SoS #53 | Peter Herman: Early Modern Others

Speaking of Shakespeare

This is a talk with Peter Herman of the University of California, San Diego about his new book, Early Modern Others and other elements of his research that focus on the relationship between literature and culture.

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1. Intro (00:00:00)

2. Early Modern Others: pushing back against wokeness (00:01:19)

3. Class, diversity, colonialism, slavery (00:09:00)

4. Thomas More, Utopia, and the New World (00:16:38)

5. The danger of exporting technology (00:20:00)

6. Taming shrews, empowerment (00:23:50)

7. Abuse, sexism, and racism in Shakespeare: uncertainties (00:31:10)

8. Class struggle in Deloney and Dekker (00:40:11)

9. A Midsummer Night’s Dream and dissonance (00:47:10)

10. Deloney as ballad writer and fugitive (00:53:00)

11. Religious tolerance in the early-modern period (00:58:18)

12. London’s Africans (01:04:10)

13. The benefits of EEBO (01:08:56)

14. Terrorism and Literature (01:14:54)

15. Religion and empire (01:25:09)

16. Flexibility in scholarship (01:38:40)

17. Closing remarks (01:43:43)