in race and gender studies, with regard to Shakespeare, and presented on her...
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Season 3
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Episode 15
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1:19:38
SoS #44 | Richard Strier: Shakespearean Issues
Thomas Dabbs speaks with Richard Strier of the University of Chicago about his recent book, Shakespearean Issues: Agency, Skepticism, and Other Puzzles.
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Season 3
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Episode 14
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1:13:28
SoS #43 | William C. Carroll: Adapting Macbeth
Thomas Dabbs speaks with William Carroll of Boston University about Bill’s recent book, ‘Adapting Macbeth: A Cultural History’.
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Season 3
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Episode 13
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1:11:14
SoS #42 | Peter Holland: Shakespeare and Forgetting
Thomas Dabbs speaks with Peter Holland of the University of Notre Dame about Peter’s recent book, ‘Shakespeare and Forgetting’.
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Season 3
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Episode 12
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1:18:38
SoS #41 | Michael Dobson: Director, The Shakespeare Institute
This is a talk with Michael Dobson, Director of the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, located in Stratford-upon-Avon. Here we talk about the Shakespeare Institute’s programs and mission and also about Michael’s recent work on Sha...
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Season 3
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Episode 11
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1:18:48
