ESRA Conference 2019 – Abstract Book
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ISBN 9788894370812 ISBN 9788894370812 Convenors Prof. Maria Del Sapio Garbero Roma Tre University Professor Emerita of English Literature at Roma Tre University, former Vice President of the School of Humanities and member of CROMA Council (Centro Studi su Roma). She is a member of the ESRA Board, founding Honorary President of the “Shakespeare’s Rome International Summer School” (SRISS), co- General Editor of the series “Biblioteca di Studi Inglesi” (ESL). She has coordinated the “Shakespeare’s Rome Project” since 2004. Other current research areas: Shakespeare and early modern theories of bodies and epistemology, Shakespeare and the visual arts, Shakespeare and gender, Hamlet’s appropriations. Among her book publications: Il bene ritrovato. Le figlie di Shakespeare dal King Lear ai romances, Rome in Shakespeare’s World (ed), Shakespeare and the New Science in Early Modern Culture (ed), Identity, Otherness, and Empire in Shakespeare’s Rome (ed), Questioning Bodies in Shakespeare’s Rome (co- ed), La traduzione di Amleto nella cultura europea(ed). She was in the Steering Committee of the International Conference “Shakespeare 2016. The Memory of Rome”. Prof. Maddalena Pennacchia Roma Tre University Associate Professor of English Literature at Roma Tre University, where she is also Director of ‘Shakespeare’s Rome International Summer School’ (SRISS) and Project Director of the digitized Silvano Toti Globe Theatre Archive. She served in the Board of IASEMS (Italian Association of Shakespeare and Early Modern Studies) from 2009 to 2012 and is in the editorial and advisory board of the Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance. She was in the Planning Team of the International Conference “Shakespeare 2016. The Memory of Rome”. She has published extensively on the re-use and re-mediation of Rome in Shakespeare’s plays as well as on Shakespeare on screen and in performance. Selected publications: Shakespeare intermediale. I drammi romani, Tracce del moderno nel teatro di Shakespeare, Questioning Bodies in Shakespeare’s Rome (co-ed), Literary Intermediality (ed), Adaptation, Intermediality and the British Celebrity Biopic (co-ed). Advisory Board Prof. Maria Del Sapio Garbero, Roma Tre University (Convenor) Prof. Maddalena Pennacchia, Roma Tre University (Convenor) Prof. Rui Carvalho Homem, University of Porto Dr. Lisanna Calvi, University of Verona ISBN 9788894370812 1 General Guidelines ESRA 2019 deals with processes of remapping, with consequences for early modern discourses on borders, nations, territories, the world. It prompts discussions of the place held by such processes in the culture of the period, but it also foregrounds the various ways in which they are relevant for current preoccupations and concerns. As we know, early modern European geography was shattered by a series of disruptive events which resulted not just in a remapping of borders, nations, and world, but had a bearing in problematizing the very notion of space and the place human beings held in a changing order of the universe. Discoveries of new lands and new perimeters, originating from a thirst for knowledge, political ambition, wars, not to mention wars of religion and the reshuffled and transversal geographies designed by faith in post-Reformation Europe, were such as to redefine the sense of belonging, physically as well as mentally, and spiritually. Questions related to this topic are at the core of Shakespeare’s figurations of multifaceted physical and mental landscapes. And the geographical turn of the past few decades has made us aware of the wide range of thematic, ideological, and theoretical issues related to it. Our European contemporary geography, constantly redefined by new walls as well as the trespassing movement of massive flows of migrant human beings, invites us to interrogate anew the heuristic and ethical potential of that turn; it also encourages us to bring to the fore and reassess the pervasiveness and problematics of the experience of exile, displacement and dispossession in Shakespearean drama. Thus the topic should be found engaging and compelling by the ESRA community, now that our geopolitics and sense of belonging are being challenged and readjusted, daily, by the crises of human mobility. All in all the chosen topic provides ample scope for epistemological approaches as well as for discovering new proximities with the Souths of the world and between Northern and Mediterranean seas, daily crossed and redesigned by thousands of stories of outcasts and shipwrecks. The topic also invites to discover new contiguities between past and present. Ancient Rome, with its expanded geography, looms large on Shakespeare’s imagination. Rome was a world-wide stage on which to project the performances of the Elizabethans’ growing imperial ambitions, in a logic of translatio imperii, or of “cultural mobility” in the terms it is being re-conceptualized nowadays. But Rome was also a global stage on which to address issues as crucial as centre, periphery, edges, borders, landmarks, elsewheres, otherness, hybridity, cross-cultural encounters and dynamics. Thus the topic suits productively the variety of Shakespeare’s geographies as well as the chosen Roman venue. 2 Keynotes Stephen Greenblatt (Harvard University) Lecture: Survival Strategies: Shakespeare and Renaissance Truth- Telling Stephen Greenblatt is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. He is the author of fourteen books, including Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics; The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve; The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, and Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare. He is General Editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature and of The Norton Shakespeare. He was named the 2016 Holberg Prize Laureate. He was president of the Modern Language Association of America and has been elected to membership in the Italian literary academy Accademia degli Arcadi. Silvia Bigliazzi (University of Verona) Lecture: Fluid Borders: Rethinking Power Centres in Shakespeare’s Rome Silvia Bigliazzi is Professor of English Literature at Verona University. Her interests span early modern English drama with a focus on Shakespeare and the classical legacy, Elizabethan and Jacobean poetry, early modern scepticism and the culture of paradox, interart, translation and performance studies. Her publications include volumes on Hamlet, nothingness in Shakespeare, The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet, as well as the editions with Italian translations of John Donne’s poetry and Romeo and Juliet. She is co-General Editor of Global Shakespeare Inverted (Bloomsbury), Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies, Skenè. Texts and Studies, and Anglica (ETS). 3 Andrew Hiscock (Bangor University) Lecture: Shakespeare and his World: Testing Us to Our Very Limits Andrew Hiscock is Professor of Early Modern Literature at Bangor University, Wales, and Research Fellow at the Institut de Recherche sur la Renaissance, l’Âge Classique et les Lumières at Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3. He has published widely on English and French early modern literature. He is a Fellow of the English Association, English literature editor of the journal MLR and series co-editor of the Arden Early Modern Drama Guides. His most recent monograph is entitled Reading Memory in Early Modern Literature (Cambridge University Press) and in 2018 he co-edited (with Helen Wilcox) The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern English Literature and Religion and (with Lina Perkins Wilder) The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Memory. Loredana Scaramella (Silvano Toti Globe Theatre – Stage Director) Lecture: ‘O brave new world’: Dis-placing Shakespeare at the Silvano Toti Globe Theatre in Rome Loredana Scaramella is actress, director, casting director and writer for theatre and television. She has collaborated with some of the major figures of the experimental theatre, such as Mario Ricci, Giuliano Vasilicò and Benno Besson. She was assistant director of Romeo e Giulietta (2003 and 2013) and Edmund Kean (2016) both directed by Gigi Proietti at the Silvano Toti Globe Theatre in Rome, where she also directed and translated Molto rumore per nulla (2006 and 2014), Come vi piace (2007), Il Mercante di Venezia (2008 and 2015), and La bisbetica domata (2018). She authored and directed Playing Shakespeare, a lecture performance on Elizabethan theatre. 4 Forum Coordinated by Ton Hoenselaars (University of Utrecht) with Mariacristina Cavecchi (State University of Milan) and Pavel Drábek (University of Hull) Ton Hoenselaars is Professor English Renaissance literature at Utrecht University (the Netherlands), and was the first president of ESRA. Books include Shakespeare’s History Plays (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and Shakespeare and the Language of Translation (Arden, 2004). More recently, he published the Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Contemporary Dramatists (2012), Multilingualism in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries (with Dirk Delabastita [John Benjamins, 2015]), Shakespeare Forever! Leven en mythe, werk en erfenis (Wereldbibliotheek, 2017), and Shakespeare and Commemoration (with Clara Calvo [Berghahn, 2019]). He is currently completing a monograph on Shakespeare and World War I. Mariacristina Cavecchi is associate professor of British Theatre and British Literature at Milan University. Her research interests include 20th and 21st century appropriations of Shakespeare’s plays for theatre and cinema, Prison Shakespeare, Shakespeare in contemporary popular culture and Shakespeare in