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 - Intro

00:02:05 - Women and Shakespeare podcast

00:07:41 - Podcasts/Feminist Shakespeare Pedagogy

00:17:26 - Varsha’s intro to Oxford “Midsummer”

00:32:14 - Indian Shakespeare in India

00:37:40 - Bollywood and Shakespeare in film

00:43:20 - Indian Shakespeare adapted in the West

00:52:28 - Indian culture, personal rebellion, and Shakespeare

01:05:18 - Future plans, diaspora Shakespeare

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 - Intro

00:01:54 - ‘Shakespeare’s Borrowed Feathers’

00;04:20 - Digital attribution and reckoning

00:08:31 - The ethics of borrowing

00:16:08 - Shakespeare as solitary genius?

00:18:10 - Collaboration in Shakespeare’s time

00:22:02 - Shakespeare’s with contemporaries

00:36:26 - Ben Jonson

00:39:26 - Memory, the skill of remembering

00:43:57 - How is Shakespeare different from other playwrights?

00:51:26 - Darren’s current and future work

00:59:20 - The public face of an editor

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