Conference
Verona, 22-25 May 2018
The conference will concentrate on Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus and Shakespeare’s King Lear with a focus upon thematic, dramatic, genetic, cultural, performative and translative issues. Among its foci, the relation between fathers and sons/daughters, madness and wisdom of power, being and non-being in human and divine time. It will also explore how the two plays have been reinterpreted over time.
This main session will be framed by a broader discussion of classical and early modern intersections, with special regard to the reception of ancient ideas of theatre, to the adaptation of classical myths and dramas, and to the interpretation of the meaning of ‘Classical’ in the English Renaissance.
Scientific Committee: Guido Avezzù, Anton Bierl, Silvia Bigliazzi, Nicola Pasqualicchio, Gherardo Ugolini, Susanne Wofford.
Organizing Committee: Guido Avezzù, Lisanna Calvi, Francesco Lupi, Gherardo Ugolini.
Collaboration: Carina Fernandes.
Credits: Alex Zanutto – zanutto.a@gmail.com
Programme
22 May 2018 – Room SMT6, Santa Marta
3.00 pm – Greetings3.15 pm – Opening Remarks: Guido Avezzù and Silvia Bigliazzi
– Early Modern and Classical IntersectionsChair: Silvia Bigliazzi3.30 pm – Keynote: Stephen Orgel (Stanford), “How to Be Classical”
4.30 pm – Coffee break
– Oedipus at ColonusChair: Guido Avezzù5.00 pm – Laura Slatkin (NYU), “Revisiting Oedipus at Colonus”5.30 pm – Alessandro Grilli (Pisa), “The Passion According to Sophocles: Regality and Redemption in Oedipus at Colonus”6.00 pm – Francesco Lupi (Verona), “Liminality (In)accessibility, and Negative Characterization in Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus”
6.30 pm – Question time
23 May 2018 – Room SPC, Silos di Ponente
– Oedipus at ColonusChair: Susanne Wofford9.00 am – Anton Bierl (Basel), “Oedipus at Colonus as a Reflection of the Oresteia: The Abomination from Thebes as an Athenian Hero in the Making”9.30 am – Vayos Liapis (Open University, Cyprus), “Oedipus in Athens: Integration and Its Discontents in Oedipus at Colonus”10.00 am – Gherardo Ugolini (Verona), “A Wise and Irascible Hero, Oedipus from Thebes to Colonus”
10.30 am – Coffee break
– Early Modern and Classical IntersectionsChair: Anton Bierl11.00 am – Carlo M. Bajetta (Aosta), “Elizabeth’s and Ralegh’s ‘Classics’”11.30 am – Robert S. Miola (Loyola University, Maryland), “Lost and Found in Translation: Early Modern Receptions of Oedipus at Colonus”12.00 pm – Sarah Knight (Leicester), “Oedipus in the Academy”
12.30 pm – Question time
1.00 pm – Lunch
– Oedipus at Colonus and King LearChair: Gherardo Ugolini – Francesco Lupi3.00 pm – Marco Duranti (Verona), “Orestes in European Renaissance Drama: a Deviant, an Ordinary Man, or a Hero?”3.30 pm – Francesco Dall’Olio (Verona), “A Voice from the Present in Ancient Stories: The Vice’s Role in Pickering’s Horestes and Preston’s Cambises”
4.00 pm – Coffee break
– PanelsChair: Silvia Bigliazzi4.30 pm – “Oedipus: Vanity, Blindness, and the King”: Discussion with Ellen McLaughlin and Rinde Eckert on their two different approaches to the figure of Oedipus: Oedipus and Eye Piece5.30 pm – Eric Nicholson (NYU, Firenze) and Avra Sidiropoulou (Open University, Cyprus), “Promised Endings”
6.00 pm – Question time
9.00 pm – Dinner
24 May 2018 – Room SMT6, Santa Marta
– Oedipus at Colonus and King LearChair: Carlo Bajetta9.00 am – Guido Avezzù (Verona), “Man in Time: Oedipus at Colonus”9.30 am – Silvia Bigliazzi (Verona), “Time and Nothingness: King Lear”10.00 am – Sheila Murnaghan (University of Pennsylvania), “‘More Sinned Against than Sinning’: Acting and Suffering in Oedipus at Colonus and King Lear”
10.30 am – Coffee break
Chair: Vayos Liapis11.00 am – Seth L. Schein (UC Davis), “Fathers Cursing Children: Anger and Justice in Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus and Shakespeare’s King Lear”11.30 am – Anna Beltrametti (Pavia), “Dramaturgies of Kingship, Deception, and Pity: The Children’s Struggles Rouse the Old Fathers’ Ghosts”
12.00 pm – Question time
1.00 pm – Lunch
– Oedipus at Colonus and King LearChair: Gherardo Ugolini – Francesco Lupi3.00 pm – Susanne Wofford (NYU), “Pity, Pollution and Blessing in King Lear and Oedipus at Colonus”3.30 pm – David Lucking (Salento), “Seeing Better: The Eyesight Motif in King Lear and the Theban Plays”
4.00 pm – Coffee break
– Modern and Contemporary Oedipuses and LearsChair: Silvia Bigliazzi4.30 pm – Nicola Pasqualicchio (Verona), “Happy Ending for Old Kings: Jean-François Ducis’ Œdipe and Lear”5.00 pm – Tamas Dobozy (Wilfrid Laurier University), “Sam Shepard’s ‘Body’ of Tragedy: A Particle of Dread (Oedipus Variations)”5.30 pm – Barry A. Spence (Amherst), “Shades of King Lear on Beckett’s Stage”
6.00 pm– Question time
25 May 2018 – Teatro Laboratorio, Arsenale
– King LearChair: Nicola Pasqualicchio9.00 am – David Schalkwyk (Queen Mary University, London) and Elena Pellone (Shakespeare Institute), “‘Can you make no use of nothing, nuncle?’ or Something Comes of Nothing in King Lear”9.30 am – David Schalkwyk (Queen Mary University, London) and Elena Pellone (Shakespeare Institute), Language workshop
10.30 am – Coffee break
Chair: Nicola Pasqualicchio11.00 am – Jaq Bessell (Guildford School of Acting, University of Surrey) and Silvia Bigliazzi (Verona), Introduction to King Lear Open Rehearsal11.30 am – Jaq Bessell and NOMA Physical Theatre, King Lear Open Rehearsal
12.30 pm – Discussion
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