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 - Intro

00:01:34 - Ben Jonson’s ‘The Alchemist’.

00:15:12 - Greek tragic women, drama, research methods

00:40:15 - Work with theaters in New York City

00:52:27 - What brought Tanya to NYC, CUNY

00:57:27 - Tanya’s aerial work, the silks

01:08:17 - Closing remarks