Speaking of Shakespeare

Thomas Dabbs speaks with Jane Hwang Degenhardt of the U Mass, Amherst about her recent book, Globalizing Fortune on the Early Modern Stage: They also discussed features of Jane’s research on religious conversion in the early modern period and her approaches to teaching Shakespeare and early modern drama.

00:00:00 - Intro

00:01:11 - Globalizing Fortune on the Early Modern Stage

00:27:20 - Shakespearean Horizons: The Worlding of Shakespeare

00:34:06 - Arthur Kinney

00:35:68 - Jane’s background, and fortune and chance

00:43:48 - Conversion, and fictional Islamic conversation

00:49:00 - Jane’s teaching, gender and women’s studies

00:53:30 - Shakespeare and the left, Pericles

01:00:04 - Closing remarks

Thomas Dabbs speaks with Alexa Alice Joubin of George Washington University about her recent book, 'Shakespeare and East Asia'. Alexa also reviewed her recent research in race and gender studies, with regard to Shakespeare, and presented on her examinations of Shakespearean adaptation across the globe in small and in large ways.

[SEGMENTS]
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:11 - Shakespeare and East Asia
00:08:52 - Constructed “foreignness”, invisible and visible
00:28:58 - Critical race studies and racial identity
00:27:41 - Reparative transgender Shakespeare
00:34:04 - Stage Beauty, inspired by Othello
00:38:45 - Transgender theory and Stage Beauty
00:47:50 - The King and the Clown, inspired by Hamlet, 12th Night, and Shrew
00:54:13 - Adapting Shakespeare for reparative purposes, vocal disability
00:57:05 - The King’s Speech, reparative adaptations
01:03:09 - Onscreen Allusions to Shakespeare
01:10:04 - Teaching Shakespeare in a time of hate, inclusive pedagogies
01:15:49 - Screening Shakespeare, an open-access textbook
01:17:43 - Closing remarks

[KEYWORDS AND PHRASES]
Shakespeare and East Asia
How perception of “foreignness” is constructed in intercultural work
Critical race studies and racial identity
Being invisible and visible
Reparative transgender Shakespeare
Stage Beauty, inspired by Othello
The King and the Clown, inspired by Hamlet. Twelfth Night, and Taming of the Shrew
Adapting Shakespeare for reparative purposes
Depictions of vocal disability
The King’s Speech, recitation of “to be or not to be” in a scene
Teaching Shakespeare in a time of hate
Inclusive pedagogies
Strategies to de-colonize Shakespeare
Open-access interactive textbook on Shakespeare and film studies

Thomas Dabbs speaks with Richard Strier of the University of Chicago about his recent book, Shakespearean Issues: Agency, Skepticism, and Other Puzzles.

Thomas Dabbs speaks with William Carroll of Boston University about Bill’s recent book, ‘Adapting Macbeth: A Cultural History’.

Thomas Dabbs speaks with Peter Holland of the University of Notre Dame about Peter’s recent book, ‘Shakespeare and Forgetting’. 

This is a talk with Michael Dobson, Director of the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, located in Stratford-upon-Avon. Here we talk about the Shakespeare Institute’s programs and mission and also about Michael’s recent work on Shakespeare in national repertories across the globe.

Thomas Dabbs speaks with Stephen Wittek of Carnegie Mellon University about conversion, religious and otherwise,  during the early modern period and also about recent developments in Shakespeare and virtual reality. 

Thomas Dabbs speaks with Laura Mandell of Texas A&M University and director of the university's Center of Digital Humanities Research or CoDHR. The CoDHR is  the publisher of the New Variorum Shakespeare, a project that is working to provide open Internet access to the full history of Shakespearean editions and annotations, and much, much more:

The CoDHR supports a dazzling array of DH projects in the areas of digital development and in multidisciplinary research and publication. Among Laura's many contributions to scholarship, is her monograph, or better, manifesto, entitled “Breaking the Book,” which works to reveal why there remains a resistance to the digital humanities in traditional humanities disciplines.

[LINKS]
New Variorum Shakespeare: https://newvariorumshakespeare.org
Jullia Flanders TEI-c.org: https://tei-c.org
IATH: http://www.iath.virginia.edu
The Poetess Archive: https://poetess.dh.tamu.edu/index.html
Blake Archive: http://www.blakearchive.org
ARC: https://arc.dh.tamu.edu

[SEGMENTS]
00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:36 - The New Variorum Shakespeare (online)
00:13:38 - The advantages of TEI
00:17:24 - Encoding challenges and solutions
00:27:32 - 18th-century, The Poetess Archive
00:30:26 - Searchable databases in literary study
00:32:00 - Shakespeare in the 18th century
00:34:45 - Women in 18th-century literature
00:37:22 - Visualizing digitized literature, William Blake
00:40:22 - IIIF compliance and sharing images
00:43:47 - Keeping women in the digital canon, gender marking
00:51:33 - The value of building digital resources, ARC
01:03:44 - Evaluating digital contributions in the profession
01:08:09 - Closing remarks

Christopher Highley of Ohio State University speaks with Thomas Dabbs about his recent book on the Blackfriars district in early modern London and also the Blackfriars complex from which the district got its name. Formed as a religious house for Dominican friars, the Blackfriars complex was repurposed during the Henrican Reformation and became the home for several notable theatre initiatives. In the early 17th century the Blackfriars theatre became a venue for Shakespeare and the King’s Men. Highley’s work provides a detailed view of the entire district, including a fresh understanding of the unique and intriguing religious and social features of the Blackfriars neighborhood during the early modern period. 

Thomas Dabbs speaks with Fiona Ritchie of McGill University about her forthcoming book on 18th-century theatre entitled Shakespeare in the Theatre: Sarah Siddons and John Philip Kemble:  Dabbs and Ritchie also discuss the role of women in the theatre and other elements of London and regional theatre during the 'long' 18th century, a period that dates from 1660 to 1830.