Speaking of Shakespeare

Thomas Dabbs speaks with David Sterling Brown of Trinity College, Connecticut, about his recent book, entitled 'Shakespeare’s White Others', and also about other work that David has done in the field of critical race studies.
[LINKS]
David Sterling Brown (Website): https://www.davidsterlingbrown.com
David Sterling Brown VR Gallery: https://hubs.mozilla.com/p963Ga4/david-sterling-gallery-vrv
The Republic of Yarnia: https://www.republicofyarnia.com
[SEGMENTS]
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:55 - ‘Shakespeare’s White Others’
00:30:07 - Personal elements in David’s writing
00:31:25 - Trinity College and teaching
00:42:32 - White Others VR Art Gallery
00:51:44 - Hood Pedagogy
00:56:48 - Claudia Rankine: The Racial Imaginary Inst. (TRII)
01:07:45 - Promotion and mini-book tour
01:15:16 - Upcoming panel: In Plain Sight
01:18:07 - Stopped by the police, generational racism
01:32:45 - Rest and mental health
01:39:11 - Southern grandmothers: race relations 
01:45:18 - Closing remarks

Thomas Dabbs talks with Tiffany Stern of the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, about her recent perspectives on ballads in early modern drama, on Edmond Malone’s 18th-century scholarship, and on her editorial work in Shakespeare and 16th-century literature

Thomas Dabbs speaks with Jean-Christophe Mayer about his recent book, Shakespeare’s Early Readers and about his work with the French National Center for Scientific Research and his other research and administrative activities.

00:00:00 - Introduction

00:01:30 - CNRS and IRCL: Roles in research

00:08:58 - Human beings in history: materialism and theory

00:21:48 - Trans-disciplinary research

00:26:00 - Shakespeare in Japan

00:27:24 - Montpellier

00:28:48 - First Folio in Japan: Meisei, Used Books

00:42:32 - Early readers: Finding yourself in a book

00:51:03 - Elizabeth Montague and Voltaire

00:57:10 - Popular theatre: Shakespeare, Molière

01:09:07 - The early modern print industry 

01;14:35 - Reception theory and appropriation

01:18:04 - The Tempest: Here and There

01:21:34 - English drama and the French

01:27:25 - Cahiers Élisabéthains and literary journals

01:35:00 - Closing remarks

This is a talk with Peter Herman of the University of California, San Diego about his new book, Early Modern Others and other elements of his research that focus on the relationship between literature and culture.

This is a talk with Eric Rasmussen of the University of Nevada, Reno, about his work in locating and cataloguing full descriptions of over 200 copies of the Shakespearean First Folio, the large book that made Shakespeare, Shakespeare. This year is the 400th anniversary of the publication of this edition, entitled Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies and published in 1623.

This is a talk with Heidi Craig of the University of Toronto about her recent book on drama during the English Civil War period: 

00:00:00 - Intro

00:00:00 - Drama during the English Civil Wars

00:05:46 - Old drama/new drama, when Shakespeare wasn’t first

00:08:45 - Periodization of drama

00:13:10 - Secret or underground performance

00:17:01 - Plays becoming literary and commercial products

00:21:50 - The effort to kill off drama and theatre and fun

00:27:28 - Elevating/ destroying drama politics/ pandemic

00:33:12 - Historic preservation and the digital age

00:36:45 - Early Modern Dramatic Paratexts (EMDP)

00:42:18 - Linked Early Modern Drama Online (LEMDO)

00:51:00 - The value of preservation

00:52:20 - The Last Age and Old Plays

00:56:26 - The value of the archive, Folger et al.

00:58:46 - Heidi’s current position/ the scholarly community

01:05:00 - Upcoming projects/ rags and paper

01:11:10 - Closing remarks

This is a talk with Darren Freebury-Jones, Lecturer in Shakespeare Studies, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, about his two recent books: ‘Reading Robert Greene’ and ’Shakespeare’s Tutor: The Influence of Thomas Kyd'. Along with providing a fresh view of two playwrights that deserve much more of our attention, both books explore new ways to understand creative collaboration among young, aspiring playwrights, particularly during Shakespeare's early years as a dramatist in London.

00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:10 - ‘Reading Robert Greene’
00:07:27 - Thomas Kyd, ’Shakespeare’s Tutor’
00:14:20 - Authorial attribution—digital vs critical
00:22:50 - Collaboration—Shakespeare, Kyd, and others
00:28:40 - The art of adapting known narratives
00:31:48 - Thomas Kyd, and the Ur Hamlet
00:36:32 - Influences on Shakespeare—Kyd, Greene, others
00:43:00 - Elizabethan playwrights and educational backgrounds
00:49:30 - Darren’s as creative writer and actor
00:56:10 - The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, and Darren's role
01:07:15 - Next--Shakespearean influences and the other dramatists
01:16:00 - Closing remarks, Wales and rugby

Thomas Dabbs speaks with Emma Smith of Hertford College, Oxford, about Shakespeare’s First Folio. The year 2023 is the 400th anniversary year of this monumental edition. This conversation covers the re-release of two of Emma’s books, one on the making of the First Folio and one on the history of its reception over the following centuries. 

Thomas Dabbs speaks with Ian Smith, current president of the Shakespeare Association of America, about his new book, ‘Black Shakespeare: Reading and Misreading Race’ (Cambridge UP)

Thomas Dabbs speaks with Gayle Greene about her new book, ‘Immeasurable Outcomes: Teaching Shakespeare in the Age of the Algorithm’ (Johns Hopkins). This book covers the history of coordinated attacks on humanities education and also examines the administrative obstacles placed on teachers in general in the modern classroom. She pushes back on these forces by using the responses of real students in an actual college Shakespeare class.