The shylock project – 1 edizione
The Shylock Project
Fondazione Giorgio Cini
Venezia, 15 giugno – 11 luglio 2015
Quattro settimane di studi intensivi per esplorare il testo e il contesto de Il mercante di Venezia di Shakespeare.
Un ricco programma di lezioni e workshop condotti da illustri professori, attori e musicisti nella cornice dello splendido monastero benedettino di San Giorgio, completati da performance teatrali ed escursioni al ghetto ebraico e altri luoghi di Venezia.
Una full immersion unica nata con lo scopo di creare la prima produzione dell’opera nel Ghetto di Venezia, in occasione dei 400 anni dalla morte di William Shakespeare e dei 500 anni dalla nascita del Ghetto di Venezia.
| 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
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Péter Dávidházi
Tobias Döring Paul Edmondson Keir Elam Tibor Fabiny Stephen Greenblatt Galit Hasan-Rokem Loretta Innocenti Géza Kállay M. Lindsay Kaplan David Scott Kastan Simon Levis Sullam Jacques Lezra Piergabriele Mancuso Stephen Orgel Avraham Oz
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Natália Pikli
Loredana Polezzi Freddie Rokem Carol Chillington Rutter David Schalkwyk Alessandro Serpieri James Shapiro Michael Shapiro Stuart Sillars B.J. Sokol Boika Sokolova Werner Sollors Ramie Targoff Laura Tosi Stanley Wells Suzanne Wofford |
Programme
Week 1: June 15-21
15 June
Opening Ceremony & Dinner
16 June
Donatella Calabi, ‘”Which is the way to master Jew’s?”: Introducing the Ghetto of Venice’
Keir Elam, ‘”Fair Portia’s counterfeit”: Visual culture in Shakespeare’s Venice’
Guided tour to the Ghetto of Venice, Synagogues and ‘Red Bank’ Pawn shop
17 June
Michael Shapiro, ‘”A local habitation and a name”: Imagining Shylock’s House’
Carol Chillington Rutter, ‘Sir Henry Wotton: Venice in the Age of Shakespeare’
Shaul Bassi, ‘Shylock: the Native Informant’s Perspective’
18 June
Natália Pikli, ‘Love (dis)credited: The Merchant of Venice and usury in early modern England’
David Kastan, ‘Conversion and the Fantasy of Cosmopolitanism in The Merchant of Venice‘
Guided tour to Fondazione Cini’s Theatre collection
19 June
B.J. Sokol, ‘The trials of Shylock’
Tom Cartelli, ‘Repurposing Fiorentino’s Doting Godfather as “Tainted Wether of the Flock” in The Merchant of Venice‘
Karin Coonrod, ‘Shakespeare in Italy, Shylock in the Ghetto: Past and Future Projects’
Week 2: June 22-28
22 June
Stephen Orgel, ‘Reimagining Shylock’
Loretta Innocenti, ‘George Granville’s The Jew of Venice’
23 June
Geza Kallay, ‘The Merchant of Venice: a Philosophical Perspective’
Dario Calimani, ‘The question of anti-Judaism from Marlowe to Shakespeare’
M. Lindsay Kaplan, ‘Canon Law on Jews and The Merchant of Venice‘
24 June
Jerry Brotton, ‘The Merchant and the Moor in Venice’
Guided tour to Doge’s Palace, with Monica Chojnacka
Performance: ‘MOV: First Theatrical Actions’, Karin Coonrod & Colombari Company
25 June
Stephen J. Greenblatt, ‘The Secret Weight of The Merchant of Venice‘
Valerio de Scarpis & Gabriele Mancuso, ‘Renaissance Music in Venice and its Ghetto’
Performance: ‘Orson Welles/Shylock’, a Docu-Fantasy Radio Play by Matt Chiorini.
26 June
Ramie Targoff, ‘Italian Women’s Writing in the Age of Shakespeare’
Simon Levis Sullam, ‘Shylock is (not) Dead: Italian Jews under Fascism’
Week 3: June 29 – July 5
29 June
Freddie Rokem, ‘Three, who knows? Three thousand ducats, for three month – and much more…’
Bill Alexander, ‘A Merchant of Many Faces’
30 June
László Benke, ‘Stereotypes of Jews in early Italian Vernacular Literature and Bible translations’
Galit Hasan-Rokem, ‘”The Hebrew will turn Christian”: Shylock and the medieval Wandering Jew traditions in Italy and England’
1 July
Daytrip to ‘Belmont’ (Venetian Villa)
2 July
Kent Cartwright, ‘The Merchant of Venice and the Traditions of Comedy’
Alessandro Serpieri, ‘Shakespeare’s Bonds’
Péter Dávidházi, ‘Hamlet, Shylock and the Meaning of Biblical Allusions’
3 July
Loredana Polezzi, ‘Translating, Adapting, Rewriting Shylock’
Murray Baumgarten, ‘Israel Zangwill, Philip Roth, and the Afterlife of the Venice Ghetto’
James Shapiro, ‘Shakespeare and the Jews’
Week 4: July 6-10
6 July
Tibor Fabiny, ‘Mercy and Justice in The Merchant and Milton’
Guided tour to the Jewish Cemetery
7 July
Tobias Döring, ‘Shylock, the German’
Roberta Cimarosti, ‘The Use of Postcolonial Shylocks’
Suzanne Wofford, ‘Shakespeare and Italian Novelle’
Performance: ‘Venice 1516: Rent Studio Area Ghetto’, by and with Eugenio de’ Giorgi
8 July
Boika Sokolova, ‘The Bulgarian Afterlife of The Merchant of Venice‘
Laura Tosi, ‘The Merchant for children: Prose Adaptations from the Lambs to Marcia’
9 July
Fernando Cioni, ‘Shylock’s Afterlife’
Stuart Sillars, ‘The Merchant Illustrated’
David Schalkwyk, ‘Shylock and the Impossible Gift of Love’
10 July
Paul Edmondson, ‘Christianity and The Merchant‘
Stanley Wells, ‘Shylocks’
Final Discussion & Farewell Dinner
Weekly program may have minor internal changes. No activities on Saturdays and Sundays.
