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).
Speaking of Shakespeare
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 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