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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