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Tiffany Stern

That Shakespeare Life

Speaking of Shakespeare

Ben Crystal

Emma Smith

Christopher Marlowe

Eric Johnson

Catherine de Medici

Chris Johnston

Matt Lodder

Richard III

Elizabeth I

Peter Wilson

Scott Farrell

Jonathan Willis

John Taylor

James Shapiro

Laurie Johnson

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There may not have been indoor plumbing in Shakespeare’s lifetime, but going to the bathroom still involved cleaning up. One aspect you may be surprised to learn you share with William Shakespeare is that he, too, used various kinds of paper to go to the restroom. Shakespeare’s plays provide references to the jacques, jordan, and chamber pot, all options for using the restroom in Tudor England, and it turns out, we can also find references to what Shakespeare may have used in those restrooms for handling the necessary business in the lavatory, as well. Our guest this week, Tiffany Stern, is here to share with us her research into the alternatives to paper that were often used as toilet tissue for early modern London. Get bonus episodes on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There may not have been indoor plumbing in Shakespeare’s lifetime, but going to the bathroom still involved cleaning up. One aspect you may be surprised to learn you share with William Shakespeare is that he, too, used various kinds of paper to go to the restroom. Shakespeare’s plays provide references to the jacques, jordan, and chamber pot, all options for using the restroom in Tudor England, and it turns out, we can also find references to what Shakespeare may have used in those restrooms for handling the necessary business in the lavatory, as well. Our guest this week, Tiffany Stern, is here to share with us her research into the alternatives to paper that were often used as toilet tissue for early modern London. <a href="https://open.acast.com/public/patreon/fanSubscribe/980723" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Get bonus episodes on Patreon</a> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Ep 178: Shakespeare's Toilet Paper with Tiffany Stern

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 greetings0:02:54 - Summary of Tiffany Stern's research0:14:23 - The Shakespeare Institute0:19:06 - Fairgrounds and Shakespeare0:30:50 - Broadside Ballads0:36:54 - The art of insult, the 4th wall audience response0:45:25 - Shakespeare beyond Performance0:54:58 - Textual Editing, Arden, Hard Copy vs Digital1:04:29 - Shakespearean adaption: Novels, Manga, Anime1:07:12 - Beyond performance. beyond text, clowns1:13:50 - Closing remarks, recent scholarship, chronologyTOPICS:#shakespeare#shakespeareantheatre#shakespeareanperformance#shakespearescontemporaries#editingshakespeare#renaissancedrama#earlymoderndrama#digitalhumanities#teachingshakespeare​

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​

Tiffany Stern: Shakespeare Institute

Inside Tiffany Stern’s book titled “Shakespeare in Parts”  which she co-authored with Simon Palfrey, there is a picture of a piece of paper captioned “The part of Orlando from Robert Greene’s Orlando Furioso” from the 1590s. The image represents the historical reality that for Shakespeare, plays were always distributed in parts--meaning a single actor would have had a copy of what his character was supposed to say, but when he was on stage to perform those lines, he would be hearing the words of his fellow characters often for the first time, generating, as you might expect, some pretty dramatic responses from the players themselves. This image of the lines for Robert Greene’s Orlando is additionally fascinating because not only is it hand written in ink on paper (instead of printed with type pressed letters the way we find plays inside the First Folio, for example) but aside from some lines across the page periodically to indicate a separation between spoken lines, there isn’t anything else on the page at all. It surprises me, quite honestly, because visually, this 16th century script looks totally different from modern play scripts. So why is the script written in a single part instead of having everyone’s lines all together? Is this the way players acted in the theater--everyone in their own part instead of bringing it all together as a group? Here to help us answer these questions and explore the research from her book, Shakespeare in Parts, about the history of scripts, performance, and the assumptions we make about what really happened when Shakespeare’s actors performed 16th century plays, is our guest Tiffany Stern.

Inside Tiffany Stern’s book titled “Shakespeare in Parts”  which she co-authored with Simon Palfrey, there is a picture of a piece of paper captioned “The part of Orlando from Robert Greene’s Orlando Furioso” from the 1590s. The image represents the historical reality that for Shakespeare, plays were always distributed in parts--meaning a single actor would have had a copy of what his character was supposed to say, but when he was on stage to perform those lines, he would be hearing the words of his fellow characters often for the first time, generating, as you might expect, some pretty dramatic responses from the players themselves. This image of the lines for Robert Greene’s Orlando is additionally fascinating because not only is it hand written in ink on paper (instead of printed with type pressed letters the way we find plays inside the First Folio, for example) but aside from some lines across the page periodically to indicate a separation between spoken lines, there isn’t anything else on the page at all. It surprises me, quite honestly, because visually, this 16th century script looks totally different from modern play scripts. So why is the script written in a single part instead of having everyone’s lines all together? Is this the way players acted in the theater--everyone in their own part instead of bringing it all together as a group? Here to help us answer these questions and explore the research from her book, Shakespeare in Parts, about the history of scripts, performance, and the assumptions we make about what really happened when Shakespeare’s actors performed 16th century plays, is our guest Tiffany Stern.

Ep 126: Shakespeare in Parts with Tiffany Stern