Sights, Sounds, and Smells of Elizabethan Theater, with Farah Karim-Cooper and Tiffany Stern (rebroadcast)

<p>In Shakespeare’s time, theater companies used a variety of staging effects in their productions to create a full-body experience for playgoers: fireworks, fake blood, fake body parts, paint, and more. Plays were smorgasbords for the senses—including, thanks to all those spectators and the use of animal blood, the sense of smell.</p> <p>Our guests, Farah Karim-Cooper and Tiffany Stern, are the editors of a 2013 collection of essays, <em>Shakespeare’s Theatre and the Effects of Performance</em>, written by themselves and nine other theater historians. Tiffany Stern is a Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama with the University of Birmingham’s Shakespeare Institute at Stratford-upon-Avon. Farah Karim-Cooper is Head of Higher Education and Research at Shakespeare’s Globe in London. Karim-Cooper and Stern are interviewed by Barbara Bogaev.</p> <p>From the Shakespeare Unlimited podcast series. This episode, “Awake Your Senses,” was originally published December 13, 2017 and rebroadcast August 17, 2021. © Folger Shakespeare Library. All rights reserved. This episode was produced by Richard Paul. Garland Scott is the associate producer. It was edited by Gail Kern Paster and Esther Ferington. Esther French and Ben Lauer are the web producer. We had production help from Cathy Devlin and Dom Boucher at the Sound Company in London and Paul Luke and Andrew Feliciano at at Voice Trax West in Studio City, California. </p>