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 #10 | John Yamamoto-Wilson: Pleasure, Pain, Perversity
Thomas Dabbs speaks with John Yamamoto-Wilson, Sophia University, Tokyo, (retired) about his book entitled 'Pain, Pleasure, and Perversity', about rare early modern books, Shakespeare and also about his YouTube channel, Ano Sensei.
SEGMENTS:
0:00:00 Intro
0:02:05 Pain, Pleasure, and Perversity / Clark's Martyrology
0:06:10 Research at Cambridge / Attitudes toward suffering
0:07:35 John's education / Family and religious background
0:09:20 Peter Milward / Sophia / Shakespeare as a Catholic?
0:18:00 John as antiquarian / Digitizing (scanning) rare books / Gunpowder plot
0:23:24 Early English Book Online (EEBO) searching / David McInnis, Lost Plays, OED
0:27:38 Consciousness revealed through digital searches / religious doctrines
0:29:05 Early modern religion, pain and pleasure and suffering
0:35:14 Early modern perversity, religious to secular print and drama
0:41:51 Ano Sensei / English language training / British poetry and history
0:44:35 Ano Sensei and the enormous global interest in British poetry
0:49:20 The accuracy of auto-generated subtitles
0:57:02 John as a mentor to the SOS program, given to teaching
0:59:17 John's youth and formative years / education / graduate education
1:08:15 Setbacks, and back to Spain then Japan:
1:13:30 Utilitarian approaches to ESL vs content and cultural studies
1:19:38 Recent and new on Ano Sensei and closing remarks
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