All the World's a stage: Shakespeare in Europe and the Americas
Friday 10 June 2016, 10.30-17.15, British Library Conference Centre
This study day brings together leading specialists to explore Shakespeare¡¯s global cultural presence from Europe to the Americas via the Indian
Ocean. No writer's work has been translated, performed and transformed by as many cultures across the world as Shakespeare's. Themes include Shakespeare's source material;
postcolonial adaptations; performance on stage and film; and the cultural politics of European Shakespeare
The event, held in conjunction with the British Library exhibition
Shakespeare in Ten Acts, is organised in partnership
with the AHRC ¡®Translating Cultures¡¯ Theme, the Polish Cultural Institute and the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library.
Full programme below, and details of pricing and booking portal available here:
All the World's a Stage: Shakespeare in Europe and the Americas
Programme
10.30-11.00 Registration; Tea/Coffee (Dickens Room)
10.30-10.40 Welcome: Janet Zmroczek (Head of European and Americas Collections, British Library)
10.40-11.30 Keynote: presentation and interview
(Chair: Aleksandra Sakowska)
Jerzy Limon (Gda¨½sk),
¡®¡°The actors are come hither¡± - 400 years of English theatrical presence in Gda¨½sk¡¯
11.30-11.40: Break
11.40-12.30 Panel 1: European Sources and Settings (Chair: Line Cottegnies)
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Stuart Gillespie (Glasgow) 'Shakespeare's European Sources: Epics, Essays, Romances, Novellas'
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Graham Holderness (Huddersfield), ¡®Shakespeare and Venice¡¯
12.30-13.00 Julian Harrison (British Library), ¡®Our Shakespeare exhibition
at the Library of Birmingham¡¯
13.00-14.00: Lunch. A sandwich lunch will be provided.
14.00-14.50 Panel 2:
Translating The Tempest: postcolonial adaptations (Chair: Charles Forsdick)
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Philip Crispin (Hull), Aim¨¦ C¨¦saire¡¯s
Une temp¨ºte
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Michael Walling (Border Crossings), ¡®Storm-tossed in the Indian Ocean - from Indian
Tempest to Mauritian Toufann¡¯
14.50 ¨C 15.40 Panel 3: Shakespeare in Performance
(Chair: Ben Schofield)
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Paul Prescott (Warwick), 'Bard in the USA: the Shakespeare Festival Phenomenon in North America'
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Mark Thornton Burnett (Queen¡¯s University Belfast), 'Shakespeare on Film: Europe and Latin America'
15.40-16.00 Tea/Coffee
16.00-17.15 Roundtable: The Cultural Politics of European Shakespeare (Chair: Erica Sheen)
Short presentations followed by discussion round the table
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With Keith Gregor (Murcia), ¡®Shakespeare in post-Francoist Spain¡¯; Nicole Fayard (Leicester), ¡®Je suis Shakespeare: The Making of Shared Identities on the French Stage¡¯;
Emily Oliver (King¡¯s College London), ¡®Shakespeare Performance and German Reunification¡¯; Aleksandra Sakowska (Worcester), ¡®Shakespearean Journeys to and from Poland¡¯
17.15- 18.00 Wine reception sponsored by the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library
Teresa Vernon
Lead Curator, Romance Collections,
The British Library
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London NW1 2DB
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