Andy Kesson on public scholarship, creative practice and collaboration

In our latest film, Jeffrey Wilson gets to turn the tables on Andy Kesson and asks him about his public-facing work, in particular Before Shakespeare and A Bit Lit. Jeff and Andy discuss the art of collaboration, what public audiences and creative practitioners can bring to scholarship, and ask how value is attributed to particular writers and what it means to make publicly-accessible scholarship. This film is the first of two between Jeffrey Wilson and Andy Kesson, and they’ll be back next week to explore Jeff’s work on public Shakespeare, the ethics of literary study and his new book on Game of Thrones.