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Alla
soglia dei quattrocento anni dalla morte di Shakespeare e dei cinquecento dalla nascita del Ghetto veneziano
(anniversari che ricorreranno nel 2016), il Centro Studi sul Teatro della
Fondazione Giorgio Cini e l’Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia organizzano The Shylock Project. L’iniziativa (15 giugno-10 luglio 2015) consiste in una summer school di studi per ricercatori e
appassionati (Shakespeare in Venice)
dedicata all’approfondimento testuale e contestuale dell'ebreo protagonista de Il mercante di Venezia; nonché in un
ciclo di conferenze e spettacoli a tema in lingua inglese dislocati in vari
punti della città.
Il
progetto Shylock consentirà a un pubblico più ampio (in aggiunta a quello seminariale della summer school)
di assistere alle conferenze di una quarantina di studiosi provenienti da tutto il
mondo (tra i quali Stanley Wells, Stephen Greenblatt e James Shapiro), a una conversazione di Alan
Yentob della BBC con il romanziere inglese Howard Jacobson, che sta riscrivendo Shakespeare in chiave
moderna, a un concerto di musica elisabettiana, a una rivisitazione del
tormentato tentativo di Orson Welles
di portare in scena e sullo schermo The Merchant of Venice.
In programma anche una
anteprima dello spettacolo Il mercante di
Venezia con la Compagnia de’ Colombari, la cui rappresentazione ufficiale è
prevista l’anno prossimo in un luogo d’eccezione: il Campo del Ghetto di
Venezia.
Di
seguito il programma completo:
WEEK 1: JUNE 15-21
15 June
18.00 Opening Ceremony Welcome Dinner
16 June
9.30
Donatella Calabi, Which is the way
to master Jew’s?: Introducing the Ghetto of Venice
11,30 Keir Elam, Fair Portia’s
counterfeit: Visual culture in Shakespeare’s Venice
16,00
Guided tour to the Ghetto of Venice, Synagogues and “Banco Rosso” Pawnshop
17 June
9,30
Avraham Oz, Disinheriting a Father: Shylock as Alien on the Hebrew Stage 11,30 Michael Shapiro, A local habitation
and a name: Imagining Shylock’s House
17,30 Karin Coonrod, Shakespeare in Italy, Shylock in the Ghetto: Past and Future Projects (Fondazione Giorgio Cini) Public lecture
18 June
9,30
Natália Pikli, Love (dis)credited: “The Merchant of Venice” and
usury in early modern England
11,30 B. J. Sokol, The trials of Shylock
15,00
Guided tour to Fondazione Giorgio Cini
17,30
Carol Chillington Rutter Sir Henry Wotton: Venice in the Age of Shakespeare (Fondazione Giorgio Cini) Public lecture
19 June
9,30
Tom Cartelli, Repurposing
Fiorentino’s Doting Godfather as “Tainted Wether of the Flock” in “The Merchant
of Venice” 11,30 Shaul Bassi, Shylock and the Native Informant 14,30 David Whittaker, Thomas Coryat's Venice: Walking the City in 1608
WEEK 2: JUNE 22-28
22 June
15,30
Loretta Innocenti, George Granville’s “The Jew of Venice” (Ca' Foscari, Palazzo Cosulich) 17,30
Stephen Orgel, Which Is the Merchant Here, and Which the Jew?: Shylock Inside Out
(Ca' Foscari, Aula Baratto) Public lecture
23 June
9,30
Géza Kallay, “The Merchant of Venice”: a Philosophical Perspective
11,30 M. Lindsay Kaplan, Canon Law on Jews
and “The Merchant of Venice”
24 June
9,30
David Bryant, Valerio de Scarpis, Gabriele Mancuso Round table: Renaissance Music in England, Venice and the Ghetto
15,00
Guided tour of Doge’s Palace,
with Monica Chojnacka
25 June
16,00
Stephen J. Greenblatt, The Secret
Weight of “The Merchant of Venice” (Fondazione Giorgio Cini) Public Lecture 18,00
Howard Jacobson in conversation with Alan Yentob (BBC) on Rewriting Shylock
(Fondazione Giorgio Cini) Public Lecture
21,00
Performance: Matt Chiorini, Orson Welles/Shylock, Docu-Fantasy
Radio Play
(Fondazione Giorgio Cini) Public Event
26 June
9,30
Gilberto Sacerdoti, Jessica's Cosmopolitan Dreams. Noachic Laws vs Blood Transfusion 11,30 Ramie Targoff, Italian Women's Writing in the Age of Shakespeare 16,00 Stephen Greenblatt, Jay Harris, Werner Sollors (Ca’ Foscari - Harvard Symposium) Eden in Venice: Reading Adam and Eve (Ca’ Foscari, Ca’ Dolfin) * Optional activity 21,00 Performance Karin Coonrod & Colombari Company “The Merchant of Venice”: First Theatrical Actions (Fondazione Giorgio Cini) Public Event
WEEK 3: JUNE 29 – JULY
5
29 June
15,00
Freddie Rokem, “But the full sum of me is the sum of something”. Counting to Three in “The Merchant of Venice”
17,30 Bill Alexander, A Merchant of Many
Faces (Palazzo Mocenigo) Public Lecture
Concert Rosemary Forbes-Butler & Pier Paolo Ciurlia Why is Fancy Bred? (Palazzo Mocenigo) Public Event
30 June
9,30
László Benke, Stereotypes of Jews in
early Italian Vernacular Literature and Bible translations
11,30 Galit Hasan-Rokem, “The Hebrew will
turn Christian”: Shylock and the medieval Wandering Jew traditions in Italy and
England
14,30 Sandra Pietrini and Valeria Tirabasso, Introducing "Arianna": a Shakespearean Iconographic Archive
1 July
9,00
Daytrip to "Belmont" (Villa Emo & Villa Maser)
2 July
11,00
Alessandro Serpieri, Shakespeare’s Bonds 14,30 Tibor Fabiny, Mercy and Justice in “The Merchant” and Milton
16,00 Kent Cartwright, “The Merchant of Venice” and the Traditions of Comedy 21,00
“Venice a night walk” an itinerary with Alberto Toso Fei
3 July
10,00
Paola Bertolone, Moni Ovadia's Shylock
11,30 Loredana Polezzi, Translating,
Adapting, Rewriting Shylock 16,00 Péter Dávidházi, Hamlet, Shylock and the Meaning of Biblical Allusions (Fondazione Giorgio Cini) Public Lecture
17,30 James Shapiro, Shakespeare and the
Jews (Fondazione Giorgio Cini) Public Lecture
WEEK 4: JULY 6-10
6 July
9,30
Murray Baumgarten, Israel Zangwill, Philip Roth, and the Afterlife of the Venice Ghetto 11,30 Simon Levis Sullam, Shylock is (not) Dead: Italian Jews under Fascism
16,00
Guided tour to the Jewish Cemetery
7 July
9,30
Roberta Cimarosti, The Use of
Postcolonial Shylocks 11,30 Laura Tosi, “The Merchant” for children: Prose Adaptations from the Lambs to Marcia Williams
16,00 Tobias Döring, Shylock, the German (Viu, San Servolo) Public Lecture 17,30 David Schalkwyk, Shylock and the Impossible Gift of Love
(Viu, San Servolo) Public Lecture
8 July
9,30
Saba Burali, Introducing the Cini Iconographic Archive: an overview of the Shakespearean material 11,30 Maria Ida Biggi, Max Reinhardt's “Merchant” in Venice
14,30 Suzanne Wofford, Shakespeare and Italian Novelle
9 July
9,30
Fernando Cioni, Shylock’s Afterlife 11,30 Boika Sokolova, The Bulgarian Afterlife of the “The Merchant of Venice”
14,30 Ronan Hatfull, Richard Croughan, Bryony Rutter, The Testament of Launcelot Gobbo: a Shakespeare Re-imagining, read-through of a work in progress
10 July
10-12 Final Discussion
16,00 Paul Edmondson, Christianity and “The Merchant” (Fondazione Giorgio Cini) Public Lucture
18,00 Stanley Wells, Shylocks
(Fondazione Giorgio Cini) Public Lucture
Farewell Dinner
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