Thomas Dabbs speaks with Sonia Massai about her recent book, 'Shakespeare's Accents', and about her work as an expert in early modern drama editing and in the theatre arts. 00:00:00 - Intro 00:02:19 - Shakespeare’s Accents 00:09:38 - Mary Hope Baldwin, Studies in Diversity, accent and dialect 00:18:05 - Acoustic diversity 00:20:37 - Wartime Shakespeare 00:34:40 - Textual transmission and reception, Thomas Berger 00:38:50 - ‘Shakespeare and the Rise of the Editor’ 00:31:45 - Mentorship in the profession 00:46:45 - Diversifying textual studies and Shakespearean editing 00:54:22 - Paratexts and digital development, bibliography 01:06:40 - Ivo van Hove and avant garde theatre 01:19:00 - ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore 01:34:30 - Closing TOPICS: #shakespeare #shakespeareantheatre #shakespeareanperformance #shakespearescontemporaries #editingshakespeare #renaissancedrama #earlymoderndrama #digitalhumanities #teachingshakespeare​