Thomas Dabbs speaks with Tiffany Stern of the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. The Shakespeare Institute is located in Stratford-upon-Avon and has become a beacon of scholarship in studies of Shakespearean performance and texts. In this talk, Professor Stern's work on Shakespearean performance and documents are discussed along with how Shakespearean drama related to the common person in Elizabethan London and in England during Shakespeare's time. Stern also talks about her forthcoming work on fairgrounds during the Shakespearean period and on broadside ballads and how popular songs appear throughout Shakespeare's plays. Stern also describes her work as a general editor of plays in the Arden Shakespeare series. SEGMENTS: 0:00:00 - Intro and greetings 0:02:54 - Summary of Tiffany Stern's research 0:14:23 - The Shakespeare Institute 0:19:06 - Fairgrounds and Shakespeare 0:30:50 - Broadside Ballads 0:36:54 - The art of insult, the 4th wall audience response 0:45:25 - Shakespeare beyond Performance 0:54:58 - Textual Editing, Arden, Hard Copy vs Digital 1:04:29 - Shakespearean adaption: Novels, Manga, Anime 1:07:12 - Beyond performance. beyond text, clowns 1:13:50 - Closing remarks, recent scholarship, chronology TOPICS: #shakespeare #shakespeareantheatre #shakespeareanperformance #shakespearescontemporaries #editingshakespeare #renaissancedrama #earlymoderndrama #digitalhumanities #teachingshakespeare​