Serpieri Lecture 2025

Post author:Sidia Fiorato
Post published:12 May 2025
Post category:Announcements

2025 Alessandro Serpieri Lecture

23/05/2025

Claudia Olk (LMU Munich-Director of the Shakespeare Research Library

Poetry and Drama in Shakespeare and Beckett

In Conversation with Davide Crosara (Sapienza University of Rome)

11am, Polo Santa Marta, Room 04 and Zoom

Assimilated by the moderns to the stage, in ancient times the skenè (σκηνή) is the backdrop, initially a painted canvas, against which the characters act and speak. Connoted not only visually but also ritually, it alludes to the offstage – both behind or extra-scenic – as well as to other actions and other times, and is the mirror that reverberates the actors’ words to the audience.

2025 Alessandro Serpieri Lecture

23/05/2025

Claudia Olk (LMU Munich-Director of the Shakespeare Research Library

Poetry and Drama in Shakespeare and Beckett

In Conversation with Davide Crosara (Sapienza University of Rome)

11am, Polo Santa Marta, Room 04 and Zoom

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