Speaking of Shakespeare

SoS # 66 | Varsha Panjwani: Women and Shakespeare

Thomas Dabbs Season 4 Episode 5

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 and Shakespeare podcast

00:07:41 - Podcasts/Feminist Shakespeare Pedagogy

00:17:26 - Varsha’s intro to Oxford “Midsummer”

00:32:14 - Indian Shakespeare in India

00:37:40 - Bollywood and Shakespeare in film

00:43:20 - Indian Shakespeare adapted in the West

00:52:28 - Indian culture, personal rebellion, and Shakespeare

01:05:18 - Future plans, diaspora Shakespeare