Shakespeare in Venice Summer School The Shylock Project

Ahead of the next year’s 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death and 500 years since the creation of the Venice Ghetto, the Centre for Study and Documentary Research into European Theatre and Opera organise a summer school of intensive studies dedicated to the text and context of the Merchant of Venice. The rich programme of lectures and workshops in a unique full immersion lasting four weeks will be taught by eminent professors, actors and musicians in the setting of the Benedictine monastery of San Giorgio. The programme will also include performances of plays and excursions to the Jewish Ghetto and other significant sites in Venice. The internationally renowned experts teaching at the school will include Bill Alexander, Shaul Bassi, László Benke, Maria Ida Biggi, Jerry Brotton, Donatella Calabi, Dario Calimani, Thomas Cartelli, Kent Cartwright, Matthew Chiorini, Monica Chojnacka, Roberta Cimarosti, Fernando Cioni, Karin Coonrod, Eugenio De Giorgi, Valerio de Scarpis, Péter Dávidházi, Tobias Döring, Paul Edmondson, Keir Elam, Tibor Fabiny, Stephen Greenblatt, Galit Hasan-Rokem, Loretta Innocenti, Gézà Kallay, M. Lindsay Kaplan, David Scott Kastan, Simon Levis Sullam, Jacques Lezra, Piergabriele Mancuso, Stephen Orgel, Avraham Oz, Natália Pikli, Loredana Polezzi, Freddie Rokem, Carol Chillington Rutter, David Schalkwyk, Alessandro Serpieri, James Shapiro, Michael Shapiro, Stuart Sillars, B. J. Sokol, Bojka Sokolova, Werner Sollors, Ramie Targoff, Laura Tosi, Stanley Wells and Suzanne Wofford.