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Thomas Dabbs, professor of English literature at Tokyo's Aoyama Gakuin University, speaks with Shakespeare-related scholars from around the world.

Aoyama Gakuin, Tokyo Japan
Joined December 2022
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University of Oxford Emma Smith talks about the day she discovered a First Folio. #Shakespeare #discovery
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🎙️ Tune in to the @SofShakespeare podcast where author Peter Holland talks about his book ‘Shakespeare and Forgetting’! 📕 Learn more about the book: bit.ly/3XuZ6ME 🎧 Listen & watch on YouTube: bit.ly/3HXsp4J
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Latest installment of "Speaking of Shakespeare" @SofShakespeare features Alexa Alice Joubin discussing her latest book, "Shakespeare and East Asia." Other topics include race and gender studies in Shakespeare, and global Shakespearean adaptation: youtu.be/o_-biL3mSyg.
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The Taming of the Shrew, in VR, with a modern domestic-abuse focus. University of Melbourne's Dr. David McInnis explains how it was done. #VR #Shakespeare
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Kyoko Matsuyama and Sarah Olive @DrSarahOlive were on hand at Kinokinuya Theatre in Tokyo for Suemitsu Kenichi’s ‘Tomio to Yuriko’, the script of which was based on ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and delivered in everyday Osakan dialect 15/ doi.org/10.1177/018476782211…
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Books aren't dead. Professor Emma Smith explains why. #books #ebooks #analogue
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Rag picking, paper making, and how your treasured folios were made out of garbage. Heidi Craig explains. #Shakespeare #Folio #Recycling #Paper
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How does Japanese manga and literature adapt / alter Shakespeare? Kyoko Matsuyama @matsuyamakyoko explains. #Manga #Shakespeare
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"Are you there with your bears?" Andy Kesson explains 16th Century bear baiting and Shakespeare. #Bears #BearBaiting #Shakespeare
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Harvard professor Stephen Greenblatt explains how Shakespeare shapes his view of the modern world. #Harvard #Shakespeare #Putin
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What does Anpanman have to do with Shakespeare? Professor Hirohisa Igarashi explains. Happy New Year! #Shakespeare #Anpanman
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Hear about the moment archaeologist Heather Knight discovered The Curtain Theatre was rectangular, not round. #Archaeology #TheCurtainTheatre #CurtainTheatre #16thCenturyLondon #Shakespeare #EarlyModernLondon youtu.be/2olrOWdDiRE?t=1032
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