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Monday 18 July  

Venue: all lectures and playreading sessions will be held at the Oxford Town Hall, situated on St Aldate's St (near the High St end) in the St Aldates Room

10am – 12.30: Museum of Oxford visit. Address: St Aldate's St (near Blue Boar St). Meet in the foyer of the museum at 9.50am.

12.30-2pm: lunch break

2pm – 2.15: Oxford Town Hall: Welcome and overview of the course

Exploring Ideas of Magic and Knowledge

2.15 – 2.45: Oxford: the City of Learning - Maddalena Pennacchia (Roma Tre University)

2.45 – 3.15:  Ideas of Magic and Knowledge in the early modern period -Victoria Bladen (University of Queensland)

3.15-3.45: Shakespeare, Knowledge and the magical staging of elsewhere - Carlo Lorini (Universita' dell'eta' libera Di Sesto Fiorentino) 

3.45– 4.15: Pericles, Theatre, and the Magic of Love  - Katharine Goodland (City University of New York)

4.15-5.00: playreadings chosen by Carlo Lorini and Katharine Goodland

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Tuesday 19 July

Witches and Witchcraft

10am – 11.00: Cunning Folk -Judith Bonzol (University of Sydney)

11.00 - 11.30: Weird Space in Macbeth on Screen  - Victoria Bladen

11.30 - 12.00: playreadings from Shakespeare’s Macbeth chosen by Maddalena Pennacchia

12.00 – 12.30:  The Figure of the Child in Kurzel’s Macbeth – Victoria Bladen

12.30 – 2.00: lunch break

2.00pm – 2.30: Shaping Supernatural Identity in Dekker, Ford and Rowley’s The Witch of Edmonton (1621) – Victoria Bladen

2.30-3.00: playreadings from Dekker, Ford and Rowley’s The Witch of Edmonton chosen by Victoria Bladen.

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Wednesday 20 July  

Dealing with the Devil

10am – 10.30: Demons and Sinners: The Image of the Enemy in Old Russian Art -  Dmitriy Antonov (Russian State University)

10.30 – 11.00 Real magic and dangerous knowledge: Doctor Faustus in the playhouse - Ruth Lunney (University of Newcastle)

11.00 - 12.30: playreading from Christopher Marlowe’s Dr Faustus chosen by Maddalena Pennachhia and Ruth Lunney

12.30 – 2pm: lunch break

2– 5pm: Excursion to Ashmolean Museum Beaumont St

Evening: optional theatre visit to performance of The Tempest at 7.30 at Oxford Castle, 44 New Rd. Tickets: https://www.oxfordcastleunlocked.co.uk/events/event/the-tempest/

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Thursday 21 July

Magic, Science and Maps

10am – 10.30 How Prospero turned into Albus Dumbledore: Representations of the Renaissance Magus -Maddalena Pennacchia

10.30 – 11.00: Music and Magic in the Tempest - Natalie Roulon (University of Strasbourg)

11.00 – 11.30: Gender and Magic in The Tempest in Performance – Katharine Goodland

11.30 – 12.00: playreadings from Shakespeare’s The Tempest chosen by Katharine Goodland

12.00-12.30: Workshop on Herbalism and the Renaissance – Lara Phillips (Dame Allan’s School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne)

12.30 – 1.15: lunch break

1.15 – 2.00: Maps and Mindsets: the instance of Othello – Christopher Wortham (University of Notre Dame, Australia)

2pm – 2.30 Magic and Puppetry in Shakespeare’s Animated Tales The Tempest and The Winter’s Tale - Maddalena Pennacchia

2.30 - 3.00: Screen Magic in The Tempest on Screen – Victoria Bladen

4-6pm: Excursion to Bodleian Library –meet at the Great Gate, Catte St

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Friday 22 July

Away with the Fairies

10am-10.30: Shakespeare and Fairy Tales - Marie Magrit (Université Blaise Pascal)

10.30-11.00: Love, power and altered states in Shakespeare Retold’s

A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Victoria Bladen

11.00 – 11.30: A Midsummer Night’s Dream on screen (Hoffman’s and Hall's adaptations) – Melissa Croteau (California Baptist University)

11.30 - 12.00: playreadings from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream chosen by Maddalena Pennacchia

12.00 – 12.30: Pedagogy round table discussion on teaching methods: this will be an opportunity to compare approaches at our various institutions and to exchange ideas; input from teachers and students all welcome.

12.30 – 2.00 – lunch break

2pm – 4: Excursion to Oxford Botanic Garden, Rose Lane

 

Optional pre-course activities: London

 

Prior to the course starting, you may wish to visit the John Dee exhibition (https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/johndee) a unique exhibition of books from the library of John Dee, magician and alchemist at the court of Elizabeth I. The exhibition is on during July 2016 (but note the museum is closed on 19th July and 26th July). The exhibition is on at the Royal College of Physicians, open Monday – Friday, 9-5pm. Address: 11 St Andrews Place  Regent's Park  London NW1 4LE. A group of us will be attending on Friday 15th July if you would like to join us.

 

Globe Theatre (http://www.shakespearesglobe.com/) Also, while in London check out the theatre programme at: http://www.shakespearesglobe.com/theatre  There is likely to be a group of us going on either Friday 15th or Saturday 16th; further details on this once the 2016 summer programme is released.

 

Also, while in Oxford check out local events at: http://shakespeareoxford2016.co.uk/programme/

And http://www.oxfordcastleunlocked.co.uk/events/OxfordShakespeareFestival.aspx

 

During the week of the summer school there is a production of The Tempest. Tickets are at: http://www.oxfordcastleunlocked.co.uk/events/16-01-22/The_Tempest.aspx

Post-course events

Don’t miss the World Shakespeare Congress in Stratford-upon-Avon and London 31 July – 6 August.  Details at: http://www.wsc2016.info/

 

 

Guest lecturers

Assoc Prof Dmitriy Antonov is an associate professor in the Chair of Theory and History of Culture, Russian State University for the Humanities and a senior researcher in the School for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, RANEPA (Moscow). His research is on Old Russian culture, and he has published on visual demonology and mythology. Dmitry co-organises regular international conferences on demonology in Moscow (2010, 2012, 2014, and 2016).

 

Dr Judith Bonzol is an honorary research associate in the history department at the University of Sydney. She has published several journal articles and book chapters on witchcraft, cunning-folk, and demonic possession in early modern England. Currently Judith is focusing on an interdisciplinary approach, combing both historical and literary studies, to the study of witchcraft, medicine, and supernatural phenomena.

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Prof Melissa Croteau is Professor of Film Studies & Literature and the Director of Film Studies at California Baptist University. For two decades, she has been teaching university courses on early modern British literature and culture, film history and theory, and film adaptation. Prof. Croteau has presented papers and given lectures on world cinema, Shakespeare on film, and religion in film at numerous international conferences. Her publications include the book Re-forming Shakespeare: Adaptations and Appropriations of the Bard in Millennial Film and Popular Culture (LAP, 2013); a co-edited volume entitled Apocalyptic Shakespeare: Essays on Visions of Chaos and Revelation in Recent Film Adaptations (McFarland, 2009); an edited collection entitled Reel Histories: Studies in American Film (Press Americana, 2008); and essays on the films V for Vendetta (2005) and Hamlet Goes Business (1986).

 

Prof Katharine Goodland is Professor of English at the City University of New York's College of Staten Island, where she teaches courses in Shakespeare, Medieval and Early Modern Culture, and World Drama.  She is the author of Female Mourning and Tragedy in Medieval and Renaissance English Drama (Ashgate 2006) and A Directory of Shakespeare in Performance (Palgrave 2007; 2011).  She has also worked as a dramaturge for Bedlam in New York City and Shakespeare and Company in Lenox, Massachusetts.

 

Mr Carlo Lorini teaches in Shakespeare at the Universita' dell'eta' libera Di Sesto Fiorentino and in Italian at the International Studies Institute, Florence. He has a degree in foreign languages and literature, with a thesis on the influence of Machiavelli in Henry IV Part I and the other plays of the second tetralogy. He has presented at conferences on Shakespeare in Europe (University of Reading, International Congress; IX World Shakespeare Congress in Prague) and Australia (University of Tasmania). He has worked for an online journal on theatre, cinema and art, Drammaturgia. Carlo was a guest lecturer for the Shakespeare in Florence summer school (2013) held at the British Institute. He is currently working on a book project based on his thesis research.

 

Dr Ruth Lunney is a conjoint lecturer at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She has published on Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Lyly, including the books Marlowe and the Popular Tradition: Innovation in the English Drama before 1595 (2002; paperback 2011) and John Lyly (2011), the first-ever collection of essays on this influential writer. Ruth is currently working on a new Revels Plays edition of Dido, Queen of Carthage.

 

Ms Marie Magrit (PhD candidate Université Blaise Pascal (Clermont-Ferrand, France)), is currently undertaking doctoral research on Shakespeare and Fairy Tales, which focuses on the links between Shakespeare’s plays and modern fairy tales. She also teaches English for the French Navy at the Naval Training Center (CIN) in Brest. 

 

Ms Lara Phillips teaches English at Dame Allan’s School in Newcastle-upon-Tyne (UK), and  has an MA in English Language and Literature from University College, Oxford. She has also taught Drama and Theatre Studies and has directed several amateur theatre productions including ‘Macbeth’, ‘The Cherry Orchard’ and ‘Arabian Nights’. Lara is also a medical herbalist and has a BSc in Herbal Medicine from the University of Middlesex. She has taught in Spain and Japan, organised English language summer schools in the North of England, and worked as a consulting medical herbalist in her own practice. Her interests include the history of herbal medicine and traditional folk remedies, as well as anglo-saxon and old norse myths and legends, Shakespeare, and contemporary fiction.

 

Dr Natalie Roulon teaches English at the University of Strasbourg (France). She is the author of Les Femmes et la musique dans l’œuvre de Shakespeare (Paris : Honoré Champion, 2011), which is a reworked version of her PhD dissertation. She has also written a handbook on English for the Performing Arts, L’Anglais des arts du spectacle (Montpellier : L’Entretemps, 2012). Her main fields of research are women and music in English Renaissance literature. She has published on The Taming of the Shrew, Henry VIII, All’s Well That Ends Well, Love’s Labour’s Lost, sonnet 130 and the tradition of the blazon as well as on the Swetnam Controversy. She has forthcoming articles on Troilus and Cressida, Julius Caesar and 1 Henry IV.

 

Emeritus Prof Christopher Wortham is Professor of Theatre Studies and English Literature at the University of Notre Dame Australia in Fremantle. In addition he is a Cathedral Scholar at St George’s Cathedral in Perth. Among previous roles, he has served as Founding President of the Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group and as President of the ANZ Association for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. He is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Shakespeare WA, a professional theatre company. He is currently working on a book commissioned by Palgrave Macmillan, entitled Shakespeare’s Maps: Place and Places in the Plays. His previous publications include This Earthly Stage: World and Stage in Late Medieval and Early Modern England (2010; co-edited with Brett Hirsch), Early European Perceptions of Terra Australis (2011; co-edited with Anne Scott et al) and, most recently, a chapter on “Displacement: Maps and Emotions in Othello” in Shakespeare and Emotions (2015, ed. R.S. White et al).