[See SEGMENTS below] Thomas Dabbs speaks with Jenelle Jenstad about the future of digital humanities, specifically in early modern research. Janelle is General Editor and Director of The Map of Early Modern London (MoEML) and a Coordinating Editor of the Internet Shakespeare Editions (ISE). She is also director of LEMDO (Linked Early Modern Drama Online), a TEI encoding, editing, and anthology-building platform for Early Modern Drama. She is a team member for The Endings Project, which seeks to develop strategies for concluding and preserving scholarly digital projects, and for maintaining long-term usability across a representative range of disciplines and DH methodologies. Janelle also maintains a blog that focuses on occasional drama.

SEGMENTS:
0:00:00 - Intro and greetings
0:02:25 - LEMDO (Linked Early Modern Drama Online), TEI
0:04:05 - Internet Shakespeare Editions (ISE) and LEMDO
0:12:27 - Future of LEMDO, Queen's Men, Digital Renaissance Editions (DRE)
0:15:28 - Mayoral Shows Anthology (MOMS)
0:16:00 - Summary of LEMDO's platform, 
0:19:38 - Map of Early Modern London (MoEML), John Stow, Mayoral Shows
0:41:44 - Gazetteers
0:44:03 - Janelle's background humanities/digital
0:45:55 - Livery companies, trade guilds
0:53:24 - The beginnings of MoEML
0:58:19 - MoEML 6.6, Copyrights?
1:02:42 - Academic credit for digital contributors
1:10:01 - Linked data
1:14:00 - Paul's Cross churchyard, ESTC, Stationer's Hall
1:19:00 - The future of LEMDO
1:21:10 - The Endings Project and points of failure
1:29:05 - Closing remarks

LINKS:
LEMDO: https://lemdo.uvic.ca
Internet Shakespeare Editions: https://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca
Map of Early Modern London: https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca
Digital Renaissance Editions: https://digitalrenaissance.uvic.ca

This conversation is also available on YouTube under the search term, 'Speaking of Shakespeare.'  Aaron Pratt studied the early modern period with a cadre of fine scholars first at Ohio State University and then at Yale University. He is currently the Carl & Lily Pforzheimer Curator of Early Books & Manuscripts, Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, Austin. 

Aaron describe the center and its holdings and also discussed his scholarly approaches to evaluating the public reception and impact of early books and manuscripts within the context of the times they appeared. He also speaks on early modern drama, Shakespeare, and 16th and 17th century religious editions. 

[See SEGMENTS below] Thomas Dabbs speaks with Heather Knight about theatre during the Shakespearean period. In this discussion, Heather Knight discusses recent archeological finds at the Boar's Head, Whitechapel. This conversation also covers findings that concern The Curtain Theatre, the venue for Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet'. The Curtain was once thought to be a round shape, but digs and discoveries at this site have proven that it was a much larger theatre and also rectangular. This discovery has changed the way that theatre historians look at Shakespearean theatre and also the theatre of the times. Heather Knight is also an expert on the archeology of a theatre simply call, The Theatre, which was, according to historical records, one of the earliest large commercial playhouses in London.

LINKS: 
The Curtain Theatre Site: https://www.mola.org.uk/blog/remains-shakespeare’s-curtain-theatre-discovered-shoreditch
Museum of London Archeology: https://www.mola.org.uk

SEGMENTS:
0:00:00 - Intro
0:01:37 - Roehampton Conference: Before Shakespeare
0:02:45 - MOLA, Heather's role in theatre archeology
0:03:35 - The Boar's Head playhouse
0:09:45 - Received narrative and global access to sites and records
0:14:05 - The Curtain
0:22:26 - Playhouses in Spain and on the continent
0:27:00 - The Curtain (again) and things lost, depositional signatures
0:41:15 - Positions and dates of theaters, space and the City of London
0:40:40 - The commercial theatre: economics, and expansion
0:49:05 - Future work at MOLA, documentation, digital public access
0:53:45 - Cross disciplinary collaboration
0:55:45 - The plague and theatres, then and now, and more on the future
0:57:14 - The future of the past: the Boar's Head, the Curtain, and The Theatre
1:01:08 - Closing comments: Collaborations then and now, money pots, selling goods

[See SEGMENTS below] Thomas Dabbs speaks with Heidi Craig of Texas A&M University. Heidi Craig is the General Editor of the World Shakespeare Bibliography. A graduate of the University of Toronto, Heidi also works on Shakespeare, early modern drama, book history and bibliography and digital humanities.

LINKS:
World Shakespeare Bibliography: https://www.worldshakesbib.org
Early Modern Dramatic Paratexts: https://paratexts.folger.edu
 
SEGMENTS:
0:00:00 - Intro
0:02:55- World Shakespeare Bibliography
0:05:30 - Aoyama Gakuin and the early Bible
0:06:05 - WSB Collaborative efforts, the Folger Shakespeare Library and others.
0:08:00 - WSB correspondents in Japan, Professor Takashi Sasaki
0:13:07 - Paratexts in the early modern period
0:22:00 - Material criticism, theatre history, Tiffany Stern, work and space
0:25:12 - Rag women and the production of paper
0:40:28 - The things that have to happen before Shakespeare happens
0:45:09 - Dead theatre, the Commonwealth period
0:50:30 - EMDP, digitizing paratexts database
0:56:20 - The advantages of collaboration
0:57:50 - Closing

TOPICS:
#shakespeare
#shakespeareantheatre
#shakespeareanperformance
#shakespearescontemporaries
#editingshakespeare
#renaissancedrama
#earlymoderndrama
#digitalhumanities
#teachingshakespeare​

[See SEGMENTS below] Thomas Dabbs speaks with David McInnis of the University of Melbourne. Along with Roslyn L. Knutson and Matthew Steggle, David is founder and co-editor of 'Lost Plays Database', and is the author of 'Shakespeare and Lost Plays' (Cambridge, 2021).

LINKS:
Lost Plays Database: https://lostplays.folger.edu/Main_Page
Shakespeare VR: https://cmu-lib.github.io/dhlg/project-videos/wittek/

SEGMENTS:
0:00:00 - Intro
0:02:07 - 'Shakespeare and Lost Plays' / 'Lost Plays Database' (LDP)
0:08:00 - LPD and the Folger Shakespeare Library
0:09:15 - History of LPD / Funding / Sustainability
0:11:05 - Future of LPD
0:13:30 - The need for academic credit for digital development
0:17:40 - Bibliographical work contrasted with theoretical work
0:21:05 - Lost plays before Shakespeare and their influence on Shakespeare
0:23:25 - The Curtain Theatre archeological find and its impact
0:24:30 - Speculation about what the Curtain meant for Shakespeare
0:28:00 - Absence of evidence as potential evidence
0:31:14 - Shakespeare and Virtual reality / Stephen Wittek / 3D Modelling
0:35:38 - Timon of Athens / Off Shakespeare  and on Shakespeare
0:40:23 - Tamburlaine the Great / Comments on Marlowe
0:46:20 - Lost and literary culture / Lost as a theme
0:50:00 - Responsible conjecture, honest scholarship
0:52:24 - Asserting ourselves as scholars / the advantages of remote access
0:55:20 - The Wild Goose Chase going viral
1:02:18 - David's background, turning points / Dympna Callaghan
1:07:10 - Who may we be influencing as teachers?
1:08:38 - More on David's academic background
1:09:55 - Closing remarks

TOPICS:
#shakespeare
#shakespeareantheatre
#shakespeareanperformance
#shakespearescontemporaries

Thomas Dabbs speaks with Brett Greatley-Hirsch, University Academic Fellow in Textual Studies and Digital Editing, University of Leeds. Brett is a Coordinating Editor of Digital Renaissance Editions (DRE) and Co-editor of the journal Shakespeare (Routledge) and a Trustee of the British Shakespeare Association.

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

#Shakespeare
#DigitalHumanities
#aoyamagakuin
#poetry
#literature
#esl
#reformation
#rarebooks
#englisheducation
#shakespeareperformance
#shakespeareadaptation

Available as a podcast from your favorite service at: https://speakingofshakespeare.buzzsprout.com

(See SEGMENTS below): Thomas Dabbs speaks with Professor Kyoko Matsuyama about Shakespeare. Professor Matsuyama examines many elements of Shakespeare, including Shakespearean influences in novels, mange, and anime.

0:00:00 Intro
0:01:16 End of 1st year of pandemic teaching
0:04:55 The wonders of the Odakyu line
0:06:15 Travel limitations, Tokyo
0:07:40 Gothic Literature conference / Titus Andronicus in anime
0:09:55 Educational challenges during a pandemic
0:18:42 Kyoko's research on teaching Shakespeare in Japan / 12th Night
0:23:08 Teaching unfamiliar material with familiar resources, 
0:23:45 Manga and YA novels / vampires
0:28:25 Kyoko's international education / cultural adaptation, re-adaptation
0:39:35 Issues with assimilation and re-assimilation / studies in literature
0:47:33 Teachers who inspired / turning to humanities as a career
0:48:43 Research in theatre history / Midsummer / Edmund Kean / Kemble
0:54:10 Shakespeare in Manga and Anime / Gaming
1:09:10 Future research: Funeral of the Rose King anime and Shakespeare
1:11:00 PsychoPass / violence
1:13:10 Comments on violence in popular culture and in Shakespeare
1:20:00 Closing remarks

TOPICS:
#Shakespeare
#manga
#anime
#aoyamagakuin
#literature
#esl
#educationjapan
#englisheducation
#shakespeareperformance
#shakespeareadaptation

Thomas Dabbs speaks with Professor Hirohisa Igarashi of Toyo University about the First Folio of Shakespeare and about teaching and performing Shakespeare in Japan.

SEGMENTS listed below. Thomas Dabbs speaks with Pip Willcox, Head of Research, The National Archives, U.K., about online collections, public engagement, and special holdings of the National Archives, specifically Shakespearean holdings.

SEGMEMTS:
0:00:00 - Intro
0:01:21 - Greetings, Digital Oxford
0:05:55 - The human element
0:07:00 - Pandemic remote work environment
0:13:05 - Pip's role at the National Archives
0:14:11 - Public engagement 
0:15:08 - National Archives: Overview
0:30:45 - NA, Shakespeare holdings
0:38:40 - Chancery Court Records
0:47:45 - Maps and the Doomsday Book
0:52:43 - Shakespeare's Will
0:54:26 - Pip's background
0:59:28 - Early English Books Online
1:07:24 - Oxford English Dictionary
1:12:31 - Turning to study Humanities
1:19:22 - Pip's career, digital initiatives, TEI
1:30:15 - Closing remarks

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