Speaking of Shakespeare

SoS # 66 | Varsha Panjwani: Women and Shakespeare

This is a talk with Varsha Panjwani, host of the podcast, Women and Shakespeare. She also discusses her recent work on A Midsummer Night’s Dream and on Indian and diasporic Shakespeare.00:00:00 - Intro00:02:05 - Women and Shakespeare podcast00:07:41 - Podcasts/Feminist Shakespeare Pedagogy00:17:26 - Varsha’s intro to Oxford “Midsummer”00:32:14 - Indian Shakespeare in India00:37:40 - Bollywood and Shakespeare in film00:43:20 - Indian Shakespeare adapted in the West00:52:28 - Indian culture, personal rebellion, and Shakespeare01:05:18 - Future plans, diaspora Shakespeare

SoS # 65 | Darren Freebury-Jones: 'Shakespeare's Borrowed Feathers'

Thomas Dabbs speaks with Darren Freebury-Jones about his recent book, Shakespeare’s Borrowed Feathers: How Early Modern Playwrights Shaped the World’s Greatest Writer. This is Darren’s second appearance on the series. Early he has spoken about two more recent books, the first entitled ‘Reading Robert Green: Recovering Shakespeare’s Rival’ and the second is entitled ’Shakespeare’s Rival: The Influence of Thomas Kyd.’ The talk is at: https://youtu.be/tX59cYTUCgE?si=cs2Ac3d8w5-Eqeyg 00:00:00 - Intro00:01:54 - ‘Shakespeare’s Borrowed Feathers’00;04:20 - Digital attribution and reckoning00:08:31 - The ethics of borrowing00:16:08 - Shakespeare as solitary genius?00:18:10 - Collaboration in Shakespeare’s time00:22:02 - Shakespeare’s with contemporaries 00:36:26 - Ben Jonson00:39:26 - Memory, the skill of remembering00:43:57 - How is Shakespeare different from other playwrights?00:51:26 - Darren’s current and future work00:59:20 - The public face of an editor

SoS # 64 | Tanya Pollard: Ben Jonson and Shakespeare's Tragic Women

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 - Intro00:01:34 - Ben Jonson’s ‘The Alchemist’.00:15:12 - Greek tragic women, drama, research methods00:40:15 - Work with theaters in New York City00:52:27 - What brought Tanya to NYC, CUNY00:57:27 - Tanya’s aerial work, the silks01:08:17 - Closing remarks

SoS # 63 | Agnès Lafont and Lindsay Reid, Ovidian Drama

Video broadcast here or at https://youtu.be/uVmVZxW2Pu8 Thomas Dabbs speaks with Agnès Lafont of Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 and Lindsay Reid of the University of Galway about their research and recent collaborations in early modern editing and performance. Lots of Ovid, for Ovid lovers: [LINKS]- The Edward’s Boys, 'The Maydes Metamorphosis':Trailer, 2024 © Esme CornishKing Edward VI School (KES), Stratford-upon-Avonhttps://nakala.fr/10.34847/nkl.935bd7zg- Edward's Boys at https://www.edwardsboys.org.uk- Artists in residency, IRCL: https://ircl.cnrs.fr/en/recherche/residences-dartistes-en-laboratoire-scientifique/- "The Maid's Metamorphosis or The Metamorphoses of the Maid?": https://researchrepository.universityofgalway.ie/entities/publication/e20d661b-fae7-44f3-b062-38d0b2a2094c[SEGMENTS]00:00:00 - Intro00:02:35 - ‘The Maydes Metamorphosis’ and Ovid00:21:27 - Summer School in Sardinia: ‘The Tempest’00:28:53 - Ovid in the air, cross-cultural influences00:47:04 - Remediating the Early Book: Past and Futures00:50:34 - Polyglot Encounters in Early Modern Britain00:53:34 - Scholar adventurers, outreach, beautiful places

SoS # 62 | David Kastan: Shakespeare and Rembrandt

Video broadcast at https://youtu.be/UO-SQwmu82Q. This is a talk with David Kastan of Yale University about his career and about what Shakespeare has to do with art and color. It features his forthcoming book on Shakespeare and Rembrandt.00:00:00 - Intro00:02:42 - Accident, chance, adventure, and scholarship00:12:45 - Shakespeare and Rembrandt00:31:25 - Art that makes you stop00:44:37 - What is beauty in art and poetry? Paying attention00:56:35 - Shakespeare and religion, translations01:08:32 - On Color01:20:15 - Closing: The prospect of beauty