Tuesday, April 20, 2010, 09.30 - 16.30
Shakespeare and His Contemporaries Graduate Conference 2010
The British Institute is holding its second Shakespeare conference, in English, on the theme, "Shakespeare and his Contemporaries" with papers on subjects that range from Shakespeare's plays - The Merchant of Venice in particular - to more general themes referring to the contemporary historical and cultural period. Participants include doctoral students from the language and drama departments of various Italian universities. The presiding Chairs are Professor Paola Pugliatti (Università degli Studi di Firenze) and Professor Keir Elam (Università di Bologna). Professor Paola Pugliatti and Professor Fernando Cioni (Università degli Studi di Firenze) are both presenting papers.
The Conference on 20 April will start at 9.30 in the Ferragamo Room of the Harold Acton Library of the British Institute of Florence, Lungarno Guicciardini 9, Florence.
The Conference is free and open to everyone. Reservation is necessary as places are limited. Tel: 055 2677 8270 or contact the Library.
Programme
9.30 Registration
9.50 Welcome from Vanessa Hall-Smith, British Institute of Florence Director
9.55 Opening of first session
Prof.ssa Paola Pugliatti
10.00 Prof.ssa Paola Pugliatti
Università degli Studi di Firenze
'Such daily cast of brazen cannon': the ghost of war in Hamlet
10.30 Francesca Montanino
Università degli Studi di Siena
Shylock è un gentleman! Henry Irving mette in scena The Merchant of Venice
11.00 Chiara Lombardi
Università degli Studi di Torino
The tragedy of a Jew, the passion of a Merchant: shifting genres in a changing world
11.30 Mauro Spicci
Università degli Studi di Milano
Anatomical knowledge and surgical ghosts in The Merchant of Venice by W. Shakespeare
12.00 Debate
13.00 Lunch
13.55 Opening of second session
Prof. Keir Elam
Università di Bologna
14.00 Prof. Fernando Cioni
Università degli Studi di Firenze
Refashioning Italian theatrical and dramatic conventions: prologues, epilogues and inductions in Elizabethan drama
14.30 Roxanne Barbara Doerr
Università degli Studi di Verona
Stagings of power in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra
15.00 Enrico Scaravelli
Università degli Studi di Firenze
Tragicomedy from Italy to England: genre and paratext
15.30 Sheila Frodella
Università degli Studi di Firenze
Chaos in Arcadia. The politics of tragicomedy in Stuart pastoral theatre
16.00 Debate
16.30 Close
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| IASEMS Italian Association of Shakespearean and Early Modern Studies |
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| Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze |