Thomas Dabbs speaks with Tiffany Stern of the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, about her recent perspectives on ballads in early modern drama, on Edmond Malone’s 18th-century scholarship, and on her editorial work in Shakespeare and 16th-century literature.

00:00:00 - Introduction
00:02:49 - Ballads and product placement
00:26:36 - Edmond Malone and Shakespeare
00:34:20 - Shakespeare: writing process and collaboration
00:41:00 - Editing Shakespeare: Arden
00:55:04 - 16th-Century Literature: Norton
00:59:22 - First Folio and Shakespeare’s image
01:08:05 - Tiffany at the Shakespeare Institute
01:13:10 - Closing remarks